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The Boundless Society: A faction for FIST's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #13 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| SUBSTANCE | #13 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| STYLE | #14 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Incredible! You handled what I love to attempt much better than I did. The leaving of threads to pull is so satisfying and the style is so clear cut even with such simple styling.
The Boundless Society Dossier is a faction pack for FIST that introduces several mad-science themed antagonists.
The PDF is 4 pages with a plain layout that makes it feel like it could be a document from FIST's setting.
Contents-wise, the writing here is extremely strong and does a great job of establishing character and threat for each of the included antagonists. Stats are not provided, but in some ways this is better. There's some degree of ambiguity in the entries, and specific stats would dispel that completely.
Overall, if you want some new antagonists to build FIST missions or campaigns around, this is a great asset.
A faction and its key NPCs for characters to encounter or contend with during their adventures. The backgrounds are relatively short, but jampacked with hooks for developing the NPCs further with full blown schemes and complicated motivations.
This doc actually presents a faction and a half, because in addition to the eponymous Boundless Society, there’s also the Directorate of Extranormality Intelligence. The directorate (or DoEx) whose report is the framing device for the supplement could easily be fleshed out as well. Although not explicitly stated, the references to several CRO teams (and no mention of FIST) lead me to believe the DoEx is intended to be a part of CYCLOPS. But there’s a lot of flexibility here to fold it into your world however you like.
Gosh it's always so cool to see people engaging with stuff I made! Thanks for commenting!
But yeah, with the CRO/CYCLOPS/Directorate stuff, the Directorate is a branch of the CIA (I can't remember if I put that anywhere but my notes), & while reading the FIST rules I sort of got the impression that CYCLOPS was also attached to the government somehow, or at least that it could be. But yeah, totally vague & flexible enough for anyone to fit it into their games however they want!
My pleasure! It was a fun read! I realized that my original comment won't show up on the non-jam project page, so I'm going to repost it there so it will be a public endorsement.
Oh wow thank you so much!
This is well presented and I like that the presentation of the information is in-universe, but it is such a nice teaser I would like to see a bit more involving the characters! I don't think it would need to be as fully featured as a mission, maybe a few more in-universe documents describing some of the events involving the characters
Yeah, I really wanted to get more into it but I knew if I did any more in-depth research (with something as real & recent as the Cold War, I wouldn't wanna screw anything up) I'd fall down a rabbit hole & wouldn't be able to get it done in time for the Jam. Especially with having a full-time job.
But I'm really glad to hear that people like what I did write!!!