Bundle of Holding - You Are The Hero (Solo Game Books)

I'm a huge fan of the classic Fighting Fantasy styled solo game books. For 20 bucks, I'm all in on the Your Are The Hero Bundle at Bundle of Holding.

Adventurer! For a limited time, this You Are the Hero Quick Deal presents the 40th Anniversary Edition of You Are the Hero plus interactive Ace Gamebooks inspired by the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. Part history, part celebration, You Are the Hero chronicles four decades of the Fighting Fantasy phenomenon. Written by Jonathan Green (author of eight Fighting Fantasy gamebooks), this revised, updated, and lavishly illustrated tome will appeal to anyone who ever whiled away a washed-out summer holiday with only two dice and a pencil.

This new Quick Deal celebrates a Kickstarter campaign in progress, "Fighting Fantasy Solo Adventure Gamebooks - Back In Print!" American publisher Steve Jackson Games is reprinting the first five Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in enhanced editions with large print. (Trivia: The British Steve Jackson who started the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series with Ian Livingstone, and who also co-founded Games Workshop, is no relation to the American Steve Jackson, designer of Munchkin, GURPS, Car Wars, Ogre, and Illuminati. But – get this – the US Steve also wrote three Fighting Fantasy gamebooks! You Are the Hero explains everything.)

For just US$19.95 you get all nine titles in our Ace Gamebooks Collection (retail value $129) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete full-color, 324-page You Are the Hero 40th Anniversary Edition along with seven Ace Gamebooks written by Jonathan Green in the Fighting Fantasy tradition: Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland, The Wicked Wizard of Oz, Neverland - Here Be Monsters, Beowulf Beastslayer, 'Twas - The Krampus Night Before Christmas, Dracula - Curse of the Vampire, and Ronin 47. We also include Jonathan's Saxon-era roleplaying game Heorot - Roleplaying in the World of Beowulf Beastslayer. (It's not a gamebook, just a good game.)

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GameFound - Fighting Fantasy Adventures: The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain And Other Stories

I have some very fond memories of the original Fighting Fantasy books. It was like endless quest books with random elements, hit points, and combat. It added a certain depth that one didn't get from most of the "choose your own adventure" style of fiction gaming (is that a thing?).

To bring back Fighting Fantasy as a Solo and Co-Operative card game is unexpected, but on many levels, makes sense, as it might be the next natural progression for games like Fighting Fantasy Adventures.

Fighting Fantasy Adventures is 30 bucks for the basic box, and 60 with all the bells and whistles. Not bad pricing at all.

A bit in the game play:

Here I'd like to share some of Martin's notes about each adventure as well as some thoughts about the nature of the game.

So this is one box, with 5 (actually 6) games inside it. They have an overarching storyline and you carry items and abilities forward with you. Each one of these adventures will take between 60-180 minutes to play, depending on your dice rolls and choices. So there are some elements that you will know if you play again (just like a regular Choose Your Own Adventure book) but there are also things you may not find on your first pass, you might hit a dead end and fail, you might have TERRIBLE (I promise you, you will!) dice rolls and die and need to restart.

This is not a legacy game where components are destroyed. You can enjoy the adventures multiple times, especially if you play with other people and let them make the choices the next time around. You can run this for your kids, you can lean into the RP element and act in ways that might mean you drive your other party members crazy and mean you miss important stuff. It's really fun to run this as a GM. There is a tonne of value in the box.

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Bundle of Holding - Advanced Fighting Fantasy

I have fond memories of the Fighting Fantasy Solo Books from my early days of roleplaying. Unlike other series of solo adventuring (with the exception of Tunnels & Trolls) the Fighting Fantasy series had a very strong RPG feel. I guess this makes sense as to why a solo series was converted into a more standard-style RPG release.

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy Bundle featuring the Arion Games tabletop roleplaying game is based on the phenomenally popular Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Steve Jackson (the British one) and Ian Livingstone. Originally published in 1989, and presented here in a .PDF ebook of its handsome 2011 Second Edition, Advanced Fighting Fantasy is a complete RPG set in the classic Fighting Fantasy world, with a fast and adaptable system ideal for beginners and well suited to long-term campaigns.

For just US$7.95 you get all four titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $40) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition core rulebook, the Heroes Companion: rules expansion, The Sorcery Spell Book (the grimoire from Steve Jackson's four-book Sorcery! gamebook series), and the monster book Out of the Pit.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy Titan supplementAnd if you pay more than this revival's threshold price of $18.75, you'll level up and also get this offer's entire Bonus Collection with six more supplements and adventures worth an additional $59, including the full-length campaign Crown of Kings, the Beyond the Pit monster book, the Titan setting guide (plus the Titan Map), the Blacksand city book (and the Blacksand Map), and The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, a full-length RPG scenario based on the first and most famous Fighting Fantasy gamebook.

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Bundle of Holding - Advanced Fighting Fantasy

I've looked at Advanced Fighting Fantasy before before but never pulled the trigger. Now, I'm not saying I'd use the system, but I wonder how convertible the adventures would be to Swords & Wizardry.

In any case, $7.95 is certainly a fair buy in. Its about 20 bucks for the Bonus Collection. Very tempting.