What is The Substratum Protocol?
A solo+ survival mystery TTRPG utilizing step-down dice and card draw mechanics, Substratum Protocol is playable as both a solo game or guided by a GM.
On their grueling journey to the center of the Earth, members of the Substratum Expedition will overcome challenges, gain clues and knowledge of the anomaly, discover creatures, aliens, cosmic horrors, and ultimately assemble their final hypothesis to overcome the apocalypse looming before them.
Descend. Learn. Survive.
With over 90 pages crammed full of tables, creatures, mysteries, clues, and questions to answer, this will become your go-to game for impromptu sessions, short campaigns, or solo game nights.
The game intertwines hard science fiction with the inescapable, unknowable horrors of an anomaly tearing apart reality.
- Purpose-built for solo and multiplayer mysteries
- Unique dice and card draw resolution mechanics
- Take special Actions whose outcomes can chain together
- Collect beaten cards during Skill Checks to power your suit's abilities
- A self-contained story, with unlimited possibilities and outcomes
- Quickly build unique and interesting characters at the table
- 36 unique clues to discover, 36 questions to answer
- 10 sectors to explore, each one stranger than the last
- 120 events and encounters to surprise and stump your players
- Build the Last Hypothesis: When they have learned all they can, the scientists must pour over their knowledge of the anomaly, construct the Last Hypothesis and enact their plan. Will it be enough?
Made by an All-Star Team of Creators
- Illustrations by Galen Pejeau
- Editing by Eric Lazure
- Developmental Editing by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas
- Layout Direction from Tony Tran
- Writing and Design by Andrew Boyd
- Promotion by Alex from Backerkit
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