Its a nice change to be able to explore a notorious town full of brigands and villains, as opposed to a dungeon, and while it may not have read like a sunday afternoon stroll, it was fun exploring the streets and businesses of port blacksand. The fighting fantasy fansite in which you become the hero. It is here that you will find blank adventure sheets that you can download and use to play your favourite fighting fantasy adventures, rather than damage your pristine copies of the gamebooks themselves. Its like reading a book from the choose your own adventure series, but you have to fight villains by rolling 2 regular dice and find hidden objects in the story. Originally published by puffin books in 1983, the title is the fifth gamebook in the fighting fantasy series. City of thieves is a singleplayer adventure gamebook written by ian livingstone and illustrated by iain mccaig. City of thieves book titannica fandom fighting fantasy wiki. City of thieves was illustrated by iain mccaig, who has since gone on to work as a concept artist and designer for the movie industry in hollywood. The multimillion selling gamebook series is back with a hugely popular revamped, updated package, a brilliant new interactive website and the monsters, dungeons and peril to capture a whole new generation of imaginations. Fighting fantasy is back as we enter the city of thieves. Port blacksand calls for an adventurer to deal with zanbar bone.
Having already produced the iconic cover for the forest of doom, it was the first occasion mccaig produced both the cover painting and the internal pen and ink illustrations. The real strength of city of thieves is the sense of place and the atmosphere that fills the city. Fighting fantasy gamebook 3 puffin adventure gamebooks. Thats a bit goofy that firing an arrow on which the whole adventure. Its a coming of age story filled with adventure, suspense, friendship, romance and tragedy all washed down with from what i understand a historically accurate picture of leningrad during the opening line. My grandfather, the knife fighter, killed two germans before he was eighteen. Theres a real homogeneity to the various locations in the story, and its a place that cries out to be an actionpacked, twistyturny fighting fantasy novel set in one of that worlds most notorious cities port blacksand, a place that makes inner city london look like the bahamas. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. City of thieves fighting fantasy collectors book indiegogo. This is one of the few fighting fantasy books where its quite easy to find everything you need for a. City of thieves you become a complete bastard, breaking into peoples homes, killing them for their pocket change, accosting old ladies in the sewer, and getting silly facial tattoos.
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