“Now resurrecting ticket number 7.” Curiously, I imagine that this waiting room is also used by superheroes in comic books when they ‘die’.Įither way, to kill the sorcerer again, I need to pick up the sword from the adventurer who slew the sorcerer in the first place, who is living up at a local lake, and is a skeleton now for some reason. Maybe they even have a little ticket machine that reads out your number. It seems that now the sorcerer has got bored sitting around in his tomb… I kinda imagine being dead as a large waiting room for these wizards, where you sit and read magazines until you’re called back to bring havoc on the living. He tells you that long ago, an evil sorcerer was slain by a heroic adventurer. The story begins with your character being given a fairly hefty monologue from your wizardly buddy Yaztromo, who I pretty much imagine looks a bit like Dumbledore. Basically ‘play it fair and as it’s meant to be played, no cheating’. Play through all combat sequences and required tests by rolling dice, rather than just pretending victory. No turning back to a previous page if I don’t like the decision I chose. Although, when I look at them as an adult, I really do appreciate the original’s atmospheric colouring and moody shadows.įirst up, I’ll mention the rules I’m playing these books by. The modern version is certainly more energetic. It had a fine enough cover back in the day, but something about the original’s image of a hunched and decrepit old man that looked as if he was about to fall over and break his hip, just didn’t really inspire you to grab a copy in the same way that a vicious dragon or a bloodthirsty vampire would. I’m not sure why, but I suspect that the cover may have something to do with it. So yeah, when I first had these Fighting Fantasy books as a kid, one of the ones I never got around to playing was Crypt of the Sorcerer. Me of the puppet from Tales from the Crypt? Written by Ian Livingstone, Artwork by John Sibbickīoth covers for this book.

Walkthrough simon the sorcerer 2