This is a jam for Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, a free version of the original role-playing game, published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Although it functions on one hand as a "retroclone", what distinguishes it from other versions is its unwillingness to compromise the confusing and fractal nature of the text, as well as its willingness to criticize that text and its authors. This culminates in a project to situate the original role-playing game within its socio-historical context, to illuminate the perspectives of its original authors and also reveal the extent to which the text is distorted by our own perspectives. It is neither traditional nor old-school nor war-game, and yet here we all are merely grasping the legs of this elephant.

As for this ball, the category is ICON0CLASM. Most readers and players of the original role-playing game, even in the form of FMC, attempt to envision and emulate the game as it was originally played. Resorting to cliché and pastiche, their visions are both generic and ultimately derivative of their own notions. This jam challenges you instead to make something novel; to deface the memory of this text with concepts untenable to the Gygaxian imagination; to resurrect this corpse into a new body.