The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were similar to other interactive gamebooks that were being published at the time - most notably the Choose Your Own Adventure series – in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, making many choices over the course of the story and turning to different pages in order to learn the outcome of their decisions. McCaig is still a well established fantasy/sci-fi concept artist for film, including a character/creature designer for the newer Star Wars films.īritish writers Steve Jackson (not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, authored the first seven books in the series, after which point the writing stable was expanded.
My two favourite artists for the interior illustrations were Russ Nicholson and Ian McCaig. Just as all other books of its kind, the cover art blew my mind, and like most great fantasy novels it fuels your imagination and creates the visual catalyst for the stories within.
The first book I had was Island of the Lizard King. It definitely got my imagination going and inspired many of the stories and campaigns that I would eventually dream up for the D&D games I would direct for my friends years later. I was hooked, for the next three years I started collecting them. I was 10 years old when I read through my first book. Although not the first books to use this format, Fighting Fantasy popularized the format and spawned dozens of imitators.
#Used fighting fantasy books license#
Originally published by Puffin Books, they are now published by Wizard Books who took over the license in 2002 after Puffin discontinued the series at the end of 1995. I used to read and play these when I was a kid, it's what eventually got me into Dragonlance and Lord of the Rings novels.įighting Fantasy was a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
I saw James' post on his blog and it brought back so many memories of this chose-your-own-adventure style series of books.
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