ALL New MARTIAL ARTS RPG.
Real world martial arts mashed with survival horror making for an adventure you won’t soon forget.
Monks Made Like WizardS
For decades, spellcasters got the showstoppers: glowing fireballs, twisting magic, wild effects that bent worlds. Monks got… more punches.
Not anymore.
Fists & Fiends rewrites martial arts RPG combat from the ground up. Every battle won feels like gaining a new limb, a new weapon, a new way to revise your odds in blood and breath.
6 visceral fighting styles, each steeped in real martial arts tradition and gritty flavor.
22 localized backstories, giving every fighter a past worth bleeding for.
89 distinct strikes, throws, chokes, and locks, each a weapon that can win a fight or end a life.
Fast, brutal, wit-heavy combat that makes every move feel earned, risky, and unforgettable.
You don’t just roll to hit. You strategize, improvise, adapt, and fight like a cornered animal.
This isn’t an game where you equip a weapon. This is an RPG where you are the weapon.
89 MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTING MOVES
89 Strikes, kicks, throws, chokes, & locks to choose from.
Fists & Fiends is a martial arts RPG/simulator that engages the player in hand-to-hand combat as a true martial arts fighter. Weapons? You are the weapon. Enter the grit and glamor of the melee fight, while you battle to survive a chaos filled world that has collapsed entirely. Where superstition has become reality.
As you build your character, each boxing style uses one or more of the 4 Pillars of Kung Fu - Strikes, Kicks, Throws, and Locks. Each pillar has a variety of techniques, and every build creates a random arsenal for your character making them unique from the last.
97 COMBAT STUNTS!!!
“Moonhammer!!! WHAT!?!?! That is awesome!!! I can’t wait to do that In The Game.” - Dave. OGC 2023
Each character you create not only has one of 6 unique fighting styles to choose from, and one or more distinct backgrounds, but their own arsenal of independent hand-to-hand combat fighting techniques, based on real martial arts moves. This gives each character you build an extraordinary outcome and custom feel while you play through missions and campaigns. As you level up you can spend XP to gain new fighting techniques, learn advanced combat talents, improve skills, or achieve a new level in your character’s style of fighting to tip the scales of battle.
Simple, but deep. A myriad of ways to customize your fighter with style, techniques, talents, and more.
SURVIVAL HORROR SETTING
“The combat makes me so excited and anxious at the same time! I’m crawling out of my skin.” — Tom. LPT 2022
“Even when it is not my turn I’m fully vested in the fight.” - Rich, PAX East 2022
Pressure creates diamonds.
A full on survival horror setting that gives agency, purpose, and tension to the martial arts combat. No heroes, no magical weapons to save you, no gods listening, just those fighting to survive in a world bent on killing you. Every hit can be the one that puts you down, laying the atmosphere that makes every victory feel rewarding.
“The stunts! Oh, man. These are awesome.” - Mark. Carnage 2023
What they’re saying
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“Is Fists and Fiends is the ultimate martial arts RPG?
—Dave Thaumavore
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“The combat makes me so excited and anxious at the same time! I’m crawling out of my skin.”
— Tom. LPT 2022
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“The stunts! Oh, man. These are awesome.”
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Creation. Destruction. Survival. Unlimited Imagination! Choose your fighting style, add fighting moves, select a background, and more
6 visceral fighting styles, each steeped in real martial arts tradition and gritty flavor.
22 localized backstories, giving every fighter a past worth bleeding for.
89 distinct strikes, throws, chokes, and locks, each a weapon that can win a fight or end a life.
Fast, brutal, wit-heavy combat that makes every move feel earned, risky, and unforgettable.. Seven easy to follow steps to create characters.
Quickstart Tournament integrated into the setting/story that you can play with 1 or 2 friends to learn the combat.
High quality digital copy filled with vibrant art and intense gritty martial arts combat. Unleash your warrior spirit today.
Digital Copy Only.
Mayhem. Grit. Organization of Chaos. Everything you need to inoculate your players to the methods of violence that is martial arts. Martial arts meets survival horror.
Referee horrific, tension inducing, and nail biting fights for your players.
6 Sinister Missions. Tell your own stories. Create missions that drop your players right into the action. Reduce your setup time with easy to follow mission creation mechanics that blend with your story hooks so you can drop into a session with your players quickly and easily.
GM first layout - find what you need quickly and easily in the middle of a session so you can keep the tension high and action rolling.
Dastardly Damage - all manner of environmental conditions that turn the world into the primary antagonist against the player character's will to survive.
Cringe-worthy Crits - 100's of crits for those moments when things go really wrong.
No epic heroes inside these tomes. Only those strong enough to survive the horrors of the world, never mind the fiends who broke through the barrier between natural and supernatural. Digital (PDF) copy only.
Three years after a cataclysmic flood that wiped out cities, villages, and killed millions. You are part of a group of 108 survivors who have run out of resources to survive, and must re-enter a changed world now that the waters have receded. What adversity, horrors, and strife awaits, unfolds in a story spread over 13 action packed missions that culminate in a mind-shattering event that could affect the survival of your entire colony.
Each mission could be your last.
Every resource matters. Even the population of your colony.
Weapons? Gone. You are the weapons! Did you train hard enough?
The skill points you choose can make or break your team.
Imagine the survivors in your head, using the 89 real martial arts techniques against nightmares that shouldn't exist. Blood will be shed. Dice will be cursed. Survivors will be forged. How far can you travel on The Silt Road...
A Novice level campaign for Fists & Fiends.
Digital (PDF) copy only.