FIGHT TO SURVIVE
Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart
This is the corner of the website with a whole page dedicated to the main game of this publishing house, Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart and its solo version, Solo Martial Blues.
In a nutshell, it's a heartbreaking, struggling, mundane, down-and-dirty table-top role-playing game about martial artists in the 20th century, where most situations are violent and usually end in sadness. It's diceless, multi-generational, and while it may be cheesy around the edges it tries with the upmost sincerity to do fighting proud.
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If you'd like to buy Fight to Survive, it's available in all the finest places, but if you're Canadian like me then I'll draw specific attention to Compose Dream Games, a Canadian online TTRPG marketplace that will save you oodles of hard-earned Canadian dollars. Fight on.
"Fight To Survive is to Rock-Paper-Scissors what Chopin's Nocturne op.9 No.2 is to Mary-Had-A-Little-Lamb."
Fight to Survive
The core book of the system, Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart is a diceless, multi-generational, Indie Groundbreaker Award nominated TTRPG.
Solo Martial Blues
Martial arts TTRPG action for one player, Solo Martial Blues was funded on Kickstarter in April of 2024, and was published in June. The pdf is out now.
Combat Cards
Move cards, NPCs, rules references and more in this handy package of poker-sized cards. Available from DriveThruCards or through Compose Dream Games.
Combat Cards
Cards With The Right Moves!
Feel the impact of every blow with Fight to Survive: Combat Cards. If you're looking to train up your game of the table-top RPG Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart, this deck of Combat Cards has all the right moves! This deck includes:
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30 Move cards—enough for two fighters to face each other!
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15 Mook character cards, with exciting all-purpose opponents like Street Tough, Sailor, Pro-Wrestler, Palooka Prizefighter, and Ninja Assassin!
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5 rules reference cards, including an Aggressor tracking card, quick rules reference cards, Versus Chart cards, and a tiny map of New
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Lose the prep and get to the fight fast, with Fight to Survive: Combat Cards, a handy upgrade to your game of Fight to Survive. Combat Cards come in their own gorgeous custom tuckbox.
The Story of it
Fight to Survive (named for the lead song on the soundtrack to 1988's Bloodsport) was Kickstarted in April of 2022 and came out a year later, in March of 2023. It's a weird indie game, and I'm glad it exists. I'm glad to have made it. It's responsible for some of my favourite role-playing memories in a lifetime of engagement with the hobby. I don't know if I'm capable of making a game that everyone will like, but this is one that a few people out there, probably just a few, can love. Its sentiment is perhaps best summed up by the video below.
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Fight to Survive was nominated for an Indie Groundbreakder award for "Best Setting", in 2023, which was nice. A play aid, the Combat Cards, were released in December of 2023, and the solo game, Solo Martial Blues came out in June of 2024.
