Fight On! Issue #6 Summer 2009

About

Fight On! charges into its sixth issue on an orc stampede like Shadowfax! Dedicated to Lee Gold, legendary editor of Alarums & Excursions, FO! #6 features dungeons, cities, wilderness, rules variants, fantastic art, poetry, polemic, and puissant pennings from a pantheon of gaming’s finest! Contributors include Lee Gold, Tim Kask, Jeff Rients, Mark Allen, David “Sham” Bowman, Ron Edwards, Jason Morningstar, Geoffrey O. Dale, Calithena, Stephan Poag, Mikko Torvinen, Erin Bisson, Michael “Chgowiz” Shorten, Gabor Lux, Lee Barber, Tony “Wheggi” Rosten, Baz Blatt, Michael Curtis, James Maliszewski, Zach Houghton, Andy “Atom” Taylor, Steve Zieser, Jeff Talanian, Patrick Farley, and many, many more.

Table of Contents

Article Contributor(s) Page
Variant Races Calithena 3
Tables for Fables Age of Fable 4
Git ‘R Done Will Mistretta, Mátyás Hartyándi, M.J. Harnish, and Northrundicandus 7
Hell-Grave of the Tveirbróđur Jason Morningstar 9
The Tribe of Rorvash Erin “Taichara” Bisson 13
Sandbox Preparation Michael “Chgowiz” Shorten 15
Welcome to Slimy Lake Jeff Rients 18
Knights & Knaves Timothy J. Kask 24
Chaos Monks of Kthulhu! Jeffrey Talanian 26
Creepies & Crawlies Lee Barber, Shaine Edwards, and Geoffrey McKinney 27
Blocks of Quox Tony Rosten 29
Summonings Vile and Dark Matthew Slepin ,37
Esoteric Arts for Wizardly Know-it-Alls Baz Blatt 40
Old School Game Determination Michael Curtis 43
GBH Peter Schmidt Jensen 44
When I Was a Girl Lee Gold 45
Education of a Magic User Douglas Cox 45
Stone Gullet Gabor Lux 46
Wasteland Travellers Gabor Lux 50
A Few for the Road Michael Curtis 55
Enharza, City of Thieves Santiago Luis Oría 60
I Need a Dungeon Right Now! Jeff Rients 65
Dungeon Modules Geoffrey O. Dale 68
Oceanian Legends Del L. Beaudry 72
The Devil’s in the Details: Ahoggyá Baz Blatt 73
The Darkness Beneath: Lower Caves David Bowman 78
The Petrified Forest Del L. Beaudry 110
World Creating as a Hobby Lee Gold 111
Interview with Lee Gold Maliszewski & Grohe 113
Naked Went the Gamer Ron Edwards 115
Merlin’s Mystical Mirror Zach Houghton 118
Artifacts, Adjuncts, & Oddments Mo Mehlem & co. 121
Overland Mikko Torvinen 124

Illustrations & Cartography

Front Cover by Mark Allen. Back cover by Stefan Poag and Andy “Atom” Taylor. Fight On!, Erol Otus, and Slimy Lake logos by Jeff Rients. Alarums & Excursions #1 cover by Jack Harness. Interior art and cartography by Steve Zieser (3,16,17,22,110), Age of Fable (4), Black Blade Publishing (blackbladepublishing.com, 5), Kelvin Green (junkopia.net/kelvinsdirtybits/main.html, 6,12,20,46,48,49, 50,51), M. J. Harnish (rpg.brouhaha.us, 8), Dei Games (deigames.com, 8), Lee Barber (ghosttower.crithitcomics. com, 9,27,43,46,58,78), Remi Treuer (10,11,12), Erin Bis- son (13), Anthony Stiller (14,118), Mark Allen (portfolio. marjasall.com, 18,21,23,55,85,97,102), Christian de la Rosa (19), Tim Kask (24,25), Ian Baggley (26), Shaine Edwards (28), Tony Rosten (29,30,34), Andy “Atom” Taylor (33, 35), Kesher (38,74), Peter Schmidt Jensen (44,92), Alex Schröder (44), Douglas Cox (45), Gabor Lux (47,48,50,51), Santiago Luis Oría (61,63,64), Jeff Rients (67), Otherworld Miniatures (71), Lamentations of the Flame Princess (88), Patrick Farley (99), Tomás Banzas “Germille” Illa (111), Peter Seckler (115), Scott Purdy/Ron Edwards (119), James Mishler/Peter Bradley (119), Michael Shorten/Mark Allen (120), Mareike Robien (123), and Mikko Torvinen (124). Knights & Knaves and Creepies & Crawlies logos by Lee Barber; Darkness Beneath logo and map by Robert S. Conley. We also used public domain clipart from wiki- media commons (14,37,39,40,69), wpclipart (41,66,120), and karenswhimsy.com (60).