Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player
roleplay gamebooks created by
Steve Jackson and
Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published by
Puffin in 1982, with the rights to the series eventually being purchased by Wizard Books in 2002. The series distinguished itself by mixing
Choose Your Own Adventure-style storytelling with a dice-based role-playing element, the caption on many of the covers claiming each title was an adventure "in which YOU are the hero!" The majority of the titles followed a fantasy theme, although
science fiction,
post-apocalyptic, superhero, and modern horror gamebooks were also published. The popularity of the series led to the creation of merchandise such as
action figures,
board games, role-playing game systems, magazines,
novels, and
video games.