Fight On! Issue #16 Winter 2025
About
Out of the dungeon and into your quivering palms, Fight On! is back again, bringing the full monty of magic and mayhem to your subterranean halls! FOUR big adventures along with classes, races, maps, rules variants, new worlds, monsters, magic items, spells, NPCs, and tables and other goodies galore will fill your fantasy campaigns with new wonders for your dark towers and demonweb pits! Dedicated to fantasy art legend David A. Trampier, this issue features contributions from great heroes old and new - from Dave Hargrave and Tim Kask to Peter Mullen and Cameron Hawkey, not to mention Sean ''Stonegiant'' Stone, Oakes Spalding, Simon Bull, Gabor Lux, Kevin Mayle, Evlyn Moreau, Calithena, Paul Carrick, Sophie Pulkus, J. Blasso-Gieseke, bät, Attronarch, Philipp H., James Maliszewski, Settembrini, Robert S. Conley, Idle Doodler, DeWayne Rogers, Rick Base, Dyson Logos, Jon Salway, Becami Cusack, Tony A. Rowe, Prince of Nothing, Jasmine Collins, Anthony Stiller, Allan T. Grohe Jr., Will Mistretta, Steve Queen, Zhu Baijee, Thomas Denmark, and many, many more! This BIG 128 page issue picks off pit fiends like a +5 pike of piercing - don't delve deeper into the darkling depths without it!
Table of Contents
| Article | Contributor(s) | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Creepies & Crawlies | Zisch, Knarly, Mistretta, & Settembrini | 3 |
| Artifacts, Adjuncts & Oddments | Salway, bät & DeSmet | 7 |
| Two Blades and Two Crowns | David A. Hargrave | 10 |
| Gems of Zylarthen, Part 1 | Oakes Spalding | 13 |
| Grognard’s Grimoire | bät, Salway, & Mustonen | 17 |
| The Caverns of Arcane Silk | Idle Doodler | 19 |
| The Sands of Isathar | DangerIsReal | 20 |
| 21 Lessons Learned After 100 Sessions | Attronarch | 22 |
| Battleland Encounters | Calithena | 24 |
| Variant Battlelands for Titan | Tor Gjerde | 25 |
| Old Samora 2: Ghoul Lair and Balneum | Philipp H. | 29 |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Richard Rittenhouse | 39 |
| The Scout | Jason Brentlinger | 40 |
| Biblical Fantasy Roleplaying | Haralambos Kazantzakis | 42 |
| Races of sha-Arthan | James Maliszewski | 44 |
| The Monastery of Darak | Gabor Lux | 47 |
| Tables for Fables | DeSmet, Logos, Terrible Sorcery & Kisko | 53 |
| Dun Crawlin’ | Jon Salway | 59 |
| Alternative Demon Immunities | PrinceofNothing | 70 |
| 1d20 Magick-er Mouths | Will Mistretta | 72 |
| The Dream Couches | Donald Smith with Zherbus | 76 |
| Calabos and Mazmora | J. Blasso-Gieseke | 80 |
| Darkness Beneath: The Snow Throne | Simon Bull | 81 |
| Tales of Tramp and TSR | Tim Kask, interviewed by Cal | 92 |
| Knights & Knaves: Wormy & Friends | Allan Grohe | 99 |
| Seven Gates & Fifty Dog-Faced Men | Becami Cusack | 105 |
| Comics & Carrick | Kelvin Green, J. Blasso-Gieseke, and Paul Carrick | 126 |
Illustrations & Cartography
Front cover by Kevin Mayle (etsy.com/shop/KevinMayleArt). Back cover by Tony A. Rowe (crypticarchivist.blogspot.com). Fight On! logo by Jeff Rients. David A. Trampier photomontage elements from Alex Haglund, The Daily Egyptian (2/22/2002) and DAT. Images by Peter Mullen (instagram.com/pmullen illustrations: 3), Settembrini (5), Robert S. Conley (batintheattic. blogspot.com: 6), Hudson Bell (7), Idle Doodler (therecouldhave beensnakes.wordpress.com: 8,18-9,37,71,85), Cameron Hawkey (cameronhawkey.com: 8,56,87), Johnathan Grimm (empchocom; 9), Dave Hargrave (facebook.com/EmperorsChoiceGamesand MiniaturesCorporation: 10-11), Black Blade Publishing (face book.com/blackbladepublishing: 12), Graphite Prime (graphite prime.blogspot.com: 13), Oakes Spalding (14), DeWayne Rogers (16), W. W. Denslow (18), thresholddiceworks.net (23), Tor Gjerde (old.no/titan: 25-28), Philipp H. (31), Sopie Marie Pulkus (sophie-pulkus.com: 32), Anthony Stiller (35,120), CAG (tinyurl. com/TCAGP: 38), Tom Gordon (facebook.com/tgordo: 39), J. Blasso-Gieseke (charybdispress.com: 42,80,92,127), Zhu Bajiee (realmofzhu@blogspot.com; 44,46), The Robot Overlords (47, 51,52), Gabor Lux (beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com; 49), Patrick Farley (retro 55), Jon Salway (alandbeyondbeyond.co.uk; 59,63, 64), Evlyn Moreau (patreon.com/evlynmoreau: 60-2,65-6,68), Cauldron Con (cauldron.pesa-nexus.de: 69), EGG Con (eggcon. fun: 69), Jasmine Collins (72), Bill Webb (froggodgames.com: 75), Alex Schroder (81), Simon Bull (82,84,87,91), Steve Queen (86), Rick Base (89,118), Dark Future (instagram.com/thedark futuredungeon: 92), DAT (93), J.D. (94), Dr. John Cichowski (95), Dudva/Wikimedia Commons (97), Aron Clark (onthetable top.blog: 99), Sean “Stonegiant” Stone (instagram.com/the_ stonegiant/: 100,103,104), Becami Cusack (105,107-8,110,112-5,117,121-5), Matt Finch (mythmeregames.com: 106), Kelvin Green (kelvingreen.blogspot.com: 126), Paul Carrick (night serpent.com: 128). Artifacts, Adjuncts & Oddments and Grognard’s Grimoire headers by Thomas Denmark (ThomasDenmark.com). Knights & Knaves and Creepies & Crawlies headers by Lee Barber. Tables for Fables header by Age of Fable.