Also listed on that Group Information Sheet are your Group’s starting Statistics.

 

The Statistics are Power, Intelligence, Influence, Income, and Stress. (The Group Information Sheets don’t list your starting Stress, because all Groups start with zero Stress.)

 

Take a Personal Data Form from the game’s supply of them² and copy the starting Statistics of your Group into the relevant spaces on the Form.

 

The three main Statistics are Power, Intelligence, and Influence. These will fluctuate during the game, and you’ll use the Form to keep track of them. The really central thing to know about them is that Power, Intelligence, and Influence are the Statistics that measure how well you’re doing in the game: the more points you have in these three categories, the better you’re doing, and the closer these Statistics are to zero (no Statistic can ever be below zero) the worse off you are. Therefore, you have two main goals within a game of Inevitable: improving your Statistics, and preventing your opponents from improving theirs.

 

We’ll provide more details about the Statistics, including Stress and Income, in “All About You,” the next section in these rules.

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Footnote 2: Don’t worry about using these up. You can download a free PDF of them through our online Catalog, at bit.ly/invtblctlg.