Any Fighting Fantasy Conversion Notes?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, City of Thieves had a great feel and flow. I also like Island of the Lizard King and (even though it's a little funky) Citadel of Chaos.

 

[Capellan]

Because of this thread, I've been scouring Amazon for used copies of the books I used to own but got rid of years ago.

I went through the same acquisition process myself, about 4 years ago.

All the FF books are still out there, but you can expect to pay some serious chunks of change for the more-difficult-to-find entries in the series.

FF has nothing on the level of Lone Wolf 21, mind you, but still not cheap.

If you can find them, the Advanced Fighting Fantasy books, starting with Dungeoneer are actually a pretty fun little fantasy RPG, and save on any need of conversion to D20.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

I loved those gamebooks, I think I have about 25.

House of Hell was probably my favourite book, or maybe Talisman of Death, or Deathtrap Dungeon, or Island of the Lizard King...GAH! I love them all. *sigh*

They should bring out a d20 book on the world of Titan, then maybe a bestiary, and then perhaps do some adventures.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They should bring out a d20 book on the world of Titan, then maybe a bestiary, and then perhaps do some adventures.

Myriador has been limping along and doing that for several years now. As I mentioned before, though, you probably want to just stay away.

 

[jdrakeh]

Myriador has been limping along and doing that for several years now.

Or so they say. I'm not sure that any reasonably sane individual would have let a license drag out this long with no return. I'm 99% certain that the planned FF OGL game is more dead than Baron Valentis.

 

[S'mon]

I've been referencing my FF books mostly for 'feel & mood', I like the rather dark swords & sorcery tone of the books, where danger lurks round every corner, and have been seeking to import that into my games.

 

[Desdichado]

I went through the same acquisition process myself, about 4 years ago.

All the FF books are still out there, but you can expect to pay some serious chunks of change for the more-difficult-to-find entries in the series.

FF has nothing on the level of Lone Wolf 21, mind you, but still not cheap.

Shouldn't be so bad now that they're being reprinted. True; there isn't an American version yet, but you can order them from Amazon.ca.

 

[Arnwyn]

Fear not! Archive services come to the rescue. http://web.archive.org/web/20010202070200/http://fightingfantasy.com/

Woo! Thanks for that, Hobo.

 

[Shemeska]

I went through the same acquisition process myself, about 4 years ago.

I've been going through that recently. Managed to find copies of everything except for #58. I never actually read/played them when they first came out years ago, except for Seas of Blood which I borrowed off of a friend in like 6th or 7th grade. I was into Lone Wolf at the time, and had never actually heard of FF because non of the local bookstores carried the line. I never knew the series itself had so many books till the past year when I've transcended my status of dirt-poor grad student to gainfully employed.

Of course, since most of them were never published in the US, I've had to snag them off of Ebay, usually from sellers in Oz and Britain. Shipping costs have been ugly, especially when it's one or two books at a time for the later books in the series.

FF has nothing on the level of Lone Wolf 21, mind you, but still not cheap.

*wince* Yeah... I've managed to snag copies of all the post 20 Lone Wolfs except for 26 (a copy recently went on Ebay for $211) and 28. I won't say how much I paid for a bloody copy of 22 that I'd managed to find someone in Ireland selling through amazon.uk (though it was less than the mint copy of the Hellbound: The Blood War box set I got a few years ago).

Getting copies of LW 21+ has been freaking painful. I realize that they're going to be reprinted, but they're also apparently being rewritten as well to some extent, and I'm both an impatient little twit, and I want to play them as they were first written. It's some yummy nostalgia there.

 

[Erik Mona]

I loved these books dearly as a child. When I heard a company was doing d20 conversions I offered to help them basically for free. They essentially told me to pound sand.

::shrug::

The books themselves are great fun, though.

--Erik