Jeremy P. Bushnell conceived of the game, and made basically all of it not attributed to someone else elsewhere, including this text. He made this iteration of Inevitable by using a bunch of badly outdated software: PageMaker 7.0, Photoshop 7.0, and Illustrator 8.0. He uses Pigma pens and prefers sketchpads made by Michael Rogers Press.

 

Jonathan A. Leistiko made the second working Inevitable set, and playtested the game through its early iterations, designing many of the Groups and mechanics. Every rule in this rulebook that didn’t originate with him was either refined by or discussed with him.

 

Crystal Joseph Olesh contributed immeasurably to the visual look-and-feel of Inevitable, designing or refining every single physical component. In addition, she designed the “Buy Friends” mechanic and helped troubleshoot the Rent-A-Bureaucracy. The Apocalypse Timeline was her idea and many of its entries are her contributions. She named the Adrenaline Junkies, wrote their flavor text, and did fashion research for their illustration. She also wrote the flavor text for the Famous International Playboys, helped name the Special Abilities of the Ninjas, and performed general pandemonium control.

 

Lex Terenchin has drawn the money for at least three different iterations of Inevitable. He drew the Clone Police Flavor Art that runs through this manual, the back of the FATE cards, the Apocalypse Cloud on the front of the box, the Sewer square, the Chainsaw, the Nest of Hornets, and the Tasteful Plaster Dalmatian.

Amy L Clark wrote the first draft of the Paparazzi flavor text, helped design the Combat Workspaces, and contributed the slogan for the Mandatory Winter Holiday.

 

Sharon Cichelli designed the Leaping mechanic for the Post-Apocalyptic Beasts.

 

Tom McCarthy contributed some FATE Card mechanics.

 

Bill O’Neill generated the name Inevitable for a project of his own: a proposed short film about love and nuclear holocaust. I basically stole the title from him and am not sure I ever properly thanked him.

Christopher Takacs created several FATE cards, Groups, and Catalog items (although most of them are not in the core set). He was tremendously influential in the creation of two-player variant rules, and contributed (literally) hundreds of hours of playtesting. He also coined the phrase, "When in doubt, screw the player."

Rich Thomas contributed to the first working Inevitable board, which was drawn in pen on posterboard at his parents’ dining room table. He also contributed the mechanics for the “Catch A Cold” card.

Jeremy Coonradt

Matthew Dixon

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Jonah Erikson, Susan Milligan, and Lord Sluk.

Rachael Acks, The Amazings, Adam Bain, Paul Bort, Carson Dylan Brown, Dave Burchill, Shannon D. Bushnell, Kimberly Lynn Campbell, Matt Canale, Peter Carey, Kris Chickey, Joshua Christain, Joe Cool, Saint Dogbert, Kate Drefke, Carlos Finlay, Dax Finley, Dave "Elder5" Freireich, Christopher Fritel, Cliff Fuller, Anand "Would this make a good mustache?" Gaitonde, Ben Gibbs, Herbert Elwood Gilliland III, Cara Gillotti, gpsychosis, Ben Griffiths, A. K. Hamilton, Tony Hauber, Michael Haydel, Erica P. Johnson, Nick Jowdy, Theresa Kelch, Sam Kendig, Kyle Kohler, Keith Koleno, Alec Koumjian, Andrew Laine, Jonathan H. Liu, Edwin Love, Penelope Marvel, Jeffrey Maslany, Bryan Mellott, Jason Mical, Kevin Miller, Aaron M Nessim, Johan Nordberg, Mangus Nyberg, Spencer Kahn Olson, Thomas Palmer, C Matt Pappathan, Zac Parsons, James Price, Ben Prisament, Ross Ramsay, Joy Reed & Nancy Pokrywka, Mr. Rooz, Solon Sadoway, Dana Sheikholeslami, Louis Silverman, Gabe Smedresman, Christopher "Chunga" Smith, Nicholas H Smith, Matt Spindler, Justin Steinhouse, Jake and Jen Sulpice, Frank Swehosky, Carlton Swift, Paul “Ducky” Tenk, Lex Terenchin, Patrick Terenchin, Nissanthen Thiruravichandran, Kilgore Trout, April Walker, Rich Walkling, Donald Wheeler, Brandon and Aimy Wiley, Highland Wolland, and Patrick "Indigo Ferret" Wyrick.

 

Each of you should know that you completely made our day.

Lisa Butler, Craig Jewell, and Heather Truelove.

Rev. Ivan Stang gave us permission to use the trademarked J.R. “Bob” Dobbs head.

 

Janice gave us permission to use her likeness for the Makers picture.

 

Chaosium gave us permission to use H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in a game.

 

And this project would not have been possible without the immeasurable support of Kat McLellan, the Ben and Gregory Teich Home for Wayward Adults, the Endowment for Unexceptional Humans, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, Kickstarter.com, and Ed Grabianowski and Analee Newitz (io9.com).