Fight or Fright

On Halloween Night, The Great Witch’s Thrall turns decorations into Possessed Horrors, Throwing The Night Into Chaos.

But Your Costumes, Once Plastic And False, Become Real, And Powerful.

It’s Up To You To Save Your Town, And Maybe, Earn Some Candy Along The Way! 

Fight or Fright! is a Halloween Trick-or-treating game about magical costumes, possessed decorations, and scoring lots of candy. It’s about that feeling you had as a kid, putting on a costume and so desperately wishing you could be that character. But wishes are powerful, and sometimes you get more than you bargained for. 

In this spooky one-shot game for 4-6 players, including a Master of Candies, players take on the role of trick-or-treaters caught in a magical enchantment that grants you the powers of your costume’s Inspiration. 

• Choose your type of Trick-Or-Treater, like The Competitor or The Spotlight, that describes who you are under the costume
• Choose a costume Inspiration, like a Star or a Haunter, that aligns with the character or person you’ve dressed up as

Fight or Fright! Is played using an original shifting dice-pool system, where dice move between the two halves of your character, FIGHT and FRIGHT, or slip into the PLIGHT dicepool. If you stumble along your journey, you might just Lose Yourself to the control of The Great Witch’s Thrall.

Listen to the podcast! Fight or Fright was designed live across the Wait, Roll That Again! podcast. Listen along to learn about how TTRPGs are designed, and the specific lessons that went into designing this one. The Second Season is OUT NOW! Listen to the show here.

Fight or Fright! is a part of KiwiRPG, or Kēmu Whakatau O Aotearoa.

Written by Alex Marinkovich-Josey

Layout & Art by Mike Rieman