3-5 players ... noting that the clear roles on ship need at least 3...

Piercing a bulkhead is covered in the ACSK, on page 71, and the Armor Values are on p.63.... Now, just holing it won't get it in...  But I'd suggest the first 6 hits the wall between.  If this holes the wall, additional 6's increase the of the hole.  [+] just enough for the attacking limb; wall prov...

I'm guessing this RPG and the Colonial Marines game should be both canonical, as long they don't contradict each other, since they are a Fox official product? Except that Fox only ever produced the movies. Everything else (or very nearly so) was done under licenses. Whether Twentieth Century Fox Fi...

The engineers bioengineering weapons is about the only reason for such creatures to exist; the life sequence is almost perfectly suited for a life extermination process, but it's also clearly not suited to long term biology. Giving that reason was inevitable for it to remain a franchise. AVP and AVJ...

Ahh, I must have blended the pushing rolls with regular panic rolls.  The panic table stuff still should be addressed to prevent the cascading trouble, or maybe other ways to reduce stress?

Cascading panic is realistic and thematic...

Note that panic check results  of 10+ mandate an action; that action replaces the action originally attempted.  (A 10 mandates standing there stupidly for a full stealth turn or until hit.) So, for example, 11 seek cover, the character just converts those 5 successes into a dive into cover.... descr...

Look at the images of the dice in the preorders page... We can see all 6 result sides on the base dice https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2129/8201/products/Alien_RPG_Base_Dice_medium.jpg Base dice are [1][2][3][4][5][+] And on the Stress dice https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2129/8201/products/Ali...

Yes, I know that Coriolis is different, that's why I pre-ordered Alien RPG, I am expecting it to be more like Coriolis and less like MY0. But still, the doubt remains... MYZ is the outlier, not Coriolis...  Forbidden lands is similar to Coriolis in terms of setting. Symbaroum (while using a differe...

Finished it tonight. 3 sessions, 2.5 hours each. Act 2 blended into Acts 1 & 3...  My adult daughter, who has an anxiety issue, had a full on panic attack due to a confluence of... 1. The system building tension in the player via the stress mechanic. 2. the GM (me) building tension by misdirection (...

Think of the alien movies as well.  Which this scenario is like. Very few survived after being injured. In both the movies, and this game, the death of characters is fully expected. 2 of the 5 crew made it out ... as Lucas only needed one sample, and didn't want the other one blabbing. The first sa...