[Fighting Fantasy] Caverns of the Snow Witch

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The takeaway here is that I need to be playing in cheater mode, so I can go backwards on my choices when I click the wrong option.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Lucky really should have stolen the trapper's cloak. I am sure there must have been clothes in his shed! Poor Lucky.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

The takeaway here is that I need to be playing in cheater mode, so I can go backwards on my choices when I click the wrong option.

Do you think fighting the 10 robed guys would have turned out better?

 

[Joshua Randall]

Wow that’s two Named Nouns in a row (cloak and then magic flute). How the heck did we miss both of those?

You also got pretty unlucky (ironically) in the ice demon fight: that initial 11 bested by the demon’s 11; your string of perfectly average rolls in the middle (6/7/8) while the demon rolled two 9s and a 12; and of course the final roll.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

So far, @Whizbang Dustyboots's foray into gamebook exploration resulted in two consecutive death. Since I mostly cheated combats when I was young, I didn't remember they were so deadly.

 

[cbwjm]

I brush the crumbs from my fingers -- they don't taste good enough to be worth finishing off -- as I continue down the tunnel.

Ahead of me, I hear the sound of chanting voices.

I pause at the entrance to a large cave. Ten robed and hooded figures kneel in worship before an ice statue of a demon.

There are two other exits from the cave, one to the left, one to the right.

((If you are wearing a cloak, turn to 384))
((If you are not, turn to 260))

((I haven't seen a cloak, so ...)

Oh man, I remember that image from way back when I used to read FF.

I've sometimes thought about converting them to dnd adventures but it seems like a lot of work.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Do you think fighting the 10 robed guys would have turned out better?

No, I think the way to beat the encounter was to have gotten the cloak from wherever it was and slipped past them that way.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So far, @Whizbang Dustyboots's foray into gamebook exploration resulted in two consecutive death. Since I mostly cheated combats when I was young, I didn't remember they were so deadly.

It really varies. It's hard to die in Forest of Doom, ironically, but some others are real meat-grinders. I've seen people say this is one of the harder ones, but I think the strong plot of this one (there's a whole separate third act with a new setting after beating this dungeon, which I got about halfway through) makes this one worth it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I've sometimes thought about converting them to dnd adventures but it seems like a lot of work.

I have adapted Warlock of Firetop Mountain for use as a Shadowdark adventure, using the Arion Games AFF module. It's not bad, although I had to make a bunch of new monsters for Shadowdark (which, luckily, I love doing).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I will be doing another solo game in January, but not a Fighting Fantasy one this time. Rather, we'll go to a long time ago, in a legally distinct galaxy far, far away ...