Anyone remember Fighting Fantasy?

They were these really neat Tabletop-style gamebooks, like D&D meets a choose your own adventure book. You had to roll your character's stats, keep track of inventory, make choices, and complete quests. The best one though was "House of Hell", where you rolled your character's heart strength and had to make it through bloodthirsty cults and the like without getting scared to death. So much fun. Anyone else play these besides me?

I played them. Never finished a damn one.

yeah, they were pretty cool. I've been finding pdfs of them on the net and read them again recently.

I used to love those too, and I've still got most of mine. The Sorcery! ones were always my favourites - it's a shame they didn't do more series like that, with books directly continuing on from others.

Too bad that gamebooks are basically dead with videogames taking over most of its niche and market.

I LOVED THOSE THINGS

I used to read them for the plot when I was like eight, lol

Just be all "YES I BEAT EVERY MONSTER" and flip through all the possibilities looking for the best deaths. I also didn't understand the concept of maximum stamina, so when I started actually playing them properly, I'd go back to a point where you got something for free that restored, say, 4 points, and then I'd just keep going back over and over and adding more and more points until I had 300 stamina and could just bulldoze through the entire book. Brings back memories.

Spectral Stalkers was my favourite. I think I still have my copy. It was damn trippy.

I was halfway through one once when I dropped it. It took me three days to find the page I was on. The first few are available as iPhone apps now.

@ nightwyrm: Where did you find these PD Fs? I can't find my actual books anymore.

Oh, thank god, I wasn't the only one. Seven, not eight, other than that this is scarily close to my own experience of them . Some kid in the year above tried to tell me you need dice for them, so I bit him.

Simpler times.

^oh god, I cheat so much.

^^ bittorrents.

edited 5th Apr '11 7:52:36 AM by nightwyrm_zero

I should possibly take this to Tabletop Games, but there was a proper pen-and-paper, needs-some-friends RPG published, called Titan, which was setin the Warlock of Firetop Mountain setting that most of the fantasy shared. My local library had a copy, for some reason.

Holy balls yes.

When I was in high school, one of my friends turned one of these books into a D&D campaign. Like, he made custom monsters that were the ones from the book and everything. To this date, it's one of the best campaigns I was ever a part of, in addition to being my first.

I don't think we ever did more than like 2 hours of a "real" Fighting Fantasy game though. I don't remember any of the rules or anything, but I remember playing once, briefly. I don't remember why we stopped, but we picked up and dropped a lot of D&D and other RPG campaigns back then.

Necroing this to mention that there's an official website of the series, Scholastic UK is republishing it starting with 5 titles this August and a new book by Ian Livingstone "The Port of Peril".