Advanced Fighting Fantasy | Graham Bottley in Conversation with Jordan Sorcery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Advanced Fighting Fantasy Publisher Graham Bottley in conversation with Jordan Sorcery.
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks have had an incredible legacy - ever since that we found that Warlock at Firetop Mountain we’ve gone back into the dungeons, forests, cities, islands, and everything else that Fighting Fantasy has had to offer.
In the 80s there was an initial attempt to create a roleplaying game based on the world, adventures, and enemies from the gamebooks, but it wasn’t until Arion Games released a second edition of the RPG in 2011 that the system really took off.
My guest today is responsible for resurrecting the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG, commissioning, writing, and publishing the entire game line, and most recently creating a brand new Advanced Fighting Fantasy boardgame - Dark Dungeons. We talk about honouring the legacy of what has come before, the methods and approaches to building a new game in an old world, and the business of RPG publishing in the modern marketplace.
Advanced Fighting Fantasy Publisher Graham Bottley interview.
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GRAHAM’S LINKS:
[DARK DUNGEONS KICKSTARTER]
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[ARION GAMES WEBSITE]
arion-games.com/
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[ PATREON ]
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[ KO-FI ]
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History & Editorial: youtube.com/ @jordansorcery
Longform Conversation: youtube.com/ @JordanSorceryPods
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Anyone keeping fighting fantasy alive, gets my vote! Great chat!
Really enjoyed this. I played a lot of AFF as a kid with 5 mates. I adapted a few of the classics (citadel of Chaos and Forest of Doom) and even drew and developed a map of Salamonis inspired by the work done on Blacksand in the second volume as a base for the PCs. Now the kids are playing FF maybe it's time to try Graham's version. I agree with some of his mechanics tweaks.
I say this far too often, but gods I loved the Fighting Fantasy books, and when I discovered there was an RPG beyond them I was amazed. Thanks, Graham, for keeping it alive, and thanks, Jordan, for this interview!
Another brilliant insight into the industry
Cheers Stu!
Also absolutely lol at Dani Filth being referred to as "Daniel playing D&D".
Yea a surprising connection
I loved these as a kid. I had a bunch of the game books, three of the novels though it was always The Trolltooth Wars which I read the most. Plus the AFF book, out of the pit, and blacksand. Great books. They really spurred my imagination.
I actually picked up Trolltooth Wars a little while back - I’m looking forward to reading it for the first time!
@@JordanSorceryPods I'd love to hear what you think of it - positive or negative!
I’m happy and glad AFF has been given a new lease on life for well over a decade.
I still feel FF RPG is superior, and thus a strong clone such as Spellzard! is so much, far more fun!
Super easy, super lite, super in vein of everything FF!
Just feels WAY more FF than the new AFF does!
(If it didn’t exist, I’d use OD&D or RISUS as opposed to AFF.)
Spellzard kicks a**!
It’s how FF rpg gaming ought be, imo.
My god! Was it really 2011??!
Man of many talents that Bottley one. Producing roll play games, one of the worlds greatest immunologists and a sheep farmer. You should ask him where his famous epitope paper which he promised was ready for publication disappeared to? He is an absolute clown with a head full of fantasy.