What better day to unleash Alien: The Roleplayin Game pre-orders onto the world than on the 40th anniversary of Alien?! Fans and gamers all over the world are able now able to pre-order Free League Publishing’s Alien: The Roleplaying Game!
The full printed ALIEN roleplaying game will launch late this year, but you can pre-order it NOW in our webshop and get immediate access to a meaty 168-page Cinematic Starter Kit PDF. It includes rules for skills, combat and panic, five pre-generated player characters, and the full-length Cinematic scenario Chariot of the Gods written by Alien RPG setting writer and sci-fi novelist Andrew E.C. Gaska.
The Cinematic Starter Kit will be available for download via DrivethruRPG as soon as your pre-order purchase is confirmed – no more than a few days after your purchase. You don’t need a DrivethruRPG account to receive the PDF.
In addition, if you pre-order the core rulebook you will have the opportunity to provide feedback on the game before it goes to print and earn a play-tester credit in the final publication. There is a link to a feedback form inside the Starter Kit PDF itself.
Currently available to pre-order on the Alien RPG website, there’s a bunch of pretty sweet 40th Anniversary editions of The Roleplaying Game that are exclusively available via this pre-order!
- STANDARD EDITION includes the Alien RPG Core Rulebook in a hardcover format with approximately 300 full-color pages of beautiful artwork and complete game rules for both the Cinematic and long-term Campaign game modes. A PDF of the book is included. Price: $49.99
- STANDARD BUNDLE includes the standard Alien RPG Core Rulebook, along with a deluxe gamemaster screen, two sets of custom dice (one set of 10 Base Dice and one set of 10 Stress Dice), a set of 50 custom cards (for initiative, weapons, and NPCs), and a set of useful maps and markers. A PDF of the book is included. Price: $99.99 ($50 discount on the total retail price)
- 40th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED-EDITION offers the Alien RPG Core Rulebook with a special commemorative book cover. Exclusive to this pre-order campaign, the 40th Anniversary Limited Edition will never be printed again. A PDF of the book is included. Price: $89.99
- 40th ANNIVERSARY BUNDLE includes the Alien RPG 40th Anniversary Limited-Edition Core Rulebook, along with the deluxe gamemaster screen, two sets of custom dice (one set of 10 Base Dice and one set of 10 Stress Dice), a set of 50 custom cards (for initiative, weapons, and NPCs), and a set of useful maps and markers. A PDF of the book is included. Price: $139.99
- THE COMPANY SPECIAL EDITION includes everything from the 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle, as well as signatures from the Free League team on both the commemorative cover and a Limited-Edition 27” X 40” poster of the Alien RPG cover art by Martin Grip. Price: $249.99
The full game itself is currently expected to release by in December 2019, but pre-ordering now gives you early access to the first Cinematic scenario. So what are you waiting for? Head on over to the publisher’s website and get those pre-orders in!
Fri Ligan (Free League), the publishers, have also setup an Alien RPG sub-board on their own forums which can also go check out and sign up to.
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Gameplay of the preview from UKGE. I'm halfway through the first part and it sounds like the specific scenario Shevvie and I played (they did 3 different ones around Hadley's Hope). Hoping to get a preview written up soon.
I'm not a huge fan of Miniatures games, so apart from it being AvP I wasn't too interested. Granted having an Alien mini or 2 for this would be great.
Although the nemesis ones will make perfectly good stand ins, they even have their own lifecycle
That's good news, but it sure is surprising to me.
This thing does need some gains after all.
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Being an RPG, players can make up their own Predator stats and use it in a game if they wanted to.
What specifically?
It seems like they're incorporating a lot of elements in and out of "canon".
Spoiler
Didn't get the Prodos stuff while it was around?
I'm gonna be quite happy using the Board and Minis from Nemesis, I think that will work great
Got the PDF today, but haven't had a chance to have a read yet.
I do love me some miniatures as a visual aid, but I find putting 'em on a grid strips back the drama.
Outside of D&D and Pathfinder, i think rules for movement can vary. I know the Star Wars themed RPG's don't use grid based combat, and just have different distance measurements, the same for the Legend of the Five Rings RPG, and The One Ring. It depends on the game and the DM playing the game, i've had D&D sessions where you don't need a map for combat, it just makes it easier.
Reading through the Starter Guide, and just envisioning how the game could play, i don't think it would really work too well to use a grid based combat system in an Alien universe, where generally speaking you aren't really going to be fighting lots of enemies at once, and if you are, you're probably pretty screwed.
Just placed my order. Printed b&w, double-sided, on regular 20lb bond with cardstock covers and coil bound was $33.87 Canadian, tax in.
I'm the same, so I'm gonna have Staples print me a copy and coil bind it.
And yeah, that Anniversary Edition looks pretty bland compared to the Standard!
I'm still really hoping that they crib from the old Leading Edge RPG.
It's got a history, from Weyland's TED talk to post Fiorina 161 (there's a cult surrounding survivor Morse and his book 'Space Beast' he wrote about whathappened, which is really cool), and it not only covers the alien but also the governments, corporations and factions.
It's giving the players a chance to play the horror of Alien, the action of Aliens or the mystery of Prometheus. If you wanted to do something that doesn't involve the alien and stick to some corporate craziness - like Outland - then that's cool, too. There are plenty of options for all kinds of games.
I'll be starting the rules soon, but up to yet I'm loving what I'm seeing. They're based on the system they uses for Tales from the Loop and Coriolis and it works well, but it's not the full rules as they're leaving some of it for the full rulebook. However, I ran a Coriolis campaign last year and the system handles dark sci-fi really well, so I think this'll be a good fit.
Additional: Also, the GM is called the 'Game Mother'. Brilliant!
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You can buy the map separately: https://frialigan.se/en/store/?product_id=3687330316336
I've got to wait until tomorrow but then I'll be picking up Anniversary bundle!