At every hour of every day on Sixaura, the soldiers of each empire are killed and reborn in an endless loop. Their dead bodies derezz, the bonds between their nanos dissolving—just in time for them to be reassembled elsewhere, fresh with the memory of death and ready to kill once again. These clone commandos do not die, do not rest, and do not age. They are duplicated forever, frozen in the same unchanging body, save a few occasional gene-edits from the top brass in order to optimize their killing potential. This is the only life they know. It is a meatgrinder without meat—a bloodbath without blood. And it is also, soldier, your life.
PLANET FIST is a Powered by the Apocalypse narrative wargame of satirical scifi skirmish storytelling and a hack of CLAYMORE's FIST, and winner of the SUBSTANCE award 🏆 in the FIST: Ultra Jam. It's a 60 8.5"x11"-page total conversion—you don't need the FIST book to play—with contributions from CLAYMORE, satah @sitcom, and Viktor Sych. It's also itchfunding additional content on itch.io here!
Set on the isolated planet of Sixaura, you're soldiers of one of the planet's three empires: the corporate libertarian New Committee, the fascist Tyrat Council, and the techno-supremacist Velian Ascendancy. They are locked in an endless war sustained by "nanos", microscopic robots that can be assembled into flesh itself. Through nanocloning, the empires of Sixaura have done away with the need for medical care, reproduction, and yes, even death. There is no longer any need for children, parents, homes, funerals, hospitals. There is only work. There is only war.
Yes, but what the hell is a "narrative wargame"?
If you're curious, there's only one way to find out: read it & play. There's also the other only way, which is to read the PRINCIPLES OF PLAY I've included as a screenshot above—they're PLANET FIST in a nutshell. You can also see the print character sheet made by the very same CLAYMORE who created FIST!
More info below the break!
Itchfunding
PLANET FIST is also itchfunding additional content, including:
$1000 - NEW MISSION & DOUBLE THE THREATS
I'll write a second mission to accompany the in-book battlemap, and I will double the number of unique THREATS—prepared NPC stat blocks that you can use for enemies and friendlies alike—including UNIQUE ENEMIES FOR EACH FACTION. Brainwashed corporate lapdogs, soulless operators, robotic Frankenstein AI monstrosities, and more, added to the base game.
$2000 - PLANET FIST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST SERIES
I'll referee for an ongoing West Marches-inspired PLANET FIST actual play podcast series, in which a huge cast of players share PCs from a whole platoon of randomly generated PLANET FIST characters on a persistent continent map.
$3000 - MORE MISSIONS WITH NEW BATTLEMAP
I'll commission a SECOND BATTLEMAP and write a PLANET FIST CAMPAIGN MODULE. The module will include THREE NEW MISSIONS on the new map, and a larger MULTI-MISSION ARC incorporating the map from the base game. This will be released as a separate module, but everyone who purchased PLANET FIST prior to its release will be granted a free code to claim a copy of the module!
$5000 - ?????
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During the itchfunder, you can purchas:
- A $30 community copy bundle to donate 10 copies to people who can't afford it
- A $100 tier that gives you a written thank you in the book and adds 50 community copies
Contributors
PLANET FIST also features contributions from:
satah @sitcom who edited, design consulted, and made the absolutely astounding digital character sheet you can copy from Google Sheets that has book content integrated, and automatically calculates your attributes, inventory, and everything else from prewritten dropdowns! It's one of the most impressive works of TTRPG spreadsheet wizardry I've ever seen.
Viktor Sych who illustrated this incredible battlemap for your group to play on!
20% off of this 3-5 satirical scifi TTRPG ends TODAY
plus, back today get the (funded) mission pack free when it releases!
back the itchfunder & get the game immediately here!
want to play a slapstick space marine being exploded & reassembled for a meaningless forever war, in a satirical setting that hates the war criminals orchestrating it?
this is the game for you!
like Starship Troopers (1997), Planetside 2, Battlefield: Bad Company, XCOM, or Warhammer 40k? wish that you could tell your own stories in them, or that they were actually appropriately critical of the subject material?
this is the game for you!
want to see what the hell i mean by a Powered by the Apocalypse narrative wargame?
this is probably the game for you!
also, i've reduced the price of acknowledgements from $100 -> $80! get your name alongside 7 others who will all receive special thanks in the post-itchfunder book for helping make the post-itchfunder edition happen, and add 50 free community copies to the pool for those who can't afford it!
