The catch is that your opponent can attack, hit, and damage you in the same round.
In this series you have to roll higher than a set number, which is adjusted based on your opponent, and the higher you roll, the more damage you do. Honestly, I did prefer the combat system for this series than I did for the original Fighting Fantasy books, which required you to roll higher than your opponent on a set of dice. The first part of the book pretty much sets the scene, as well as giving a rundown on how the combat system works. The plot itself is pretty simple in that the queen has been kidnapped by an evil wizard, and you have to go and rescue her. However, since he did end up writing another seven books suggests that it did end up selling well, but then again my theory goes that it is actually somewhat easier, and cheaper, to produce books than it is to say produce movies – all that is required is the writer’s time and imagination (though that is not including production and marketing costs – but that is another story). This is the first of the series, so it is really just testing the water to see how well the concept goes.
However, what is interesting is that there is mention of Tintegal in this book, though the suggestion is that it is actually a summer resort. Okay, depending on who you talk to, there is a debate as to when this actually was ( Monmouth suggested that it was sometime between 700 to 800 AD, which is long after the fall of the Western Empire, but then again nobody really pays all that much attention to Monmouth). The series is set in Arthurian Britain, during the decline of the Roman Empire. As such, they are somewhat funnier, and as one person described them, a but Pythonesque as well. Probably more children as opposed to teenagers and adults that the original series was focused on. This series is actually a lot more light-hearted than the Fighting Fantasy series, probably because the writer wanted to target a somewhat younger audience. Even though I haven’t technically finished reading all of the Fighting Fantasy books that had been published (half the reason being is that they keep on releasing more, despite the days that the Fighting Fantasy books were popular are now long gone, thanks to the development of computer games) I decided that it might be an idea to jump over to another series, probably because I had borrowed half of them off of my friend, and since they are now way, way out of print, I should get around to reading them, writing a review of them, and getting them back to him.
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