History YMMV / TheWarlockOfFiretopMountain

* DesignatedHero: Unlike villains from later books such as [[Literature/TheCitadelOfChaos Balthus Dire]], Zagor the Warlock isn't despicted as a villain or a threat to the world; your character's motivation for going after him is trying to get his treasure, making him look quite greedy.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The first book of the ''Fighting Fantasy'' series and the one that kickstarted the peak of the gamebook craze in the 1980s and 1990s. However, nowadays, it definitely has shown its age with its non-existant story, standard gameplay, and various examples of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness making it clear this book was an exercise in figuring out how to use the system they'd devised.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The first book of the ''Fighting Fantasy'' series and the one that kickstarted the peak of the gamebook craze in the 1980s and 1990s. However, nowadays, it definitely has shown its age with its non-existant story and standard gameplay, especially compared to later installments.

* DesignatedVillain: As noted above, the hero is not given much, if any reason to kill Zagor other than sheer greed for his treasure. Even the prisoners in his dungeons seem to be adventurers who had come to rob him rather than peasants plucked from the countryside. ''The Trolltooth Wars'' (which draws a lot of material from ''Warlock'') pushes this line even further casting Zagor as at worst an AmbiguouslyEvil hermit who is rightly paranoid about thieves and who just wants to be left alone.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The Tin Man videogame adaptation of the book attempts to portray Zagor as much more overtly villainous from the get-go, taking inspiration from the follow-up gamebooks ''Literature/ReturnToFiretopMountain'' and ''Literature/LegendOfZagor''.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** You get attacked by the deadly stare of a magical painting. One option to attack it is to throw some cheese at it. It works exactly as well as you expect.
** You find a boathouse, locked by a door. It needs a special key to open it. A key that says "boathouse". If you don't have it, you can try forcing the door, but it won't work and you will only hurt yourself. You are still given the option to use the key after trying to force the door, and the narration will call you an idiot for not even attempting this first.

* WhatAnIdiot: You get attacked by the deadly stare of a magical painting. One option to attack it is to throw some cheese at it. It works exactly as well as you expect.
** You find a boathouse, locked by a door. It needs a special key to open it. A key that says "boathouse". If you don't have it, you can try forcing the door, but it won't work and you will only hurt yourself. You are still given the option to use the key after trying to force the door, and the narration will call you an idiot for not even attempting this first.

* DesignatedHero: Unlike later books, Zagor the Warlock isn't despicted as a villain or a threat to the world; your character's motivation for going after him is trying to get his treasure, making him look quite greedy.