Incidentally, does anyone else sometimes wonder about where some of these magic items in [Fighting Fantasy] books actually come from - or who made them? Sometimes some background is given, but when it’s absent I always wonder what the story is behind it. … Many items found in the books are probably all made together by consortiums of wizards as custom-made items requested by adventurers, nobles, megalomaniacs, etc. I can just imagine the poor apprentices being humiliated by the grand wizards for producing sub-standard goods, ‘You call this an enchanted letter-opener? It’s pathetic! Look, it hasn’t even got a number stamped into it.’