Fantastic Fights

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...