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FIST: Ultra Edition is a high camp tabletop roleplaying game about paranormal mercenaries doing tough Cold War jobs: stopping disastrous science experiments, infiltrating occult compounds, neutralizing eldritch horrors, and the like. FIST agents tend to be outcasts and misfits with military expertise, but the game isn't about hoo-rah good guys with guns. Players are typically outnumbered, easily killed, and disliked or hunted by most sources of authority. You, a motley crew of underground, underfunded mercenary terrorists, must make ends meet and likely meet your ends fighting this war on an otherworldly front. 

If you work for FIST, you do the missions no one else can do, no one else wants to do, and which no one will let you do undisturbed. You don't have tons of money and gadgets backing you up, just your wits and a few tools. War is hell, and you're one of the little guys. 

FIST is inspired by a slew of classic video games, action movies, and pulp fiction, designed to be simple to play and easy to modify. Primary ancestors include Metal Gear Solid, the A-Team, and Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. In terms of gameplay, it's its own funky little thing, mechanically descended from John Harper's World of Dungeons, Ben Milton's Maze Rats, and Offworlders, by Chris P. Wolf and Olivia Gulin.

You can browse all previous FIST game jams here:

FIST: JAM OPS VI is launching to celebrate six years of FIST! This jam begins on May 1st and submissions are due June 5th - the exact timeframe of the original JAM OPS! You have until then to cook up something extraordinary for FIST, and then until June 12th to peruse the entries and cast your votes.

The theme: NO FUNNY BUSINESS. FIST may be a bunch of paranormal weirdos in a kitchen sink universe of New Weird surreality, but your premise must be focused on things that can technically happen in the real world. For example:

  • Action movie-style premises (e.g. Die Hard, Bullet Train, Speed)
  • Actual historical events (e.g. the Cuban Missile Crisis, the DB Cooper hijacking, the Jonestown massacre)
  • Cold War conflicts (e.g. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua)
  • Interesting urban locations (e.g. Kowloon Walled City, De Wallen, Kabukicho)
  • Real science and technology (e.g. space travel, bomb defusal, nuclear meltdowns)
  • Grounded spy operations (e.g. assassinations, corporate espionage, dead drops)
  • Elements of the criminal underworld (e.g. smuggling, piracy, poaching)
  • Any plot or idea that works without fantastic elements involved 
  • Anything you want, because the theme is always optional!

FIST is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. You can create whatever you want to create with it, no OGL required, and we won't ever stop you or charge you money for it. FIST and homebrew are fast friends. 

  • No bigoted content will be entertained. FIST is set in a fantastical version of the 20th century (similar to Wolfenstein, Metal Gear Solid, and various superhero universes), and oppression is part of the subject matter; handle it with tact and consideration for the impact of your narrative, and remember that bigots and warmongers, fictional or not, are always the enemy. 
  • Please keep your entry free for the duration of the jam and voting period so everyone can see and rate it. 
  • After the jam, whatever you make is yours to sell—you can charge for anything you make that's compatible with FIST, you don't need permission. 
  • FIST is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. You can get the game here: https://claymorerpgs.itch.io/fist. Also, if you've ever supported an itch charity bundle, you likely already have FIST! 
  • The FIST compatibility mark (and an itch.io thumbnail template with the mark included) can be downloaded here: https://claymorerpgs.itch.io/fist-homebrew-resources. You don't have to use this compatibility mark, it's just there if you want to! This link also contains all the source files for every FIST Ultra release and a list of fonts used in the books.
  • You can join the FIST Discord server here: https://discord.gg/4jPNPyfq7c

After the jam is over, everyone who submitted a project will be able to vote for their favorite entry. Each entry can be rated separately for STYLE and SUBSTANCE. Even though it's itch.io etiquette to gives games you like a 5-star rating for that sweet algorithmic boost, rate honestly when voting for jams! 1 star is awful, 5 stars is amazing, and 3 is perfectly neutral. The voting period lasts from 6/5/26 to 6/12/26.

The winner of the jam will receive a physical copy of FIST: Supply Drop, our upcoming core rules expansion! We'll reach out to the winner for a mailing address and send your prize along as promptly as we can.

Thanks for reading and we hope to see your project in the jam!

All the best,
CLAYMORE