The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (board game)

Infobox Fighting Fantasy board game


caption=The board game, illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones and Dave Andrews
publisher=Games Workshop
designer=Steve Jackson
illustrator=Dave Andrews
boxillustrator=Peter Andrew Jones
year=1986

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a Games Workshop adventure board game published in 1986, based on the Fighting Fantasy gamebook "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain". The game was designed by Steve Jackson, one of the authors of the original book. The box was illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones and the interior illustrations were created by Dave Andrews.cite web
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The game is based loosely on the board game Cluedo and can be played by 2-6 players. A typical game has a length of two hours.

The game consists of the players roaming a labyrinth, fighting creatures and finding treasures. The players have three basic scores which affect combat and how a player can react to traps: SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK, mirroring the system in the original gamebook (see Fighting Fantasy). The object of the game is to travel across the board to the end of the dungeon and open the treasure chest of the Warlock of the title. However, whilst doing this the players must work out the combination of three keys which will allow them access to the treasure chest at the end of the game, and obtain these keys, either by finding or stealing them. Players do this by using a system similar to Cluedo, asking other players if they have any key cards of a particular number and secretly noting the answer given. The winner of the game is the first player to open the Warlock's treasure chest.

Contents

The contents of the game are:
*A large six-piece playing board
*Six plastic playing figures which represent the players
*Fifteen full-colour Key Challenge cards which contain clues
*Sixty-six (although the box states the number is seventy-seven) full-colour Encounter Pieces representing monsters, traps and treasures
*Six Maze cards
*A pad of Adventure Sheets
*A small rulebook
*A Monster Reference card
*2 six-sided dice

ee also

*Fighting Fantasy
*The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
*List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

References

Magazines:
* cite journal
year = 1986
month = November
title = Open Box
journal = White Dwarf
issue = 83
pages = 2–3

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