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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
STYLE | #20 | 3.130 | 3.500 |
Overall | #21 | 3.242 | 3.625 |
SUBSTANCE | #25 | 3.354 | 3.750 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Really like this, would suggest adding an accessible version of the PDF for those who find reading a little more difficult just so everyone can enjoy it. The current one is gorgeous but a bit tricky to quickly find your place when running it at the table!
Roadside Hotel Dossier is a set of two missions for FIST.
The PDF is 9 pages, and deliberately styled to look like a set of bureaucratic documents. This styling makes it a little hard to read and use as a mission, but adds a great sense of immersion and some meta commentary in the form of scrawled notes. It's a neat flourish.
The first scenario is a simple undersea skirmish against a thing that is using a submarine as a hermit crab would a shell. The second is a more adventure-y arctic exploration with a unique status effect, challenging but intermittent foes, and a more open ended final objective: negotiating with Thoth. It's by far the stronger of the two, but the first is also great as a shotgun scenario or an introduction to FIST.
Overall, if you want to add some FIST missions to your dossier, you should pick these up. The slight difficulty in reading them is more than offset by their quality, and they should be a good experience with any group.
Two missions in one submission, with a bit of lore in the form of agent Gareth, studying the missions brief with us. And a glossary at the end that introduce a bit of background for the univers, which is always nice.
The missions have a few images associated, that are downloaded independently. It could have been nice to have clearer indication which file is for which mission, especially since boat schematic are in both. But we can still put the schematic and the mission together with the names.
The missions looks fun, and short enough to be played in one session I think.