Review of Infinibrix, a building block and minifig TTRPG!
Note: This review is completed based on a playtest of the near-completed game, but it does reflect the story, mechanics, ect from a prototype. The final game may have some slight differences from the version described here.
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Target audience for Infinibrix
Infinibrix by Luck of Legends is made for all ages and is a great game for kids and grown ups alike.
You’ll be using building bricks to make your characters and impact the game as you play, so if you and your players like building brick toys, the whole basis of this game is playing with those in a way that facilitates a story and has game mechanics. If you like building brick toys, you will probably like this game.
Mechanics require players to count up a dice pool and compare each die to a result criteria, so there’s no complex math or big modifiers that would be a significant barrier to those still learning math. For reading requirements, players will need to be able to read short sentences or blurbs about their character on their character sheet (this is maybe equivalent to K-1st grade early reader book) or get help from another player or facilitator to assist. The core rules are easy to pick up on the first round or so to play without requiring a look up in the core book, so the general flow of mechanics fits the all-ages audience as well.
Setting for Infinibrix
Infinibrix is set in a world full of building bricks and imagination!
You’ll be bouncing between your home base (which grows as you collect gear and open portals during your missions) and pocket dimensions that you must save from imminent danger!
These pocket dimensions are formed through a combination of ad lib style prompts and arena scenarios that build the scene and create challenges for players to overcome… and you get some pretty awesome results from this.
In the game that I played in, we ended up in a world with a cranberry juice volcano, sock-clad saxophone playing villagers, and exploding spiders! Within the volcano, we faced off with corrupted volcano monks (that the players built with extra character parts) who were now fighting for The Grey (the previously mentioned imminent danger) and a giant clawed creature set on stopping us!
With players having input on the scene, even if they don’t know what exactly they are influencing, and being able to build the baddies, it’s a great way to give everyone ownership… and to make a totally unique adventure each time you play with almost no planning by the facilitator.
Your character in Infinibrix
In Infinibrix, you build your character from the minifig parts you have at your disposal first, decking them out with some cool gear and attitude, then fill in your character sheet to match and expand on them.
Your character sheet elements can be anything, so long as you have some way of tying it back to your physical minifig that you created. These elements will then help you create your dice pool for facing challenges during gameplay.
For my character, I gave them a funky snake head, a guitar, flowers, and what I thought looked like an old timey soda jerk outfit. From there, I added different elements pertaining to their build (like being a guitarist and having a magical pet flower), and those became my storytelling tools for later!
This was one of the most fun character creation processes I’ve come across, I think because you need to actually build the character. Everyone in the game (all adults) seemed pretty into digging through the box of parts, and we had a pretty good laugh at how we were spinning some of our character builds.
Mechanics in Infinibrix
Inifinibrix relies primarily on a dice pool that’s generated from the story elements that you are using in a particular scene – the more story points you can connect to your action, the more dice you’ll be able to get.
Depending on what type of situation you’re in (story mode or arena mode), you’ll roll to see how many successes you get versus the difficulty of the event you’re facing OR versus an opponent’s roll. If you hit the criteria, you’ll pass the challenge or do damage to an opponent! If you don’t, you may take damage or may need to try something else.
That’s the core, and it’s pretty easy to get, especially after one initial scene to try it out.
From there, you also have options to use extra successes for some awesome bonuses (like helping a friend on their next roll) and have the chance of getting an epic exploding dice pool on a tie in arena mode. You also have a resource pool of Spark, which is your character’s special creative power that lets them do amazing things, like summoning a croissant from across the room and using it to whack all the baddies it hits along the way! This gives you some great bonuses in times of need to boost your rolls and have some particularly epic scenes.
Overall thoughts on Infinibrix
Infinibrix is easy to dive into and a joy to play. It rewards creativity and teamwork, gives players ownership of the game, and puts a new spin on how you can reuse building bricks and minifigs. I had fun playing it, and I’m excited to try it out with kiddo soon since I know they’ll love this as well!
Find a copy of Infinibrix
Infinibrix is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter; you can visit the page here to support the project!
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