S P L I N T E R is the first tabletop RPG by End Transmission Games.
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“The year is 2471 and Games Corp controls the world.

Nations, boundaries, and governments are a thing of the past, an obsolete irrelevancy. The Game is what holds the world’s disparate cultures together as one people. The Game combines every nation’s penal system, professional sports leagues, and media entertainment into one tremendous chimera of an organization, part ruling body, part cultural phenomenon. A few fortunate (or extremely unlucky) thousands actually play the Game. These range from convicted criminals trying desperately to win their own freedom (and in 99 out of 100 cases, they die trying) to the elite caste of Players, who are genetically engineered from birth and who spend their entire lives training in ultra-competitive academies. 

You are one such Player; a conscript struggling to survive, or a highly trained gladiator bound for glory.

The Game’s board is the largest and deepest ever created: The Splinter. It takes the form of an enormous megastructure, an ecumenopolis or Dyson sphere; a dungeon a hundred, thousand, or million times the size of the Earth.  The game’s world is constantly changing. The Game’s rooms, zones, structures, levels, and areas constantly shift at varying rates. While the majority of the Splinter’s architecture resembles a vast and incredibly intricate medieval dungeon labyrinth, everything from decaying and condemned shopping malls to glistening steel superstructures can be found within its expanse. The inhabitants of the game—and the Avatars taken on by the Players—are equally strange, radical evolutionary sports that went down paths of development that humanity never dreamed of. All of them have the ability to spontaneously shape change, and the magic-like power to Tune; to reflexively or intentionally change reality in the Splinter through will alone. 

Your Player inhabits one such Avatar—a shape changing demigod, uniquely outfitted for survival and asskicking in one of the deadliest and most bizarre environments ever conceived.

The Game is a virtual reality construct. The Players plug in first-hand, and can control the action. Those who succeed are the world’s rockstars, athletes, and media darlings. Those who fail bleed out in the chair and are forgotten when tomorrow’s fans rise. The richest viewers can plug into VR right in the studio, seeing, hearing, and feeling everything the Players experience. The rest of the world watches their favorite Players glued to their holograph sets. The best games are recorded, the recordings endlessly played and replayed. The Game is not fixed. It is real. Even the death. Who could ever look away?

This is the Splinter. This is the Game. Will you be a star or a smear on someone else’s highlight reel?”

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