| First Fighting Fantasy | |
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| Outline | |
| Location | Karazan |
| Publication details | |
| Author(s) | Ian Livingstone |
| Illustrator | Russ Nicholson |
| Puffin | |
| Cover illustrator | Simon Dewey |
| First published | July 27 1995 (First Fighting Fantasy) August 26 1995 (Adventures of Goldhawk) |
| Number | 1 |
| Previous Book | First in series |
| Next Book | The Demon Spider |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-14-036939-2 (First Fighting Fantasy) ISBN 0-14-037727-1 (Adventures of Goldhawk) |
| Reprint | |
Darkmoon's Curse is the first adventure in the Adventures of Goldhawk series.
Creation[]
Ian Livingstone's Adventures of Goldhawk, First Fighting Fantasy Adventures are a spin off of mainstream Fighting Fantasy production targeted at younger readers.
The books are bigger and all internal images are coloured as well. Combat rules are simpler: only SKILL score is used and a single dice roll is sufficient to determine the outcomes of the fight (if Prince Goldhawk loses the fight, usually loses one point of SKILL for the rest of the adventure, but sometimes, especially near the end of the adventure, dies). The adventure is not delivered in "paragraphs" like most other Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but in 21 "scenes", each of them with an illustration (that sometimes includes the solution to enigmas) and with up to five related sub-sections (which are the most similar thing to traditional gamebooks' paragraphs).
Background[]
The Kingdom of Karazan is locked in a terrible war against the Orcs. The King has been killed in the battlefield and the Crown has been taken by the Orc General and passed on to the evil wizard Darkmoon that controls the Orcs. The army is in rout and the kingdom is on the verge of collapsing. The crowning of the young Prince Goldhawk would reassure the people of Karazan and give them hope in the war, but the loyal Dwarf Orlando sent to take back the crown (needed for the crowning cerimony) was discovered and sent back after turning him into a Tin Pig and Prince Goldhawk was poisoned and is now permanently sleeping. The loyal court magician Morris, desperate to find a solution, conjures from another time line a replacement for Prince Goldhawk: the reader! the "new" Prince, in all similar to Prince Goldhawk, will pretend being him and, together with Orlando, the Tin Pig and Edge, the intelligent sword, will brave the perils in front of him and go questing for the Crown and destroying the evil Darkmoon. [1]
Cover and Illustrations[]
All of the interior artwork was by Russ Nicholson. The Internal illustrations were all in colour and were often integral parts of the adventure, as several enigmas involved these images.
Intertextual References[]
There are some indications that the Kingdom of Karazan was in the past on the central region of the Old World, where later on was Mauristatia.[2]
Other Media[]
Main Characters[]
Morris, the wizard
Darkmoon, the wizard
Edge, the intelligent sword
Troglodtes
Litterbug
Big Blue Mouse
Firebird
Domehead
Lady Helera
Big Fire Dragon
Sad Sam
Grumpy Greta
Skullbeast
Main Locations[]
Karazan Castle
Howling Tunnels
Eastwater
Westwater
Vanish
Maggot Manor
Further Notes[]
Dedication[]
none
See Also[]
Reviews[]
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ Template:AoG1 - pages 3-61
- ↑ "A History of Mauristatia" by Otto Öviszódi in The Warlock Returns Issue 2, (pg. 26).