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Unfortunately we're not aware of any conversion procedure, but you might find Affinity templates pinned in our #workshop channel on Discord (could also try searching Affinity)!

Some things Table Dive liked about FIST (full review available through the link!) Thanks Table Dive!!

A dragonkid video about Jess Levine's sci-fi endless war spinoff, PLANET FIST!

absolutely none! FIST is licensed under Creative Commons BY SA 4.0. that means:

- you can do anything you want with the concepts and material without our permission, including making your own commercial products, but

- you have to credit CLAYMORE (thanks for thinking of us!), and 

- whatever you make has to be under this same license!

A new FIST actual play featuring Knighthouse Games' Precious Cargo!

they're out of stock at the moment but you can sign up for email updates here!!

https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/fist-ultra-edition

Good catches! The Mort Garson one should refer to the song "The Unexplained" off the album Ataraxia and for Miles Davis, yes - 'Round about Midnight 

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Hey there! FIST is CC BY SA 4.0 so you can basically do whatever you want with it as long as you credit us and allow your work to be shared and modified freely too!!

A new review by The Gaming Table!


We got a shoutout from Mothership's Sean McCoy in the latest Quinns Quest !!

same to you!!

thanks for playing!!

Hey! The Alpha version is juuust barely playable right now, so that's your call. We'll definitely be adding bookmarks to the finished pdf!

we have some more stuff coming!! what would you like to see?

Hollywood silencer!

thank you so much!!

thank you so much this review is lovely 😭😭

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Devs here! As written, all characters start at base level, even if the previous character was high level or the rest of the party is.

While this is punishing, it's for three design reasons:

1. War should be punishing and death should feel bad in order to keep the stakes high and the players immersed - if players want to do badass things, they need to do smart badass things that give them an unfair advantage against the enemy, like sneaking, sabotage, flanking, etc. FIST is more of an underdog, against-all-odds fantasy than a power fantasy.

2. Character progression tends to be horizontal instead of vertical - all the stat bonuses and items in the traits list are fine-tuned so that while characters may have more tools as they advance, they don't become invincible, and a 6 trait character can work alongside a 2 trait one.

3. Capital and worldly gains are important - loot and gadgets and backup are the name of the game, and a fresh, underleveled character can be "caught up" with everyone else by sharing loot.

Hope this helps and thanks for playing!!

EDIT: Something that might be helpful for setting player expectations is comparing FIST to roguelikes. It's very inspired by these games, where death is bad - you always start from scratch.


We got a review by Questing Beast!!!

New AP from All on the Table!

looks like Spear Witch has some physical rulebooks in stock!!

https://spearwitch.com/products/fist-ultra-edition?variant=47175536279838

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thanks for the kind words and supporting the bundle!! if it helps your group get up and running at all, we did just add a quickstart guide to this page (under Download demo). hope y'all have fun!!

knocking it outta the park again burrito!!

welcome aboard!! you're in luck, we actually just added a quickstart guide that explains the basics of RPGs - you can find it on this page under the "Download demo" heading

not a stupid question! we usually add community copies, to be claimed by anyone for free, when people donate extra to us at CLAYMORE. the bundles go to charity, so you get a copy of FIST you can claim if you bought the bundle!

either/or, but we suggest the latter (discard what doesn't click, keep what does)

Added 10!! 🫡

Yes 1000% absolutely!! Please do and thanks for letting us know about this!

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we kind of add more randomly or if we anticipate a big surge of interest - there were also recently a lot of community copies bc Kickstarter backers had donated several, but those ran out a bit ago.. anyway you don't sound inadequate in the slightest, we love giving this game out for free!! have you got a discord or email address we could send a download key to ?

(alternatively just hit up claymorerpgs@gmail.com and we'll hook you up!! <3)

adding more community copies so you can grab a new one !!

you might like these index card character keepers! https://lonearchivist.itch.io/fist-op-profile

not only is this mission great, it's good for multiple playthroughs w different groups and works perfectly as a big campaign finale!! 10/10

hey thank you so much!! any cool moments from the oneshot?

New AP from Brandoff and co.!!!

no problem and we couldn't agree more comrade!!

done, thanks for the heads up!!

A whole FIST actual play done by members from our server!

gotchu, didn't realize they ran out ty

one of the best FIST missions out there!!

Yes! A solo mode is in the works as part of an upcoming rules expansion/splatbook called SUPPLY DROP