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<blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9808930" data-attributes="member: 7044220"><p>Let's revive this Fighting Fantasy thread!</p><p></p><p>I recently played through <strong>Forest of Doom</strong> and <strong>Citadel of Chaos</strong> with my kids (8 and 11), reading them to them, letting them decide and mapping out everything ... and for the first time, we found the solution to both (it took 3 goes each time, and diligent mapping). We had a great time, and I remembered how wonderfully strange these books were, with most encounters being quite unique. Combat is always a drag, though ... it's just hard to see the point. Is anyone really going back to start anew because they rolled bad? So I kind of made it a point to avoid combat (which kind of fell on our feet in Citadel of Chaos, where there's to combats that are easily avoided, but if you do, you'll miss out on essential loot).</p><p></p><p>It prompted me to order the new books by Jackson and Livingstone (Secrets of Salamonis and Shadow of the Giants) and also to play through Rhianna Pratchetts <strong>Crystal of Storms</strong> and Darvill-Evans <strong>Spectral Stalkers</strong> (which I still had lying around). Crystal has a really nice, somewhat cozy flying islands/technomancy setting and a good story, and it is well written with quirky characters, but it maybe takes you by the hand a little too much - there's little replay value, as you are forced to do pretty much everything there is to do the first time around. The book makes pretty sure that you end up with everything you need. Combats are a little too hard and too many, though.</p><p></p><p>But <strong>Spectral Stalkers</strong> is kind of perfect. It's brimming with crazy ideas, and there's at least three very distinct/interconnected ways of finishing it succesfully. I went back to it several times just for the joy of reading it, finding new solutions.</p><p></p><p>I wrote a piece on Spectral Stalkers <a href="https://swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2025/11/spectral-stalkers-ziggurat-world-lovely.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and on FF in general/Citadel of Chaos <a href="https://swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2025/11/will-you-join-them-at-fire.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Both are really great!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swanosaurus, post: 9808930, member: 7044220"] Let's revive this Fighting Fantasy thread! I recently played through [B]Forest of Doom[/B] and [B]Citadel of Chaos[/B] with my kids (8 and 11), reading them to them, letting them decide and mapping out everything ... and for the first time, we found the solution to both (it took 3 goes each time, and diligent mapping). We had a great time, and I remembered how wonderfully strange these books were, with most encounters being quite unique. Combat is always a drag, though ... it's just hard to see the point. Is anyone really going back to start anew because they rolled bad? So I kind of made it a point to avoid combat (which kind of fell on our feet in Citadel of Chaos, where there's to combats that are easily avoided, but if you do, you'll miss out on essential loot). It prompted me to order the new books by Jackson and Livingstone (Secrets of Salamonis and Shadow of the Giants) and also to play through Rhianna Pratchetts [B]Crystal of Storms[/B] and Darvill-Evans [B]Spectral Stalkers[/B] (which I still had lying around). Crystal has a really nice, somewhat cozy flying islands/technomancy setting and a good story, and it is well written with quirky characters, but it maybe takes you by the hand a little too much - there's little replay value, as you are forced to do pretty much everything there is to do the first time around. The book makes pretty sure that you end up with everything you need. Combats are a little too hard and too many, though. But [B]Spectral Stalkers[/B] is kind of perfect. It's brimming with crazy ideas, and there's at least three very distinct/interconnected ways of finishing it succesfully. I went back to it several times just for the joy of reading it, finding new solutions. I wrote a piece on Spectral Stalkers [URL='https://swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2025/11/spectral-stalkers-ziggurat-world-lovely.html']here[/URL], and on FF in general/Citadel of Chaos [URL='https://swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2025/11/will-you-join-them-at-fire.html']here[/URL]. Both are really great! [/QUOTE]
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