Fight On! (although the exclamation point doesn't really do it for me) is a consistently excellent resource for OSR play. It's a quarterly magazine of adventures, tables, and the like. The price is a little steep, especially with Lulu's shipping prices. I'd recommend picking up #3, which is both extremely thick and fairly well written. Fight On!, like most OSR websites and publications is far too polite/small to reject poor submissions. Some really excellent art and writing is placed side by side with some unbelievably awful art and useless articles, but considering that contributions are not paid for, Fight On! has a surprisingly high ratio of good to bad content.
It's really good.
1 2009-10-26 01:13:29
Re: Where to go for quality OSR-material (4 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
2 2009-10-09 00:38:40
Re: Introduce yourself! (219 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
I'm a 16 year-old Californian, started gaming at six with AD&D core, the 2e Starter set, one copy of Blackmoor, and a few old Dragon Magazines. As I lived in the Sierra Nevadas at the time, not a whole lot of actual gaming, lots of Solo adventuring with the redbox once I got my hands on it though. I played third edition from 3.5 up after moving to Conneticut and supported 4e during development, but got bored with the system after a few months.
I mostly game through my school, which has a large pseudo organized club but I don't enjoy the style of game or system (Walk across the room? Balance check). I play in a weekly Dark Heresy Game as an obligatory courtesy to a friend, but I have come to despise the Byzantine mythology and stultifying rules with a passion. My younger brother (12) shares my interest in retroclones, and at his behest I've begun refereeing a weekly game for him and some friends, and I've refereed a number of (to my eyes) very successful pick-up sessions of Stonehell for new players at school.
Around a year ago I realized that I in no way enjoy the clash of imaginary numbers or making character build choices. I do not have any interest in writing a back story, or following a scripted sequence of encounters. I have Jeff Rients excellent "Under Xylarthen's Tower" to thank for reminding me of the fun of random tables and monsters stolen from Star Trek- after reading through it I reaized that that is the mode I'd like my games to follow.
I follow LOTFP (as you might have guessed), Grognardia, Jeff Rients, Society of Torch Pole and Rope, Planet Algol, and Chgowitz as well as any others I forget, though I avoid most of the boards.
I love Lotfp and while I sometimes think it skews to the bombastic, James has my utmost respect as one of the few OSR writers who is actively creating new and non-derivative material.