Fight On! magazine - Issue #3, Fall 2008

The premier fanzine for the old-school renaissance comes out swinging with a +5 vorpal claymore of disintegration! All 148 pages of issue #3 are released in honor of the late Bob Bledsaw and in cooperation with the Judges Guild, and feature the following legacy articles:

  • Wilderlands Map 19: The Wild North by Robert S. Conley, detailing the lands north of Valon and west, by many folks' reckoning anyway, of much-fabled Blackmoor!
  • Haghill by James Mishler of Adventure Games Publications, detailing the legendary village near the City-State of the Invincible Overlord and the communities monstrous and mundane that surround it!
  • Inferno: The Fifth Circle by Geoffrey O. Dale, author of the original Inferno, taking you farther and deeper into Hell than gamers have ever trod before!

You can also learn intriguing tidbits about the history of Judges Guild from Bob Bledsaw II and Bill Owen, the Guild's co-founder, and read a stirring tribute to Bledsaw and the early days of gaming from Bill Webb, co-founder of Necromancer Games! But it's not just the glorious of yesteryear to be found in our pages. David Bowman's contest-winning Spawning Grounds of the Crab-Men and Diana Jones/Indie RPG Award double winner Jason Morningstar's first honorable mention Khas Fara give you two tough new adventures to tackle, the latter of which can be played with traditional fantasy games or with The Shadow of Yesterday. Gabor Lux, the Hungarian Prince of Swords & Sorcery, takes you inside his Fomalhaut Campaign. Our front cover was penned by Len Cain of Berkeley gaming legend. Baz Blatt brings you new demons for Empire of the Petal Throne, while Max Davenport gives us some terrible and zany monsters for Mutant Future! And Fight On! stalwarts and newcomers Jeff Rients, Steve Zieser, Kevin Mayle, Lee Barber, Patrick Farley, Del Beaudry, Vincent Baker, Kesher, John Miskimen, Age of Fable, Calithena, and many more are back and ready to rock your game with the newest tables, tricks, sorcery, monsters, and mayhem their deviant minds can devise!

Whether you started in 1974 or 2008, you won't want to miss this fall's issue!

Table of Contents:
Dedication to Bob Bledsaw......................1
Bogbears! (David Bowman).....................3
Special Maneuvers in Combat (Calithena)..4
A Magician?s Miscellany (Jeff Rients)......6
The Wild North: Wilderlands Map 19 (Rob Conley)..7
The Devil?s in the Details (Kesher)..........24
Introducing TARGA..................................25
Knights & Knaves (Lee Barber)..................26
Khas Fara (Jason Morningstar)....................28
County of Haghill and Environs (James Mishler).....32
Education of a Magic-User (Douglas Cox)...44
Dagnabbit! (John Miskimen)...................45
Not So Smart Adventurers (Tim Shorts)..45
Ready Ref Sheets (Davenport, Rients, & Somerville)....46
Tables for Fables (Age of Fable).................48
Dungeon Detritus (David ?Greyharp? Macauley)...49
The Darkness Beneath: Spawning Grounds of the Crab-Men (David Bowman).........................51
Judges Guild Links on the Internet (Jeff Rients)...65
Tribute to the Invincible Overlord (Bill Webb)....65
The Origin of the Flying Turkey (Bob Bledsaw II)...67
My Time with Bob & the Guild (Bill Owen)....67
Monsters for Mutant Future (Max Davenport)...69
The Least Demons (Baz Blatt).....................71
Oceanian Legends (Del L. Beaudry)................77
Barony of Serovan (Andrew Reyes)................79
Fomalhaut (Gabor Lux).................................80
Proclamations of the Fomalhaut Oracle (Gabor Lux)..90
Inferno ? The Fifth Circle (Geoffrey O. Dale).....93
The Wilderness Architect (Victor Raymond)....117
New Games for the Old School (Jeff Rients)....128
Sharks in the Night (Sean Still & Del Beaudry).....131
Running a Great Con Game (Jeff Wilcox)......141
Artifacts, Adjuncts, and Oddments (various)....145
Index of Illustrations & Cartography:
Front Cover by Sean "Len Cain" Elliott; Back cover by Victor Raymond, James Mishler, and Len Cain. Fight On! and TARGA logo by Jeff Rients. Bob Bledsaw photo by Mark Holmer. Interior art, logos, and cartography by Steve Zieser (3,6,9,13, 43,48,50,56,141); Otherworld Miniatures (5,28); Robert S. Conley (11,57); Vincent Baker (16); Kesher (24); Lee Bar-ber (27,63); Jason Morningstar (28,29); Walter Heubach (31); Jeff Rients (32); Patrick Farley (33,70); James Mishler (35,38); Douglas Cox (44); John Miskimen (45,72,76); Tim Shorts (45); Judges Guild (46); Age of Fable (48); David Bowman (53); Peter Seckler (54); Bob Bledsaw II and I (67); Daniel Proctor (69); Anthony Stiller (69); Gabor Lux (80,81,85,90,91); Gustav Dore (93,96,107,108,112,113, 124); Geoffrey O. Dale (94,95,99,105,107); Jeff Wilcox (97); Kevin Mayle (103,116); Olivier Legrand (128); S. John Ross (130); and Matthew Hoover (146). We also used public domain art from karenswhimsy.com (4,21,58,64,92, 121), wikimedia commons (14,18,136), and wpclipart.com (19,39,118,127,131).






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