The Forest of Doom

Infobox Fighting Fantasy book 2covers


caption1=The original cover of "The Forest of Doom" illustrated by Iain McCaig.


caption2=The Wizard cover of "The Forest of Doom" illustrated by Martin McKenna.
location=Allansia, Titan
references=400
authors=Ian Livingstone
illustrator=Malcolm Barter
coverillustrator=Iain McCaig
year=1983
number=3
ISBN=ISBN 0-14-031604-3
wcoverillustrator=Martin McKenna
wyear=2003
wnumber=8
wISBN=ISBN 1-84046-429-1

"The Forest of Doom" is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Malcom Barter and originally published in 1983 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2003. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 3rd in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031604-3) and 8th in the modern Wizard series (ISBN 1-84046-429-1).

tory

This Fighting Fantasy gamebook is set in the usual fantasy world of Titan, in the Allansia region. The player must retrieve a magical warhammer for the dwarves of the village of Stonebridge. It has been separated into two pieces and lost in the depths of Darkwood Forest.

It is generally considered to be one of the easiest books in the series, in great deal because if the player has not retrieved the hammer by the end of the book, it is possible to retrace their steps to the beginning and try again an indefinite number of times. This also introduces absurdities as set-pieces are reset over and over again.

Wizard rule errors

Some of the rules are incorrectly printed in the Wizard version of the book due to text being copied from "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain". The rules state that Provisions can only be eaten when instructed by the text, which is not the case. The book also incorrectly states that the player has two doses of their chosen Potion at the beginning of the book, when in fact they have only one.

Later references

The book introduced several characters and locations that would recur later in the series, including the wizard Yaztromo, the dwarven village of Stonebridge and the evil Darkwood Forest. Chronologically, the book can be considered the sequel to "Caverns of the Snow Witch" and - depending on the reader's interpretation - the prequel to "Temple of Terror".

Video game versions of the book were released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

ee also

*Fighting Fantasy
*List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

References

* cite web
title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11
* cite web
title=The Forest of Doom on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=39
* cite web
title=The Forest of Doom on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051127132124/www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb3.htmOfficial sites:
* cite web
title=The Forest of Doom on the official Fighting Fantasy website
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/ff8.htm
* cite web
title=The Forest of Doom on the Wizard Books website
url=http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard/wbook.cfm?isbn=1-84046-429-1Magazines:
* cite journal
year = 1983
month = June
title = Open Box
journal = White Dwarf
issue = 42
pages = 16–17