Alien – The Roleplaying Game has been very successful over the past 5 years. From winning multiple awards to being the 13th most used system on the popular Foundry VTT in 2023. To date, Free League have released multiple sets under the Alien RPG brand: The Core Rulebook, The Starter Set, 3 cinematic adventures (The Draconis Strain Trilogy: Chariot of the Gods, Destroyer of Worlds and Heart of Darkness) and 2 expansions with campaigns in them (Colonial Marines Operations Manual and Building Better Worlds).
Free League has just announced that they’re launching a Kickstarter for the 2e (second edition) of the Alien RPG this Fall. Some of the new features are as follows:
Free League has revealed their core line-up for the upcoming Kickstarter, with more details coming soon:
- Based upon feedback from thousands of players over five years of adventures, the Second Edition of the core rules delivers an updated and streamlined version of the ALIEN RPG fans know and love, along with additional new artwork, new content, and a variety of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.
- The new 2e starter set will be redesigned as the perfect starting point for newcomers to roleplaying in the ALIEN universe, containing everything they need for game night including abridged 2e rules, character sheets, custom dice, reference cards, various handouts, and an expanded 2e edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario set on Hadley’s Hope just prior to the unforgettable events of Aliens.
- The new cinematic scenario boxed set, Rapture Protocol, written by Jonathan Hicks and Free League’s Tomas Härenstam, returns to the roots of the ALIEN franchise, featuring the crew of a small star freighter on a resupply run to the remote industrial colony, soon embroiled in a deadly conflict.
- The miniatures set is designed to bring the events of Rapture Protocol to life, but fully complement other adventures and skirmish battles throughout the ALIEN RPG series.
On the announcement page, they’ve also released a short trailer that showcases the new art we can probably be expecting for the 2nd Edition.
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To add to this (since I've only ever played the game over Discord as well), there's a bot than can be added to a Discord server that adds the dice roller right into the server, with custom dice that match the designs of the ones the game would use in real life on a tabletop.
https://github.com/Stefouch/sebedius-yearzero-discord-bot
Nope but my techpriest had an unhealthy affection for several machine spirits.
Did they involve love-starved space nuns?
Sounds promising! 😃 I'll make a discord account in case we can get a few group members together at some point.
EDIT: lol, apparently I have a discord..looks like I made one previous and joined the AvPGalaxy server there (presumably to join in potential multiplayer game sessions and just never getting around to it?) I don't recall doing that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have you tried playing (or do you play) the RPG this way yourself? :-) I'm keen to learn!
Webcam usually isn't necessary. Discord group VC and a supporting website for maps (and dice rolling if you don't entirely trust people to play honestly) is standard.
The RPG actually presented the 3WExit in a convincing way, something that Colony War failed to do.
There are plenty of prequel-inspired miniatures if you know where to look.
Which reminds me, I need to get enough of these printed for a 6x4 table.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e251fce4b097fe3a3c0113/1564768510645-2EDFUHSV89IGOGCQ0H9S/BIO-CRAFT+Core+Parts.jpg?format=750w
I also want Fulfremmen miniatures. Pay off the Giger Estate if need be.
I recently came across a fan supplement that can be used in a solo play style for ALIEN. Haven't tried it yet, but will be starting a game soon with my son.
He's loved the little bit of Alien he has gotten to play. Pretty sure it was the Chariots of the God's that we had started. He had one character and had tried to do a space walk like in Isolation from one ship to the next. Well it didn't pan out like he was hoping as he got caught in zero g between ships. So, I let him take control of another character to help him out of this mess. A bad roll later, he had unintentionally sent his OG character to meet its maker and drift in space forever.
That's a good point. they will have at least a year, maybe two, before this actually comes out. That does ease the pain of double dipping a little.
Now granted, we KINDA know what happened to the Covenant, and the Concordat mission was a success, so there is comparatively little mystery there. The Arceon also successfully reached its destination, although we don't know where that was.
The Affiance and the Allegiance, conversely, were both lost, with no reason given hitherto. The Affiance was launched Trailward - the same direction as the Covenant - so at least we know that. Soooo, the Allegiance is the ship about which we know the least. I'd love it if we got some answers at some point.
Just be glad its not the endless book-churn of Games Workshop's three-year edition cycle.
It does sound like a one off or very limited line. That doesn't bother me unless they're terrible single piece models or rubber pre-paints.
That's what's got me excited as well. If it's not just a one off gimmick of course.
So soon? I'd say it's quite the opposite IMO. At first they said their goal was for one book a year. They've not been able to keep that pace up. BBW's physical release was "recent" because it was delayed so many times. The PDF was released a long time ago, about a year ago now I think. This announcement is for the start of the Kickstarter that probably won't start before November. I'll be surprised if we see the PDF before the next summer.
Just checked my facts: the PDF for Heart of Darkness was released on the 15th of March 2022. BBW's PDF was out on the 9th of October 2023. This won't be released anytime soon IMO. The pace is about a year and a half with the recent instalments. Will see if it keeps on widening or if it is envigored with the 2nd Edition. There is potential there for some interesting things. I'm hopeful, but cautious.
That was Prodos. This sounds more like civvies and a few Aliens. Civvies and more Alien sculpts are what I want though, I have several platoons worth of muhreens as it is.
Now we're talking.