Advanced Fighting Fantasy - Cave Wars!

Available now from Arion Games is Cave Wars - a new way to play the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG.

Adventure as a Dwarf of Stonehaven trying to defeat the evil Goblins of Blackfang and control the caves and caverns under Khul, or play as a cunning Goblin, trying to drive the terrible Dwarfs of Stonehaven out of the caves and mines and protect the town of Blackfang.

However, in Cave Wars, you don't need to choose one side, because both sides choose you!

You play as a Dwarf one session, and as a Goblin the next. They are both your Heroes and you are trying to succeed with both, even as success puts your other Hero in a difficult position!

Written by Graham Bottley, this book contains:

• Template-based Goblin and Dwarf Hero creation
• Rules for Stonehaven and Blackfang towns and their characteristics
• Session creation rules with challenges, map design and rewards
• 34 Adventure seeds
• Campaign notes
• Brand new Goblin and Dwarf Hero sheets

Requires the Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e Rulebook.

Pick up your copy of Cave Wars from DriveThruRPG today.

Cave Wars alternative cover.

Gods of Titan

Available now from Arion Games, for Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition, is the Gods of Titan sourcebook by Andrew Wright.

The Gods of Titan have a huge role to play in the fate of any Hero. Whether acting as a Patron Deity, as a way of accessing healing, or as the key enemy, the Gods are omnipresent.

This book describes the Gods of Titan, their Priests and much, much more! Ideal for Directors and Players as a reference book and a source of inspiration.

Includes:

• Detailed descriptions of 131 Gods and their worship

• An overview of the celestial courts

• Notes on Priests on Titan

• An in-depth Titan calendar

• A guide to the Macrocosmos

Gods of Titan is available in both softcover and hardback.

The Warlock Returns - Issue #14

Available now from White Hare Games is Issue #14 of The Warlock Returns, the FF and Advanced Fighting Fantasy fanzine.

This issue brings you new material for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, including...

* Denizens of the Pit - Perils from the Plain of Ice!

* Interview with Marc Gascoigne - FF's new Brand Manager

* Adventure Jam Details Pinned Down!

* Wizardry Spell Cards

* Director Advice Articles with rumours and plot hooks

* Queen of Ruin - Advanced Fighting Fantasy solo game

* Reviews - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Collector's Edition & Legion of the Necromancer

* The Legend of Gareus agony aunt page

* Stellar Adventures: The Endless Reach - Part I of a new campaign setting

and more!

La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll

Available now from Scriptarium is the French translation of The Trolltooth Wars graphic novel - La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll.

La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll first went on sale at the French RPG and Games convention OctoGônes in Lyon last month. As you can imagine, it went down a storm!

Translated from the graphic novel by Gavin Mitchell and PJ Montgomery by Fabienne Berganz, as with other Scriptarium-related FF products, the French edition includes some bonus material.

There is an illustrated Archives de l'Allansia section written by Florent Haro, an interview with Steve Jackson, and another with PJ Montgormery, who wrote the script for the graphic novel, while Gavin Mitchell, drew, inked, coloured, and lettered it.

A spread from La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll.

Archives de l'Allansia.

If you would like to buy a copy of La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll, you can do so via Scriptarium's online store, where you will also find the French edition of the Advanced Fighting Fantasy book Blacksand, Le Port du Sable Noir, which has been adapted and expanded with information from other official sources.

Join the Hunt for the Black Whale with Arion Games!

Available now is a new adventure for Advanced Fighting Fantasy - The Hunt for the Black Whale.

Boarding a ship and hunting down a gigantic and dangerous Black Whale off the coast of the Old World is a tricky enough task, but the Heroes are about to find their task becomes even more difficult...

Written by Andrew Wright, and illustrated by Andrew Wright and Mike Tenebrae, The Hunt for the Black Whale takes 2-3 sessions to run, and is great as both a one-off or modified slightly to fit into any AFF campaign.

Inspired by Moby Dick, the story of Jonah, and even Jaws, the adventure sees the Heroes board the Questral, a ship hunting a monstrous Black Whale off the coast of the Old World.

There are various nautical issues and encounters, before eventually the Heroes are swallowed whole, at which point the interior of the whale becomes an organic dungeon. Can the Heroes survive, and how can they escape the horror of the Black Whale?

Fighting Fantasy Heroes coming to MyMiniFactory this autumn

Coming to MyMiniFactory this autumn is a new range of STLs* from the Blue Giant Studios' range of Fighting Fantasy Heroes miniatures.

The MyMiniFactory ranges offers 40 of the most loved (and feared) Heroes and Villains from the entire book series, including the Bloodbeast, the Shape Changer, the legendary Wheelies… and many more! And in a MyMiniFactory first, they come as a physical tier, which includes a deluxe limited-run box set designed for collectors and fans.

This special signed box includes:

• QR codes for all the STLs on statblock cards to use when playing the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG.
• A unique RPG adventure booklet and map written especially for this campaign.
• Logo'd dice.
• A limited physical model that will not be available as an STL.

The box will come numbered and signed by Sir Ian Livingstone. And when you sign up for launch notifications, you'll also get a FREE STL of Zanbar Bone delivered straight to your MyMiniFactory library!

You can then print and paint it to enter the upcoming competition to win signed books and a new 3D printer. You are the Hero – may your STAMINA never fail! Get notified when the campaign launches!

* Digital miniatures.

The Eye of the Dragon comes to Advanced Fighting Fantasy

The latest release for Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition is a reimagining of Sir Ian Livingstone's dungeon crawl Eye of the Dragon by Brett Schofield.

Based on both the classic gamebook and also the pre-FF adventure from Dicing with Dragons, this adventure by Sir Ian Livingstone offers the usual mix of traps, puzzles, monsters and strangeness you have come to expect from Fighting Fantasy.

The book also offers you two different ways to run this adventure; you can use the provided maps to run it as per the gamebook layout or, to to make it a little different, you can run it using the included Dungeon Designer to create a random dungeon, either ahead of time or even on the fly!

The Eye of the Dragon is available now from DriveThruRPG.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy now on Foundry Virtual Tabletop

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy Ruleset and Core Module are now available to buy on Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

Foundry Virtual Tabletop is software that provides an innovative online role-playing experience. The software supports Windows, Mac, and Linux and allows you to self-host a game server that players connect to for free directly through a web browser. And now you can play your favourite gamebook-inspired RPG on Foundry VTT as well!

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd Edition Core Rules contain everything you need to play, including: 

• Full rules for Hero creation
• Comprehensive but fast game rules
• More than 160 Spells and magical Powers
• 2 Full Adventures with brand new maps: Agbar’s Retreat and Wishing Well
• 12 sample archetypes + 5 pregen heros for the Wishing Well introductory adventure
• Monsters, Dungeons and Adventure creation

Advanced Fighting Fantasy is the perfect RPG for those completely new to gaming and veterans alike, and will provide many hours of roleplaying fun!

To find out more and purchase the Core Module, click this link.

Some screenshots of AFF on Foundry VTT.

Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure

Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure is a new, free gaming event for gamers old and new. It is being held on Saturday 26th April 2025 at Kensington Town Hall, from 10:00am - 5:00pm, and Fighting Fantasy will be there!

Joining Sir Ian Livingstone will be Graham Bottley or Arion Games, who will be showing off the latest Advanced Fighting Fantasy releases and demoing the new AFF board game, Dark Dungeons.

Don't forget, the event is entirely FREE to attend.

The Warlock Returns - Issue #13

Available now from Arion Games is Issue #13 of The Warlock Returns, the Advanced Fighting Fantasy fanzine.

This issue brings you new material for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, including...

* Denizens of the Pit - The Strangest Folk You Meet!

* Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 - Report by White Hare Games

* Adventure Jam - News!

* Wizardy - Spell Cards

* Director Advice - Articles with rumours and plot hooks

* Asteroid Prison Escape ­- Stellar Adventures solo game

* Wreck Age and Stonebeak Hospital ­- Lore and Locations!

* The Legend of Gareus - graphic novel and agony aunt page

* Stellar Adventures - Into the Doors of Eryx ­ Part VII (Final Part!)

and more!

Advanced Fighting Fantasy System and Modules for Foundry VTT

Now funding on Kickstarter is another crowdfunding campaign from Arion Games, this time to to provide adventurers with the opportunity to play Advanced Fighting Fantasy virtually using Foundry Virtual Tabletop, with an enhanced experience for both DM and Players!

To find out more, follow this link.

Fighting Fantasy at AireCon 2025

If you are attending AireCon at the Harrogate Convention Centre this weekend (Friday 14th March - Sunday 16th 2025) make sure you visit the trading Hall M and stop by Booth D13, where you will find Arion Games, publishers of the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition RPG.

You will also find Fighting Fantasy author and historian Jonathan Green at Booth A11, with signed copies of YOU ARE THE HERO: An Interactive History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks and Magic Realms: The Art of Fighting Fantasy.

Merry Christmas from Fighting Fantasy

It has been another busy year for Fighting Fantasy. There has been the release of another new Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Dungeon on Blood Island, as well as the publication of numerous foreign translations, some of which marked the 40th anniversary of particular titles.

Then there was the release of two non-fiction books about Fighting Fantasy, Jonathan Green's YOU ARE THE HERO: An Interactive History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, and MAGIC REALMS: The Art of Fighting Fantasy, written by Jonathan Green and Sir Ian Livingstone.

There was also crowdfunding success for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Adventure Creation System and the board game Dark Dungeons.

And of course, Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 took place in September, marking 40 years of Deathtrap Dungeon and featuring an in-person visit from ace artist Iain McCaig.

So, what does 2025 have in store for Fighting Fantasy fans? Apart from the release of Fighting Fantasy Adventures and more Fighting Fantasy Classics from Tin Man Games, you mean? You'll just have to wait and see.

But in the meantime, here's wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Advanced Fighting Fantasy Monster Bundle available now!

Available now from Arion Games, on DriveThruRPG, is the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Monster Bundle.

This bundle contains five books at a discount of 15%* - Beyond the Pit, Return to the Pit, Rough Guide to the Pit, Demons of Doom, and Creatures of Mishna - which will provide you with more than 500 monsters to use in your AFF campaigns.

To purchase the AFF Monster Bundle, follow this link.

* And it auto-updates if you already own one or more of the books.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy: Dark Dungeons - The Board Game

Advanced Fighting Fantasy - Dark Dungeons: The Board Game, by Arion Games, is now funding on Kickstarter. Check out the video below and follow this link to pledge your support.

"YOU are the hero!" with Sir Ian Livingstone

On Monday 7th October 2024, Sir Ian Livingstone, co-creator of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, will be taking part in a webinar with debut author, Iqbal Hussain.

He will be discussing his life, writing process, inspirations, as well as his latest FF adventure, The Dungeon on Blood Island, and Unbound’s new book Magic Realms, a celebration of the iconic artwork in Fighting Fantasy.

The webinar will take place from 7:00-8:00pm BST (GMT+1) and you can reserve your free spot here.

In other FF news, or rather AFF news, the crowdfunding campaign for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy board game Dark Dungeons, launches on Kickstarter on Tuesday 1st October 2024. To find out more and register your interest, click here.

The Warlock Returns - Issue #12

Available now from Arion Games is Issue #12 of The Warlock Returns, the Advanced Fighting Fantasy fanzine.

This issue brings you new material for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, including...

* Denizens of the Pit - More of Titan's ocean bounty!

* Halfling Heroes - Plus Occupations for AFF2

* Irritaria - How the world of Titan started!

* Director Advice - Articles with rumours and plot hooks

* Psionics on the Run - Stellar Adventures solo game

* One Page Witch Hunt - A fun one page dungeon

* The Legend of Gareus - Agony aunt page

* Stellar Adventures - Into the Doors of Eryx Part IV

and more!

White Hare Games (the team behind The Warlock Returns) and Arion Games will be attending Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 on Saturday 7 September 2024. 

Advanced Fighting Fantasy: The Forest of Doom

Available now from Arion Games is Brett Schofield's adaptation of Sir Ian Livingstone's The Forest of Doom for Advanced Fighting Fantasy.

This AFF RPG campaign is not just a simple retread of the original gamebook but a versatile toolbox for running any adventure set within Darkwood Forest. It also features the most detailed map of the forest yet made. 

To cap it all off, after finding both halves of Gillibran’s Hammer in Darkwood, your Heroes can help the Dwarfs of Stonebridge defend their village against an army of Hill Trolls in a mass battle scenario.

Also available from Arion Games and Brett Schofield are AFF adaptations of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and The Citadel of Chaos. Why not try out one of them today?