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

Fighting Fantasy role-playing gamebooks were a phenomenon of the eighties, but dwindled in popularity with the rise of video games. I have been on a pilgrimage to complete my Fighting Fantasy RPG collection. For over ten years, the crew of Dungeon Master has performed roleplaying games with a party of audience members testing their knowledge and wits against a new scenario each week. However, what set Jackson and Livingstone's interpretation apart was the introduction of true role playing elements – a character sheet with statistics, the random element of dice rolls and, here's the clincher, proper combat rules! I somewhat distantly remember playing and owning a few of the books growing up. I was drawn into Roleplaying games via the wonderful Fighting Fantasy books in 83 and had been playing D&D for a year or so when one of my friends turned up with the very same Games Workshop version of RQ2, frothing with enthusiasm! So we deliberately broke those mechanistic bonds to encourage greater flexibility, something which will immediately leap to mind when reading the introductory chapter on Magic in the book. When you get right down to it, Warhammer Quest is a fairly straightforward action-RPG that's set in a generic fantasy world. Standard Action is a fantasy-comedy webseries dealing with a number of topics—everything from dealing with the barbarian's outbursts to what happens when you split the party. 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. Season 1 Nerds in Babeland has a nice introduction and interview with the producers. 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. A few months ago, I was commenting to Rob D, one of our D&D Encounters DMs, that I should do a 13th Age introductory session sometime. Although you and your in-game friends have the series' usual ability to summon demons this is primarily a tactical role-playing game in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea.