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Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
3.8/5
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Originally published
  
1983

Genres
  
Fantasy, Titan

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Illustrator
  
Russ Nicholson and Malcolm Barter

Series
  
Fighting FantasyPuffin number: 3Wizard number: 8

Publication date
  
Puffin: 1983Dell/Laurel-Leaf: 1984Wizard: 2003

ISBN
  
0-14-031604-3 (Puffin)ISBN 1-84046-429-1 (Wizard)

Preceded by
  
The Citadel of Chaos, Fighting Fantasy Sorcery: Khare Cityport of Traps

Followed by
  
Starship Traveller, Ghost Road

Cover artists
  
Iain McCaig, Martin McKenna

Similar
  
Ian Livingstone books, Fighting Fantasy books, Gamebook books

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The Forest of Doom is a single-player adventure gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, and illustrated by Malcolm Barter. Originally published by Puffin Books in 1983, the title is the third gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series, and the first of several to feature the character Yaztromo. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002. The gamebook was also adapted into a video game.

Contents

The forest of doom part 1 the adventure begins


Plot

The Forest of Doom is a fantasy scenario in which the hero undertakes a quest through a perilous forest to find the missing pieces of a magic warhammer that can help the dwarves in their war with the trolls.

Reception

Marcus L. Rowland reviewed The Forest of Doom for the June 1983 issue of White Dwarf, rating the title a 10 out of a possible 10. Rowland suggested that only "[r]eally stupid players" would try to loot the home of the mage, because they "will not like the consequences", and noted the lethality of the forest area with "some encounters being survivable only by luck or remarkably good combat rolls, while others can be settled without any conflict".

In other media

A ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 video game based on the book was released by Puffin Books in 1984.

The gamebook was also converted into a 40-page d20 System role-playing adventure by Jamie Wallis. It was published by Myriador in 2004 and reissued in pdf format by Greywood Publishing in 2008.

This gamebook has later been released by Tin Man Games.

References

The Forest of Doom Wikipedia


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