Fighting Fantasy Collector Checklist & Price Guide 2016
mentioning that you can pick up the original Eidos version of Deathtrap Dungeon for £4.99 on Steam. Don’t forget you can also download the Commando Kiwi adaptation of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Lost Chapters) on iTunes. I have always maintained there is something new to discover and despite being around since the early nineties, I have only just discovered that Chris Achilleos produced a series of collectable trading cards based on his artwork. In the series you will find several pieces related to Fighting Fantasy and I own 4 of them so far in a limited edition format as follows.
One Against Many; Warlock Issue 12 Wolfman; Warlock Issue 8 Dragonman; Warlock Issue 6 Orc Hero; The Trolltooth Wars – A Fighting Fantasy Novel
The others you can collect are also from other Warlock magazine covers and from Armies of Death, Space Assassin, Temple of Terror, Out of the Pit/Poster Book and Titan. Dragonspell, the most famous piece from the cover of Titan, can also be found as a poster, post card and greetings card along with some of the others in the different formats Since my last article I undertook to complete my collection of the re-released Advanced Fighting Fantasy material from Arion Games. I have now added the Blacksand poster, Sorcery! Spellbook, Heroes Companion and The Crown of Kings: Sorcery! Campaign. I believe the poster was a leftover from the Blacksand! Kickstarter campaign and interestingly the Sorcery! Spellbook is printed in the A5 format which is true to the original in size with some minor additions for the revised system. On top of this the Kickstarter funded and brand new Beyond the Pit finally arrived adding 250 more catalogued monsters from the Fighting Fantasy bestiary. You can also pick up copies of the revised map of Titan from their website which I am yet to collect. The only thing I would say against any of these is the quality of the publications and the attention to detail in the typesetting, but nonetheless worthy of a place in my collection. Now is the time of year when I update my checklist and price guide so keep an eye out for the new edition. I strive one day to make it into a functional collectors’ app and/or publish a book along with photos. Since everyone is using Kickstarter maybe that is the way forward. To finish, one of the most common requests I get is “when are Ian and Steve going to bring out a new book?”, well, not until the 40th Anniversary is the answer and that is another 8 years away! So, to keep you interested, mutterings of a board game being released were being picked up on the circuit but not confirmed. However, I would look out for interactive audio versions of books if I were you. Fighting Fantazine Article 14 This year has certainly not been short of new finds and events. I have pretty much given up looking for the books as they consume so much time looking for a mint first edition of everything but of course I won’t let one go if I see one when out and about. I am beholding to fellow collector Steven Dean whom I understand has a near complete set like that and therefore tops the stakes in this department as that will be hard to beat. I did however pick up a leaflet from ebay advertising the Steve Jackson F.I.S.T (Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone) which was the first interactive telephone role-playing game and would you believe technologically advanced for the day back in 1988. My other ebay find was two signed Tony Hough poster prints of Night Dragon and Knights of Doom (would have preferred the originals!).
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