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Fighting Fantasy, Solo Adventures, and more

Started by 1989, January 28, 2014, 02:22:14 PM

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Skywalker

#45
January 30, 2014, 02:03:51 PM
Quote from: APN;728085Really wanted to like the multiplayer game, bought pdfs, dead tree books... was just left underwhelmed and short changed.

Yeah. Its a shame. The fact that they didn't cover more ground before the licence was pulled is an issue too.

I am watching C7's attempt with interest. I get the feeling we will see the same game with better production values and more in each release. That will help some. But unless they revamp the system like Arion did for Advanced Fighting Fantasy, it is going to be hard to justify buying it.

TBH if I wanted to run Lone Wolf I would use the OGL version (which is good, especially as LW started as a D&D campaign) and draw on MPG books, particularly Sommerlund, as needed.

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#46
February 02, 2014, 06:52:45 PM
I would consider FF books and the like a "pre-RPG" experience.  A gateway-drug, if you will.  I consider the first RPG I ever played to be D&D; but before I played D&D (red box) I had read a lot of FF books, and choose-your-own-adventure type books before that.

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#47
February 02, 2014, 07:10:17 PM
I hope D&D Next has a solo adventure included.

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#48
February 04, 2014, 10:13:40 PM
Somewhere I still have the wargame illustrated by the same FF artist.

Interesting too that the Fighting Fantasy games eventually tried their hand at turning it into an actual RPG.

Still trying to get a copy of the new DestinyQuest FF-style gamebook that apparently is very freeform. Curious how that works.

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#49
February 04, 2014, 10:16:50 PM
Quote from: Omega;729367Still trying to get a copy of the new DestinyQuest FF-style gamebook that apparently is very freeform. Curious how that works.

I have a copy that I would be willing to sell (but shipping costs from NZ would be prohibitive). It was an ambitious idea. Though freeform, it feels a little too videogamey for my tastes and lacked the writing quality of FF or Lone Wolf.

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#50
February 06, 2014, 02:56:05 PM
Quote from: Omega;729367Somewhere I still have the wargame illustrated by the same FF artist.

Interesting too that the Fighting Fantasy games eventually tried their hand at turning it into an actual RPG.

Dungeoneer was actually a very good rpg! Particularly when you added in the stuff from the Blacksand sourcebook.
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#51
February 06, 2014, 03:32:18 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;729686Dungeoneer was actually a very good rpg! Particularly when you added in the stuff from the Blacksand sourcebook.

It was a lot of fun but had some issues. The main one was that Skill levels were way too high and having a high Skill grant more Special Skill points was a big problem. And there was no armour. I find the changes made by Arion Games to pretty much take the good underlying structure from Dungeoneer and elevate it past these issues into something quite robust.
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