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Post by fertobardi on Jan 3, 2024 4:41:07 GMT
Hello im Rafael from Brazil. I was born in 1980 and ive got to know my first FF book in the early of the 90's. It was Citadel of Chaos. A birthday gift of my father. And what a great gift! I was completely inside on that world going underground of the citadel, meeting creatures to fight, sometimes make friends with them, and then crawling the citadel room by room. What an amazing book.
I even cant remember how manny times i replayed it but i know that book was with me for a long time. I only remember trying to read another of the books, i thought was firetop mountain, and i let it go of the reading because it was not on pair with the citadels. Expectations were running wild.
Later on i would give it a try for more of sci-fi stuff like rebel planet, starship traveller, hero mood with appointment with fear and mad max style with freeway fighter. All great, one by one.
I gave a try to the medieval theme once more with sword of the samurai. I loved it a lot also. But busy years of a teenager come to me while i was running deep on my own personal adventures and believe me they were a lot. Followed by the years of entering adulthood i never took sight of my books again. I even dont remember what happened, and thats a shame. And thats the part that makes me feel bad looking to the past.
The original collections had the most beautifull front covers. Now they have been republished here but i dislike all the frontcovers.
As a not so old dad now of 1 girl and 2 boys, i decided to give them rpg plays on the holidays. I also get amused how they liked it. All the pen, dice and paper stuff. Happy moment. To get rid their attetion off the screens. We played bloodbones from tincan but i already started to get hand of the physical books ordering on the net. Citadel first ofc.
I also decided to look what was the things about FF that i didnt like much, mainly rolling random stats, and start to work on something more free to stimulate creativity of the boys.
The younger and tiny one like to play with trolls and dwarfs. The other created a sorcerer hence the name fertobardi.
Im excited to talk about what im thinking and check the opinions. I also havent heard about AFF system till now. And i liked a lot the damage tablet of it showing the most common weapons. I wonder if it says something about defense for armors and shields. I will dig.
Thanks for this community to bring back all that good nostalgia back. FF should spread and live on tru the generations.
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Post by CharlesX on Jan 3, 2024 12:12:35 GMT
Nice to meet you Rafael!
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Post by alziel on Jan 3, 2024 13:55:00 GMT
Welcome aboard, Rafael!
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Post by gareth on Jan 17, 2024 22:10:49 GMT
Hello all -
My name is Gareth. I loved the Fighting Fantasy books as a kid and recently in the course of house renovations I unearthed my old collection. I have been re-reading them with much enjoyment.
I'm really interested in the art in all these old game books (I have a few Lone Wolf volumes as well). I like to draw and was thinking of drawing images in the style of some of the illustrations, to see if I could learn some of the illustrator's techniques. If I draw something, I would love to share it here.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to post an image here. Is there a 'how to use the forums' page I missed? I have checked the 'Help' manual. Unfortunately, the only articles I can find say I need to either click on a +Add Files button or on a 'toolbar' directly above the message area. I can't see either the button or the toolbar.
Can anyone help me out?
EDIT: the toolbar appears when I select 'edit' for the post - but not before I have posted? Do I have that right? It's confusing! Is there any way to upload images / attachments before you post? Or do you have to post and then 'edit' to create a post with images?
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jan 17, 2024 23:12:50 GMT
Hello all - My name is Gareth. I loved the Fighting Fantasy books as a kid and recently in the course of house renovations I unearthed my old collection. I have been re-reading them with much enjoyment. I'm really interested in the art in all these old game books (I have a few Lone Wolf volumes as well). I like to draw and was thinking of drawing images in the style of some of the illustrations, to see if I could learn some of the illustrator's techniques. If I draw something, I would love to share it here. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to post an image here. Is there a 'how to use the forums' page I missed? I have checked the 'Help' manual. Unfortunately, the only articles I can find say I need to either click on a +Add Files button or on a 'toolbar' directly above the message area. I can't see either the button or the toolbar. Can anyone help me out? EDIT: the toolbar appears when I select 'edit' for the post - but not before I have posted? Do I have that right? It's confusing! Is there any way to upload images / attachments before you post? Or do you have to post and then 'edit' to create a post with images? Hi Gareth, welcome To get to write a post with the toolbar available from the start, click on the yellow Reply button rather than typing a reply and using Post Quick Reply.
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Klea
Wanderer
Writing Lyssia Ulmer's marriage for Camp NaNoWriMo (based on King's Heir: Rise to the Throne)
Posts: 57
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Sorcery!)
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Post by Klea on Feb 27, 2024 10:45:45 GMT
Welcome, everyone.
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Post by CharlesX on Feb 27, 2024 14:11:18 GMT
Hi Klea! Hope you enjoy this site.
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Klea
Wanderer
Writing Lyssia Ulmer's marriage for Camp NaNoWriMo (based on King's Heir: Rise to the Throne)
Posts: 57
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Sorcery!)
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Post by Klea on Mar 6, 2024 16:11:50 GMT
Hi Klea! Hope you enjoy this site. Thank you, but I was extending a welcome to the others. I've been here for years.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 8, 2024 4:36:28 GMT
Welcome, everyone. Hi Klea! Hope you enjoy this site. As she says Klea has been on here for some time. She was actually the 19th person to join this forum over 10 years ago – I was the 20th just a few hours later. When I posted my first amateur adventure ( Creature of Hangover) soon after, she was the first to suggest it would be most fun to play if the sections were spoilered. I'm still waiting hopefully for her playthrough though!
Sadly, I think Klea's posts still represent something like 20-30% of the contributions from women/girls on here.
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Klea
Wanderer
Writing Lyssia Ulmer's marriage for Camp NaNoWriMo (based on King's Heir: Rise to the Throne)
Posts: 57
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Sorcery!)
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Post by Klea on Mar 8, 2024 6:49:13 GMT
Welcome, everyone. Hi Klea! Hope you enjoy this site. As she says Klea has been on here for some time. She was actually the 19th person to join this forum over 10 years ago – I was the 20th just a few hours later. When I posted my first amateur adventure ( Creature of Hangover) soon after, she was the first to suggest it would be most fun to play if the sections were spoilered. I'm still waiting hopefully for her playthrough though!
Sadly, I think Klea's posts still represent something like 20-30% of the contributions from women/girls on here. I hadn't realized it was that many years! Most of my books and gaming stuff is still packed away. All I've got to hand are 3 FF books, and I've no idea where my dice are. I suppose I could make do with an online dice roller, but it's just not the same. Still, I made a promise and shall keep it (albeit far too many years later, for which I sincerely apologize).
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 26, 2024 4:38:25 GMT
As she says Klea has been on here for some time. She was actually the 19th person to join this forum over 10 years ago – I was the 20th just a few hours later. When I posted my first amateur adventure ( Creature of Hangover) soon after, she was the first to suggest it would be most fun to play if the sections were spoilered. I'm still waiting hopefully for her playthrough though!
Sadly, I think Klea's posts still represent something like 20-30% of the contributions from women/girls on here. I hadn't realized it was that many years! Most of my books and gaming stuff is still packed away. All I've got to hand are 3 FF books, and I've no idea where my dice are. I suppose I could make do with an online dice roller, but it's just not the same.Still, I made a promise and shall keep it (albeit far too many years later, for which I sincerely apologize). On first reading this, I was going to say that I'm now so used to using random.org or the dice roller app on my desktop that I don't need to have dice handy any more, before realising that I literally had some in my pocket at that moment (and still do). Anyway, just to mention that smithyrob on here made the adventure into an audio project on YouTube in case you fancied playing it in a different format (but please leave any comments on the forum thread). It won't solve the dice problem though.
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Klea
Wanderer
Writing Lyssia Ulmer's marriage for Camp NaNoWriMo (based on King's Heir: Rise to the Throne)
Posts: 57
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Sorcery!)
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Post by Klea on Mar 26, 2024 9:24:07 GMT
I hadn't realized it was that many years! Most of my books and gaming stuff is still packed away. All I've got to hand are 3 FF books, and I've no idea where my dice are. I suppose I could make do with an online dice roller, but it's just not the same.Still, I made a promise and shall keep it (albeit far too many years later, for which I sincerely apologize). On first reading this, I was going to say that I'm now so used to using random.org or the dice roller app on my desktop that I don't need to have dice handy any more, before realising that I literally had some in my pocket at that moment (and still do). Anyway, just to mention that smithyrob on here made the adventure into an audio project on YouTube in case you fancied playing it in a different format (but please leave any comments on the forum thread). It won't solve the dice problem though. I'm going to try to find my dice and play the traditional way. I'll have a look at the video later, though. Thanks for the link!
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Wildy
Wanderer
Posts: 52
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Wildy on Jun 5, 2024 21:43:33 GMT
Hello everyone! Sorry for the late introduction but I’m lazy/shy. First of all, great people here and I’ve been lurking since the day of the Scholastic relaunch, found this forum at that time when searching for discussions regarding Fighting Fantasy. Since then I’ve probably wasted more time reading everyone’s posts with great pleasure than I’ve read all the books actually! Created an account at one point when it was mandatory to browse the forum! I’m half French half Hachiman living in the country of Orlandes city (cheap delivery price for ordering the fantazine!). My first ever FF book was “Les sombres cohortes”(armies of death) which I still love fondly. I only had a few but love those to 0 Stamina (to death) when I was 10 in 1995. I had Citadel of Chaos, Caverns of the snow witch,talisman of death, seas of blood (arrrr!), Armies of death (my favorite! I am Shingen Napoléon!) Legend of the Shadow Warriors (the pumpkin thing wasn’t the shadow warrior?), stealer of Souls, Spectral Stalkers (weird!), Tower of Destruction, Siege of Sardath (too hard!), island of the undead (hard!) and revenge of the vampire (my favorite too!). All of those in French. A good selection in hindsight. After a long time (20 years) where I didn’t care(moved on), I was thinking, by jove! Let’s read those in “VO” as we say in French and searched for the English version of those books. Blimey, that’s jolly well how I found the news about Scholastic relaunch and pre-ordered them on Amazon. I also found Blood of the Zombies which was the latest published at that time(which I liked), then read the Scholastic book but was a bit surprised with the new illustrations (especially remembering my experience with Citadel of Chaos) and the size of the book (felt huge in my hand). Googling made me stumble on this forum and never looked back. I found a place where nice, polite and mature people were discussing about their beloved hobby. I was hooked, especially during the forum play of The Wishing Well (almost created an account for it!). I kept lurking, checking out the reaction of everyone when each new books were coming out, guessing what would be rereleased… Played all the Gamebook Adventures app to satisfy my newfound hunger of nostalgic Gamebooks. Also bought the whole “way of the tiger” books rerelease. Recently, since last year, I’ve finally started spending crazy amounts of continental Gold Piece to get old Puffin books, first by nostalgia of my old French collection (very expensive…), then getting the best ones (checking polls of “the best of author XXX”) , then getting even the ones republished by Scholastic to see Russ and Iain and Emmanuel (my childhood “never judge a book by its cover” book) art until right now I’m finally plugging the holes and trying to get them all (watch out, Jamie Fry!) Anyway, thanks for reading my long rant but mostly thanks to you all for creating this pubic place full of interesting talks. PS: kudos to the Fighting Fantazine staff, excellent work always and many thanks for having this forum!
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 11, 2024 7:32:55 GMT
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Post by CharlesX on Jun 11, 2024 18:13:27 GMT
...I was thinking, by jove! Let’s read those in “VO” as we say in French and searched for the English version of those books. Blimey, that’s jolly well how I found the news about Scholastic relaunch... Hi Wildy! Are you sure you aren't part English as you've developed a bit of an accent with those phrases (our grandfather migrated to England fro Poland a generation back). Probably from reading FF authors who are dominantly UK! Great to meet you!
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Post by Bifford on Aug 26, 2024 11:56:30 GMT
Bifford here. Greetings programs! Owner of White Hare Games; crafter of The Warlock Returns; long-time fan of AFF and new fan of FF
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Post by Peter on Aug 28, 2024 23:38:25 GMT
Welcome Bifford. Impressive website! What brought you to the FF books?
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Post by Bifford on Aug 29, 2024 12:14:04 GMT
Welcome Bifford. Impressive website! What brought you to the FF books? Working as a proofreader for Graham on AFF books then agreeing to edit the FF/AFF fanzine The Warlock Returns (which I am happy to sat fills a different niche to Fighting Fantazine so the two can exist without stepping on toes!) and realising I'd never read any of the books before I now own about 8 titles, but have only partially played TWoFM. I need to change that, but time is my enemy.
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