In September 2022 we presented two offers featuring Infinity, the Modiphius Entertainment 2d20 SFRPG of adventure in the Human Sphere and beyond. We revived the December 2019 Infinity RPG Bundle along with an all-new companion, Infinity Factions.
Based on the Corvus Belli miniatures skirmish game, the Infinity RPG line is about spacefaring adventures in the style of Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, and Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon. Infinity tells a vast story of conspiracy, war, and spacefaring adventure on a dozen planets controlled by ten squabbling factions. Infinity is about covert ops and flash conflicts – dronebots, hellfire cybersystems, and super-soldiers in TAG exoskeletons – quantronics and domotics and the interstellar Maya network. Pirates cruise the shattered planetoids of Human Edge; scientists delve the oceans of Varuna; war correspondents duck gunfire in the twisted emerald jungles of Paradiso; bounty hunters pursue rogue AIs through Nomad motherships; and hypercorps struggle for dominance in the chrome towers of Neoterra. Bodies are transhuman; memories are recorded in quantronic Cubes and hosted in artificial Lhosts. ALEPH, humanity’s first true Artificial Intelligence, promises either the great hope of civilization, its greatest existential crisis, or both. And from beyond the Human Sphere, the alien Combined Army has invaded, threatening to destroy everything.
Infinity player characters are high-tech agents of Bureau Noir, the secret service of law enforcement agency O-12. Bureau duties take agents everywhere in the Human Sphere. Theoretically Bureau Noir, like O-12 itself, is neutral, its agents impartial and unaligned. In reality the Human Sphere is wracked with factions, and every PC belongs to one. Their loyalties are divided and their personal agendas hidden. The game calls this the “Wilderness of Mirrors.” Infinity scenarios present multiple faction goals as sources of complications and dramatic tension. The gamemaster sets a “paranoia level” (Loyal Agents, Faction United, Diplomatic Immunity, or Deep Cover) to adjust the severity of intra-party conflicts.
Infinity was among the first Modiphius games to adapt its 2d20 house system introduced in Mutant Chronicles 3E, and later seen in Conan, Star Trek Adventures, and John Carter of Mars. In task resolution you roll two d20s, aiming to roll low on each die; low rolls score successes. Tasks require a specified number of successes, and extra successes become Momentum, which you can spend for advantageous effects. Characters can push their luck, rolling extra d20s to boost their chances of success and the Momentum they generate. Each extra d20 comes from the character’s resources, such as talents and items – or it adds to a pool of Heat that represents potential threats. The GM can spend Heat to complicate adventures and make the characters’ lives interesting.
INFINITY RPG [from Dec 2019]
This revived December 2019 Infinity RPG Bundle had the core rulebook and early supplements. If you’re new to the game, start with these books.
There were three titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $49), including the complete 528-page Infinity RPG Core Book, the scenario collection Adventures in the Human Sphere, and the GM Screen with its Code Infinity mini-adventure.
Those who paid more than this revived offer’s threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Bonus Collection with four more supplements worth an additional $40, including the Gamemaster’s Guide, the faction sourcebooks Ariadna and Haqqislam, and the campaign adventure Quantronic Heat.
INFINITY FACTIONS [all-new]
This all-new Infinity Factions companion offer added recent Infinity sourcebooks that let you play mercenaries, Nomads on colossal Motherships, weird Tohaa conquerors, and even the Borg-like assimilating alien invaders called the Combined Army.
There were five titles in this offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $57) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the faction sourcebooks PanOceania and Yu Jing, the location guide Paradiso, and the campaign adventures Shadow Affairs and Cost of Greed.
This offer’s Bonus Collection added five more sourcebooks worth an additional $59, including Mercenaries, Combined Army, ALEPH, Nomads, and Tohaa.
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) of these two Infinity RPG offers went to the not-for-profit initiative co-founded by Modiphius Entertainment owner Chris Birch, RollVsEvil. RollVsEvil lets gaming communities do what they love (play games) while supporting frontline charitable efforts working directly toward verifiable immediate results.
