As there was quite a bit of interest when I ran the system for the first time I though I’d check in to see how many people are currently interested in trying it out.
It was a ton of fun so I am certainly eager to run some more sessions and learn to utilise the system better.
For those of you who have never heard of it and are wondering what the sysyem is about:
The ALIEN RPG is a sci-fy/horror roleplaying game based in the same universe/setting as the Ridley Scott “Alien” movies.
The way I usually describe the setting: It is a capitalist dystopia taking place about ~200 years in the future. Humanity has managed to spread out from our current solar system and now inhabits quite a few planets/systems. While one may expect fancy future tech to be commonplace, for it does exist (laser-rifles, power armor, fiercely intelligent androids, etc.) 99,9999% of people will never own any of these things because they are incredibly expensive.
The ones who can afford these items are incredibly wealthy and usually care more about their own bottom line, rather than the wellbeing of their empolees.
The system is split into two different styles of play:
- Campaign Mode: Where the PCs are part of a colony on the outskirts of human-space or the crew of space-truckers trying survive and maybe even thrive while dealing with narrow profit magins, broken/old machinery and lots of squalor in general. (More chill - long lasting) (I haven’t tried this yet)
- Cinematic Mode: Where PCs encounter horrible situations where the odds of survival are heavily stacked against them. One example for such a scenario would be the plot of the first alien movies → Space Truckers vs. Xenomorph (Horror - Stress - Panic! - lasts 1-3 sessions)
→ this is the style used for Oneshots
The gameplay is d6 based and very easy to learn for beginners. (explaining the basic rules takes at most 30 mins. - most of which happens during play)
What Oneshots am I planning to run?
So far I’ve tried out Chariot of the Gods, which was excellent, so I would really like to re-run it for another group.
I’ve also got Hope’s Last Day, but I’d need to read into it a bit further before I’m ready to run that one.
Now. With the introduction out of the way my question is simple: Are any you interested in trying out the system?
If you are, please reply to this post so I can gauge how many sessions I should plan for in the long run. (each Oneshot session requires 3-5 players)
Time/Location wise I was planning to run future sessions on Fridays, during the regular VALUE sessions at WoW-Keepers (but I am open to discussing other locations/playtimes if Fridays simply don’t work for any of you).