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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2018 9:09:57 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2018 10:38:57 GMT
It's not really a relaunch. This is books 7-12 under the Scholastic imprint that started last year. It's just good that with each batch of six they're doing they're putting one new title in among the reprints and this time they've got the benefit of Charlie Higson's name to promote it. I'm looking forward to playing The Gates of Death but peeved that unlike the last new title, Port of Peril, they aren't doing a collectors' hardback edition. Scholastic's paperbacks are about as cheap looking as you can get.
I've been buying these because although I already have the books being reprinted (twice over from previous reissues with new covers), this time they've done new interior art too. The style is much more modern than the original art, and although I don't like it as much, it's pushing the books to a new generation again.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2018 9:30:31 GMT
Very pleased to find none other than David Warner will voice the wizard Yaztromo in the upcoming FF audio drama series.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2018 19:05:40 GMT
Ooooooooooooooooooooooo! Where will that be available?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2018 19:21:43 GMT
I expect it'll be on here when it's done: www.fightingfantasyaudiodramas.com/It started as a kickstarter 'one of those things we don't talk about around Ralph', but I think the pilot CD (Firetop Mountain) did as well and I didn't buy that until well afterwards. The website does imply they'll be on sale through it. Lisa Bowerman is in the new ones too. It's going to be a set of four CDs based on another four of the early books. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 8, 2018 21:07:58 GMT
Think I will take a gamble on this.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2018 21:37:08 GMT
I bought the first CD to decide whether to back the Kickstarter for the next four. I liked it enough to do that. It smashed all its stretch goals, which meant they could afford people like Warner. Firetop Mountain isn't quite as dynamic in the action scenes as Big Finish's Pathfinder stuff, but the subject matter being FF books makes it more appealing.
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Post by Stomski on Nov 29, 2018 13:59:05 GMT
Fighting Fantasy Legends (City of Thieves, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos) and Legends Portal (Deathtrap Dungeon, Trial of Champions and Armies of Death) available in current Humble Board Games Bundle - www.humblebundle.com/games/board-games-bundlePC adaptions of the books btw. |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 29, 2018 19:14:50 GMT
Ooh. I haven't played those versions.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 12, 2018 23:52:12 GMT
The Kickstarter audio CD set came today. 270 minutes of drama on four discs. Just in time for a listen over Christmas.
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Post by Stomski on Jun 2, 2019 19:01:19 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 2, 2019 19:13:19 GMT
Ooh, I haven't played that version of Firetop. If I buy that can I download an installer and keep it like gog.com?
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Post by Stomski on Jun 2, 2019 20:04:04 GMT
Yes, Humble Bundle is DRM free.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 2, 2019 20:14:34 GMT
Nice. I'll have that for six quid!
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 30, 2019 11:13:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2019 13:00:00 GMT
There is also a board game version of HOUSE OF DANGER!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 30, 2019 21:24:35 GMT
Been playing the Firetop game this evening. It's done really well, preserves the text based decision making of the books but has a visual representation of the map and a more interactive combat system that uses the book method but moves it a step toward turn based strategy. Simple but fun. |
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Post by Stomski on Aug 2, 2019 9:14:56 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 31, 2019 10:04:17 GMT
Pinwig today has battled his way through train strikes to attend Fighting Fantasy Fest, a one day gamebook convention in London.
Currently listening to FF book writers explain methods of planning gamebooks.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2019 10:58:15 GMT
I was unaware this was on...
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 31, 2019 11:26:52 GMT
It's the third one, but I haven't been before. They've all been end of August/start of September. Nicely organised: two panel rooms, large dealer area and signing tables for the guests. Lot of artists here including Chris Achilleos. It's in the University of West London so using the lecture room facilities and canteen for food. Both Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone talking. Oh and Peter Darvil-Evans!
I was undecided on coming, but the fact the only way to get the limited edition hardback version of Assassins of Allansia is to get it here tipped me over. I managed to get the hb version of Port of Peril and I cannot have an incomplete set!
Was just an arse getting here by train. Because of the strikes the early London trains were all super slow, stopped everywhere. Stations I've never heard of!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2019 11:55:02 GMT
I too did not know this existed. Sounds fun.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 31, 2019 20:46:11 GMT
Ian Livingstone talked a bit today about foreign language editions and expressed his dismay for the Japanese cover of Deathtrap Dungeon:  |
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Post by Stomski on Aug 31, 2019 21:07:01 GMT
Compared to the come to bed look the creature is giving on the original cover, that's positively tame.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 31, 2019 21:10:22 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2019 21:49:41 GMT
Compared to the come to bed look the creature is giving on the original cover, that's positively tame. Oh no. It's all I can see now! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 31, 2019 22:03:27 GMT
Stomski is a bad man.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 12, 2020 14:19:51 GMT
I spied a boxset of 6 in TK MAXX for ten pounds,
Lo, I proclaimed: "Zounds!"
I could not resist,
Nor desist,
It is now mine,
Within are quests fine!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 12, 2020 14:41:48 GMT
Probably one of the scholastic sets. Is it the one with Firetop Mountain in, or the Deathtrap Dungeon set?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 12, 2020 16:18:30 GMT
It has Deathtrap Dungeon,
Can only be disliked by a cumudgeon.
Had been meaning to get these anyway,
Thus at so cheap I cried: "Hooray!"
-Ralph
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