There are four scenes in the Riddling Reaver, each one in a different location and with a different aim. The adventurers are also set up differently - they terms used are scenes and acts as if the players are in a film. If they roll higher than their magic score on three dice then their spell will fail or misfire, depending on the gamemasters's (GM's) decision. One character was allowed to cast the spells from Citadel of Chaos, but their skill was 1d6 + 4 rather than 1d6 + 6 and their stamina was 14, the minimum. It added variable damage for weapons, unconsciousness ( a hero is now unconscious when their stamina reaches 0, mortally wounded if their stamina reaches -1 which means that they can be revived with potions or spells and they only die when their stamina reaches -2), mighty strike (when a character rolls a double 6 for their attack strength, they automatically reduce their opponent's stamina to -1) and magic. In terms of rules, the Riddling Reaver added more to the basic Fighitng Fantasy system. In 1986, another role playing book, The Riddling Reaver was published. The first Fighting Fantasy role playing book did not add a great deal to Fighitng Fantasy, but it did start the ball rolling. There is also an endless tunnel in the wishing well and a trap which makes zombies appear out of thin air. For example, there is a room in Shaggradd's hive where if you say that something will happen, then it will happen. However, some thought has been put into making them interesting. Both of them are dungeon crawls through a mish mash of illogical encounters. There are two adventures in the book, The Wishing Well and the longer Shaggradd's Hives of Peril. The adventurers' characteristics were skill, stamina and luck and most situations were determined by either a test against skill, test against luck or by the games master determining what the chances of something happening out of 6. The rules did not expand on solo Fighting Fantasy very much. However, I have only just realised that the first Fighting Fantasy role playing game, Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Role Playing Game, was published in 1984 when the solo gamebook series contained only ten books. I did not come across Fighting Fantasy role playing until a few years after I had bought my first Fighting Fantasy book and since, when I was 11, I never looked at the years that books were published, I just assumed that the role playing game was natural evolution from lots of solo gamebooks. Then I will focus on my wishlist for changes to the Advanced Fighting Fantasy system. This first post will be about the previous role playing books and sourcebooks for Fighitng Fantasy. In the month leading up to the release of second edition Advanced Fighting Fantasy, I'll be writing about roleplaying in Fighting Fantasy.

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