Fantastic Fights

Join HJDoom for a spooktacular journey into the insane rabbit warrens of Earl Drumer’s crumbling family home, a home that is rammed to the gills with all manner of occult shennanigans. This episode marks the first Fighting Fantasy book to tackle horror head on and it’s a straight up classic. Vampires, ghosts, lots and lots of zombies. The House of Hell has it all. If you’d like to help me make mor...

In this bonus episode I'm taking on the most powerful man in the universe in the form of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. This is pure self-indulgent nostalgia but I hope you enjoy. This episode is made possible by the generosity of my patrons. If you'd like to join that august body and ensure a steady stream of bonus episodes you can do so at patreon.com/hjdoom

Join HJDoom as he attempts to deal with some unfinished business with Ian Livingstone's Caverns of the Snow Witch. Will he succeed? Listen along to find out. You should probably listen to the first episode of Caverns of the Snow Witch before diving into this one.

Join your ever optimistic host HJDoom as he embarks on a freezing journey through some of the most inhospitable terrain yet featured on Fantastic Fights. Mammoths, Frost Giants, and surly dwarves abound in this deadly quest to defeat the abominable yeti and plunge into the mysterious lair of the even more mysterious snow witch. Will our hero make it out alive? What is the best flavour of crisps to...

It’s bonus episode time again and this time we’re taking a look at Raid on Nightmare Castle, part of the Endless Quest series released by TSR in the 1980s as a kind of introduction to the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Will we survive our trip into a world of talking animals and portly elves? Listen in to find out.

American game designer Steve Jackson, cursed from birth with the same name as English Fighting Fantasy creator Steve Jackson, wrote Scorpion Swamp, the first entry in the series not to be written by either of the creators of Fighting Fantasy. Will a fresh approach provide a welcome change of pace or will messing with the formula lead to chaos? Listen along to find out. If you'd like to support the...

A full playthrough of the Doctor Who: Decide Your Own Destiny book featuring the tenth doctor and Martha.

HJDoom invites you to join him in a truly epic playthrough of Ian Livingstone's Island of the Lizard King the 1984 advnture gamebook from the Fighting Fantasy series.

It's bonus episode time again as I reveal my first and significantly less successful playthrough of Deathtrap Dungeon. Enjoy me sucking very hard at this most challenging of gamebooks.

HJDoom is back with another classic Fighting Fantasy playthrough. This time he takes on the terrifying labyrinth of horror and sudden death that is the infamous Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone. Will he succeed where thousands have failed? Find out by listening.

We’re taking an urban turn this episode as we embark on the quest to defeat an evil creature with a very silly name. Along the way we’ll get our pockets picked, nick a selection of broaches, tangle with pirates, and have one of the all time classic fantasy roleplaying encounters as we battle giant rats in the sewers beneath Port Blacksand. Is this the greatest setting in all of Fighting Fantasy? P...

In which our less than intrepid hero boldly goes where he went once before in the late 1980s and plays through Steve Jackson's Starship Traveller.

As lockdown eases here in the UK I’ve been making sure I get plenty of vitamin D by taking a lengthy stroll through the Forest of Doom, the very first Fighting Fantasy book I ever played as a child. Along the way we’ll behave impolitely towards an APE-MAN, rescue an ungrateful BARBARIAN and make the usual number of stupid or very stupid decisions as we try and find a magical dwarven warhammer in t...

Fantastic Fights and Where to Find Them returns with Citadel of Chaos, the second book in the Fighting Fantasy series and the first to be written solo by Steve Jackson. With an exciting new magic system to play with our dauntless yet dim hero be able to conquer the citadel and vanquish the villainous Balthus Dire? Will we find out what a demi-sorcerer actually is? The only way to find out is by li...