ALIEN: The Movie : The RPG

[ExileInParadise]

1000ft General says:
"I've been busying myself with Star Schlock, my sci-fi miniatures game over the last few months, but took a break over the holidays to run the new Alien RPG for my family.

What follows is an account of the one night session we played. It's long (looooong), but I felt it was important to document it since I ran my wife and 12 year old son through the situation from the original Alien (1979) movie. The boy knew nothing about the creature or its life cycle, and it had been 20 years since my wife last saw the movie. How would a crew not controlled by a scriptwriter fair against the perfect organism? Would they make the same choices? Could they use their greater agency to make mince meat of the beast or would it be too overpowering and wipe them out as in the film?"

Great handouts and a great session read: https://1000footgeneral.blogspot.com/2021/01/alien-movie-rpg.html

 

[TealdragonUK]

Must have been a great game to remember so much, and awesome handouts! The cinematic version is great,

 

[CoryG]

The GM for my Call of Cthulhu group decided to switch gears and run AlienRPG for a bit. We've done about three sessions so far. We're starting to get used to the D6 system for combat. Still pretty clunky right now. Lots of pausing to do rule lookups. This is to be expected for sure. Other than that the gameplay has been really great. Character sheets are simple and it's fun having secret agendas that put you (potentially) at odds with the other characters. It's really conducive to building a feeling of mounting dread too. Just like the movies. Looking forward to seeing some new adventures/scenarios hit the market for this game.