Product Description

Down in the dark, twisting labyrinth of Fang, unknown horrors await you. Divised by the mind of Baron Sukumvit, the labyrinth is riddled with fiendish traps and monsters, which will test your skills almost beyond the limit of endurance. For ages 8 +.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72623 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-03
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Funday Times
"Relaunched and as gripping as ever, fans of role-playing adventures will lap [these books] up."

PTA magazine
"Bound to appeal to fans of the fantasy worlds of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings."

Venue
"A fantastic time guaranteed for all with authors Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson."

Customer Reviews

Deathtrap Dungeon: Great dungeon adventure.
Deathtrap Dungeon, written in 1984 by Ian Livingstone, was the sixth edition to the growing Fighting Fantasy series. This adventure is set, like most of the earlier FF books, in the medieval fantasy land of Allansia. There is a successful town in north Allansia called Fang. It's ruler, a certain Baron Sukumvit, decided to make Fang the centre of a great contest, to be held once each year, called the Trail of Champions.

Now, this Trail of Champions involved the Baron tunneling a deadly labyrinth into the hills behind the town. The labyrinth, named Deathtrap Dungeon (if you didn't already know), was then riddled with fiendish traps and vicious monsters to trick and test any contestants trying their luck. Just before the grand opening, Sukumvit selected ten of his finest troops to enter the dungeon, as a test of it's lethality. Much to the Baron's delight; none of the troops were ever seen again! The call then went out to adventurers all over Allansia.

Many adventurers were eager to test their skills in Deathtrap Dungeon, for the honour of being the first to survive the labyrinth and collect their own weight in gold as a reward. As yet, none have survived to claim the prize...Until now, that is!!

You start as an adventurer, signed up for the Trail of Champions, the eve before the contest starts. The next day, you line up outside Deathtrap Dungeon, ready to start your adventure. Five other contestants enter the dungeon with you. These are: an armoured Knight, a robed Ninja, a female Elf Warrior and two 'Arnold Schwarzenegger look-a-like' Barbarians.

So, the race is on! To succeed in your goal you have to beat the other contestants (by fair or foul means), avoid becoming a victim of the many cunningly lethal traps, find and collect various items, vital if you are to escape alive, find your way through quite a complex maze and hack-'n'-slash your way through loads of Deathtrap Dungeon's inhuman inhabitants (this is my favourite part!!)

For 'true' diehard FF fans; this book is a real roller-coaster ride. The book is original, well written, engaging and (fairly) complex. The book has some nice parts to it: Stumbling onto the remains of past contestants, impaled on spikes, ending up as stew for the Boodbeast, meeting the 'Trial Masters', Poison Ivy and those playful Trogoldytes (no, I won't tell you! You'll have to find out about them for yourself!!) There are some really nice 'adult' traps and ways to die as well; the 'Vice' trap and drinking the acid, which burns a hole in your stomach, are real corkers.

As for bad parts......Well, I couldn't really think of any. This book is a very good edition to the FF series. Not being linear (like a lot of later books) the dungeon can be explored many times differently. The ending is especially challenging and exciting.

Iain McCaig's illustrations are of the usual excellent quality; they really bring Deathtrap Dungeon alive, adding immeasurably to the atmosphere of the book. In fact, without his contribution, the book probably wouldn't of been so well received

So, in my ending summary of number six; Deathtrap Dungeon. I would say that it is an absolute classic; this book is about as good as FF gets!

Deathtrap Dungeon Review
I can remember, at the age of about 10, first picking up this book and thinking how different it looked from any I'd seen. An adventure where I got to choose the ending? Where I got to fight the monsters? As I read the book I gradually became more and more involved with the book. It is certainly very imaginaitve. There are any number of ways you can progress and, for each of them, there are many different adversaries to face. Deathtrap Dungeon has often been hailed the best in the FF series and there is a lot of truth to this statement. The most memorable monsters for me were the Rock Grub - I'm sure people had nightmares about this! - and Poison Ivy. However, there is much more to the book then this and if you take the time to read it - now its been reprinted (Hurray!) I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Another great book from the FF genre...
I've been into the Fighting Fantasy books for ages...well when I say into them that is to say I would have loved to get hold of them but they've been impossible to find. Thankfully Wizard books have decided to reprint these great books at a very good price.

I've read/played Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Caverns of the Snow Witch and Starship Travellar. The first two are excellent and well worth getting, Starship alas isn't as good but still worth a look if you can find it cheap but this one...
This book has everything, suspense, action, good characters, great twists and there's that something in it that makes you want to keepn going and even if you fail you want to get back into it and try again. The artwork in the book enhances it even further and puts some great pictures in your head for your adventures. If your into these books then this is a definate must buy. I'm looking forward to further reprints from wizard books such as City of thieves (of which there is a small reference to in this book) and Crypt of the Necromancer. Go get it NOW!