The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Fighting Fantasy: Reissues 1, #1)

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FIGHTING FANTASY is the brilliant series of adventure gamebooks in which YOU are the hero Decide which monsters to fight, which paths to take, who to trust and when to run Can you survive the clutches of the hideous Bloodbeast, or defeat a noxious inhuman Orc Deep in the caverns beneath Firetop Mountain lies an untold wealth of treasure, guarded by a powerful Warlock or so the rumor goes Several adventurers like yourself have set off for Firetop Mountain in search of the Warlock s hoard None has ever returned Do you dare follow them New Read [ The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Fighting Fantasy: Reissues 1, #1) ] By [ Steve Jackson ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I read an interview the other day that the Malazan world was based upon some Steve Jackson esque RPG gaming It made me remember that I loved these books when I was a child I can t remember too much about them apart from that you had to roll dices and set you own attributes and character That you would face unspeakable foes and go on a whirlwind fantasy adventure Do you fight the warlock turn to page 283 do you run away turn to page 7 Page 7 YOU ARE DEAD It was real energetic I read an interview the other day that the Malazan world was...NERD There Now that we ve got that out of the way, allow me to continueI bought this Dungeons Dragons style game book years ago in a shop on or maybe just off the high street in St Albans while on honeymoon in England And to answer the obvious question that followsyes, my wife is an unusually understanding woman The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is apparently a classic of the fantasy adventure gamebook sort shrugs What did I know When I picked it up I thought it was on NERD There Now that we ve got that out of the way, allow me to continueI bought this Dungeons Dragons style game book years ago in a shop on or maybe just off the high street in St Albans while on honeymoon in England And to answer the obvious question that followsyes, my wife is an unusually understanding woman T...Kids today eh They re far too busy playing finely tuned, graphically superior, deeply immersive games like Skyrim to appreciate what a real gaming experience should be like Back in my day if you wanted to fight a Dragon you had to have a real Adventure that looked and played something like this.Us intrepid block like Adventurers set out to steal the magic cup of greatness from the evil black castle armed only with a trusty spear The evil roaring dragon would smite you whole if you were not ca Kids today eh They re far too busy playing finely tuned, graphically superior, deeply immersive games like Skyrim to appreciate what a real gaming experience should be like Back in my day if you wanted to fight a Dragon you had to have a real Adventure that looked and played something like this.Us intrepid block like Adventurers set out to steal the magic cup of greatness from the evil black castle armed only with a trusty spear The evil roaring dragon would smite you whole if you were not careful That is, make a wrong move in the scary maze and you d be inside that dude s tummy as fast as h...This is of course the original fighting fantasy gaming book, the one that spawned a series of hundreds, not to mention all the copycats As the first of them, it deserves a place of honour It isn t perfect, but it doesn t have to be Any RPGer worth their salt needs to have played this book game.A classic gamebook with a classic dungeoneer old style adventure and the maze can be a real frustrating challenge, but this is the first Fighting Fantasy book and it spawned lots of sequels andWarhammer Fantady and Mala...Got me startedopened my imaginationThe grim, spidery pictures and the musty smell of the pages,The blue candle room, a snuffed out nightmare from the ages The deranged old man in his prison full of slime, The crazy maze of Zagor that enrages you every time The magic tools that hum a tune, and of course the s...This book started out pretty good but the later part with the maze soon became a grind and caused some frustration I was even making maps to plot my progress and soon came to not caring about doing that I actually sad to say had to get through by cheating on the maze part to find a pathway through by using a magical spell called the Internet But even with that success my adventure ended with failure as I defeated the Warlock but found only two of my three keys worked in his chest Sadly, This book started out pretty good but the later part with the maze soon became a grind and caused some frustration I was even making maps to plot my progress and soon came to not caring about doing that I actually sad to say had to get through by cheating on the maze part to find a pathway through by using a magical spell called the Internet But even with that success my adventure ended with failure as I defeated the Warlock but found only two of my three keys worked in his chest Sadly, frustrated and disgruntled I decided the dead Warlock could keep his treasure and headed out to seek another adventure.Despite my dismay with how the adventure ...The first Fighting Fantasy gamebook9 June 2012 This is the first of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and I remember that it was first introduced to me in primary school as an offering in a book club As soon as I read the blurb that said that it was a fantasy adventure in which you are the hero I immediately know that I wanted it and sure enough my parents bought it for me Soon though,began to appear on the shelves and I went out of my way to begin collecti...Full commentary at www.turnto400.blogspot.comUltimately, Warlock comes off as a series of interesting but disconnected encounters playing out in a largely bland, unembellished environment Firetop Mountain seems like dungeon equivalent of a newly completed office building, all fitted out but with scant contents and zero character I never really had a coherent sense of what was happening or why.I found myself wondering how all of these creatures get by and what kind of rela...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Fighting Fantasy: Reissues 1, #1)
  • English
  • 25 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • 0743475119
  • Steve Jackson
  • The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Fighting Fantasy: Reissues 1, #1)