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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 17, 2021 2:57:19 GMT
Not only did this improve greatly on the previous Peladon story I'm enjoying reading your reviews Kieran, especially when the go in the opposite direction of general fandom (which accuses "Monster" of being "Curse" but with 2 episodes of padding).
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 17, 2021 2:52:37 GMT
There's the old production code joke with regard to Season 11.
"The Monster of Peladon" is YYY and "Planet of the Spiders" is ZZZ!
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 8, 2021 18:56:37 GMT
That would be fantastic. We'd like to have the issue out by the end of November, so basically ASAP! (1100 words) How do you want this sending? Email with an attachment? Gdoc? I've typed up a first draft. .docx or .doc or .rtf or .txt or .pages are fine files to send as attachments. Send to: editor@fightingfantazine.co.uk
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 8, 2021 3:56:35 GMT
Depends on what you are reviewing. It would be either 300, 500 or 1100 words. I can put together a review of course of the vampire if you like, depending on how soon you want it. That would be fantastic. We'd like to have the issue out by the end of November, so basically ASAP! (1100 words)
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 6, 2021 20:43:37 GMT
How many words would you want for a review? Depends on what you are reviewing. It would be either 300, 500 or 1100 words.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 5, 2021 19:22:55 GMT
I know it doesn't work this way, but I nominate dragonwarrior8 to review Curse of the Vampire. I do so because: a) he has already posted that he has purchased the book; and b) I've been using the reviews on his site to guide my gamebook purchases, and he hasn't steered me wrong yet! Dragonwarrior8 is too busy unfortunately. Anyone else willing to try?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Nov 5, 2021 19:21:40 GMT
He's been on these forums hasn't he? I think the answers I've been given have been adequate. No, Dave has never been on these forums. However, the answers given by others on this thread were probably reasonably accurate. I only asked as I was just about to send him an email. Interview with him in the forthcoming issue.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Oct 31, 2021 2:06:08 GMT
Anybody willing to review Green's "Curse of the Vampire" or one of the Vulcan-verse titles recently published?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Oct 29, 2021 3:02:33 GMT
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Oct 20, 2021 2:37:07 GMT
Anybody willing to review the book for the magazine?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 27, 2021 21:44:26 GMT
You're getting through them rightly. Do you intend to go on to the McGann film and the 2000s revamp once you're done with McCoy? Finished the season this morning (I watch an episode while eating breakfast). Yes, the plan is to watch the 1996 TV movie and then go into the modern version of the series. While I have watched each modern season on broadcast, I haven't gone back to them, so this rewatch while have me seeing most of these episodes again for the first time since broadcast (in the case of Eccleston, that'll be 16 years). I've also included the unfinished "Shada" and the spin-off "K9 & Company" in my rewatch so far. No sure if I'll do the same with the modern spin-offs as I never liked Torchwood and didn't bother with the SJA and Class.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 25, 2021 21:04:53 GMT
Maybe include my Hidden Adventures puzzles? I could do a new one for each issue if there's any interest. You're welcome to send me a sample idea.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 25, 2021 21:03:43 GMT
It might have been more fun to play up the ghost angle at the start (of course that would have required changing the story title as well so as not to give the game away), but I have no issues with the direction it took. This story was originally pitched without the Daleks and were added when the Producer (Barry Letts) wanted something attention grabbing for the season opener, so they' were never not going to have the Daleks in the title! But the "wet fish" king (who looks like Christoper Walken playing David Bowie), a fairly leaden pace despite being only four episodes, a half-hearted attempt at making Hepesh seem somewhat well-intentioned, nonsensical plot points (Hepesh is worried about the Federation taking the planet's resources so makes a deal with Arcturus which allows the latter to take the planet's resources) a disappointing monster and the supremely annoying Alpha Centauri mean this is the worst story in a while. The actor is David Troughton (one of Patrick Troughton's sons). Meanwhile the story was a metaphor about the UK joining the EEC (precursor to the EU). The Silurians have had a bit of a redesign, waved away by these Silurians being a different subspecies from those that appeared in Series 7 (though oddly the Doctor is confident that these will have the exact same personalities and goals as their distant cousins - and to be fair to him, they pretty much do). You'll have to wait till season 21 to see both Silurians and Sea Devils on screen together. there's a pointless speedboat chase Pertwee was into machines, hence the trike in "Day of the Daleks", the roadster Bessie etc. It'll all reach an apex in "Planet of the Spiders" Part 2! It also suffers from a leaden pace A lot of that is down to the 6-part nature of some of the stories. The next script editor (from Season 12 on) manages to get it down to only one 6-parter per season and by Season 18 (bar 2 oddities during Colin Baker's run) no story is more than 4 parts in length. Meanwhile I've almost finished the 1987 season (McCoy's first as the Doctor).
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 14, 2021 7:16:21 GMT
I am not sure how to post a link but type fighting fantasy into the South American river website and I think it is on page 1 or 2 but a long time in the future I think it was April 7 2022. Click on the icon that looks like a blue/green globe with a piece of paper to the bottom right. Then paste the link in where it says URL. Am I being told I am in the right thread or am I in the right thread to be told off? Not being told off. This was the correct thread for that information. Here is the post for The Seven Serpents: linkThe Crown of Kings is being published too: link
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 13, 2021 22:54:57 GMT
The Seven Serpents is now in the South American River list of books to pre-order. Can you provide a link as I can find it on Amazon? I do not know where to post this without being told off. This is the right thread for that.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 6, 2021 1:47:31 GMT
I'm playing the Fighting Fantasy Classic app and, confronting it with my Puffin copy, I see there are some minor differences. I've read the Classic app of Caverns of the Snow Witch and in that case there were some changes: some of them where clearly due to rebalance (like reducing the stats of the Yeti), while others were due to limitations of the game app. In this case, though, I'm not sure which are the motives after this changes... does anyone know if something has been changed in the book from the first Puffin edition to the Scholastic ones, or the changes had been done only by Tin Man Games? Can you give an example of a change?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 30, 2021 2:37:01 GMT
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 30, 2021 2:35:15 GMT
Right now my CotSW novel is just sitting on one of my computers, unedited, since the only place I know of where I could share it would be one of the fanfic websites. 60,000 words is way too big for the magazine. Ideally you'd want to aim for something shorter (& original) of around 5000-6000 words.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 30, 2021 2:33:36 GMT
I'm an illustrator with plenty of'zine worthy material knocking around. Certainly a few column inches. What kind of stuff do you need? Usually I try and match art to the material rather than use generic fantasy art. But if you are keen to contribute get in touch via email (editor@fightingfantazine.co.uk).
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 30, 2021 2:32:27 GMT
I remember very little about the actual series beyond Bonnie Langford screaming at some walking cabbages, Ace smacking floating Daleks with a baseball bat and a few scant episodes, and reading a couple of novels that probably had nothing to do with what was shown on screen, so I am enjoying reading these reviews. "Walking cabbages" is the Vervoids from The Trial of a Time Lord (Parts 9-12) in 1986 and Ace hitting Daleks is from Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988. Original novels based on the series would only show up from 1991 onwards, anything you read before then was most likely a novelisation of a TV story.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 9, 2021 23:09:02 GMT
Hi I was formally known as Simon 030780 (when I posted a couple of messages) after getting interested in this site again I posted many messages I am now known as Charles X. here. I like gamebooks and I like this site. When I was growing up my parents banned me from reading gamebooks usual reasons (not good literature, morally wanting, should be reading the classics). Wow. My mother bought me my first gamebook when I was 8!
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 19, 2021 21:28:24 GMT
Anyone come across this before? link
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 18, 2021 20:14:16 GMT
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 18, 2021 11:04:19 GMT
I can't seem to read those issues online and I never download stuff because I'm super-afraid of viruses. I make sure that the Fantazine site is the only place to get the magazine from. The zip files have no viruses, I can assure you of that!
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 16, 2021 1:09:01 GMT
Yes and no. Colin is giving it all, Nicola Bryant has improved from Season 21. Overall the show generally looks good, but at times it is clear that the budget just isn’t meeting the needs of the stories. As far as stories go, there are good ideas, nice scenes and some neat dialogue. Just a shame that the stories tend to 1) be very keen on violence for the sake of violence and 2) sideline the 6th Doctor.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 13, 2021 22:07:35 GMT
This was published in issue #16 of Fighting Fantazine.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 13, 2021 21:52:24 GMT
I've now finished Season 23, so that is the Colin Baker era done and dusted. Luckily my blu-ray copy of Season 24 should arrive within days so I can begin the Sylvester McCoy era.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 12, 2021 19:36:11 GMT
I liked the 'you are so powerful, a double on an attack round kills your enemy' mechanic, which wasn't used on other FF books, I guess because they weren't as ambitious and unique as Creature Of Havoc. Doesn’t Chasms of Malice have something similar where a double means you’ve knocked your opponent off the ledge?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 12, 2021 2:07:11 GMT
I think Jon G still runs the FF website, so this would likely be a project of his via Snow Books.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 9, 2021 21:16:44 GMT
From a comment by Ian on Twitter it sounds like no new title this year, but plans are being made for the 40th anniversary next year.
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