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Metagene is a fast-playing, rules-light roleplaying game of heroes and villains! With random and point-based character creation, rules for investigation and combat, and a built-in setting, Metagene has everything you need to leap right into the action!

  • Four Attributes: Aura, Body, Brains, and Move, rated from -2 to +a bunch.
  • Hero Types give you an origin and a special ability. Is your hero Athletic, Witty, or Grim? Or are they Scrappy, a Celebrity, or a Reformed Villain?
  • Origins provide some guidance for what powers you have. Battlesuited, Freaks, Mystics, Gadget-Mongers, even Sidekicks and Normals.
  • Freeform Skills. Spend a Vigor point if you want to use a Skill in combat. A lengthy, random sample skill list is included.
  • Task Resolution is 2d12 +Attribute, +Skill if you spend that point of Vigor.
  • Spend Maneuver Points from Powers to get additional, dynamic bonuses to hit, dodge, and initiative.
  • Powers and Skills are rated Amateur, Trained, Veteran, Global, or Cosmic.
  • Includes seven sample Heroes, and seven Villains!
  • Art by Gennifer Bone, Khairul Hisham, Alex Mayo, and Elijah Brubaker!


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Buy Now$4.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

metagene_v0-4L_screen_cover.pdf 5.3 MB

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Is this the "heir" to Invulnerable, or just another, parallel system?

This is a different system, with the same setting. Thanks for asking!