Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Role-Playing Game Steve Jackson
Publisher: Puffin / Penguin Books

I have been on a pilgrimage to complete my Fighting Fantasy RPG collection. It is vague at the moment, but what if when writing a RPG, the world is presented place by place, location by location, with maps, locals, events and things players can participate in. Some of you may have read my overview of Dungeoneer, Advanced Fighting Fantasy here and here. I somewhat distantly remember playing and owning a few of the books growing up. The game's introduction, written by co-creator Dave Morris, describes the goal of Dragon Warriors as putting "something dark, spooky and magical back into fantasy role-playing. I finally had time to read through Fighting Fantasy. This 24 page document represents the distilled core rules of Kard és Mágia, my homebrew old school OGL variant. Character creation would be kind of integrated with the . The game is unusual in that it a cobination wargame/RPG/Fighting Fantasy style game. These were followed with reviews of entries in the contemporary Old School Renaissance movement, in particular, Tower of the Stargazer and New Weird World, the two scenarios that come in Weird Fantasy Roleplaying, the very latest and perhaps the most interesting of the Retroclones. These were An Introductory Roleplaying Game from Precis Intermedia that is designed to get everyone playing within ten minutes and can be played solo, or as a group with a GM. Legends of Araby - produced by Two Hour Wargames. Dragon Warriors appeared in the mid-80s, as gamebooks like Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf were at the height of their popularity. The rule book is a tad confusing and will having you flicking between pages like a Fighting Fantasy novel, but hidden within it is a surprisingly deep 1 to 6 player game of order giving, formation management and combat. Oh, in between Fighting Fantasy RPG and actual AD&D, age 12 at boarding school I/we played a lot of a simple d6-based system I & a guy called Ross Martin made up, which turned out to be nearly identical to Warhammer. The rules side of things would be presented in sidebars Another trend is ease of introduction for players. Given the usual price-points that FFG sells the dice sets for Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 3rd edition and the X-Wing miniatures game, I could easily see this dice set going for at least twelve bucks, if not a full fifteen. The next Each of the four available characters has their own token, with tokens also provided for TIE Fighters and a YT-1300 freighter. The very back of this booklet has a Star Wars opening crawl, presumably setting up the introductory adventure. Probably the closest thing we've had to a true fighting game/RPG hybrid is Dissidia Final Fantasy, which was definitely an interesting spinoff with some solid RPG elements, but couldn't really be called a traditional fighter.