Fight On! bundle (issues 1 to 14) available for limited time!
Get fourteen issues for 50% off! Legendary OSR zine jam-packed with essays, adventures, house rules, art, comics, magic items—you name it!
The sale will run for just a week or so after Calithena or Ignatius (Fight On! editors), announce it publicly so don't wait for too long. This is a great deal.
Update: the sale will run until October 11th.
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Fight On! presents: a
David A. Trampier and David C. Sutherland III Memorial Art Contest!
Honoring the dedicatees of Issues #16 and #17 of the legendary fanzine!
Rules: Artists retain ownership of and all rights to their work, except that winning artists grant Fight On! Publications the right to first publish that work in an issue of Fight On! and subsequent collections including that issue/article in perpetuity. No AI.
All Submissions Due by November 30 to iggyumlaut@gmail.com.
Prizes! Color Division: $80 First Prize; $40 Second Prize; $25 Third Prize. B&W Division: $75 First Prize; $35 Second Prize; $15 Third Prize. Trampier Memorial Prize: $50. Sutherland Memorial Prize: $50. (Multiple third prizes possible. Last two are for work inspired by or in the style of; can stack or award separately.)
Judges include:
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Fight On! issue 16 will be dedicated to Trampier. Calithena, one of the editors, has issued call for submissions:
Issue 16 is now open for submissions. For perhaps the first time ever – maybe because we're starting up again – we seem a little short on 'fiddly bits', races, classes, magic items, spells, etc. = so if you've got homebrewed stuff you want to share send it our way. Other stuff is fine too of course.
Send your ideas and submissions to iggyumlaut[AT]gmail[DOT]com.
For the last issue I contributed Special Ability Charts from our game; for this issue I'll contribute an adventure from our campaign, tentatively titled Broken Eagle, Raging Bull.
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Fight On! is back with force!
Brand new issue 15 now available on DTRPG (PDF) and Lulu (POD and PDF):
Ten years later, we are back from the dead to Fight On once more! These revenant runes are just as jam-packed as you remember with classes, monsters, spells, magic items, rules mods, homebrews, and awesome adventures in the spirit of the eldritch era of fantasy roleplaying! Dedicated to seventies D&D legend J. Eric Holmes, this issue brings together old and new stalwarts alike to celebrate our 15th issue and new beginning! With art and articles by J. Eric and Christopher Holmes, Tom Gordon, Calithena, Gabor Lux, Jeff Rients, James Maliszewski, Kesher, Pete Mullen, Cameron Hawkey, Zach Howard, Alex Schroder, Richard Rittenhouse, Settembrini, Patrick Farley, Jason Sholtis, Robert Conley, Kelvin Green, Philipp H., Attronarch, Mitzi!, and many more, this is the first of our new forays into fanzine fame and glory! Ride that wyvern while the sun is shining, and keep Fighting On!
Here is the table of contents:
| Article | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Ten Ways to Holmesify your Game | Zach Howard | 3 |
| Special Ability Charts | Attronarch | 4 |
| The Orthogonal Dwarf | Olle Skogren | 11 |
| Gremlins! | Calithena | 14 |
| Maze Master's Miscellany | Alex Schroeder & Calithena | 15 |
| The Catacombs under Old Samora | Phillip H. | 17 |
| Knights & Knaves: Holmes Town Heroes | Tony Rowe | 28 |
| Bringing It All Back Holmes | Clark, Grodog, and Calithena | 30 |
| Maps from the Maze of Peril | J. Eric Holmes | 34 |
| Distributary of Darkness | Alex Zisch | 36 |
| The Silken See | Motley Dice | 37 |
| Grognard’s Grimoire | Richard Rittenhouse | 41 |
| The Wizard’s Satchel | J. Blasso-Gieseke | 43 |
| Artifacts, Adjuncts, and Oddments | Richard Rittenhouse | 44 |
| Victory or Death! | Gabor Lux | 46 |
| Megadungeon Workshop Extravaganza! | Kesher | 50 |
| Calvero! | István Boldog-Bernád | 53 |
| Creepies & Crawlies | James Maliszewski | 61 |
| Tables for Fables | Al, Greco, Wetzel, and Rients | 63 |
| The Darkness Beneath | Alex Schroder & Lior Wehrli | 68 |
| Henchmen-Я-Us: Pole Arm Caddies! | Calithena | 91 |
| Chainmail: Battle for Bronzolo | Settembrini | 92 |
| Doxy, Urgent Care Cleric | Linneman & Green | 98 |
| Education of a Magic User | Douglas Cox | 99 |
| Wham! | Tom Gordon | 100 |
It's been a great honour to contribute, and I look forward to contributing to next issue as well.
Back issues are available as PDFs via DTRPG and PODs via Lulu.
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The Darkness Beneath is Fight On!’s community megadungeon. It was one of the early (if not first?), big collaborative megadungeons. Many of the levels are as great today as they were in 2010s.
Each level can either be used stand-alone, repurposed for another dungeon, or used together. As a nice bonus, David Bowman levels form a cohesive underdark setting. Bryce Lynch found many levels to be some of the best adventures in the OSR.
Without further ado, here are the levels and issues they were published in:
| Level | Author(s) | Issue | Review(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1: The Upper Caves | Hackman, Calithena, David Bowman | Fight On! #2 | Bryce |
| Level 2: Warrens of the Troglodytes | Calithena, David Bowman | Fight On! #5 | Bryce |
| Level 3: Spawning Grounds of the Crab-Men | David Bowman | Fight On! #3 | Bryce |
| Level 4: The Mysterious Crystal Hemisphere | James Maliszewski | Fight On! #4 | Bryce |
| Level 5: The Lower Caves | David Bowman | Fight On! #6 | Bryce |
| Level 6: The Fane of Salicia | Lee Barber | Fight On! #7 | Bryce |
| Level 7: Palace of Eternal Illusion | Matthew Riedel | Fight On! #11 | Bryce |
| Level 8: The Deep Caves | Heron Prior, David Bowman, Calithena, and Simon Bull | Fight On! #12 | Bryce |
| Level 9: Citadel of the Dark Trolls | Lee Barber | Fight On! #14 | Bryce |
| Level 10: The Hall of Mirrors | Calithena | Fight On! #8 | Bryce |
| Level 11: Fungus Forest and Mold Falls | Makofan | Fight On! #13 | Bryce |
| Level 12: The Blasphemous Shrine of the Tentacled God | Jeff Rients | Fight On! #9 | Bryce |
| Level 13: Caverns of Slime | Alex Schroeder, Lior Wehrli, Chris Roberts, Ndege Diamon, Kelvin Green | Fight On! #15 | Bryce |
| Level 14: City of the Ancients | Chris Robert | Fight On! #10 | Bryce |
| Level 15: Tomb of the Black Lord of Nothingness | Unpublished |
Side-view map by Robert Conley; “LX” scribbles by myself:
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Legendary Fight On! OSR fanzine is now available on DriveTrhuRPG as well! Or, at least, some issues are:
In my opinion, Fight On! remains the best OSR zine. Each issue is filled to the brim with gameable material, and everything is bursting with creative energy. Rules, monsters, treasures, adventures, essays, interviews, megadungeon... So much!
Once I finish with the Dragon Magazine reading I'll do the same with Fight On!
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Fight On! Compiled Compilation II + 11:
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