Re: Yes! Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf!
Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jun 09, 2009; 6:59pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Yes-Fighting-Fantasy-and-Lone-Wolf-tp2997125p3051435.html
The Giak Attack miniatures are alright, Sir Pelethor and his steed are a little small by todays standards, but the Giaks make for nice goblin-type creatures and I have plans to the Gorgaz in a retro-style Lizardman warband.
^Giak Attack Box Set released 1985
I'm not really sure about why exactly Wizards Books did what they did when they published the new FF series. I think it may have been because some authors or illustrators didn't give permission for their work to be re-published
Wikipedia (which seems to have already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom) has this to say:
In 2002, Wizard Books bought the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series and has put many of the original titles back into print, making the controversial decision to change the order of the books in order to fit their reduced line-up (initially only the gamebooks by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone were published) and to incorporate the Sorcery! miniseries into the core series. The original cover art has also been replaced. The Wizard editions have also been criticized for the extensive errors in the rule section of the reprints. Copying and pasting from Firetop Mountain has introduced errors into the rules, in most cases affecting the rules for Provisions and Potions. These problems have continued in the more recent re-releases as number 24, Talisman of Death, also has these errors.
My collection still has it gaps by I'm not impatient about getting them filled, so your safe (for now)
AFF is quite a fun system for pick-up-and-play-ness but a little too simple to do much with, I've read that The Legend of Zagor board game combined the FF rules with a dungeon crawling aspect, which would make for a good system if it could be expanded using the AFF system (but I think I'd better stick to re-working one system at a time)
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Yes-Fighting-Fantasy-and-Lone-Wolf-tp2997125p3051435.html
The Giak Attack miniatures are alright, Sir Pelethor and his steed are a little small by todays standards, but the Giaks make for nice goblin-type creatures and I have plans to the Gorgaz in a retro-style Lizardman warband.
^Giak Attack Box Set released 1985
I'm not really sure about why exactly Wizards Books did what they did when they published the new FF series. I think it may have been because some authors or illustrators didn't give permission for their work to be re-published
Wikipedia (which seems to have already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom) has this to say:
In 2002, Wizard Books bought the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series and has put many of the original titles back into print, making the controversial decision to change the order of the books in order to fit their reduced line-up (initially only the gamebooks by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone were published) and to incorporate the Sorcery! miniseries into the core series. The original cover art has also been replaced. The Wizard editions have also been criticized for the extensive errors in the rule section of the reprints. Copying and pasting from Firetop Mountain has introduced errors into the rules, in most cases affecting the rules for Provisions and Potions. These problems have continued in the more recent re-releases as number 24, Talisman of Death, also has these errors.
My collection still has it gaps by I'm not impatient about getting them filled, so your safe (for now)
AFF is quite a fun system for pick-up-and-play-ness but a little too simple to do much with, I've read that The Legend of Zagor board game combined the FF rules with a dungeon crawling aspect, which would make for a good system if it could be expanded using the AFF system (but I think I'd better stick to re-working one system at a time)
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~The ravings of a single mad Goblin is bad enough, but such a power-hungry, malice-filled creature as Mortis can never hope to be understood~
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