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Do you remember the monster behind the closet? The dragon soars through the sky in your grandma fairy tale, A mermaid once sang the sailor to his doom, Giant wolf in the story once told, and mysterious being like bigfoot that nobody can prove if it was real or not.

What if I tell you that it’s all real?

What if I told you that there’s a game that let you be one of them?

And that game is

Beast: the Primordial.

What is Beast: the Primordial?

Beast: the Primordial is a Tabletop Role-playing game. The game set place in the world of Chronicles of Darkness. The world that looks like us but darker with a lot of monster running around, vampire, werewolf, demon, fairy, mummy and so on (You get the picture, right?)

In this game, you’ll play as Beast. A human being with a soul of all monster from tale and legend inside. Once a normal human with a soul you connected to a place calls Primordial Dream, a dimension created from collective fears of humanity. Since you were a child you always dream of something horrible something wrong that you can’t find the answer yourself. And in your last dream after many nights of nightmares, your soul got devoured by the horror, replacing a human soul with your true self and become a Beast.

With the horror soul set inside your body, you can wield its power at will. You can breathe fire, fly, sing a song so beautiful it can lure any man, or even throwing a truck at people because you’re a giant and you feel like it.

You can create lair, a private sanctum inside the Primordial Dream a place where you can shred your human body and become your true self.

Beast in this game is combined with two things.

First, are the five families of a nightmare they gave upon humanity.

1. Anakim -> The nightmares of hopelessness
2. Eshmaki -> The nightmares of darkness
3. Makara -> The nightmares of the depths
4. Namtaru -> The nightmares of revulsion
5. Ugallu -> The nightmares of exposure

Second, are the hunger and the thing that the beast hunt to satisfy itself.

1. Tyrants -> Hunger for power
2. Collectors -> Hunger for the hoard
3. Predators -> Hunger for prey
4. Nemeses -> Hunger for punishment
5. Ravagers -> Hunger for ruin

With five families and five hunger above you can combine it into any monster you want for the example

1. Godzilla a giant monster of destruction = Nightmares of hopelessness + Hunger for ruin
2. Mermaid that lures sailor into his doom = Nightmares of the depths + Hunger for prey
3. Dragon that collects treasure = Nightmares of exposure + Hunger for hoard

 

 

 

The System

The game use Storytelling System like other game in Chronicles of Darkness. And because of that, you can use Beast: the Primordial to crossover with other game like Vampire: the Requiem, Werewolf: the Forgotten, Mage: the Awakening, etc.

The basic is that You create a dice pool of d10 from your ability and skill roll it all, count the dice with 8, 9, 10 as a success the more success you got the better. Sometimes you’ll have to roll and compare your success to the opponent or maybe your dice pool got a bonus dice or lose some dice from penalty.

The system was fast and easy to understand with a little bit of time spent on. It also quite deadly for a normal human character but as a beast, your power is beyond normal. You can crush a skull in a single attack or tear off a human limb with your bare hand.

The book looking great the art still beauty and easier to read than most of the first edition.

 

Right now the game can only be bought from “HERE” in any format.