FIST ULTRA TRAIT RANDOM GENERATOR

Are 216 traits in FIST: Ultra Edition not enough for you?

The dozens if not hundreds of traits located across a variety of third-party supplements for FIST insufficient for your needs?

Jealous of everyone in the FIST discord server posting cool traits?

Searching for a bit of extra random chaos for your game?

GOOD NEWS! YOUR SEARCH IS OVER! LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE

WHAT THIS IS

A form-fillable PDF that will give you the raw material to create an ULTRA TRAIT, which is like a normal trait for your FIST characters, except ULTRA.

There are over 114 TRILLION unique possibilities before you even have to put any creativity of your own into it. That's a whole lot, folks.

Grab a d4, a couple d6s, and a d8 (or use an online dice roller I guess), follow the instructions, fill in the boxes, then put your imagination to work.

HAVE SOME EXAMPLES

I put in 3 sample ULTRA TRAITS in the doc, both to fill some whitespace and to help spur some inspiration. Here's one of them:

TRAPPERKEEPER. The arms wing of Lisa Frank R&D has done it again. This combo vest and SMG uses nets to both protect your torso and to shoot at enemies, keeping them in place. Once, you can spend 1 WAR DIE to gain +1 ARMOR for every rooted enemy..
- net-shooting uzi (1d6-1 damage, hit targets can't move), net vest (+1 ARMOR), -1 TAC

Here's what I rolled up to get this one:

• Flavor: 72 - over-engineered
• Ability: frequency 7 - X per mission (12 - once ever), cost 3 - spend a WD to, kind 7 - boost something you can do this turn, effect equivalent 8 - ±1D6/±1
• What it gives you: 18 - 2 item, 1 stat
  • Stat: 3 - attribute, 2 - -2, 2 - TACTICAL
  • Item 1: 5 - weapon
    • Size: 3 - light: 1D6 DAMAGE
    • Type: 4 - ranged coverage
    • Tag: 25 - no tag
    • Weirdness: 7 - root: -1 DAMAGE, target can't move
  • Item 2: 11 - armor
    • Modifier: 8 - +1
    • Body part: 4 - torso
• Ultra Tokens: 1
  • Spent 1 to add 1 to tthe roll I made on the attribute modifier table, making it only -1 TAC

Rolling a weirdness for a weapon only happens half the time you get a weapon, so I leaned into that. I tried to think about how "root" could apply to both a ranged coverage weapon and an armor bonus. My first thought was vines, but since my flavor keyword was "over-engineered" I went for a rapid-fire net launcher that was also connected to an armor piece, figuring you could use the extra nets that will become bullets as armor. From there, the ability came easily enough, spending a WD to give me +1 to the armor for each enemy I'd hit with a net.

TIPS AND TRICKS

I tried to make the PDF as intuitive to use as possible. That said, I'm sure there are some places where I know what I mean, but you might not. I'll try to anticipate some of those, but if more arise, leave a comment.

On p.4, the "effect equivalent" tables might be hard to parse. The idea here is that if the target of your ability's effect would alter a roll (to do an action, deal damage, etc.), then you'd use the "ROLL EQUIVALENT" column. Use the other one if you're adjusting ARMOR, HP, or WAR DICE.

No, that's not a typo on p.5 - if lucky enough, you can end up with 3 stat adjustments if you roll 4-8 or 20-24 on the "ROLL FOR" table and then you roll a 6 on the "STAT TYPE" table. If that happens - again, lucky you! - there is no space to put a third stat increase, so just type two into one of the boxes. The form will keep track for you.

When it comes to building your item(s), the first thing you should do is check the radio button next to the type of item it is. So if your item category roll is an 8, before you start typing your results in the blue box in the ULTRA BAR, check the button in that box's header. When you choose one of those radio buttons, it will disable the fields for the other categories of items for that item.

If you've downloaded and read through CRAVAT, you'll notice that 7 of the weirdnesses for the weapons are from that. Good eye!

It helps when you're spending ULTRA TOKENS to go back to the pages where you checked those boxes, and uncheck them as you adjust your rolls, results, or take your pity +1 WAR DICE. When you adjust those rolls and results, you can just type the new info right into the boxes so it'll show up on the last page.

If for some reason what you type in a results box doesn't show up on the last page, try hitting the tab key or check then uncheck an ULTRA TOKEN? box.