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The series distinguished itself by featuring a fantasy role-playing element, with the caption on each cover claiming each title was "a Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which YOU are the hero!" The popularity of the series led to the creation of merchandise such as action figures , board games , role-playing game systems, magazines, novels and video ...
Legend of Zagor is the only Fighting Fantasy gamebook to be set in Amarillia. The player plays one of four characters who must destroy Zagor, who is recovering in Castle Argent after being banished from the regular Fighting Fantasy world of Titan. The player must find Tower Chests and collect Golden Talismans and Silver Daggers to help in the ...
The book, although a new gamebook published for the first time, by Wizard, was written like an old gamebook's typical dungeon crawl (Deathtrap Dungeon for example). During the journey the player allies with a character called Littlebig, a relative of a character from a previous Fighting Fantasy gamebook. The player must collect keys during the ...
All Fighting Fantasy gamebooks are illustrated, including full-page pieces and smaller, repeated images scattered throughout the book as breaks or space fillers between sections. Regular contributors (excluding Scholastic editions) included Les Edwards , Terry Oakes, Russ Nicholson , Leo Hartas, Ian Miller , John Blanche , Martin McKenna, and ...
Originally published by Penguin Books between 1983 and 1985, the titles are part of the Fighting Fantasy canon, but were not allocated numbers within the original 59-book series. Sorcery! was re-published by Wizard Books in 2003, and later adapted into a video game series by Inkle from 2013 to 2016.
Freeway Fighter was the first Fighting Fantasy title after House of Hell to feature an additional game mechanic: both the player's character and their vehicle have attributes for combat, as there is a combination of both individual and vehicle-based combat. The player's vehicle must also be continually supplied with petrol, with the fuel gauge ...
Scorpion Swamp is a single-player adventuring gamebook written by Steve Jackson (the American game designer, as opposed to the series co-creator), illustrated by Duncan Smith, and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series.
It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2004. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone 's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the fourteenth in the series in the original Puffin series ( ISBN 0-14-031832-1 ) and 19th in the modern Wizard series ( ISBN 1-84046-528-X ).