Seas of Blood

Seas of Blood

Original Puffin Books cover (1985)
Author	Andrew Chapman
Illustrator	Bob Harvey
Cover artist	Rodney Matthews
Series	Fighting Fantasy Puffin number: 16
Genre	Fantasy
Published	1985
ISBN	0-14-031951-4 (Puffin)

Seas of Blood is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Andrew Chapman, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 16th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031951-4). The title was loosely adapted into a text-based video game by company Adventure Soft.

Rules

Main article: Fighting Fantasy

The story features an additional game mechanic: both the player's character and their ship have attributes for combat, as there is a combination of land and sea-based combat.

Story

The player takes the role of the captain of the pirate vessel Banshee, and within a 50-day period must overcome both land and sea adversaries to reach the isle of Nippur, in possession of more gold than rival Abdul the Butcher.

Reception

The site TV Tropes stated Seas of Blood was notable as it features a "villain protagonist".

Other media

The book was loosely adapted into an Adventure Soft text adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC.

See also

• Fighting Fantasy
• List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

External links

• "Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org".
• "Seas of Blood on gamebooks.org".
• "Seas of Blood on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site". Archived from the original on September 1, 2005. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)