Riddling Reaver - Steve Jackson Reviews
Description:ISBN 014032156X /
Newest Review: ... here with little further explanation. It would also help to have played at least some of the solo books in order to have a ... more
... reasonable grounding in the ways of the FF universe itself. You could probably muddle through without that, but I think the "Fighting Fantasy" book itself is probably necessary.
The Riddling Reaver is a longish adventure divided into four "Acts" - but despite that theatrical language, there is none of the conceit of the players making an actual action movie that appears in some later FF role-playing books such as "Dungeoneer". Here things are kept more straightforward: the heroes are fai...more
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The Riddling Reaver (what is it, incidentally, with Dooyoo's seemingly random attitude towards the definite article?) is a role-playing gamebook in the long-running Fighting Fantasy series, written by Paul Mason and Steve Williams but with the rather more box-office name of Games Workshop's Steve Jackson listed on the cover instead, as editor. This is not a solo gamebook in the vein of "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain", but something more akin to a simplified Dungeons and Dragons adventure, with multiple players and more freedom allowed. Unlike most of the FF series, this book really requires the Games Master (GM), and preferably the players too, to ... Read the complete review
