Your story begins here

Everything has gone to hell. We've lost the internet, public services, electricity—and clean water has become a rare commodity. Something strange happened thirty years ago, and ever since, some crazy things have entered our world. Monsters, like giant lizards the size of cars, roam the streets and devour people. Massive spider-like creatures, taller than buildings, suddenly appeared in city centers.

These monsters aren't from another planet, but they’re definitely alien to our world. Red vines now crawl across the land, infecting everything and everyone they touch. All this chaos somehow found a way into our reality.

We’re no longer at the top of the food chain. We live in shelters and fortified hideouts, using weapons to defend ourselves. Traveling is incredibly dangerous, and bullets are more valuable than money or gold. Humanity shows its best—but also its worst—every single day.

The world has become a nightmare. Monsters run rampant, hunting us relentlessly. Cities have turned into abandoned ruins, now overgrown with lush vegetation. Resources are scarce, and scavenging is essential for survival.

Something has awakened in a few of us. A rare minority has developed strange and incredible abilities, blurring the line between humanity and the monstrosities that now walk among us.

And one last thing, don’t stay too long in the Glare 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.

Source of Power

Characters in Antagonists have access to powers from a supernatural source. It's like a class or an archetype but more twisted.

Black WidowChild of GaiaChupacabra’s SpawnClairtangentCreeperFlesh CrafterMorticianPrimalistPuppeteerSirenSpiritboundSuccubusTricksterUnstainedWerebeastWorlds Walker

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.

Beta Version 5

Free Rule Book
Antagonists Beta v0.5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 340.34MB
Antagonists Beta v0.5.0 Hi-Rez
Sep 1, 2025, 1036.82MB

Rulebook

The Core Rulebook with more than 650 pages with everything you need to play Antagonists. It's still a beta version but it's free to download.
  • 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 17 skills.
  • The 15 sources of powers, 29 masteries and specializations and more than 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 you will be able to use for your game. This time, it's the province of Quebec in the Canada with more than 40 factions and their leaders fighting each other.
  • More than 65 monsters and all the possible features for those creatures.

Next Version

We continuously work on Antagonists and release the following Work in Progress version. This version has new rules and stuff but it’s possible that this version has some unfinished sections and incoherences in the rules with some sections still referring to old rules.

Antagonists (Beta v0.5.1)
Sep 1, 2025

What's New

  • Minor fixes to the book
Full Change Log

In Progress

We still need to fix some stuff before this version become the "stable" version. We will probably add other stuff on the side but here are what we are working on:
  • Review of everything to be ready for the next playtest
Use the Contact Us form below if you have suggestions to add to this version.

Sheets

Character Sheet
Character Sheet v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 0.98MB
Character Sheet Editable
Character Sheet Editable v3.27
Dec 16, 2024, 3.45MB
Crew Sheet
Crew Sheet v5.0
Jun 12, 2025, 0.09MB
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 v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 13.83MB
Crew Creation
Crew Creation v1.1
Oct 16, 2024, 0.06MB
Improvement
Improvement v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 1.28MB
Rules Cheat Sheet
Rules Cheat Sheet v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 1.29MB
Test Chart
Test Chart v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 2.47MB
Combat Chart
Combat Chart v5.0
Sep 1, 2025, 5.04MB

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

Story

No Rest for the Wicked
No Rest for the Wicked v1.0
May 29, 2025, 23.2MB

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 30 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