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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f**king bullshit
Oh, so they told what they are up to next already, sounds amazing!
Also yes: they have done a such superb work on the lore, tying and referencing to dark horse comics and games and books, and made a lot work, its first time I see like 99% of us fans liking it and agree on its lore. Showcase of how to do the lore and franchise right.
-The "Building Better Worlds" colonist/explorer source book
-Another cinematic scenario
-A 'space trucker' source book
An Alien sourcebook is definitely something I'm hoping we see in the future. We've got the stats for all the "main" xenos in the core rules and other books, but there have been so many different types of Aliens shown throughout the years in games, comics and figures that it'd be awesome to get some expanded lore, stats and artwork for them.
Plus Andrew Gaska is a big Kenner fan and has already brought several Kenner figures into the RPG and alluded to others, so it'd be awesome to get things like the Queen Face Hugger and Mantis Alien in here officially.
The alien series and its lore done right, with your description of certain details and its exactly how it should be.
Something I hope for that we get one day is:
RPG expansion of traders/smugglers and pirates in the alien universe. Play as a space pirate would be fun, Ridley if I recall it right mentioned or explained one reason to why Ash/androids was placed onboard spaceshipswas to eliminate the threat of piracy and smuggling or take the cargo and steal it etc.
Alien creatures book, stats and rpg rules for all alien creatures, old and new and with ton of interesting facts, from the lore and new.
Now I can........continue not to look at it for fear of being spoiled even more before I potentially have the chance to play through it one day!
Some screenies in the email - https://mailchi.mp/frialigan/alien-heart-of-darkness-preorder?e=5b98231e96
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The RPG is excellent with its lore, tying in dark horse comics and books and make it all fit nicely, and now with Titan books involved and using the same lore: Awesome!
Fantastic news! Loving the collaborative storytelling going on here. And after reading the stellar AVP sequel to Phalanx I'm gonna need some Preds added to the mix!
I love the work that RPG has done to create a cohesive Alien universe, and the fact that more and more parts of the EU are actively making an effort to connect to one another like this is awesome.
I know with other EUs (Star Wars) it can start to get silly wondering whether or not some mobile phone game is considered "canon" or whatever, but this feels like the first time Alien has truly tried to bring everything together in the same sort of way, and I'm totally down with that (so much so that one of my biggest fears with the TV show is that it's going to come along and mess everything up on that front!