Gwendolyn Clark is on to a good thing with a tabletop RPG called Infinite Revolution. It’s a game about hope. It’s a game with space battles and without spaceships.
The combatants are Revolvers with spirits that burn right and who battle the entropic predators called the Veil. The Kickstarter has shattered its funding goal, and you can see by how much on the pitch page.
The catch! Infinite Revolution has been published before and is still listed on Itch, but at $999 – don’t buy it! Gwendolyn explains that the Itch page is there just for people who have already bought the game to be able to download it again. Nevertheless, the Buy Now button terrifies me.
Equally, it’s the very fact that Infinite Revolution has had a previous edition that we have this Kickstarter. This campaign is to expand, enhance and improve the game.
Oh! And there’s a full colour and physical edition planned, too.
Inspiration for Infinite Revolution includes the computer game Destiny (look for the Ghost in the video), the anime Redline, Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster/Diebuster, Kamen Rider and even the Gila RPG Nova.
A tabletop RPG about hope in the face of entropy, breakneck battles in the void of space, and the brilliant burn of the human spirit, for 2-5 players and a GM. You and your friends play as Revolvers—humans whose spirits burn so hot, quick, and bright their atoms would flare to ash if for not an implanted paracausal turbine: the Revolver Drive. A race of entropic predators called the Veil have swallowed the stars, and they’re coming for the rest of your solar system next. It’s time to take it back—for yourself, for your loved ones, and for everyone back on Earth. They’re counting on you.
Backers contributing $25 or more will get the PDF as a thank you and some optional add-ons.
Those supporters who can step up to just $35 qualify for the physical book, as well, as a reward.
Stickers, a VTT asset pack and a foldable speed track board, are added, with more options, at $55.
Gwendolyn Clark estimates June 2024 for the PDF Infinite Revolution: Overdrive edition and May for the physical.
Wait until June or pay $999 for a legacy copy kept online as a courtesy? I’d wait! I’d back, not buy.
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