In the world of Axcel, there are significant dangers. It takes willing heroes, with amazing powers, to rise up and overcome the challenges that await.
Acceleration Paradigm is a Tabletop Role Playing Game (TTRPG) played among friends. Each game is made up of Player Characters (PCs) who play the game, a Game Master (GM) who runs the game for the PCs, dice, pens, paper, and imagination. In the world of Axcel, magic exists everywhere, but only the few harness it, and those that do unlock not only the secrets of magic, but of time.
Whether indirectly or directly, those who learn the ways of magic gain the ability to compress time, doing more in the moments between heartbeats. This element of magic is interwoven with it and is called Acceleration. As a player progresses, they gain the ability to do more powerful things more often.
Acceleration Paradigm is a cooperative game that is reliant on both the PCs and the GM to work together to tell a story. Often, the group will work through a campaign (the series of encounters and story arcs that typically make up a multi-session game of Acceleration Paradigm). Sometimes, a campaign ends abruptly when the PCs encounter an enemy that is just too powerful, and they fail to find a way to survive, resulting in their deaths. We call that a Total Player Kill (TPK). Many times, however, the PCs find a way and the campaign ends, usually in heroic fashion, with the players victorious, having vanquished a great evil, or freed a people. Whatever the outcome, however, it’s usually always a story that will remain a lasting memory.