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This week's Digi is a video I've wanted to make for aaaaaages, and it turned into a bit of an epic. Fighting Fantasy books were huge for me when I was growing up, and while we were planning for this ep it dawned on me that Sir Ian Livingstone - co-founder of Games Workshop, the man who brought Dungeons & Dragons to the UK, author of countless Fighting Fantasy books, the man who discovered Lara Croft - and I follow one another on Twitter.

So I asked him for an interview, and he said yes. For better or worse, we've not reigned in our usual excesses of nonsense (though as he IS a knight of the realm, I edited out one running gag that the £5-and-up tiers will get to see tomorrow in a bumper crop of outtakes), but the interview with Ian is as illuminating and interesting as I'd hoped.

As I said the other day, it's the first of what I hope will be one of many interviews on the channel with people I find interesting for one reason or another. I wasn't sure how it'd fit with our usual tone, but I'm very happy with this one. More!

WARNING: CONTAINS VIDEO GAME CONTENT!

(PS. I've not watched this back yet, so if I've messed up something I might have to take it down abruptly, but it's probably fine) 

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IAN LIVINGSTONE - FIGHTING FANTASY TO TOMB RAIDER - Digitiser Interview

#fightingfantasy #dungeonsanddragons #rpg From Games Workshop, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer and Fighting Fantasy to Lara Croft and Tomb Raider... Sir Ian Livingstone pretty much shaped childhood for many of us. Here, the gaming legend grants Digitiser an exclusive interview - while we enlist the help of a former fantasy roleplaying character to take us through The Warlock of Firetop Mountain... Not for children! Digitiser Live Weekend details: https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-pa... Buy Digitiser Live Weekend Night 1 tickets: https://harrowarts.com/whats-on/calen... Buy Digitiser Live Weekend Night 2 tickets: https://harrowarts.com/whats-on/calen... Subscribe for regular videos, and support Digitiser on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mrbiffo.. Biffo can be found here: https://twitter.com/mrbiffo Sir Ian Livingstone can be found here: https://twitter.com/ian_livingstone Buy Dice Men: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dice-Men-Origin-Story-Workshop/dp/18001805274aa63e326d3f&pf_rd_r=66XVX6E35CSBTVVJ20G3&pd_rd_wg=H2Qpc&pd_rd_r=a0c56618-e371-462f-ae2f-b2e5837114c9&pd_rd_i=B09YN99NNL

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Simon Lee Tranter

Hoorah! Looking forward to watching this tonight. I still have my Fighting Fantasy books from the 80s. Loved 'em! On a related note, I've done illustration work over the years for an old RPG game called Tunnels & Trolls, which was the second fantasy RPG to be invented (the first being Dungeons & Dragons). Designed as a simpler alternative to D&D (which it was heavily inspired by), it was playable with standard six-sided dice and was the first gaming system to introduce solo play, beating both Fighting Fantasy and Choose Your Own Adventure to the idea by quite a few years. One of the early solo adventures was called Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon, released in 1977. I know the game was stocked in Games Workshop stores back in the early 80s. Coincidence?

Leighton Pritchard

Ian Livingstone's face on realising he's at least partially responsible for Beanus: priceless!