The sheet is compatible with Fighting Fantasy rules as written in Citadel of Chaos. The links below point to printable Adventure Sheets (double-sided, 5 bookmarks to a page). FF Adventure Sheet (PDF, US Letter) FF Adventure Sheet (PDF, A4) Even as a kid I wasn’t fond of writing directly in the books. Usually I would use a strip of paper as a.

1. The Fighting Fantasy books are also nice, but with the exception of a couple of them I’ve never had quite the same interest in them as I have in the first Lone Wolf books. So it’s quite possible that I may be slightly biased in my comparison of the two series. Admittedly, the main reason why I love the original books so much is because of pure.
2. The Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks are an excellent introduction to role-playing games. Although they lack the freedom and variety of choice that the games are able to offer, they give a fair picture of how fantasy adventures run. Following on from the Gamebooks, the next step is either Dungeons & Dragons or RuneQuest for fantasy.
3. Mighty Nostromo. Michel Poulin Sci-fi Fantasy. Rating: Rated: 2 times. Format: PDF, ePub, Kindle, TXT. Published: May 2021. The year is 2324 C.E. Tina Forster and her mighty giant cargo ship KOSTROMA are busy carrying heavy and ultra-large cargo loads between the Solar System and the new Human colonies established.

I'm generating a player character party using several different systems in order to decide which system to use. Here I'm considering Advanced Fighting Fantasy.
The Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks were some of my earliest exposure to the wider world of role-playing games through their spin-off title: Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-Playing Game. This basic system emulated the gamebooks, but was superseded by a more developed set of rules that allowed greater customisation: Advanced Fighting Fantasy.
The three rulebooks covered adventures in dungeons (Dungeoneer, 1989), cities (Blacksand!, 1990) and ultimately wilderness (Allansia, 1994). This means that the rules are spread across the three books. Mainly this affects choosing Special Skills and spells, but to be frank having to flick through three books is hardly onerous. In comparison, any other major systems have character rules spread across dozens of books.
The basis stats are the same as in most of the gamebooks: Skill, Stamina, Luck. BlackSand! introduced a Social Scale attribute as well. Here are the rolls:
As any veteran of the gamebooks can tell you, one of the greatest lies in the industry is:In the gamebooks, combat was quite often unavoidable, and a low Skill guaranteed a messy end. That 8/7/8 above? Rubbish, in the context of the gamebooks. But the 12 is a shining beacon of possibility. (At least in the RPG there is actually more scope for avoiding combat since I'm not limited to a fixed set of sections to turn to.)
In AFF, your Skill score also denotes how many Special Skills you can take. These subvert the doom of a low Skill: putting, say, 3 points into 'Sword' means that you roll Skill+3 when using a sword instead of just Skill. At character creation, up to 4 points can be put into any one Special Skill. But those characters with high Skill scores win out again since not only do they start from a higher level, but they also get more points to play with. So for example a character with Skill 10 could have five Special Skills at an effective level of 12 (10+2, where there are five 2s in 10) whereas a character with Skill 8 could only have two Special Skills at an effective level of 12 (8+4, where there are two 4s in 8).
Of particular note, since I want to play around with casting spells, is the 'Magic' Special Skill which works differently. Spells themselves cost Stamina to cast, with more powerful spells having a greater casting cost. For each point put into Magic, you can choose up to 3 Stamina worth of spells (with starting characters restricted to spells with up to 4 Stamina casting cost (no 10-Stamina Death spell for me!). But also: for every point put into Magic, you decrease your Skill by one point! So at the end of character creation, your Skill+Magic will only ever be as high as the original Skill that you rolled, and all your other Special Skills will work from a reduced Skill value. Harsh.
So here where we've got three low-Skill characters and one high-Skill character, the choice is clear to me: Skill 12 for the spellcaster, and put 4 points into Magic. This puts the party at the same level of competence with starting Skills of 8/7/8/8.
Let's assign the rest of the character roles now as well... The fighter should have a high Stamina, so that's character 3. I'd like a thief to have a high Luck, which is character 1. That leaves hapless (low-Skill, low-Luck) character 2 for a cleric, a craftsman who is fairly useless and has been driven by a religious epiphany to a new life of adventure, perhaps.
Special Skills
Character 1 ('thief'): Skill 8
1 Awareness
1 Climb
1 Con
1 Dagger
1 Hide
1 Lock Picking
1 Sneak
1 Trap Knowledge
These were particularly tough to pick as there are more than eight Special Skills that are relevant to a thief character. Other alternatives that I dropped include Acrobatics and Throwing Dagger. Overall though the character still feels weak as the final value in each of these Special Skills is only 9.
Character 2 ('cleric'): Skill 7
3 Healing
2 Bargain
2 Pacify
Whilst priest spells are an option in the rules, I decided not to go for them. Again they use the Magic Special Skill, and so there would be a drop in the character's Skill score.
Character 3 ('fighter'): Skill 8

Fighting Fantasy Books Pdf Full

2 Dodge
2 Strength
2 Sword
2 Second Weapon
The rules for Second Weapon are unclear: what should you roll against when using two weapons? My own interpretation is to use whichever weapon Special Skill is appropriate, but capped by the Second Weapon score. So a character rolling 11 for Dagger but with 10 in Second Weapon would roll for two attacks against 10 when using a pair of daggers. For simplicity, I've ensured that this character has equal scores in Sword and Second Weapon.
Character 4 ('mage'): Skill 12 → 8
4 Magic
3 Minor Magic
3 World Lore
2 Languages
12 points to spend, but leaving 8 initial Skill.
Spells
It's 3 Stamina cost of spells per point of Magic, so I've got 12 to play with:
1 Luck
1 Stamina
2 Animate

Fighting Fantasy Books Pdf File

2 Counter-Spell
2 Sleep
4 Find
The Stamina spell appears to be a game breaker: restore 6 Stamina for a cost of 1 Stamina. But there is a constraint in that rolling a double-6 will result in the magic going wrong in an extraordinary way.
And for Minor Magic, it's as many spells as the character's Luck score. In this case 8:
Burn
Cool
Hear
Honesty
Mend
Noises Off

Fighting Fantasy Books Pdf Files

Push

Fighting Fantasy Books Pdf Book

Weather Improver
And that's that! Four generated characters ready to go. Equipment is standard and basic for all characters. Fleshing these out any further can wait on whether I decide to go with this system or not in my final analysis.