Adventure Report Mini: Sag River Extreme Cold Research Facility, Alaska – First FIST, then Violence
Session #1 System: FIST Adventure: Sag River Cold Research Facility, Alaska Players: Brendan, Dowens GM: Me!!! Session Length: 3h ish First Thing’s FIST The first time I ran this scenario, and I decided to use FIST. Inspired as I was by Onslaught Six’s podcast epidode of it on YouTube , and having recently purchased FIST but having no opportunity to play it yet, I wanted to give it a whirl. The rules are straightforward, it’s a 2d6-with-mixed-success type of deal. I’ve spoken before somewhere (I can’t remember if I said it on this blog or not, it’s been a while) that I’m not generally a fan of the forced drawback thing that you get with mixed success systems. I much prefer to make a ruling in the moment based on what makes sense , rather than be beholden to the “oh, you rolled a 7, so you manage to do the thing but you trip over your shoelaces while doing it” bullshit-loop that you can sometimes fall into with those systems. But at the same time, I’m not gonna be a pighea...