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Reply To: Infinity Roleplaying Game, What to Buy?

September 25, 2019 at 12:39 pm #1439766

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The Core book has an awful lot of information in there, so my first thought was that it’s everything you need to get started, book-wise. If you know from playing the skirmish game or from initial reading that there’s a faction or planet you’re going to want to focus on, then I’d get the faction book for that if it’s available.

I would recommend the dice set, or at least a set of combat dice. These are D6s, but some of the faces don’t represent their numeric value, so while you don’t need them, they will take some of the extra thinking out of it. The Hit Location dice is pretty cool too. Combat Dice from Star Wars Adventures or Conan will work just as well, if not necessarily cosmetically right for the game.

Note that the Player’s Guide is basically just information from the core rulebook in a smaller/cheaper form. That doesn’t make it a bad thing to get, especially if you have a larger group and only one core rulebook between you, but I always think it’s worth highlighting that so you know what you’re getting.

The character sheet pads are available to retailers that Kickstarted it, for my shame I’ve not got ours photographed and on the webstore yet, but you should be able to find them. Note that there is a really good online character builder too, at http://infinity.modiphiusapps.hostinguk.org/.