Operation Sarcastic Riot
A downloadable FIST / OSR supplement
BRIEFING
CYCLOPS is up to no good again. In order to assure their continued dominance well into the future, they've traveled into the past, as well as into parallel timelines. For reasons we have yet to discover, they are highly focused on the medieval time period and similar timelines.
Operation Sarcastic Riot is the code name for our multi-mission attempt to thwart them. You're to go into the past, find out what they're doing, and figure out how to stop it.
How does it work? I don't know, soldier, that's above my pay grade. Just hop into this time machine and it'll do the rest. The machine was provided by the people who are bankrolling Operation Sarcastic Riot.
So, yes, that means you're getting paid. Now get moving!
CONVERT
Tired of not having material for your FIST game? Don't you wish you could use adventures / modules / dungeons / thingies written for D&D, or one of the many OSR retroclones?
Well, hop in the time machine, soldier, because with these conversion notes, you'll have your mercs in the dungeon in double time.
This supplement helps you convert adventures from OSR games to FIST!
WHAT DO YOU GET?
- Complete notes for converting 90% of all OSR material out there to FIST!
- A time-travel campaign frame for FIST to justify all this medieval strangeness in your FIST game!
- Six new Traits and six new Roles!
- Seven pages of appendixes, with notes on converting specific OSR game adventures to FIST.... and back again.
- Random tables! This is a FIST supplement, after all.
- Goblins with AK-47s!
Anything from FIST Ultra Edition is used under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Anything from this supplement (except art) can be used under the same CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
All art in this supplement and on this webpage is in the public domain. That's less restrictive than the Creative Commons license for the text, soldier! Run it up the flagpole and salute it if you like!
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | xiombarg@gmail.com |
Tags | conversion, Fantasy, fist, OSR, Tabletop, tabletop-role-playing-game |
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Development log
- COMPLETEDFeb 19, 2024
- Almost ThereFeb 15, 2024
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I cackled when I realized the name was hiding an OSR acronym
Heh, it's a bad habit of mine. Witness my OSR blog, Orange Subterfugacious Raccoon...
https://orange-s-raccoon.blogspot.com/
Operation Sarcastic Riot is a conversion pack for adapting DnD and OSR content to FIST.
The PDF is 17 pages, with clean, well organized, zine-y feeling layout. Pictures are provided throughout, and everything is easy to read.
Contents-wise, this is a detailed and thorough conversion kit. There's rules for adapting everything from AC/Armor to Choke/Morale. It can get a bit formulas-y, but all of the conversion is designed around working quickly and getting to the heart of the content. You don't need to know calculus to use it.
The tone of the writing is conversational and direct, and this really does a *lot* to keep the text approachable. Reading it feels like sitting down to chat with a friend, and there weren't any places where I felt confused or had to double back to check a mechanic.
There's a lot of supplemental material here as well, including new Traits, monsters, and a section at the end with very specific guidance on converting from a ton of different systems. It's extremely detailed and well-researched.
Overall, if you want to lean further into FIST's osr tendencies by using it to run actual osr, this is probably the definitive way to do it.