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Morningstar - FIST JAM 2023's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| STYLE | #3 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Overall | #18 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| SUBSTANCE | #25 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Morningstar is a beautiful, beautiful module, in both aesthetic and theme.
The writing immediately draws you into Prague and it's clandestine side. Using randomized tables the details of the mission are decided. Is Morningstar a foe or possible ally, and what are they trying to achieve? After that is decided your team can immediately drop into the maps provided and get to doing what agents do.
If you are someone who needs a little more guidance from your modules, you might have to challenge yourself a bit because the mission leaves a bit for you to create on the fly, but the multiple varibles of the mission creates great replayability and I have a feeling that I will want to revisit Prague multiple times.
Morningstar is a sparse and evocative faction and tactical encounter for FIST.
It does some fairly interesting stuff by leaving the faction's lore and motives to a table roll, but as a result requires the GM to backfill some history and motive in order to understand how the faction thinks and reacts.
The PDF is 6 pages, with lovely stylized art and a grainy, immersive layout. It looks gorgeous.
The actual game-meat here is a little scant, but the potential for good, interesting stories is very high. A GM who's willing to add some flesh and interconnect Morningstar with other campaign elements will have a nice, flavorful encounter.
Overall, if you want to build a session around engaging with a radioactive skeleton cult in Prague, give this a look!
Nice. Textually tight, with just a trace of fluff to set the tone. Prague is my "Go Here Next" vacation goal, it looks like such a beautiful city, and that beauty really comes through in the atmospheric art pieces used.
A page of D6 charts provide a wide range of potential for how FIST initially views the group and the group's current course of action that are all consistent with the rest of the setup, which is impressive and flesh out the potentialities of the organization pretty wide for how tight a space the data is provided in.
The "urban dungeon" isn't Jacquayed at all, but that is in line with the tone of the core FIST rulebook's example mission. The print version is going to burn through your toner cartridge (lots of beautiful deep blacks, including a page of white text on a black background) and give standard printer paper that unbalanced 'wet and heavy' feel, but gray-scaling / color depth is adjustable in most printer settings, and it's possible to do a bi-fold with the pertinent playable data without going overboard on the black.
I like it!
"The print version is going to burn through your toner cartridge" < Can verify this.
I have not been back to Prague since the early 2000s when it was flooded, but It is still front of mind as one of my favorite places.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your feedback.