surely "ttrpg" and "mercenaries" make for a unique set of SEO keywords and my multi-year project will not be drowned out by something else upon the week of its release
FACT: d20 is one of the worst dice to use because the probability is weighted toward low results -- in contrast, a 2d6 roll is evenly weighted all around
i hope people understand that FIST is a deeply queer, anti-establishment, and anti-war game and don't just skim over it because it has a big gun on the cover. most FIST parties would be classified as terrorists by any govt and the big gun is for killing powerful men
[columbo trying to throw d fox off his game] oh it's a very big honor to meet you, mr. fox sir. Mrs. Columbo, she loves Zweihander, she's always sharing the pdf around to her friends, you know, trying to get them to play.. she just loves it, sir. says it's just like warhammer
tired of D&D? time to deploy FIST, the paranormal merc
#TTRPG
:
- 4950 starting character builds, ~2 min character creation (cyborg sniper? mutant hacker? exploding skeleton? up to you)
- 50+ first and third party supplements
- tactical espionage action !!
if you wanted to do this in FIST, you'd make a character with the traits CUT (for the katana and cutting anything) and SLOW-MO (for slow-mo and to get the machine pistol). FASHIONABLE gives you the leather trenchcoat. then you'd roll a partial success followed by an ultra success
Laurence Fishburne slices a pickup truck with a katana and then shoots the pickup truck with a machine pistol and the pickup truck explodes and thatโs like the 5th coolest thing from the movie
most impressive part of Andor was how "Keef Girgo" managed to sound clockably fake and made up in the context of a universe where everyone's name is like, Peepo Thwux
"please let this be a normal field trip" is what Arnold visibly prays to god, hands clasped and everything. everyone's on his ass right away like "with the frizz?? no way!" meaning that to the rest of those kids, Ms. Frizzle easily outranks God
tired of D&D? try FIST: Ultra Edition, the paranormal merc
#ttrpg
:
- 23,220 possible starting character builds, 60 second character creation
- 80 pages of random tables, never run out of tactical espionage action
- 100+ homebrew supplements ๐
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if you wanted to do this in FIST (escape from a plastic prison using the iron in someone's blood), you'd take TELEKINETIC (and maybe HARVEST to gain some HP from this) and then just do it. you wouldn't even have to roll the dice necessarily if they weren't expecting it
trying to figure out how to make a "batshit metal gear villain politics" even-distribution generator without accidentally coming off centrist or invoking horseshoe theory may be some of the trickiest writing I've done for for this game
had a few wet snotty breakdowns, went through half a carton of smokes and got a little funky off sharpie fumes and sleep deprivation but FIST ULTRA IS OUT NOW ITS 152 PAGES AND ILLUSTRATED AND FULL OF NEW SHIT ๐๐๐
hey ttrpg people, what if we all did 100% off sales on Mondays and refused to participate in the machine of capital, thus damaging it, by not handling money
while writing in this milieu you have to research a lot of conspiracies and hear about a lot of things that can "turn you gay" (5G, chemicals, media, etc.) this is such a gross misunderstanding of queerness and entirely untrue. the only thing that'll turn you gay is playing FIST
so i had a Power Thought and realized the thing FIST was missing, as a sort of loving parody of video game logic, was a bounty/challenge system, a la Destiny 2 and other various bullshit content mill games. so now you can come join the FIST discord server and get exclusive loot
there are like ten different settings/games which follow the agents of some mysterious regulation entity, tasked with Tracking Down the Weird and Wrong and Locking It Up. if that's the kind of guy you'd like to shoot in the head, you're looking for FIST
FIST has ascended to
#7
on itch's highest rated all time games (and is 7 ratings away from 300) - thank you folks, this is a dizzyingly exciting climb to be watching in real time!! love yall ๐ฅ๐
you order dominoes pizza one night bc your bones are grinding against each other and the pipes r too frozen to do dishes and 1000 twitter leftists crawl out of the woodwork to call you a useless eater
want a Metal Gear Solid ttrpg that's simple to learn, infinitely customizable, and rewards players who think outside the box? tell your own tales of tactical espionage action (and kill time until MGS Delta comes out) with FIST โ
#MG35th
#TTRPGs
#MGS
tired of D&D? try FIST: Ultra Edition, the paranormal merc
#ttrpg
:
- 23,220 possible starting character builds, 60 second character creation
- 80 pages of random tables, never run out of tactical espionage action
- 100+ homebrew supplements ๐
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if i could get one thing across that I don't know how to communicate, it'd be yeah, you're a paramilitary anomaly squad, but you don't work for SCP, or the secret ghost division of the FBI - you're the enemy of all the Delta Greens out there!! you're scum and you work for free!!
I usually like to signal boost FIST homebrew and have been to busy for a while, here's some amazing recently developments:
SONDER is a discord bot by Lulu (not sure if she has a twt), made for automating all the new random tables and fun features in the Intelligence Matrix:
why is this dude just lex luthor now like he lives in X Corp Headquarters and shuts off some shit called Starlink to interfere with geopolitics like what?? worth noting the guy's head is made of bone which is not that high on the Mohs Scale
slowly but surely, FIST has crept to
#6
in its inexorable march up the itch all-timers chart.. might not happen today, might not happen tomorrow, but rest assured: we're comin for ya
@jdragsky
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meet the FIST Ultra Edition example characters!! question for the general public: which one would you play as... and do you have any headcanons about any of them
next time you play our game of armed & organized Cold War outcasts making ends meet and helping people against a hostile, ubiquitous apparatus of control, keep in mind that stories don't spring up out of a vacuum
it's been 22 minutes since we launched the FIST Box Set Kickstarter and we're already halfway to 20,000!!!! here's a pic i happen to have on hand of the "GOTY Set", link below...
in case anyone finds it interesting: disability + everyone ignoring covid knocked me out of public life in 2020. in 2021 I lost my apartment, and 2022 was the first year where I had no income or job aside from ttrpgs. my total income for year 1 as a full-time indie: $9,231.88 ๐งต
I think the TTRPG industry needs to start being very clear with each other and be transparent about how much money is paid to creators, writers, designers etc. Unless you are in a very small percent of people then you will make very little on ttrpgs. Not even enough to pay rent.
did you know FIST is not just open-license, but entirely public domain? you can do whatever you want with it!! a lot of people have, there are 70+ hacks and supplements on itch so far (and here's a thread of highlights!)
thinking about the time i posted that you could get FIST on sale for the price of a coffee ($2.50) and someone commented that I was probably drinking cappuccinos and lattes "like a communist" and that really stuck with me. New Stereotype minted before my eyes
another element is that FIST leans heavily on is anti-canon so also I can't really say you're NOT part of some govt killing squad. but mechanically, the characters you get are beautifully unique in inconvenient, messy ways, and extremely human, prone to dying unceremoniously-
@PartyOfOnePod
i love First Blood to death and use it as a touchstone for FIST missions a lot, it's such a great example of a single encounter organically escalating into a whole story, like I'd recommend it as required research viewing for sandbox/improv action adventure games
wanna do this in FIST? for SPIDER-MAN, you'll want the traits CLIMBER and WEBS (stick to walls and shot web), and CONTORTIONIST too (to fit through tiny openings without rolling for it!) unless you wanna be DOC OCK, in which case you'd need LIMBS and EXPERT (theoretical physics)
โitโs just nostalgiaโ
nah man itโs just that someone made a really good story with real human drama and packaged it into one of the most badass superhero movie that has a scene where this happens:
surprising fact!!! did you know that buying FIST right now at full price will make you hotter, smarter, more talented, AND add volume to your hair? we are only telling you this because you're our friend and we love you
3. Share-able
Word-of-mouth is still the best marketing. Give your followers a reason to share your post.
A few ways to get them to share:
- Teach something new
- Surprise them
- Inspirational/Aspirational story
- Make them feel exclusive
MERC TIP: Never talk to cops, because a) cops exist to protect the interests of the state and are not your friends, and b) CYCLOPS Recon Operative CABRรN can astral project into the body of anyone wearing a police uniform from anywhere in the world
parasocial RPG writing is annoying!! dude stop forming a psychic conduit to my private reading chambers!! if the book speaks casually and simply because it's a proletarian, ham and cheese type book that's fine, that's who it is. but I don't want to socialize with the author
-bc of violent situations and people that they *have* to engage with, bc of who they are and what kind of labor defines them. like it's just a dumb "gun go brr, anime swordfight" game, yes, but it's from the heart, so it's also a queer, disabled game down to its rickety bones
well folks the Kickstarter is over and that means so are all the marketing tweets!! thanks to everyone for the smashing success FIST has found, now back to our regular programming
SURPRISE FIST: ULTRA GAME JAM
#FISTultrajam
RIGHT NOW to August 1st
THEME: Anything at all just GO ULTRA WITH IT
FIRST PRIZE: A PHYSICAL FIST ULTRA BOOK
RAFFLE PRIZE: a SECOND hard copy of Ultra Edition
YOUR ORDERS: GET JAMMING SOLDIERS (AND HAVE FUN) ๐
ah great now we get a bunch of posts about how "trends don't exist anymore" and "zoomers are insane" cause you guys cant handle wide pants and a y2k fashion revival - also it's literally the First Day Of School at FASHION SCHOOL?? so you would go in an outfit that's a statement??