1985 | Fighting Fantasy Fan

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

January 10, 2024

YOU become the superhero. For real, this time you’re actually a superhero! Not a treasure hunter or assassin (or “adventurer” if you like to be euphemistic) but Titan City’s super powered protector. Your nemesis The Titanium Cyborg, local leader of the terrorist organization F.E.A.R., has organized a meeting that will finalize their plans and being […]

Space Assassin

October 19, 2023

YOU become the assassin sent to arrest Cyrus, a mad scientist about to unleash a plague of mutation viruses onto your unnamed home planet. Yeah, that’s right – they didn’t call the armed forces or the cops to make an arrest, and they didn’t call the assassin’s guild for a murder, they called assassins for […]

Grey Star the Wizard

March 8, 2022

YOU become Grey Star the Wizard, protege of the ancient and mysterious Shianti wizards. The wytch-king Shasarak rules the Shadakine Empire, where nobody is happy. The magical Shianti would love to do something about it, but they are forbidden to interfere with human affairs. So, when someone left a baby on their doorstep they saw […]

Seas of Blood

December 13, 2021

YOU become one of the most feared pirates of the Inland Sea. But you want to be THE MOST feared pirate of the sea, so you and your rival Abdul the Butcher make a friendly wager. You’ll set off in your ships, and meet at the opposite end of the sea in fifty days, and […]

The Rings of Kether

September 4, 2019

YOU become a vice squad detective looking to bust a drug ring on the remote planet Kether. Like the deadly Marijuana scourge of the twentieth century, this terrible drug is a threat to boredom and conformity and squareness around the world. Yes, the War on Drugs has reached out to the stars. You’ll have exciting […]

The Crown of Kings

March 9, 2019

YOU become a mountain climber winding your way through the mountains of Mampang. You’ve spent three books surviving the Shamutanti Hills, the city of Khare, and the desert of Kakhabad, and the Archmage’s fortress is in sight. You’ll have to survive the mountains, then the four levels of a fortress crawling with guards who (probably) […]

The Kingdoms of Terror

October 20, 2018

YOU want to become the founder of a whole-new order of Kai. In the last book, Lone Wolf found out about the fabled Book of Magnakai which contains the best secrets and superpowers that apparently have been lost to modern Kai. Well, one of the first things he learns from the book (aside from an […]

Shadow on the Sand

December 16, 2017

YOU become an ambassador, sent to sign a peace treaty. The king of Vassagonia feels really bad about that army invading Sommerlund back in Chasm of Doom, and wants to make amends with a peace treaty. Kind of like how Battlestar Galactica started. You arrive in Vassagonia and find that the old king has died […]

Chasm of Doom

October 22, 2017

YOU become a noble hunting for gold. When a shipment of gold goes missing, the king sent in the army but they never came back. What do you do then? Send Lone Wolf. You and a score of feckless redshirts head south to Ruanon, and along the way are ambushed repeatedly by bandits who seem […]

Flight From The Dark

September 7, 2017

YOU become a C student and a refugee when the Kai monastery is destroyed. It’s the same general legend you’ve heard before a la Mordor. A zillion years ago, a whole nation of evil monsters, victory for the good guys thanks to a magic sword, then nobody checking on the monster kingdom for a thousand […]

Fire On The Water

YOU become a courier on a mission to fetch the Sommerswerd from the neighboring kingdom to the east. After that big battle with the Darklords a zillion years ago, the kingdom of Sommerlund (which is adjacent to Mordor) gave away the evil-quenching Sommerswerd to the kingdom of Durenor to the east (located safely far away […]

Assassin!

December 7, 2016

YOU BECAME the hero in the previous book by recovering the Scrolls of Kettsuin from a coalition of bad guys. Their plot is foiled and the scrolls are yours. But there’s no time to gloat — you’re still standing on the rooftop, and the guards are storming up the stairs! Now it’s time to get […]

Avenger!

September 25, 2016

YOU BECOME a ninja out for revenge. An orphan dropped off at a monastery, you lived the usual monastic lifestyle — sweeping the floor, learning humility, training in how to break necks and sneak into fortresses, learning how to kill people with poisoned darts. Apparently there is a deity involved in this religion, but it’s […]

Temple of Terror

July 30, 2015

YOU ARE ALREADY the hero of Stonebridge thanks to your exploits in the Forest of Doom. While you’re chilling with dwarves and talking about warhammers… Yaztromo shows up with word that the evil wizard Malbordus is creating an army of dragons. Cancel vacation and grab your rucksack — it’s time to hunt a wizard! But […]

Freeway Fighter

October 15, 2014

YOU become a road warrior. It’s the year 2022, and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is either a training video or a historical documentary. The village of New Hope has sent you across the desert to pick up a tanker full of precious gasoline. It’s time for a lethal roadtrip, in your Dodge Interceptor […]

Rebel Planet

October 9, 2014

YOU become an operative of SAROS (Search And Research Of Space) assigned to visit the resistance movement on three planets, to collect a code that can set the human race free. By the year 2453, humanity has developed interstellar travel and has colonized a few worlds… and has been conquered and enslaved by another species, […]

Tag: 1985