In a new announcement issued today by Alien: The Roleplaying Game publisher Free League, and Alien novel publisher Titan Books, it has been revealed that a new storyline for the RPG will be published over the course of three new Titan Alien novels!
Free League Publishing and Titan Books today announced a collaboration to publish a unified storyline set within the ALIEN Universe. For 2022 and into 2023, the editorial and writing teams will share assets and coordinate plotlines to form a cohesive narrative across three original novels and the multiple award-winning ALIEN RPG.
“The ALIEN RPG has established the ‘Frontier War,’ as remote human colonies come under assault by an unknown enemy, dropping a deadly pathogen that unleashes monsters on those worlds,” Titan Acquisitions Editor Steve Saffel said. “At the same time, in the wake of the Titan novel Alien: Into Charybdis, political tensions on Earth reach a boiling point.”
These dramatic events play out in the recently released ALIEN RPG: Colonial Marines Operations Manual by Free League and three upcoming trade paperback novels by Titan Books, each independent but all set against a dramatic galactic backdrop:
- Alien: Colony War by David Barnett (April 2022)
- Alien: Inferno’s Fall by Phillipa Ballantine and Clara Carija (July 2022)
- Alien: Enemy of My Enemy by Mary SanGiovanni (February 2023)
The results will set the stage for further developments within the ALIEN Universe, as depicted in the roleplaying game and original fiction.
To further establish the connection between the game and the novels, the ALIEN RPG lead setting writer Andrew E.C. Gaska will develop three unique RPG scenarios which will appear as bonus features in the books, one per novel. The first such scenario, Fallout, is included in Alien: Colony War. Readers intrigued by these adventures will have the opportunity to further explore the RPG experience.
As Alien vs. Predator Galaxy understands it, each book will feature its own shorter scenario that will form an overarching storyline continuing on from the narrative set in motion by Alien: Into Charybdis and the Alien RPG: Colonial Marines Operations Manual.
This is also the first mention we’ve had of Alien: Enemy of My Enemy, a new novel from Mary SanGiovanni that will release in February 2023.
Alien: Colony War is currently slated for release before Alien Day 2022, on the 19th of April. It is available for pre-order on Amazon (US/UK). The next expansion for the RPG, Heart of Darkness, has also been announced for release later this year, but pre-orders are not yet available.
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Granted they said there would still be more announcements this year, but given that Heart of Darkness came out in PDF form a year ago now and we've still not had any official announcements of what's next (most likely that colonist/explorer sourcebook "Building Better Worlds"), I get the feeling we might be entering a bit of a lean time when it comes to new content here.
Wow that looks nice!
Love that Spears made a return in the Colonial Marines Operations Manual.
Destroyer and Darkness were additional story campaigns.
I think I read on the facebook group from the author that one of the upcoming ones focuses on colony building and management?
https://www.ppmgames.co.uk/free-alien-rpg-solo-rules/
Here's the link. Still used the Core Book for generating mission and setting up the campaign. There are also generators online that can help set up a cast of characters. Also generated the planet and such from the Corebook as well.
Space Truckers are delivering fertilizer to the Koh Station that's orbiting (Unnamed Earth Like Planet). The Koh Station is WeYu Property.
Roughly the basic gist. Eventually, it may lead down to the planet where the colonists need rescuing.
But now looking at trying my hand at a SOLO run, as have found some Solo Rules and the Mythic Variations II to emulate a GM. So should make for an interesting experiment.
https://www.amazon.com/Free-League-Alien-RPG-Roleplaying/dp/918914323X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UE04K33YOWYJ&keywords=alien+rpg+heart+of+darkness&qid=1664642022&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjMzIiwicXNhIjoiMS45OSIsInFzcCI6IjIuMjQifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=alien+rpg+%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1
https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/alienrpg
Picture of the expansion boxes, the books are in my bookshelf:
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Three Times The Terror
Now to find somewhere for it to actually go!
Hopefully that'll be the case with mine then! It doesn't look like there's been any recently updates on its status that I can see.
I'm pretty stoked for the BR RPG. It'll make it a little easier to incorporate the Replicants and Blade Runner's themselves.
Also I just got word one of my friends in the UK's got Heart Of Darkness, so that should be shipping anyday.
Cool idea!
I'm always a sucker for crossovers lol
I haven't delved into the RPG too much, aside from reading some of the lore in the core book, but I love hearing about the creative campaigns people come up with, along with their experiences playing!
Hope to maybe find time and a group to play with someday.
The hook of the story however is that there is an undercover Blade Runner on the colony looking for a rogue Synthetic. One of the players will be given the Blade Runner secret backstory while another will be given the rogue Synthetic backstory. The other players are different staff members in the colony. There are also the character archetypes from the core game like Corporate or Mechanic. I think the Blade Runner angle spices up the campaign a little bit.
I've always wanted Blade Runner to officially cross over with Alien, and if I can't get that then the RPG is perfect for doing this sort of stuff.
Thanks to BlueMarsalis79 for encouraging me to share this idea on this thread.
Does the RPG commit to David being the creator?
What about the inevitable Predator expansion?
Edit-- I asked him, we'll see what happens.
Edit-- got a response:
Short version is there was a studio mandate that the only sentient extraterrestrials are humans and Engineers, and he was told that if he wanted to put them in the book and make them sentient that they'd have to be near-human. Since Engineers made humans, it would stand to reason that they made anything genetically close to humans as well.
Apparently the upcoming Colony expansion will reference the Arcturians and expand on them as well.
I'd prefer it as space Bangkok for sure, but them being half way between us and Engineers' certainly better than them being a completely other civilization, that we bone apparently.
The Alien Universe should be full of dead civilizations and spacefaring cryptids but nothing we can have a conventional war with please.
Terrible. Just awful.
Yes one page you can ignore means the whole thing's a write off. In a medium designed specifically for that take or leave it approach. Talk about the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The way the Xenopedia describes them, they sound like anime characters made flesh.
I do not like it, and it's making me angry.