#alien ttrpg

[gr3y-heron-art]

A recent commission - the crew in an Alien ttrpg campaign! They're having such a good time 👍

[eldritchwaffless]

The Lore Of My Alien Campaigns

Hi! So I'm about to start GMing the Alien RPG for my friends and I've already been working on the lore and such. I've decided to modify aspect of the established lore and confirmed for the setting my games will occur in. It's all heavily inspired by the comics and the expanded universe, and I wanted to share it with you all, both for fun and in hopes of hearing your opinions!

**The Aliens**

So in this universe, the Xenomorph themselves are an immensely ancient specie. I really want to hammer home their "Alienness". I also wished to have some cosmic horror aspect with them, so essentially in this universe, they're *The Fermi Paradox*, aka the reason for why the galaxy is seemingly devoid of other intelligent life. It's kind of an unending cycle, an intelligent specie evolves, discoveres space travel, encounters the Xenomorph and inadvertently spread the specie around the galaxy. In this way, they're the perfect organisms as well as the perfect parasite, not only because they're able to adapt to most if not all environments and other alien species to use as host, but also because they've managed to colonize the galaxy without even developing space travel themselves.

**The Engineers**

So, in this universe the Engineers are essentially the last poor saps to have encounters the Xenomorphs. Using them they've managed to perfected the plagiarus praepotens into the Black Goo (so in this universe, they did not create the Xenomorph). They would use the Goo to boost their Biotechnology, the way plagiarus praepotens allows for such fast growth rate and metabolic processes is incredible, by all known science nothing should be able to grow this fast without literally burning itself out, so for a biomechanical based civilization this would be a massive game changer, imagine growing massive structures in meer weeks or days instead of years! They used this to also modify their own biology, so yes the people we see David whiped out in Covenants were Engineers, more precisely an non altered version of them, while the ones seen in Prometheus are more like soldiers or something along those lines. They also used the black goo to seed the galaxy with their own specie, which eventually gave birth to humanity. While in this universe the reason why they wanted to whipe use all out isn't confirmed, the most likely reason is because they didn't wanna make us in the first place. They wanted to make more engineers but when they saw us evolving into a different specie they decided to get rid of us, perhaps to avoid future competitions. It is suspected that the cave paintings seen in Prometheus were warnings left by a more compassionate group of Engineers. However, the Engineers didn't have get the chance to whipe us all out as their interstellar civilization got whiped out, either by the xenomorphs infestation or by products of their meddling with xenomorphs, like perhaps a plague infected their biotech, rendering most of it inoperable? That would explain why the Engineers in covenant seemed a bit more primitive technology wise... Or maybe a virus which triggered something in their genome which had been already modified by their black goo... Whatever it was, the Engineers are now a dying specie.

**David, Paradise, etc**

The Engineers being a dying specie certainly wasnt helped by David, who unleashed a black goo based bioweapons on Paradise, which in this universe is the Engineer's homeworld as well a the genetic template of all life on Earth. This is why the planet as vegetation so similar to Earth. While we only see a single city in the movie, in this universe at least, the planet had much more cities all over it which all got whiped out by David's initial release of the Pathogens, which went into the atmosphere and essentially sterilized the entire planet. The very few Survivors were killed by the abominations birth of the pathogens. When David studied and explored the city, he learned all about the Xenomorph and decided to try and recreate the specie.

Anyway, this is pretty much the rough base of my ideas for the lore. Hope to hear what you all think of it!

[feral-lore-creature]

I have an Alien franchise question below the cut, but fair warning: It has total spoilers for the roleplaying game.

Does anybody have any idea when the events of the first scenario/story of the Alien TTRPG happen? How long ago was the fight between the Fulfremmen and the Engineers?

I need to know when the Engineers created the Lychgate and used it, for story purposes.

@elecctromechanika

@griffith-father

@themishening

Any insight? 🫠

[agrownupgeekgirl]

My kids asked me to run the Alien ttrpg for them and to get in the mood I re-watched all the movies and then doodled around on HeroForge and made this.

[forlath]

Xenomorphs. From our Alien TTRPG campaign, over at TableTopAnthologies on Twitch...

[xenosaurus]

I’ve been GMing the Alien TTRPG and I bought these extremely thematically appropriate page markers to tab out important sections.

[cwistopherhartley]

Chat I’m sick about my alien ttrpg characters

[ordheist]

been bogged down in some older commissions, but I have a lot to show for it

[leidensygdom]

Seren Gautier, for @ydteus ! Someone was in need for a surrogate and it's always a good time to revisit the world's best Holes Georg out there!! Please do give a good peek at the lines though, they're full of hatching and shapes and I'm pretty proud of them!

[umbraldame]

Eureka girls will be like, "Sorry you activated my prey drive"

[eldritchwaffless]

My rendition of The Harvesters from the Alien RPG

[hazoret]

Come check out my shop! We've got cryptid kitties and lots of dice! Perfect for gifts or just a little something for yourself!

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[chrisairgames]

When in Rome

Right, so I write for Mothership RPG, yeah?

It was basically a professional obligation for me to go see Alien: Romulus on its opening weekend.

Short review: Cool. Though I wish directors would make a new alien horror movie instead of new Alien movies.

Lemme tell ya, I might have designer brain disease, but this movie really is a series of problems for a sci-fi adventure, haha. My favorite thing about this movie was the smart, player-skill level problem solving the characters came up with. I was actually impressed. The film made me want to put my friends through the same ringer, and write up a similar scenario.

So I did.

When in Rome is a 20pg Mothership RPG adventure module with two player handouts, obviously heavily inspired by Alien: Romulus. I started last weekend, and released it yesterday. (What’s wrong with me, right?). That is: writing, playtesting, Mothership 3pp approval, peer review (thanks Josh Domanski, Christian Sorrell, Iko and Allen Hall!), hiring Brandon Yu “Chaoclypse” for the sick art, revising and putting into layout.

So yeah, this module is basically an adaptation of the film, but it does have some very notable (read: legally distinct) differences.

It's free for the next five hours, and I would love to hear what you think, and how your PCs fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Click here to download the module on itch.io. Note that I’m still working on the plaintext file and VTT asset updates. I would love to hear what you think, and how your players’ crews fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Good luck.

[forlath]

Maybe we should try a different door? Our Alien TTRPG campaign over at TableTopAnthologies on Twitch...

[dismas-n-dismay]

Shoutout to Tampa and please pour one out for her having the honor and dignity of being a final girl- my baby girl only got cut up because her challenge was hard as balls, shout out to my loser CPAP machine dependent warrior <333