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  Beginning to Migrate (some) Content to the NEW Doug Alone I have had the idea since early on in this blog to possibly move it from this sort of hosted/third-party set-up to something more owned by me. This past week, I started to make this a reality: https://www.dougalone.com There are a lot of reasons behind this but let us start with caveat. I have exactly one real complaint about Blogger/Blogger and otherwise most of the decisions are about my creative process itself.  The One Real Complaint The newer Blogger themes tend to be plenty responsive as they are but there is still some degree of back-end handling that tries to serve up a "mobile-friendly" version of the page [note, this is based on looking into the errors and messages sent, I could be wrong]. This is the exact same page but Google, itself, treats this as a website trying to share multiple copies of the same content and basically passes this off as a reason to not index the site.  After over a year of havin...
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Steve Jackson Games to bring Fighting Fantasy to the United States Next Year

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Steve Jackson Games will be republishing ten of the Fighting Fantasy books in the US in 2025! I am actually very excited about this because though I have copies of most of the books included (in a few cases, multiple) it is always great to have more access to the venerable FF game line. 

It would be difficult to overstate just how much the Fighting Fantasy series impacted my own love of solo play and I regularly return to a few titles like Island of the Lizard King as comfort gaming. 

The Official Fighting Fantasy Blog lists the ten titles (released in two batches of five):

  • The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
  • The Citadel of Chaos
  • The Forest of Doom
  • City of Thieves
  • Deathtrap Dungeon
And then, later:

  • Island of the Lizard King
  • Scorpion Swamp
  • House of Hell
  • Creature of Havoc
  • The Dungeon on Blood Island
Of those, a few stand out as interesting choices. Scorpion Swamp was the 1984 entry (and 8th in the overall series) written by Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games (aka, the US Steve Jackson). It has been a bit hard to find compared to most of the other titles. Creature of Havoc is a classic but one that has a fairly different gameplay loop than the others. And The Dungeon on Blood Island is really new (having just been announced earlier this year). 

Hopefully this will be a successful partnership and we will see several others showing up in years to come.

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