Quote from: Xenomrph on May 28, 2020, 09:06:02 PMQuote from: SM on May 28, 2020, 08:52:16 PMThat doesn't change Gaska's point or intent.
Also consider that nearly all that old EU stuff hasn't happened in the timeframe of the RPG yet.
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Quote from: SM on May 28, 2020, 08:52:16 PMThat doesn't change Gaska's point or intent.
Also consider that nearly all that old EU stuff hasn't happened in the timeframe of the RPG yet.
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 27, 2020, 10:50:40 PMQuote from: SM on May 27, 2020, 09:40:54 PM[...]
The RPG doesn't make old licensed material canon. The RPG just uses some of the old locations.
I'll ask him about it anyway.
Got an answer:
https://imgur.com/a/ZMFcQI3
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 27, 2020, 10:50:40 PMQuote from: SM on May 27, 2020, 09:40:54 PM
The RPG doesn't make old licensed material canon. The RPG just uses some of the old locations.
Not exactly, the locations are canon (and in the case of Tanaka 5, the scorpions and by proxy Scorpion Aliens), but according to Andrew Gaska it's done that way so players can treat the old stories as "canon" if they want to. He talked about it on the podcast he participated in for Alien Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sSiYwEF-Y
I'll ask him about it anyway.
Got an answer:
https://imgur.com/a/ZMFcQI3
Quote from: SM on May 27, 2020, 09:40:54 PMNot exactly, the locations are canon (and in the case of Tanaka 5, the scorpions and by proxy Scorpion Aliens), but according to Andrew Gaska it's done that way so players can treat the old stories as "canon" if they want to. He talked about it on the podcast he participated in for Alien Day.
The RPG doesn't make old licensed material canon. The RPG just uses some of the old locations.
Quote from: EJA on May 27, 2020, 02:02:22 PMQuote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2020, 04:14:25 PM
NEVER.
Hey the old DHPress and Bantam stuff (and f**kin' Kenner stuff) got rolled back into "the official canon" courtesy of the RPG, so if we're tracing Alien origins then there's a lot more work to be done.
Eh? How can that be? There are too many contradictions.
Quote from: EJA on May 27, 2020, 02:02:22 PM"Canon" and "continuity" are not synonyms.Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2020, 04:14:25 PM
NEVER.
Hey the old DHPress and Bantam stuff (and f**kin' Kenner stuff) got rolled back into "the official canon" courtesy of the RPG, so if we're tracing Alien origins then there's a lot more work to be done.
Eh? How can that be? There are too many contradictions.
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2020, 04:14:25 PM
NEVER.
Hey the old DHPress and Bantam stuff (and f**kin' Kenner stuff) got rolled back into "the official canon" courtesy of the RPG, so if we're tracing Alien origins then there's a lot more work to be done.
Quote from: Hudson on May 26, 2020, 04:56:37 PMQuote from: EJA on May 24, 2020, 09:01:43 AMQuote from: SpaceKase on May 24, 2020, 02:50:48 AM
There's no reason to believe that the xeno varieties we know and love couldn't have or didn't exist before David played around with his tissue remixes on Planet 4
Actually, there is very good reason to believe they didn't exist before David. It's what Covenant said, and it's what Ridley Scott fully intends, and since it is canon, we must roll with it.
I believe what I want.