Sorry about that. Will pay more attention in the future to the buttons. I know this'll be a question you've often heard, but are there any plans to put more books online? Have you figured out a way of sorting the combat in isle of the cyclops yet? Also, has andrew right considered writing a full length book for the site? Someof the senarios in the black lobster look promising especially the one about the wizard yaztromo.

With Isle Of The Cyclops, it isn't just the rules that are a problem, but its concepts of freer movement and open-endedness. I would like to do something with it, but I haven't decided exactly what yet.

Luck saves lives in combat
Tue Jan 24 16:50:19 2006
General Chat

Why are you so insitent on not letting people use luck in combat? Its not a stupid option, I have died sevral times in these books because you would not let me! They were designed so that people could use luck.
I mean this program is cool and all, but why did you neglect this and insist on doing so?

Stinger
Fri Jan 27 02:55:15 2006
General Chat

Personally, I don't like the fact that luck is even a part of the equation to begin with. I'd rather live or die on my own merits.

A lot of game books and RPGs use luck, I'm just not a fan of it at all. But since it is, I try to get as much luck as humanly possible. *grin*

S

Luck Saves Lives
Fri Jan 27 21:11:42 2006
General Chat

Ditto, I always perffered the Fate system in the Skyfall books, even if book 1 and 2 were cruddy.
But Luck is an important part of the ff system, and when the writers design it be used as a strategic option, and when it can mean the difference between life and death, it should not be cut out

LuckSavesLives
Fri Jan 27 21:57:01 2006
General Chat

Oh, reading through thte pages, You could make luck in combat an item. You use it, it rolls as normal and takes a luck off your stat

Gaetano
Fri Jan 27 22:51:08 2006
General Chat

I don't think it's a matter of not the administrator not wanting to use luck in combat on the site; I think it's that it's a programming issue. At any rate, even if he wanted to, it would be a ton of work, I'm sure, to go back and reprogram all of the adventures, especially for a site that he maintains on his free time. Keep in mind also that all of the adventures can be accessed from the link section, so you could print them out and play them with whatever features you like.

It's a bit of both. I don't think it would be quite as hard as you describe, but it's not trivial either. I have no interest in adding the feature, so any time I have available to spend on this site simply isn't going to be used for this purpose.

Elf Of Power
Mon Jan 30 18:31:12 2006
General Chat

Does any one knew how to finish Creature of havoc

Gamebook Fanatic
Wed Feb 1 14:48:42 2006
General Chat

You can try looking in www.advancedfightingfantasy.com. I believe there's a solution for this book available there. There used to be one in www.fightingfantasy.com as well, but I think the owner redirected that site.

shadowdragon
Fri Feb 10 03:13:02 2006
General Chat

Heh, long silence.

Wade Crawley
Fri Feb 10 03:58:27 2006
General Chat

Very enjoyable site. A couple of hours flew by while perusing the stories.

Stinger
Sat Feb 11 13:18:23 2006
General Chat

lol Its amazing how time flys while playing these games.

Guest
Sun Feb 12 19:07:11 2006
The Black Lobster

Just read The Black Lobster.
Its fun and well written, but seems really, really unfair. How the hell are you supposed to survive the final chapther? Those 2 fights would be almost impossiable, even if you could use luck, but without it your just plainly screwed. And having read the text verison (theirs no way out of said fight!), the ending seems contrived and thrown together

shadowdragon
Sun Feb 12 21:47:42 2006
The Black Lobster

The ending fight was rather simple, you just have to have the right item. I agree that was a pretty good book.

Gamebook Fanatic
Mon Feb 13 14:12:28 2006
The Black Lobster

Actually, there is a way out of the final fight, but you need to make the right choice in an earlier chapter to get a secret reference. You only have one chance to make that choice, and once you miss it, it's gone. You might want to play through the book again to look for it. Since the book is pretty short, it's not that hard to find. If not, here's the answer:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

But yeah, I agree that if you choose to fight, it's pretty hard to win, since your starting skill can never be higher than 9.

shadowdragon
Mon Feb 13 14:37:16 2006
The Black Lobster

Screw that, just:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

Gamebook Fanatic
Thu Feb 16 12:03:42 2006
The Black Lobster

SPOILER

END SPOILER

wraith
Mon Feb 20 10:54:37 2006
General Chat

to the heck with a couple of hours. A whole day flew by while i was on this enjoyable site!

Now, a fan :)

Stinger
Wed Feb 22 05:59:54 2006
General Chat

Good to see you into these game books wraith!
Between this and Sryth, I have no time for LoGD. lol

jamesH
Wed Feb 22 20:24:23 2006
General Chat

What a cracking good site. Thisll keep me occupied. Ive been a fan of the books for some 18 years, and still have lots of 2nd edition origionals. Even tho im about to hit 30 years old, (shhh), you cant beat the escapism of Fighting Fantasy and all its followers.

ffproject
Wed Feb 22 22:05:41 2006
News

Sadly, the definitive Fighting Fantasy website, Mark J. Popp's fightingfantasy.com, no longer exists. Following the disappearance of Hugh Eldred-Grigg's site I had anticipated something like this happening, so I made a copy. For anyone who is interested, this can be found on the downloads page.

Please note that I have no intention of supporting it, so don't complain to me about broken links etc.

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