However, Arkhane Asylum, the publishers of the French language edition of Dice Men, the history of the early days of Games Workshop, will be in attendance.
Tickets for Fighting Fantasy Fest 6 are now on sale.
At the weekend, Sir Ian Livingstone was in Hungary, appearing at Budapest Comic Con 2026.
While he was there, as well as hanging out with the team from Chameleon Comix, who publish Fighting Fantasy in Hungarian...
...Sir Ian also met Krisztián Balla, who illustrated The Dungeon on Blood Island...
...and László Arpad, the talented illustrator behind the Qatlas Fighting Fantasy solution maps.
Sir Ian's Saturday signing session was a record in that it took over 8 hours, virtually non-stop, for him to sign everyone's books!
Incredibly, it is over 18 months since Sir Ian Livingstone's latest Fighting Fantasy gamebook was launched at Fighting Fantasy Fest 5.
The Dungeon on Blood Island took adventurers back to Lard Carnuss' private, offshore, holiday hangout and sent them into a labyrinth filled with savage creatures and deadly traps.
The prize on offer was the fabled Golden Orb of Fang, if only the brave adventurer who found it could then also escape from the dungeon alive.
Since then, The Dungeon on Blood Island has been published in Danish and Hungarian, by Faraos Cigarer and Chameleon Comix respectively.
So, speakers of which language will be given the dubious pleasure of exploring The Dungeon on Blood Island next?
The latest Fighting Fantasy gamebooks to be given a glow up by Gallimard in France are Sir Ian Livingstone's Eye of the Dragon and Steve Jackson's* Scorpion Swamp.
Both feature brand new cover art by Regis Torres, and they look suitably threatening as well as fantastic.
To add these books to your collection click on the cover images above.
* The US Steve Jackson.
** The Emerald Eye.
Sir Ian Livingstone will be in Santa Maria da Feira on 25th April, to attend Comic Con Portugarl 2026. To find out more, follow this link.
Portuguese publisher Porto Editora reissued the Fighting Fantasy collection in Portugal in 2025, where it is historically known as Aventuras Fantásticas. The first reissued titles, O Feiticeiro da Montanha de Fogo and A Masmorra Inferna, are already available in bookstores, with A Cidade dos Ladrões joining them this year.
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Scott Mackay has added more maps to his Fighting Fantasy collection - solutions the first two adventures from Steve Jackson's seminal Sorcery! quartet.
Each one is available as an A3 print, as are his other Fighting Fantasy maps. To purchase one, simply click on the relevant image above.
Incredibly, Fighting Fantasy Quest: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain funded on Gamefound in just 42 minutes and, as of writing, it is over 460% funded!
This means that a Secret Level Stretch Goal has been unlocked. This is an additional dungeon section that increases the scope of the adventure.
With this new level added, the game now includes more content:
+12 Tile Cards
+15 Encounter Cards
+2 Monster Cards
Fighting Fantasy Quest: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain , a brand new co-operative board game based on the original Fighting Fantasy gamebook, is now live on Gamefound!
Crowdfunding for the project begins on 10th February 2026.
To help bring the game to the North American market, Ulisses Spiele is partnering with Goodman Games, a leading publisher of old-school roleplaying games. Best known for Dungeon Crawl Classics, there’s no better team to bring this game to market. “Goodman Games fans love old-school fantasy adventure, and Fighting Fantasy is perfect for all of us. We’re excited to partner with Ulisses Spiele to bring this fun fantasy adventure board game to even more fans in North America,” said Joe Goodman.
Ulisses Spiele will also be partnering with Scriptarium to bring the game to the French-speaking market. “We are quite excited about our new partnerships helping us to not only reach a global audience but work with companies that understand the essence of what our games are about. Our adventuring party just got much stronger!” said Jan Wagner of Ulisses Spiele.
With English, German, and French versions of the game and strong international partnerships, Fighting Fantasy Quest: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is sure to bring the beloved adventure to fans across the globe when it launches on Gamefound on 10th February.
Ulisses Spiele is an international publisher of tabletop roleplaying and board games, focused on delivering strong worlds and adventuring experiences rooted in player choice. The company is a key player in the German-speaking tabletop market, renowned for its deep fantasy world the Dark Eye and bridging the gap between German and international gaming communities by publishing and distributing a wide array of fantasy and sci-fi role-playing and board games.
It was the second of three FF gamebooks by the American game designer Steve Jackson and was the first to be set almost entirely under the sea.
The Hero of the adventure is the first mate of the merchant ship Sunfish. At the beginning of the book, the Sunfish is attacked by the pirate ship Troll, a vessel under the command of Captain Bloodaxe, the terror of these seas. The only survivor of the attack, the Hero is forced to walk the plank.
Available now from Arion Games, for Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition, is the Gods of Titan sourcebook by Andrew Wright.
2026 marks the 40th anniversary of six Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - Demons of the Deep, Sword of the Samurai, Trial of Champions, Robot Commando, Masks of Mayhem, and the groundbreaking Creature of Havoc.
It is also 40 years since Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World and The Riddling Reaver were published, and the only two-player Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Clash of the Princes.
Over the coming year, the Warlock will be considering these much-loved publications, and doubtless they will be discussed at Fighting Fantasy 6, which will be taking place later this year in September.
