Topic: Free League Publishing Announce Alien: The Roleplaying Game

• Memory: The Origins Of Alien Now Available for Pre-Order in the UK!
• Ripley Remembers – Alien Anthology Interviews Sigourney Weaver
• Expanding the Hunt, Interview with Predators’ Director Nimrod Antal – AvP Galaxy Podcast #90

[Monster Man]

Does it recycle any of the technical errata from the CMTM?

It seems like they're incorporating a lot of elements in and out of "canon".

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They even got the Babyhead. Here's hoping for an Ultramorph.

[SM]

Does it recycle any of the technical errata from the CMTM?

What specifically?

[Local Trouble]

Sulaco size and speed, etc.

[SM]

Doesn't have that kind of detail.  That stuff will probably be in the full game when it's released at the end of the year.

[Local Trouble]

How long until they pollute this thing with a Predator supplement?

[SM]

There's no plans as far as I know. When I spoke to them - long time ago now - they had access to anything with Alien in the title as well as Prometheus.

Being an RPG, players can make up their own Predator stats and use it in a game if they wanted to.

[Corporal Hicks]

I doubt we'll see Predator for a long time, if at all. When I was helping out with the odd bit and bob, I asked about if AvP related stuff was wanted and it wasn't.

[Samhain13]

How long until they pollute this thing with a Predator supplement?

This thing does need some gains after all.

[Local Trouble]

I doubt we'll see Predator for a long time, if at all. When I was helping out with the odd bit and bob, I asked about if AvP related stuff was wanted and it wasn't.

That's good news, but it sure is surprising to me.

[Dachande]

I'm always happy to dump the grid in RPGs. People counting squares is a real tension-killer. 

I do love me some miniatures as a visual aid, but I find putting 'em on a grid strips back the drama.

I'm gonna be quite happy using the Board and Minis from Nemesis, I think that will work great

Didn't get the Prodos stuff while it was around?

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

[maron]

When you are more excited for a table top game than another movie. 

[Corporal Hicks]

https://www.effektpodcast.org/episodes/alien-hope-s-last-stand-part-1
https://www.effektpodcast.org/episodes/alien-hope-s-last-stand-part-2
https://www.effektpodcast.org/episodes/alien-hope-s-last-stand-part-3

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.

[Kailem]

Nice, I'll be giving those a listen for sure. I'll never play it (nobody to play it with), but this looks awesome. Very much looking forward to watching all the inevitable Youtube playthroughs when it's released.

[SM]

I finished reading the PDF rule book, and though it's a cut down version of what will eventually be released, it's very solid.

[Corporal Hicks]

Space is vast, dark, and not your friend: A review of the Cinematic Starter Kit for the Alien RPG

Overall
I’m very impressed with Cinematic Starter Kit for the Alien RPG. It’ll be a great way to learn the game and an acceptable way to pass the time while we wait for the main book to hit the printers.