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Yes, a friend and I both play them honestly and correctly by starting again each time we die. Trying not to use previous knowledge of former lives is the challenge! We even record each death on a seperate sheet for each other's amusement.
Sometimes a tough early fight is a nice way to quickly get rid of a 7 or 8 skilled character, just so that you CAN start again!
If there was anything I despised, it was buying the books second hand and finding "skill 12, stamina 24 and luck 12" written on the actual character sheets of the book. I'd always use a seperate exercise book (or photocopy it) to record my adventures.
Its not impossible to get those stats obviously, but it often made me think of what the point of reading them was if they weren't played properly according to the rules?
I like lonewolf aswell, though not as much since they seemed just that little bit more linear to me. The combat system is slightly flawed in that you use a pencil to select the 'dice roll' and so by habit you can eventually start to point in an area where the numbers you want are. So I use a D10 when playing them instead. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I first read the Jungle of Horrors in primary school and it terrified me!
I don't own that many of them, but have read 1-13 or so.
No more luck as yet with the Fighting Fantasies I don't have...