A pan-dimensional mirror demon from another plane come to claim my spirit as her own; how the hell did Sukumvit hire her? He rolled up an 8 on two D6 for me and I had to predict whether the following roll would be higher or lower… going with lower I replicated the dice roll for myself and managed a 5. Well, I still have my 2gp, right? Special mention must go to the wild-goose chases I followed attempting to obtain the diamond though, annoying at the time, but now I think it’s pretty genius! Throm thought this was bloody hilarious and laughed his giant barbarian head off. A little contrived you might say. Well, apparently not because ringing the thing created such a cataclysmic din that I lost 2 Skill and 2 Stamina through the sheer pain of it all until I could dull the sound with my boot. Oops. exists within any area of Aardwolf. The other masters are turning a blind eye to In your face, Harry Hausen! This is NOT an actual "deathtrap" which instantly kills you upon entering a Exploration revealed a huge glass panel, behind which was a diamond encrusted crown sat upon a chair surrounded by a variety of huge, buzzing insects. Guided into an arena type room I thought I was about to be put into combat with the pit fiend I had seen whilst flicking back and forth through the book, but instead I was face to face with two pieces of paper! Relax, Baron-baby, I’ve played these things before…. Anyway, if you want to know how to fail at Deathtrap Dungeon, here is the map for you! the dungeon before it becomes a deathtrap. The bear-chested bit seemed unnecessary, but then I realised I’d misread and it said bear-handed, which makes more sense. Continuing north, I passed up the option to drink at a couple of fountains to arrive at what was essentially a vending machine selling stilts. And this isn’t the only computer based version, an old PSOne game was made back in 1998. Knocking it back I was rewarded with 2 Luck as it was a potion of trap detection, surely quite a boon in a place like this. One gold piece seemed a bargain, even though that represented 50% of my total monies, but soon seemed like an astute purchase as the very next encounter was a section of corridor covered in highly corrosive green slime. It's here for archiving purposes and because you can find it in various corners of the Internet. hero? Anyway, an attempt to smash the mirror failed and so I had to take her down with my sword in a straight fight, the sword worked much better on her than the mirrors and she fell. A strange obstruction was around the next corner, a series of twelve poles, half a metre off the ground, spaced a metre apart. Seemingly impressed for someone who had just missed out on creating another of his clearly beloved statues he wished me well and cast a spell increasing all my stats by one. His trials would decide who that would be… in part three! Arguably the most famous Fighting Fantasy title other than Warlock of Firetop Moutain is the next book, Deathtrap Dungeon. Regardless, Deathtrap Dungeon iOS looked a bit like this…. Of all my bad-endings so far, this is the one I feel most compelled to try and rectify at some point… and if you saw the amount of un-played games on my Steam list at the moment, you’d realise why doing that would be a big deal. But as a Twitter follower handily reminded me, at least I made it through alive! January 31, 2013 by fightingfantasyproject. Note:This is NOT an actual "deathtrap" which instantly kills yo… On walking down the following tunnel, a buzzing sound caught my attention from a nearby turn-off. The color scan from 2019 isn't as compressed and should work for most users. There is also a bad guy. Logic you can’t deny in reality at least anyway. These people need a hero. The color re-scan was made October 25, 2019. From my memories of the demo disc off the front of Official Playstation Magazine, it was a fairly generic, very ugly hack n’ slash game which I had little interest in save for the Fighting Fantasy branding and the launch campaign which introduced a delighted teenage-me to Kelly Brook. Congratulations were in order from my dwarf overseer, and they were accompanied by the offer of food and drink, which I elected not to take…. group and destroy them too. My only reward, other than keeping my life, was a rather cool piece of art as I was offered the option of ascending one of two staircases further along the corridor. Like City of Thieves, this comes from the writer and artist combo of Ian Livingstone and Ian McCaig, which as you’ll probably know if you read my City of Thieves account means that the illustrations are top-notch and push the atmosphere to another level. I did not see that coming. A few provisions methinks. Heading north, I opened up a casket, expecting the now seemingly obligatory vampire encounter only to find a nice large pearl that gave me +1 Luck. Hard to understand why they’re so excited though, it’s kind of like watching everyone go into the Big Brother house and then not being able to watch what happens inside. Normally when the bank sends you a new pin number, you’re expected to remember it and destroy it as opposed to post it to someone. Countless adventurers before you have taken up the challenge of the Trial of Champions, but not one has survived. Ulp. And congratulations to the community too! Going into the subsequent fight with only 12 Stamina meant this was a tough one against a manticore with stats of 11/11, and after initially taking a bit of a beating, a series of Luck rolls helped me smash the weird looking bastard down to the ground. Walking through the light, the happy faces were replaced with the sad face of a small girl who read me a few lines of a poem. Should have gone with the minotaur really as this was a very tough fight; a 10/10 set of stats, the fact I had to treat its pincers as two opponents and the insta-death provided by its sting on an attack score of 22 all contributed to it being one tough little son of a bitch. Summoning all of my macabre fun-fair skills, I hurled one of the balls at the skull, knocked it flying off its perch and stepping cautiously into the room, was able to claim its topaz eyes. Unfortunately the booming laughter started off a cave-in, rocks fell from the ceiling, stalactites crashed around us and only a successful Luck roll prevented us from being trapped in there. Secondly, the meat. Hopefully something needs dissolving later on… have half a mind to use it on that bloody bell. Whoever had killed them had missed the necklace of teeth one of the orcs was wearing though, I took a gamble and tried it on to find it was an amulet of strength, giving +1 Skill and Stamina. I would now work for Igbut, modifying and expanding the dungeon for competitors in future years. If someone wants to try to color-correct this image (the graph paper has yellowed in the past 25 years), then this one is the one to play with in an image manipulation program. Deathtrap Dungeon is probably one of the purest forms of Fighting Fantasy, a straight-forward dungeon crawl, and a tough one at that. Considering the iconic nature of the cover, you’d expect it to survive into the publishing of the book in foreign territories wouldn’t you? I decided that west was the better option as three people going before me was more likely to result in them getting killed by traps and monsters, softening things up for me. Success in a Skill test seemed to have done the trick as I managed to step between all twelve poles without misplacing my footing and suffered no penalty. But ‘poor Throm’ had stats of 10/12, so he still represented a fair challenge before I finally slayed him. Atop an ornate plinth sat a human skull with jewels inserted into the eye sockets, loaded crossbows sat in the wall next to it and a couple of wooden balls sat next to the entrance. Posted in #006 Deathtrap Dungeon Tagged bloodbeast, book, conclusions, deathtrap dungeon, fantasy books, fighting fantasy, game books, gaming, iain mccaig, ian livingstone, ian mccaig, reading, role playing game, RPG 1 Comment . A B&W scan was made in about 2004. In my opinion, outdoing his work on the Forest of Doom cover, Ian McCaig created an iconic piece of fantasy art for the cover, a print of which I bought  several months ago and have finally got around to framing. Clearly something weird was going to kill me here, so I decided to walk stay well away from all of them. After five minutes of walking through relative tranquility, a large stone table emerged from the dark. is expected to escape alive. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Uploaded by You can see where this is going, can’t you? Should be easy then. A lot of secrets obviously remain undiscovered to me as I missed two sets of jewels and the way to use them as well. He claimed that I would be another stone for his garden. So, first up he asked if I had discovered an emerald. Once they are destroyed, he will turn to the next group and destroy them too. Messed that one up then, didn’t I? Through the door sat a skeletal warrior clad in extensive armour and holding a parchment in his hands. It's probably my favourite book of the Fighting Fantasy series, one reason being it occurs on May 1st, which also happens to by my birthday. ‘Lets ring this thing’, thought I, only good things can come of it surely? As for reading it for the first time, I’m pretty sure it was a purchase from my favourite shop at the time, Alley Books. For some reason, this piece of art always stuck in my head, I’m sure there are many instances of ‘angry orc swinging something’ through the Fighting Fantasy series, I will attempt to keep a watch out for them and see how many I can spot! The first real choice then faced me in the form of a east-west junction, one with a white arrow pointing west that was clearly the favoured choice of the four entrants before me as 3/4 sets of wet footprints took that direction.