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Post by calithena on Jan 22, 2014 9:06:49 GMT -6
 Bloodied and staggered on the 66th level of Maure Castle, somehow, after a 2-year hiatus, we found the will to Fight On! This issue of our fabulous fanzine is packed with all the magic, monsters, mayhem, and miscellany you've come to expect to take your FRPing to the next level! Dedicated to Rob Kuntz, our fantastic authors and artists include Lee Barber, Patrick Farley, Jeff Rients, Gabor Lux, Peitsa Veteli, Kevin Mayle, Douglas Cox, Chris Kutalik, Jennifer Weigel, Kelvin Green, Tom Gordon, Michael Curtis, Sniderman, Calithena, Richard Rittenhouse, Hudson Bell, Michael Mornard, Baz Blatt, Jonathan Linneman, Simon Forster, and many more! Let's face it - no matter how old we get, Fight On! still punches harder than Ivan Drago wearing a Girdle of Storm Giant Strength. Grab your copy today! You can obtain the TRULY old school dead tree print version here: www.lulu.com/shop/ignatius-umlaut/fight-on-14-20122013/paperback/product-21411537.htmland the formerly not very old school but now kind of old school due to the popularity of the Kindle and Epub fomats PDF here: www.lulu.com/shop/ignatius-umlaut/fight-on-14-pdf-version-20122013/ebook/product-21411519.htmlThank you for your time and consideration. Fight On! Table of Contents Half-Men (Calithena) 3 Blessings and Pacts (Gavin Norman) 4 The Balrog (Douglas Cox) 5 Robo-Dwarves (Chris Kutalik) 7 Shadow Court (Gabor Lux) 9 Help Wanted (Richard Rittenhouse) 11 What’s in that Pipe? (H. Bell) 14 Reminiscing about Rob (Michael Mornard) 16 The Darkness Beneath: Citadel of the Dark Trolls (Lee Barber) 17 Sixwillows Bridge (Baz Blatt) 44 The CROwN (Jonathan Linneman) 56 Hargravian Descriptionators (Jeff Rients) 58 Creepies & Crawlies (Jeff Rients) 61 Artifacts, Adjuncts, & Oddments (Rob Kuntz) 62 Pit Traps (Wayne Rossi) 64 Tracking Item Charges (Jeremy Deram) 66 Customized Automata and Humanoids (J. Mustonen) 67 Mischevious Monsters (Simon Forster) 71 The Wildwyck Gazeteer (Michael Curtis) 78 Dullards & Dropouts (Big Jack Brass & Jensen) 85 Sir Tendeth (Sniderman) 85 Education of a Magic User (Douglas Cox) 86 Doxy, Urgent Care Cleric (J. Linneman & K. Green) 87 Front cover by Kevin Mayle. Back cover by Patrick Farley (ca. 1984). Fight On! logo by Jeff Rients. Interior art and cartography by Jason Woo (2), Jennifer Weigel (jennifer weigelart.com: 3,60), Patrick Farley (5, retro 8,59,65), Goodman Games (goodman-games.com: 6), Kesher (7), Gabor Lux (9), Ndege Diamond (11), F.C. Brandt (bainst.com: 12), DEI Games (deigames.com: 13), H. Bell (14), Jeremy Duncan (16), Lee Barber (17,18,24,30,38,41, 77), Robert S. Conley (19), OSRCon (osrcon.ca: 29), garrisonjames (hereticwerks.blogspot.com: 35), Black Blade Publishing (blackbladepublishing.com: 43,51), Peitsa Veteli (44,45,55,68,69,71,73), Peter Schmidt Jensen (44,45, 85), John Laviolette (9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com: 44, 45), Patrick Wetmore (henchmanabuse.blogspot.com: 46), Baz Blatt (50), Kelvin Green (56,87), Kevin Mayle (57), Tony Mullins (61), Tom Gordon (www.mindspring.com/ ~tgordo, 63), Kris Kobold (64), John Larrey and Jason Sholtis (66), Center Stage Miniatures (centerstageminis. com: 70), Simon Forster (75), Michael Curtis (78,83), Sniderman (85), Douglas Cox (86), Duckhugger (88). |
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Post by scalydemon on Jan 22, 2014 11:21:21 GMT -6
Cool, anyone know of any current lulu coupon codes?
Thanks
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 21:15:05 GMT -6
I used the code GETIT25 and got 25% off my order.
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Post by oakesspalding on Jan 23, 2014 2:40:44 GMT -6
I like print better. But Fight On! is such a good magazine and I am so impatient, that the instant PDF seems the only way to go. As I said on Tenkar's blog, it's the best OSR/D&D magazine ever (including Strategic Review, The Dragon, old White Dwarf, etc.). Calithena and Ignatius (I assume you are different people?) should be very proud.
Is there any way to bribe you to go past 15?
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Post by Alex Schroeder on Jan 23, 2014 2:51:39 GMT -6
Is there any way to bribe you to go past 15? As far as I remember, the main problem seems to be the time it takes to do layout. Perhaps somebody else would volunteer to do it? Share the burden... |
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Post by calithena on Jan 24, 2014 10:45:09 GMT -6
AMOR14 gets you 14% off all purchases from now to Valentine's Day.
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Post by thetekumelproject on Jan 27, 2014 16:50:53 GMT -6
Latest Lulu coupon..."Buy one book, get one free with code: READ14" in support of Family Literacy Day...good until Jan 31st.
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Post by Zenopus on Jan 27, 2014 19:45:52 GMT -6
I submitted an article for Fight On #14 in early 2012, and as of May 2012 was told it was planning on being used. But it's not there. I've emailed the Ignatious email address with no response.
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Post by calithena on Jan 28, 2014 8:47:44 GMT -6
Hi Zenopus!
It got lost on the cutting room floor with a lot of other stuff. We would still like to run it in the next issue if it is still available. Sorry for the mix-up!
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Post by calithena on Jan 28, 2014 8:48:30 GMT -6
Other Holmes Basic submissions would be welcome from you as well... :-)
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Post by kevinmayle on Jan 29, 2014 14:50:44 GMT -6
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Post by ritt on Feb 3, 2014 9:31:07 GMT -6
I got my print copies in the mail on Friday. They were all messed up, just horribly collated with about a quarter-inch to a full inch chopped off the edges of the pages. Lulu are being dicks about it and have yet to respond to either my support message or e-mail.
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Post by calithena on Feb 4, 2014 5:39:54 GMT -6
Sorry about that, Ritt! Usually in the past lulu has made good on these kind of mistakes eventually and I hope that will be the case this time as well. If they remain unresponsive drop me or Ig a PM/email to let us know and we will try to contact them on your behalf. I hope you enjoy the issue when you finally get a good copy!
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Post by ritt on Feb 4, 2014 11:11:27 GMT -6
Lulu eventually graciously responded and gave me a refund. I'm a little peeved about how long it took.
In fairness, this was the first problem I ever had with Lulu (I've ordered from them maybe twenty or so times -all OSR games or related publications).
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Post by balrog62 on Feb 4, 2014 12:02:32 GMT -6
I had the same thing happen. The entire second half of the book had the printing cut off the last two letter widths of the articles. I look forward to reordering when the printing problems are fixed!
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Post by ritt on Feb 6, 2014 10:52:52 GMT -6
Has Lulu corrected the issue yet? I'm likewise eager to re-order this.
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Post by calithena on Feb 6, 2014 18:26:56 GMT -6
There's no corrections that need to be made AFAIK, they just screw things up coming off their printers sometimes. Presumably if you re-order now things will be OK. The two complaints on this thread are the only ones we've gotten (knock on wood). :-)
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Post by alcyone on Feb 10, 2014 14:49:44 GMT -6
No, sorry, mine is clipped too. I contacted LuLu, and they said they were notifying you that you needed wider margins and were pulling the product until it was fixed. Sorry to derail things.
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Post by balrog62 on Feb 10, 2014 16:48:23 GMT -6
Yeah, I was coming here to say the same thing as aergraith. The email from Lulu said they were going to contact you about redoing the margins. I was wondering though, were the margins you set done for perfect binding and they did center staples? Would that throw off the measurements?
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Post by calithena on Feb 10, 2014 17:19:16 GMT -6
They were supposed to be for saddle stitch. They haven't had this problem before. I am glad you gave me a heads up, they disappeared the issue! Will check this out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 21:30:30 GMT -6
I just got mine, and I also have stuff cut off. It looks like the gutter margin is simply too wide, shoving the page text out to the point that it is getting lopped off at the outside.
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Post by calithena on Feb 12, 2014 10:23:17 GMT -6
Rafial - I am sorry! Can you let me know which page numbers have the problems, so we can fix them?
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Post by calithena on Feb 12, 2014 10:24:19 GMT -6
I should say that these are the same margins we have been using since issue 10 or so, so the problem is that Lulu or Lightning Source is doing something different. But we will make it good - no reason to put up with this!
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Post by calithena on Feb 12, 2014 10:35:48 GMT -6
Actually, if all of you with messed up copies could send Ig email at iggyumlaut on the gmails with page numbers of messed up pages, that would be very helpful.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 1:45:09 GMT -6
It's literally every page, unless the layout for that page was well inside the standard margin.
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Post by machpants on Feb 13, 2014 2:03:53 GMT -6
My copy arrived here today in NZ but is OK. Mine is printed in Oz rather than the US like (I guess) most of the others. I have noticed that the margins in the gutter are large (1.4cm) and small along the outside edge (0.7cm). So there was certainly the possibility to have the edges chopped off but didn't happen for me. I ordered late Jan and it shipped on the 7th of Feb. I notice that the staples are larger and make a much more obvious split in the middle. The staples are such that the book bows open through the centre, different from all previous Lulu orders.
So yeah something has changed!
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Post by calithena on Feb 15, 2014 14:06:50 GMT -6
Glad it was OK, machpants! Most seem to be. We have made available a perfect bound edition www.lulu.com/shop/ignatius-umlaut/fight-on-14-20122013/paperback/product-21450757.htmlwhich should work fine while we review the PDF. Lulu will make good on any printing mistakes, and again, we are using the same margins as always - they are not printing the saddle stitch issues the same way as they used to. Hopefully new copies of older issues will not be effected! Best, Calithena |
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Post by labsenpai on Feb 26, 2014 11:22:24 GMT -6
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Post by alcyone on Feb 27, 2014 16:19:21 GMT -6
Got my perfect bound version. I THINK it has all of the letters there, but it's printed ALL THE WAY to the page edge, the edge of some letters is cut off. But I give up, this one will have to do.
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Post by calithena on Mar 2, 2014 15:28:39 GMT -6
Thanks, Labsenpai. Sorry, Aergraith. I am going to review the PDF again as soon as I can, but the issue is with a particular lulu printer, I am sure of it.
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