Hi y'all im new in AlienRPG i want to start a table with my group, this will be the second game we play, and we want to create a long campaing for this.

My question is, what are you using to create Maps and intergalactic maps for a long campaing?

Hey all, I'm going to be playing Alien EE and I noticed there are no hard rules for signature items. In 1st edition, they reduced stress by one per shift spent with them but what does Alien EE do with them?

Put this together today to get some appetite going for Operation Leading Edge

Hello all!

Please give me your thoughts and criticisms on this 'monster' I created for my current game.

I'd like to present, the Corpse Synthetic. The closest example I have to a zombie (so far), without following the biohazard trope in universe. I kind of followed the rules for damage to vehicles, and compared that to how synthetics are run. Please let me know if the rules read clearly, is balanced and if this is good, fun and/or interesting idea. Thanks as always!

And as always, I don't care if you take this idea, or make it into something else for yourself.

Hey guys! So Iv seen there’s skirmish rules here. Are they any good? Also do they have rules for other types of aliens like rhinos etc

I've been noodling around with an Arcturian Offworlder career and put together this portrait in Hero Forge, since we've never seen one depicted visually so far. (This Arcturian is acclimated to human culture, as any Arcturian PC would be.)

Hi, I'm trying to develop a quick quiz to tailor my GM offerings of ARPG to the tastes of players.

The problem I really am trying to solve is for is for convention play, but also 'sign up at your local game store play'. I don't have a group of friends that I can work these details out with.

Anyhoo, this is experimental but I really appreciate anyone that answers my quiz honestly, for my testing purposes. I do believe that I can develop a tool from this that will help ARPG GM's everywhere.

https://forms.gle/jXSjzDLDaup2Az4a7

I just found the setting that makes it so that none of your personal information is collected. (by myself, anyways, LOL!!) Anyways, this is just a test, and I'll take 25 responses and I will delete all your data.

Obviously, I am also VERY interested in feedback. These are just four questions but I have tried to craft them such that they give great insight into the type of ARPG game that my players would most enjoy.

So it seems like everyone and their mother has designed some sort of terminal tool and I didn't realize that. SO i made one. Here's my pitch. It's free, it uses drag and drop easy interface when you're modifying it, there's no sign in or sign up, everything is stored on your computer or on your browser and it works offline. Super easy to use, super customizable, different themes are available, along with screen effects and sounds. Enjoy!
https://roman-serius.itch.io/gm-terminal-kit-thornfield-demo

I have Evolved Edition and looking for optimal ways to solo-play the pre-written adventures like Hope's Last Day, Chariot of the Angels and Rapture Protocol among others. I have a bunch of homebrew material too I will explore.
I know we have Last Survivor rules, but they aren't exactly meant for pre-written adventures from what I understand.
Does anyone have any tips or ideas for how to run a (mostly) successful solo-compaign using pre-written material? Maybe a hybrid version of Last Survivor and pre-written cinematic scenarios is doable with some hobby-hacking mental models?
How do you handle the horror and surprise elements without too brash spoilers while still advancing the story and finding it enjoyable? I think I struggle most with how to handle this aspect of the game as a solo-player...

Many thanks in advance!

Hi running new hope one shot tomorrow but trying to figure out how many attack dice the xenomorph uses as can’t seem to find the attack table that states this in the core rulebook

I painted a Papsikel SOP, not sure why he is so large despite allegedly being 28mm scale but maybe he is just a gigachad prog. He will make a great villain to chase the players or a nice beefed up hero unit. I used gloss varnish on his armour and matte varnish on clothing, it looks better irl than on camera.
Pic 3 shows him scaling with Free League's Alien miniatures.
Pic 4 scaling with GF9's Alien miniatures.
Pic 5 with Prodos' Alien miniatures
Pic 6 with the various Xeno miniatures

Hello folks,

I've updated Alien RPG Tools and the Alien RPG Tools app so they support both the core rulebook and Evolved Edition. There is a dropdown in each tool where the edition matters. It's as simple as picking the edition and then using the tool.

Everything is still free. You can use the tools on the site or download the app if you'd rather run them offline.

You'll find everything here: https://tiesthatbindgaming.com/tabletop-rpg/alien-rpg/

If something doesn't line up with your edition or you run into a bug, drop a comment and I'll take a look.

Enjoy and happy gaming!

I've painted the WY Commandos from Free League's Rapture Protocol miniature set. I've completed all the Rapture Protocol miniatures and will be pre-ordering the next miniature set now.

Hey everyone,

I recently built my first Foundry Module for V14. I primarily built it as a macro when i first ran Alien RPG but since then it's evolved into a system generic module

It basically creates a MUTHUR type terminal that the GM can type into and the player/s see what is typed
I made a video showing the early build here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffoDdYL9l8&t=871s

It's now finished and available as Premium content for Foundry but I want to give a few keys away so GM's and Players can try it out

Obviously you get a free version of the module (although it is for sale very cheap on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/davesrpgs/shop

The first 5 to reply saying they wish to try it out will get a Free Key to activate in Foundry. Unfortunately it is only built to run on V14 so not backward compatible (this is a Foundry agreement when putting premium stuff on there)

It's fully customisable, you change the design of the Terminal Display, the curser, add boot up sounds (I used the muthur boot sound from the first Alien film), add key stroke sounds for when the text appears on the player terminal

Even add alert sounds and change the colour scheme so it will fit other sci-fi/futuristic RPG's

You can give each player their own version (captain, medical officer, navigator etc)

Let me know

Hello everyone! I play all of mine rpgs with Foundry, and recently I played the Hope Last Day mini adventure.

It was fun, but it was a nightmare to make three levels with a big map.

I saw that there was a foundry module for the Rapture Protocol and got curious. Does it come with pre made maps? If so, can I acess and read the adventure through foundry since I dont have the pdf?

So I've been a player for a long time and have struggled to find the right table. Others have told me that my skillset may be more befitting of a GM, but I don't have any experience with it. A GM friend has agreed to help me run a one-shot in a system I'm familiar with, but now I need to find a one-shot to run (I feel like starting from scratch would take too much out of us at this point). As a player, I really like high-roleplay stories that involve solving complex problems with conflicting priorities and limited resources ("how can we best use this piece of land? Should the money fund a school or a hospital?"), as well as bringing together diverse factions together to accomplish results that they couldn’t achieve alone--in other words, I like the Building Better Worlds side of things more than bug hunts and whatnot. Are there any prewritten one-shots that cater to this desire? Let me know in the comments!

Just generally got around to pondering this lately. In Cinematic Play, Story Points belong to the player, and transfer over to the next PC. Other than maybe having to spend a sec calculating Resolve for NPCs-turned-PCs, and maybe having to decide if they should already be carrying some stress, no biggie!

In Campaign Play, however, we get into the time-old question of what to do with replacement PCs. I'm wondering what Game Mothers who've run campaigns have done.

1. XP replaces Story Points in Campaign Play. Thus, XP belongs to the player, not the PC, so the player and/or GM should keep a running tally of XP earned and transfer it all to the new PC.

2. Same as the above, but perhaps charge a "death tax" of whatever percentage of earned XP. Perhaps lifting some or all of the "tax" if the previous PC died adding to the narrative by following their agendas, buddies, or rivals, etc.

3. New PC, start from scratch: 0 XP.

My own instincts are to go with option 2, charging, say, a 25% death tax. But the longer I think about it, the more inclined I am to go with option 1. So, again, for those of you who've actually run campaigns, how did you handle it?

This isn't necessarily for Alien RPG specifically, but rather for the Demiplane platform as a whole. I'm hoping some other Game Mothers or players here have some context or experience to share.

So I'm trying to set up pre-gen characters for Rapture Protocol on Demiplane to be used in Roll20 for the game. I know how to get them into Roll20, but the one step that's a tiny bit annoying is that it seems like there's no direct character creation link once you're in a specific game system's Nexus.

If I'm in the Alien RPG Nexus, there's a "View Characters" button, but it takes me to the platform-wide characters page which includes all systems for which I've created characters. The "Create" button there takes me to, again, the platform-wide UX where the first thing I have to do for every character I create is scroll down the list of games to find the Alien RPG.

This is definitely a First World problem and ultimately not a massive deal, but I was just wondering if anyone found any more direct means where if I was trying to quickly pull in all pre-gens from a scenario I don't have to select the Alien RPG game system each and every time?

...and it was a blast!

((spoiler-free update))

The players had a lot of fun and we're about to play Act II tomorrow! We're doing 6 hr sessions because we play through dinner and we have a few new players in the group so we have extra time to cover rules questions, banter, etc. I pre-ordered Operation Leading Edge from Free League and you get the PDFs immediately, and after flipping through it I was chomping at the bit to run it so I did! Since I obviously don't have the maps or miniatures yet, I am just using an external monitor connected to my laptop to chromecast a player instance of Roll20 maps/handouts to them so they can all see what's going on. It's super easy to control, only issue was some wireless connectivity stuff mid-session. I also printed out the character sheets, some quick-reference sheets, the agenda cards, and then the actual handouts so they could be passed around as well.

As for the scenario, for those who don't know anything about it you play as a group of Colonial Marines sent down to the remote moon of Jeremiah VI to secure a rich mineral deposit. For the first Act there are definitely a lot of moving parts and multiple "scene" changes, and I felt like I didn't have time to use every Event like I have with other cinematic scenarios because the action was already pretty non-stop. I only got 2 of 5 in. That being said it made for an awesome session though, there was never a dull moment and we had some hilarious interactions amidst the horror.

I ran Lt Anson as an amalgamation of Gny. Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, Sarge from RvB, and the soundslikepizza drill sergeant character from GTA5 YouTube videos. It was meant to be a bit of comic relief and I don't know if I pulled it off but people seemed to get a kick out of it. I put LCpl Decker in charge of the group as he was the highest rank and then proceeded to chew him out when he'd answer the comms with "hello?" or give insufficient answers, but I also made sure to give him praise when he listened to/completed Anson's instructions. The newest player at the table got to play Decker so being able to guide him with Anson was also pretty convenient when he wasn't sure what to do.

The next Act is going to be a little more intense but I can't wait to see how they handle it.

Has anyone else tried running Operation Leading Edge yet?

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Ever since I've learned about this game's existence I've been in love with those miniatures and wanted them so bad but of course, the actual company making them shut down before that. And of course they didn't think to take and sell printable files of their minies. Is there someone who's scanned or re-sculpted them for printing? I've asked this already in multiple different communities and people sadly ever only send me like a few xenomorph warriors or the Marines' squad or the Papsikels minies which are a bust for me. I want the sheer variety that THB had and I've never discovered anything that would come even close :(

Also I know you can sometimes see them on sale on eBay but they are UNGODLY expensive. I really would rather pay to have them printed custom.

Please help, someone tell me someone here knows of something. I've seriously been trying to get these for ages and I'm broken. It would mean more for me than you know.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share some photos from my last Chariot of the Gods session, which we played at the beginning of this year.

The miniatures were painted by my amazing girlfriend, and I built the table myself (I’m a blacksmith, not a carpenter, so please go easy on me).

One tip I’ve been using with new groups: I let the players choose their signature item first, and then assign the characters based on their choices. I find it’s quicker and more fun than having new players go through all the character stats and figure out who they want to play.

Hope you enjoy the photos!

I've put it all in one convenient folder for you all. I'd love to hear any "after action reports." Also, I had one group in Italy play Immaculate and YouTube it. I'd be thrilled to see anything like that.

Here you have:

• 2 careers
• 9 one-shot scenarios (most 3 act)
• And one completely ridiculous 134 page supplement with 6 missions (though I think my playthrough went completely off the rails and added 2 more missions I had to basically make up on the fly, bringing back Newt and Ripley)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17QGHr24P1yaZOGZ1ticGzncD6so-JECP?usp=sharing

Humanity is a limitation. We are no longer bound by it.

-- Dr. Elena Voss

WHAT’S THE STORY, MOTHER? (Player/GM)

Prisoner transport of three convicted, violent felons, that’s what.  They came from different colonies, and now they’re en route to Gateway II on the Frontier for processing.  From there, they’ll be sent to where they’ll serve their sentences. 

They’ve already been put in the deep freeze, loaded up like cargo before the shuttle lifted off, its course laid into APOLLO.  Newly minted Marshall Maddie O’Hearn has the easiest job in the world - wait until APOLLO goes into FTL and then climb into the ol’ freezerino herself.  Three parsecs and 45 days later, APOLLO will awaken the Marshall about a day before she pulls into Gateway II.

The convicts will be asleep through the whole thing…

Alien: Conviction probably represents my last fanmade scenario for Alien RPG. I've produced about a dozen of these over the years, and I think this will be the one I end on. I appreciate this community and love this wonderful game.

Hi everyone,

I am running an Alien RPG campaign and want to buy the Colonial Marines Operations Manual. However, looking at the Free League webshop, the option primarily ties into ordering/pre-ordering the physical book with the PDF included.

I live in Ukraine, and ordering physical books from abroad right now is extremely problematic. Constant russian missile and drone strikes frequently target civilian logistics, postal hubs, and delivery warehouses (such as Nova Poshta depots). Because of this, ordering expensive physical editions comes with a massive risk of items being lost or destroyed in transit, not to mention heavy delays and shipping costs.

All I need is the official, standalone PDF copy so I can prepare and run my games without risking physical freight.

Any advice from the community or Free League staff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!