Questions answered

What is this?
Arch Inverted RPG is a free, "pen and paper" role playing game project. Accent: It is not a crpg (computer role playing game).

What is it about?
Well, Arch Inverted is a game about Fencers in Worldmachine. Players take role of powerful beings (Fencers) that live on artificial world, Arche (also called Worldmachine), and who battle other Fencers and monsters, while trying to gather even more power by unlocking the secrets of this world.

So it's a fighting game?
Yes, it is a fighting game. While any other kind of story can be successfully created while playing Arch Inverted, its mechanics best supports 1 on 1 fighting oriented adventures.

How do you play Arch Inverted?
Old fashioned way. One of the players, Game Master, prepares a scenario, and then, during the game session other players roleplay their Fencers through this adventure. You will need some friends, sourcebook, character sheets and some 6 sided dice. And a pencil. And a lot of imagination.

What is the genre of Arch Inverted? It sure looks weird...
The genre is a refreshing mix of science fiction and fantasy, seasoned with some tribal, punk and urban accents. Each part of this mixture is easy recognizable. The background of the story - artificial world created by some powerful race, after the last Universe was extinguished points at the sf part, while the methods of interaction between players and the world are classic fantasy kinds, like swordplay and magical Powers.

We, not very modest people, like to think, that Arch Inverted is it's own, original genre we named "hyper fantasy". But you don't have to agree with us at all. Sometimes we ourselves don't.

How big is the setting?
Huge.
While we all hate history and politics, we just adore creating new places, powers, creatures and stories. So, while low on historical dates, and political details, the world of Arch Inverted is very, very rich.

What game mechanics does this game use?
Our own Soul6 engine, designed specially for Arch Inverted. Though we may use it in our future projects too. It's based on 6 sided dice. Typical roll is: Attribute + skill + 1 die.
Soul6 supports Action Points based fighting mechanics and has original approach to main attributes.

What inspired this game?
Oh, it's a looong list this one... Here are the most important works, in random order:

Frank Herbert’s Dune, Albion PC game by Blue Byte, Jeff Noon’s Vurt, Nihei Tsutomu’s BLAME!, John Varley’s Titan, Star Wars Expanded Universe, Heavy Metal adult fantasy comic magazine, Marvel’s X-Men comic books, Planescape, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fallout PC game, Nine Inch Nails music...

And many, many more.

X-men? Seriously now...
Yes, we had a lot of inspiration from Marvel super-hero comics. If you think it's weird to design a science-fantasy game inspired by super-hero comic books, you don't know us yet.

Is Arch Inverted an INDIE RPG game? (Independent role playing game)
This is a tough question. As I hold control over every tiniest part of the game, and no corporation is ever going to sell it, I would say it is INDIE.
But some define INDIE RPGs as ones that are not "mainstream". And we would love Arch Inverted to become mainstream when it's done. So we don't know the answer to that question.

When will this game be ready?
I don't know.
It can take a year to finish this, or three years. Or six months. Or sixteen. We don't know, and we would like to use our priviledge, as authors/owners/distributors of this game, and not setting a final deadline for ourselves.

We are working hard on this game, and we will give it to you, when it will be ready, and tested.

How do you want to distribute Arch Inverted when it's out?
In three forms:

• Screen-friendly Pdf file in color featuring beautifull illustrations by the best concept artists
  
• Black & white print-friendly version, with it's own graphics
  
• Flash-based Online Sourcebook

We will probably launch first two versions sooner than the last one.

When will I get a playable Demo?
Very soon. It should be a matter of 2-3 months, when I'm writing this.

For more questions and answers, download our Arch Inverted Showoff, a not-playable teaser of the game.

Well, Arch Inverted is a game about Fencers in Worldmachine. Players take role of powerful beings (Fencers) that live on artificial world, Arche (also called Worldmachine), and who battle other Fencers and monsters, while trying to gather even more power by unlocking the secrets of this world.




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