Competition - The Reminder!

A reminder folks that the deadline for the AFF competition draws closer.

Rules are here: http://fightingfantazine.blogspot.com/2011/05/competition-rules.html

Deadline is June 10th.

Get your entries in!

The Return of Advanced Fighting Fantasy

The new version of Advanced Fighting Fantasy is now available for purchase:

http://shop.cubicle7store.com/Advanced-Fighting-Fantasy-RPG

along with reprints of Out of the Pit and Titan:

http://shop.cubicle7store.com/Out-of-the-Pit
http://shop.cubicle7store.com/Titan

Author Graham Bottley was interviewed in issue #5 and issue #6 features a competition to win copies of the above three titles.

Some recent posts about the return of AFF:

http://virtualfantasies.blogspot.com/2011/05/did-graham-bottley-grant-my-wishes.html
http://www.minient.net/2011/05/advanced-fighting-fantasy-returns/
http://pfcomics.com/2011/05/14/new-game-stuff-3142011/
http://grandexperiment.livejournal.com/153381.html
http://tranquilosonminions.blogspot.com/2011/05/romanos-muertos-y-fantasia-avanzada.html

Reviews of all three books will appear in issue #7 of the magazine later in the year.

Getting Started - The Mini Adventure

As noted in my post on pitching the idea of the magazine, I had floated the idea of including a 200 reference mini adventure in each issue. This was a point that was debated, some unsure that it could be done:

I think it's a great idea! My main concern is size and time constraints. A 200 ref adventure does take a fair amount of time to design, playtest, and write. Also, would the illustrations all be new, or just drawn from previously published FF? [from here]

As the others have said, this might be a bit ambitious, even if it is a worthy aim. I've started loads of FF-style gamebooks, but never finished any of them (yet), even though I think there are some good ideas in there (one of my problems is that they are all so vast in scale they'd need about 800 refs each to do them justice, and that's a hell of a lot of work!). [from here]

I agreed that it was ambitious, but that it could be done. For that reason, I wrote and illustrated the mini adventure that featured in the first issue (Resurrection of the Dead) to demonstrate that it could be done (and not for any ego-boosting reasons!). Whatever the merits of my own adventure, the gamble paid off and we have had an adventure in each issue since.


Here's to more adventures in the future!

Competition - The Rules

Reproducing here the rules for the competition featured in issue #6:

With the new version of Advanced Fighting Fantasy almost upon us, we’ve teamed up with Arion Games and Cubicle 7 Entertainment to give you a chance to win copies of the forthcoming AFF books: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, Out of the Pit and Titan.

To be in to win them, YOUR mission is to pen an original, entertaining, and imaginative short multi-player adventure using the original AFF rules as outlined in Dungeoneer, Blacksand! and Allansia.

Author of the new AFF series Graham Bottley will be judging the entries and picking the winner, who will not only be given copies of the new books, but have their adventure published in a future issue of this magazine for all to play and enjoy.

Criteria for entry:

• Your adventure must feature no more than two locations

• Your adventure must feature no more than five major NPCs (Non-Player Characters) 

• Your adventure must be set somewhere on the world of Titan

• Any maps needed for the adventure are to be supplied by yourself 

• Please keep the length of the adventure to about 10, 000 words

Deadline for entries: June 10th, 2011

Please email your entries along with your postal contact details (using the subject line “AFF Competition Entry”) to:

fightingfantazine@gmail.com

Issue #6 - Published!

Issue #6 has now been published and is available for download here: http://www.unboundbook.org/FightingFantazine/FF6.pdf

Printing password: fanta
92 pages of Fighting Fantasy goodness.