<font color="00cc99">Any of you out there collected or have any of Steve Jackson's and Ian Livingstone's 'Choose your own adventure, Fighting Fantasy books'?
I have book 1 through to book 52! I love them, but unfortunately, they stopped publishing them :( I so wanted the whole set, but now it is impossible.
They are great, you start off each book with a new character and basically you go on quests and kill the bad guys. It uses D12 rules, so basically you actually roll your char stats, whether you hit and your attack damage as you are reading!
Each book is completely different, which is also another reason why I love them so much and each one gets you hooked.

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If you haven’t read one before, try and find one (they are VERY rare). You will love it! :D

edit: Some of these books were also made into other things such as: 'The warlock of firetop mountain' (the first book) was made into a role-play board game (which i have also :D ), 'Deathtrap Dungeon' was made into a Computer Game!! 'Armies of Death' was the basis for another game and other ones like 'The Forest of Doom' and 'Starship Traveller' were made into Jigsaw puzzels.</font>

[ 09-06-2002, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: Deathbringer ]

LOL your bringing back memories now. I had a few Fighting Fantasy books myself, great stuff. I even had the Titan sourcebook, which I still have till today.

However, Fighting Fantasy is not my personal #1 gamebook series. That honor goes to the mind-blowing The Lone Wolf Series!!!! Woooot!!!

I think I did read one of these once. It may have been a knock-off though. The premise was the same.

Steve Jackson has done some great work. He and I share an alma mater. [img]smile.gif[/img] Go Owls!

This is a trip back memomy lane.

I liked those books - especially the 'dungeon-crawl' ones

But the stopped translating them - after three out of a four book series :mad:

Wayhey, Fighting Fantasy! My introduction to the world of roleplay. I have all 59... as well as, and I can't rate these high enough, Jackson's four-part epic, 'Sorcery!' an a few other books.

hey even did three books designed for multiplayer Fighing Fantasy - kind of like roleplay sourcebooks. 'Dungeoneer', 'Blacksand', and 'Allansia', all three fun to read and much lighter than other RPGsI could mention.

Deathbringer, if you're trying to collect the whole set, try hanging aroud at ebay.com or ebay.co.uk or something and look around for them. Last I saw, there was a thriving market for them. Alas, I'm not about to part with mine.

(You've never played 'Legend of Zagor'?!? You've never LIVED!)

Death you should see the library I go to. They have 2 whole shelves jammed pack with those fighting fanatsy books!

I have around 20 of them. Even some of the "futuristic" ones! They are all sweet :D [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

<font color="00cc99">I have 2 books from Steve Jackson's sorcery, 'The Seven Serpents' and 'The crown of Kings', but I haven't even read them. They are un-opened. All of my books except for 'the Warlock of firetop mountain' are in mint condition :D . As for Ebay.. pah! I can't stand ebay.</font>
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<font color="00cc99">The Titan book! Wow! I had that until an old friend stole it! Now I don't know where he is or what he has done be my precious book :( </font>

FF now that brings back some memories, I still see them quite often over here in england usually in second hand shops or on carboot sales but occasionally I'll find a book store that still stocks the FF books.

I wonder what Steve Jacksons doing these days, because his old partner Ian Livingstone is still going strong he's a computer game designer now working at Eidos Interactive, sorry i tend to blabber useless info to much.

my top 5 have to be

1. Warlock of firetop mountain
2. Armies of Darkness
3. Return to Firetop mountain
4. Night Dragon
5. Moonrunner

and my worst has to be:

Starship Traveller (to be honest I don't really like any of the outer space books)

and the hardest to finish:

Creature of Havoc (I still haven't finished it)

[ 09-08-2002, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: Daniel ]

Steve Jackson writes RPGs for a living. He owns SJGames, the company that came up with GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System), SJ's attempt at creating an RPG flexible enough to be applied to just about any RPG setting ever. Notable supplements include GURPS Horror, GURPS Toons and GURPS Discworld.

Creature of Havoc is, indeed, stupidly hard. I haven't been able to finish it even by cheating to the extreme, damn it...

You're not wrong there! Lone Wolf was great!

I've got upto 38 or so of the Fighting Fantasy books, upto 21 in the Lonewolf range, upto 4 (i.e. all of them) in the World of Lonewolf series + the Magnamund Companion & the Skull of Argarash graphic novel.

The FF book I bought was Temple of Doom, which really hooked me on the series.

Great Stuff!

it's good to know he's still going

Um... was that Forest of Doom, or Temple of Terror? Temple of Doom is an Indy Jones film! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I have every single Fighting Fantasy book ever made, including all the other stuff by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. I think they're excellent and I still do some of the books sometimes for a laugh. I also have all the Lone Wolf books. These two sets of books are my all-time favourites - this is the kind of stuff that got me hooked on D&D [img]smile.gif[/img]

You're not wrong there! Lone Wolf was great!

I've got upto 38 or so of the Fighting Fantasy books, upto 21 in the Lonewolf range, upto 4 (i.e. all of them) in the World of Lonewolf series + the Magnamund Companion & the Skull of Argarash graphic novel.

The FF book I bought was Temple of Doom, which really hooked me on the series.

Great Stuff!</font>[/QUOTE]I have the entire gamebook series. Books 1 to 27(?) covering the Kai, Magnakai, Grand Master and New Order series. The Lone Wolf Books were one of the main sources of excitement in my rather boring preteen years. I have the Skull of Agarash Graphic Novel as well as 2 books from the World of Lonewolf series and 2 books from the Grey Star the Wizard series, all 4 of which were scavenged from a bargain bookshop. The Magnakai and Kai series were the best, I found Lone Wolf to be way too powerful in the Grand Master Series and the New Order series was very poorly written. The writing on the World of Lonewolf series wasn't that great either and at times conflicted with the gamebooks but it did shed some light on some of the unexplained things in the gamebooks (the origin of Alyss for example). Skull of Agarasdh seemed to steal to be a mish-mash of several stories taken from the series (Bucaneers of Shadaki, Jungle of Horrors etc). Grey Star the Wizard was also quite a fun series since you were a completely different protagonist and it took place in the South of Magnamund. What was the Magnamund Companion like?

Um... was that Forest of Doom, or Temple of Terror? Temple of Doom is an Indy Jones film! [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]You're quite right. My first book was the Temple of Terror (which was very good), but my favourite of the FF books was the Forest of Doom, which I have subsequently lost, to my chagrin (doh!).

You're not wrong there! Lone Wolf was great!

I've got upto 38 or so of the Fighting Fantasy books, upto 21 in the Lonewolf range, upto 4 (i.e. all of them) in the World of Lonewolf series + the Magnamund Companion & the Skull of Argarash graphic novel.

The FF book I bought was Temple of Doom, which really hooked me on the series.

Great Stuff!</font>[/QUOTE]I have the entire gamebook series. Books 1 to 27(?) covering the Kai, Magnakai, Grand Master and New Order series. The Lone Wolf Books were one of the main sources of excitement in my rather boring preteen years. I have the Skull of Agarash Graphic Novel as well as 2 books from the World of Lonewolf series and 2 books from the Grey Star the Wizard series, all 4 of which were scavenged from a bargain bookshop. The Magnakai and Kai series were the best, I found Lone Wolf to be way too powerful in the Grand Master Series and the New Order series was very poorly written. The writing on the World of Lonewolf series wasn't that great either and at times conflicted with the gamebooks but it did shed some light on some of the unexplained things in the gamebooks (the origin of Alyss for example). Skull of Agarasdh seemed to steal to be a mish-mash of several stories taken from the series (Bucaneers of Shadaki, Jungle of Horrors etc). Grey Star the Wizard was also quite a fun series since you were a completely different protagonist and it took place in the South of Magnamund. What was the Magnamund Companion like?</font>[/QUOTE]I also have got the Novel versions of lonewolf, but a friend of mine managed to loose the first two books which I had lent him :( .

As for the Magnamund Companion: it was great. It had a brief history of Magnamund, history of the rise of the darklords, Giak anatomy, Giak lanuguage (written & spoken), info on the various countries & regions, and various stories of the 'common folk' that bring sommerlund alive. Troubel is, it was out for only a few months before they stopped producing it :( .

If anyone's interested, there's a bunch of people copying the Lonewolf * World of Lonewolf books into HTML format. This is with full permission from the author(s). It's called 'Project Aon' and can be found at: http://www.projectaon.org/

I have most of them... in French! It translates to something like "Les livres dont vous êtes le héros", Fighting Fantasy sounds much better.

I liked Lonewolf very much but my favourites are the books where the character is a Ninja of the "Way of the Tiger" and also those based on Greek mythology.

They did a crossover for those. 'Talsman of Death' #11 was a Fighting Fantasy book, but was setin the world of Orb (where the Way of the Tiger series takes place). Only six books in the series, but a damn good story. Didn't like the end of the last book (everyone died!)...

Man, you are bringing back memories DB...sheesh, I remember these books from when i was liek 12 years old...I still remember seeing that Titan sourcebook that RimJaw pointed out at some library years ago, it was so cool hahaha, man...All the memories...

Did anyone read the novels based on these as well? I remember the Trolltooth wars with the hero being Chadda Darkmane. Not a bad read to be honest. I also remember one book that was just impossible to complete, "Creature Of Havoc". By impossible, I mean that I got so pissed off with it that I actually read it as you would a normal book just to see if there was a page that told you to go to the end page and I couldn't find one! I Also remember the "Sorcery!" set of books where there were four books which all followed on from each other so you could use the same character in each one. The last one I remember seeing available was book 59 "Curse Of The Mummy".

OHHHH!! I LOVE THOSE! I used to have so many, but being a goon that I am, lost most of them. I loved the vampire ones (cant remember what they're called now, but there were a few of them).. those were the ultimates in creepiness and atmosphere! I even had the sourcebooks and the monster encyclopedia.. sigh, I remember how happy I was to get that really cool vampire-banishing sword..
I loved Way of the Tiger, but they went out of print when I was really young so I dont have much experience in the way of the books. I had a few scraps of it (books in the series that I had found which had been ripped into several pieces and pages were missing) and from what I saw, I loved it. The lone wolf ones were really.. cliche I guess, but still cool in that you got ridiculously powerful, and there really wasnt much of a challenge in the later books. It became a power-gaming sort of thing really..

The Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf Books were great. I have almost the entire collection of both somewhere. The multiplayer Advanced Fighting Fantasy was what started me in fantasy games and is still great fun to play in between D&D campaigns. I have both the Titan book and its companion Out of the Pit, a book of monsters and things. These were graet, even the outer space ones and I had alot of fun with them. never went past no59 thou, a great pity.

Never read these, but were they like the Time Machine choose you own ending SciFi books. I remember two of those as a kid ....

wow.. love to see that there are still people reading these... well i had almost all the books...(about 40+) in the FF series...
personally i don't really like lone wolf( i had #1 - #6 )
i like way of the tiger (1-6) better... (loves ninjas)

there is one book which i have always wanted but did not have the chance to get it, thats the titian book... *sigh*...