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

But you might not know much more about Square Enix's massive set of role-playing games. Anybody who has already played the rather confusingly titled “Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-playing Game” should have an idea of how things work here, though there are a few differences. I should dig it out for a return trip one of these days. So it's hard to sum them all up nicely. 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. It's great that these books will be made available Fighting Fantasy -- via "The Well" -- was also my introduction to rpgs. However, I missed picking up the 'Advanced' version decades ago. Long, long ago, before we had smartphones or apps or even 8-bit gaming consoles, game designer Steve Jackson released Fighting Fantasy, a series of single-player paper RPGs that played something like a Choose Your Own Adventure book , but with more rules. It worked well for one-shot scenarios, but then the basic FF system - and 'Fighting Fantasy', the introductory RPG was a great book with good advice for beginning GMs - is perfectly adequate for that. 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. I still own my copy of the original Fighting Fantasy RPG and about eight Fighting Fantasy solo adventure books (including the original Warlock of Firetop Mountain adventure). Can we start from the beginning? They can be intimidating to newcomers, chock full of strange gameplay systems and confusing Square Enix has slapped the Final Fantasy name on quite a few different games over the years: there are now Final Fantasy racing games, fighting games, and even a musical rhythm game. (Verification word: "Flatuoso". Now Playing the game means reading the introductory text, and then navigating your hero along a nicely rendered game map (the hero looks like an RPG miniature, complete with base) to story points.