Your story begins here

Everything has gone down to hell. We have lost the Internet, public services, electricity and clean water is now a rare commodity. Something very strange happened and some crazy shits enters our world 30 years ago. Monsters like big lizards the size of a car started walking on the streets and eating people. Giant spider-like creatures taller than a building suddenly appeared in the middle of cities. Those monsters are alien to our world but they are not from another planet. There is also this red vines crawling everywhere and infecting people. All those craps just found a way to enter our world.

We are not at the top of the food chain anymore. We live in shelters and fortified hideouts using weapons to defend ourself. Traveling is very dangerous and bullets are now way more valuable than money and gold. Humanity show is best but also is worst every day.

The world is now a very dangerous place with nightmarish monsters running everywhere and hunting us. Cities and building are now abandoned ruins covered by luxurious grass and trees. Resources are now sparse and scavenging is a necessity to survive.

Something as awaked in some of us and a minority of people can do incredible things that thinner the line between humanity and the monstrosity that now live among us.

And one last thing, don’t stay too long in the Gloom or it will eat you alive.

Eve, September 10, Year 30

What is Antagonists

Antagonists is a free tabletop role-playing game about surviving in a modern world full of monstrosities and strange powers. You will play as a survivor who struggle against the unknown on an earth invaded by large monsters, corruption and humanity's lowest instinct.

Malevolent entities as come to our own world, granting power to some chosen one and using them in a grim machination. You are one of them.

The System

  • Narrated Character Generation: The description of your character reflect their statistics and not the other way around. You can almost create your character without the rule book. The character’s creation process also build your character’s story.
  • Risk and Reward: The game is based on a risk versus reward system. Numbers and statistics will not limit your character, it’s how much you want to risk that will limit you.
  • Balanced Narrative: Good balance between the narrative and the numbers at all levels. The rules only exist to help you at role playing.
  • Reversible Dice Rolling: Players can roll all the tests or the Game Master can do it, or they can split the work. Suspense determines who is rolling the test.
  • Fast but complex: A lot of options on downtime but no need to check the rules when role-playing. Combat is fast and simple but character customization is extensive.
  • Narrative Damage: The effects of the injuries are more important than the number of damage.
  • Clean Equipment Management: Scavenging and equipment management are balanced to be simple to manage but deep enough to take an important place in the system. Crafting is also easy and simple.
  • Game Master Support: Tons of information to help the Game Master to create their own stories, games and rules.
  • It’s Free: You can use, share and modify the game as you want.

The Setting

  • Modern: It’s our world with our technology but with some fantasy twists.
  • Exploration: Ruined buildings and abandoned locations can be explored like in dungeon crawlers. Fear the Gloom and the strange red vines.
  • Monsters: Horrifying and giant monsters are lurking in dark places and epic fights will happen.
  • Politics: Surviving factions battle each others and surviving require alliances and treacheries.
  • Loot: Working items can be rare but can be use to solve problems and extraordinary items grant great powers.
  • Powers: Your character has forbidden powers. Those are very powerful but are feared by everyone so use them at your own risk.

Beta Version

Free Rule Book
Antagonists (Lastest Online Beta)
May 4, 2025
Antagonists Beta v0.4.1
Jan 17, 2025, 314.3MB
Antagonists Beta v0.4.1 Hi-Rez
Jan 17, 2025, 831.1MB

Rulebook

The Core Rulebook with more than 550 pages with everything you need to play Antagonists. It's free to download or you can consult online.
  • What is Antagonists and how to start a game session or a campaign.
  • All the rules to create your character and crew.
  • All the informations about your character's 7 attributes and 20 skills.
  • The 15 sources of powers, 29 masteries and specializations and almost 250 powers.
  • All the rules to play the game and manage combats.
  • All the equipment and vehicules that your character will need to survive.
  • Everything that you need to create a hideout for your character and group.
  • All the mechanics to manage a game but also to create everything needed for a campaign and a lot of suggestions for the Game Master.
  • The first Exclusion Zone, a region that you will be able to use for your game. This time, it's the province of Quebec in the Canada.
  • 65 monsters and all the possible features for those creatures.

It's Free

Antagonists is free, homebrew, independant and created by gamers for gamers. You can use it, share it, build upon it and have fun and memorable game nights with it. You can even use it or part of it for other projects or systems as well. Take whatever you want but make sure to make the role playing world a better place for everyone. The only limit is that you have to say that part of your work is based on Antagonists and is not yours. You can do whatever you want with Antagonists but please never say it's yours. It can be as simple as putting the Antagonists’ logo somewhere and adding a little phrase that say that your work is based or inspired by Antagonists. We will not ask you for money.

Send us a message if you create something from Antagonists, we want to know more about it.

Sheets

Character Sheet
Character Sheet v3.32
Apr 28, 2025, 0.96MB
Character Sheet Editable
Character Sheet Editable v3.27
Dec 16, 2024, 3.45MB
Crew Sheet
Crew Sheet v1.6
Oct 16, 2024, 0.07MB
GameMaster Sheet
GameMaster Sheet v1.4
Oct 16, 2024, 0.83MB
Backpack Sheet
Backpack Sheet v1.5
Oct 16, 2024, 1.91MB
Personality Test
Personality Test v1.0
Oct 16, 2024, 2.9MB
Character Creation
Character Creation v1.16
Jan 19, 2025, 14.08MB
Crew Creation
Crew Creation v1.1
Oct 16, 2024, 0.06MB
Improvement
Improvement v1.8
Mar 15, 2025, 1.32MB
Rules Cheat Sheet
Rules Cheat Sheet v4.4
Apr 13, 2025, 0.13MB
Test Chart
Test Chart v1.7
Feb 5, 2025, 3.01MB
Combat Chart
Combat Chart v1.4
Apr 13, 2025, 3.82MB

Online Tools

Online Character Sheet
Online Character Sheet
Characters Vault
Characters Vault
Dice Roller
Dice Roller

Down with the Sickness

This document is a story for Antagonists. If you don’t plan to be a Game Master, don't download it.
  • A story to introduce players and Game Master to Antagonists.
  • A short story of about 24 pages.
  • Adventure, politics, combats, betrayal and hard choices.
A group of travelling scavengers are hiding from a large monster in a subway station. Many members of the group are sick and unable to move so escaping the monster is very risky without help. Some of the scavengers want to leave the sick one behind to save the rest of the group. What the protagonists will do?

Story

Down with the Sickness
Down With The Sickness v1.3
Feb 13, 2025, 42.77MB

Coming Soon!

No Rest for the Wicked
No Rest for the Wicked v1.0
Dec 31, 1969, 0MB

No Rest for the Wicked

This document is a story for Antagonists. If you don’t plan to be a Game Master, don't download it.
  • A story to introduce players and Game Master to Antagonists.
  • A short story of about 29 pages.
  • Heist, infiltration and combats.
The group is hired to steal a mysterious rabbit foot in a tower building made of staked containers inside of an old olympic stadium. Stealing the rabbit foot is the easy part, bringing it to the sponsor will be a harder.

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Team

Bon Vivant

CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jean-François Pelletier

COLLABORATIVE DESIGNERS
Annie Desrocher
François Labrie
Mickael Brunelle
Philippe Houle
Raphael Brunelle