When I was 10, 11, around that age, I adored these things.Īnd so, Fighting Fantasy was born: stories in which you not only make decisions as to your course through the fiction, but also engage in dice-rolling combat and trials of luck and skill. Long before I properly understood video game role-players, I was devouring Fighting Fantasy books by the dozen. Instead of that, though, the pair decided to take some of the mechanics of D&D and its peers and incorporate them into a book. They'd been approached by a publisher to produce a book on the fantasy (tabletop) gaming world, what with Dungeons & Dragons blowing up in popularity.

Warlock was written, collaboratively, by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, British fantasy fans who'd, back in 1975, founded Games Workshop. All have their means of undoing your quest, be that through death, traps, or something less immediately painful but equally final. Others have multiple conclusions, some better than others. Some books have one ending, which can be reached by various paths. Each option carries with it a corresponding chapter number: So, perhaps that'll be turn to 202 to attack the skeleton, 347 to run in the other direction, or 118 to attempt to reason with it.

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