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Magia i Miecz - Miasto, the Polish language version of Talisman City. John Sibbick’s classic WFRP cover mirrored. John Sibbick, 1986.

(It’s a dungeon fantasy picture for an urban fantasy game. I don’t understand this either).

A rare glimpse of the Coopdevil Collection - the Fighting Fantasy shelf. Behold the beauty of GREEN SPINES!

Left to right on the shelf

1 - Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Roleplaying Game (signed by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. This book taught me what roleplaying was.)

2 - Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Roleplaying Game (not as battered to fuck as the former so this is the usable copy from eBay)

3 - Out of the Pit (battered to fuck)

4 - Trial of Champions

5 - Scorpion Swamp

6 - Temple of Terror

7 - Phantoms of Fear

8 - Caverns of the Snow Witch

9 - Legend of Zagor (Wizard Books reprint)

10 - Citadel of Chaos (early version with the cover by Emmanuel, the first FF ever I owned)

11 - Return to Firetop Mountain (Wizard Books reprint)

12 - Robot Commando

13 - Starship Traveller (pre-green spines)

14 - Dead of Night

15 - The Forest of Doom

16 - Island of the Lizard King

17 - Freeway Fighter

18 - House of Hell

19 - The Riddling Reaver (4 adventure campaign book for the FF RPG)

20 - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (not obvious due to UV fading but this is the original brown spined version. I owned this in the day, swopped it for some other tat with a mate and then, nearly a decade later found it in a second hand book shop. That is, found the actual physical copy I’d owned before. Bought it like a shot. Said mate had slung it out and still has no idea how it got there).

21 - Creature of Havoc

22 - Beneath Nightmare Castle

23 - City of Thieves (pre-green spine)

24 - Crypt of the Sorcerer

25 - Deathtrap Dungeon (pre-green spine)

26 - 29 - Sorcery! series, Wizard Books reprint

30 - Blacksand, Port Blacksand sourcebook for Dungeoneer/Advanced Fighting Fantasy

31 - The Seven Serpents (battered to fuck)

32 - What is Dungeons and Dragons? (Not an FF book but whatever…)

33 - Eye of the Dragon (Wizard Books. Not originally published by Puffin)

34 - Maelstrom (also not an FF book)

35 - Stormslayer (Wizard Books)

36 - Night of the Necromancer (Wizard Books)

Left to Right rammed in on top

1 - Seas of Blood

2 - Appointment with F.E.A.R. (Wizard Books reprint, bought this last Saturday from Graham Bottley of Arion Games/Advanced Fighting Fantasy fame)

3 - Moonrunner

4 - Howl of the Werewolf (Wizard Books)

5 - Armies of Death (Wizard Books reprint)

Not photographed

- Arion Games Advanced Fighting Fantasy (doesn’t fit shelf)

- Arion Games Crown of Kings campaign (doesn’t fit shelf)

- Masks of Mayhem green spine and Bloodbones (Wizard Books) appear to have gone missing during house move.

That’s not all I’ve owned, I’ve owned books like Talisman of Death but lost them over the years.

Crash 11, December 1984. Oli Frey, 1984

Citadel Miniatures Pan Tangian Warriors. Bryan Ansell collection.

Fighting Fantasy 17 - Appointment with F.E.A.R.

Brian Bolland, 1985. (Yes, the 2000AD artist).

• Question: So the Lone Wolf gamebook you posted reminded me to make sure you knew about Project Aon. Can't include a link, but it's google-able. - Anonymous
• Answer:

  Yeah, I know about that thanks, must account for nearly half the storage on my Kindle! All the mono Lone Wolf pics on the blog come from Project Aon versions. But for anybody who doesn’t know about it, Joe Dever gave the Project Aon website crew permission to distribute all the Lone Wolf books. Obviously check it out if you hadn’t heard of it. It has much fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgamingosity. Which is a good thing clearly.

  http://www.projectaon.org/

Fighting Fantasy RPG scenario/campaign book The Riddling Reaver. Peter Andrew Jones, 1986.

Lone Wolf 17 - The Deathlord of Ixia. American cover, 1992.

I know next to nothing about the later Lone Wolf books (i.e. after Book 12). They didn’t seem very common in UK bookshops.

The Dragon Warriors combat system explained in comic-strip form from Dragon Warriors Book One. Leo Hartas, 1985.

Illustration for Ian Livingstone’s Casket of Souls puzzle book. Iain McCaig, 1987.