*taps microphone*  This thing on? Hello? Is there anybody out there?  It's been a while since the last post on Ye Olde Fighting Dantasy....

Remember how I started the last entry, for The Port of Peril ? Of course you do, you read this blog every day. The _____ of _____. ...

The _____ of _____. It's a classic Fighting Fantasy trope, and Ian Livingstone goes all-in on emulating the classic gamebook experie...

One of the very late entries in the Fighting Fantasy canon, Howl of the Werewolf begins with a CCR song. Because when I think of werewol...

I made a dumb new thing called GamebookBot400. It makes up random names for gamebooks. Mostly FF in style, but with some curveballs th...

Hi! Long time no... see? Blog? Write? How are you? I'm living in a hotel because my real house got flooded, and since a) I don't...

I'm told this book is hard. @radioovermoscow Boy oh boy, that's a toughie! Very rewarding if you can make it through though. — ...

Fighting Dantasy is making a flying jump into the 2010s - hopefully successfully testing my skill in the process - and taking on one of the ...

It's been six years since I read Temple of Terror , and in that time I've obviously gotten worse at gamebooking, as you'll soo...

Freeway Fighter is set in the future - 2022, to be exact - and since we're now closer to that than the book's native 1985, I thought...

The instructions to this example of Steve Jackson sadism are headed 'HOW TO SURVIVE THE HOUSE OF HELL'. To mangle a phrase from a po...

Last time I tried this book, I came away thinking it would have been better titled Caverns of the Snow Bitch . And this post would be b...

It's been 30 years since the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountai n , was published. To celebrate, series c...

"What happened to Island of the Lizard King ?!" I hear you ask. Well, I actually finished that one the first time around , so no...