#programmed adventure

In the wizard’s library (Russ Nicholson, “The Warlock of Firetop Mountain: Part Two,” Fighting Fantasy adventure in Warlock #2, 1984)

Adventure Gaming, aka Three Games Designed to Introduce You to Adventure Gaming, in magazine format with Tim Truman cover art, sold by SPI for $1.00 in 1981, with two map sheets and a small sheet of die cut cardstock counters -- including The Creatures that Ate New York (adapted from The Creature that Ate Sheboygan), Napoleon at Waterloo (a Jim Dunnigan wargame that SPI had been giving away separately with Strategy & Tactics subscriptions), and The Tower of Azann (a programmed solo or co-op fantasy RPG adventure with two pages of fine print numbered paragraphs), plus a little article by Redmond Simonsen on “Solitaire Play” for board games

The Snow Witch in the Ice Caverns of Allansia (Peter Andrew Jones cover for Warlock #2, magazine of Fighting Fantasy adventures, 1984)

“The Floating City,” from the Fighting Fantasy adventure by Ruth Pracy in Warlock #8, Feb/Mar 1986

What is best in life: To be a barbarian fighting a giant snake in ancient ruins (Aaron Arocho cover with Bob Hadley’s colors, Survival of the Fittest by Michael Mayeau, Judges Guild, 1979)

Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon by Ken St. Andre for Tunnels & Trolls, (Liz Danforth cover, Flying Buffalo, 1977)