Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that my first mini-TTRPG PRIMORDIAL has just launched on Itch.io! Here's the pitch:

Survive at the Dawn of Time: Hunt, fight and evolve in PRIMORDIAL - a rules light, 3-page tabletop role-playing game for 2 or more players, focused on surviving on a primordial planet. You play as a group of ancient, microscopic creatures with a set of random mutations. As you journey through the world, you will grow in size, mutating further, until you establish yourselves as the dominant species on the planet - or die trying. Start at the size of an amoeba. End at the size of a tyrannosaurus rex.

Gameplay and Combat: Randomly roll up mutations for your microscopic Primordial - do they have a sturdy shell, bulbous eyes, grasping tentacles, or something else? Once your mutations are in place, design your species, give them a gibberish scientific-sounding name and start your adventure. Will their mutations be enough to keep them safe in a world where almost everything wants to eat them? If not, there's always another species looking to take their place on the evolutionary ladder...

Nature is cruel and death is swift. Combat is fast paced and focused on contested rolls. Grab, bite, sting, dodge, spit acid and more in a combat system based on acting, reacting and keeping track of your stamina. Whenever you're in danger, choose your reaction wisely - a counterattack may lead to a swift victory, but be careful not to overextend yourself - run out of energy and you might find yourself powerless in the face of a deadly predator.

"Is this my kind of game?" Primordial is inspired by videogames like Spore, the one-page RPGs of Grant Howitt, and the weird and wonderful creatures of the natural world. With only 3 pages of rules (and another with some alternate themes), it's brief, to the point and easy to learn - even for newcomers to TTRPGs. It's a weird, off-the-wall concept for an RPG that really appealed to me, and I think it'd make for a great low-prep one-shot, or even a short campaign to give you and your players a taste of something new!

I'd love to hear what you all think of it, I had a blast creating it and I'm planning on releasing new content in the future if there's demand for it. I'd love to see what strange little critters people make in it too, so if you ever doodle, draw or sculpt your own Primordial, please send it my way :)