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That's an interesting take, DeusXLondon, with lots of lore potential and much atmosphere added to the Lost Worlds setting. It also gives you a shorthand for downtime/off-screen exploration: "Three weeks have passed since last mission, and you have spent it clearing some space junk in [NAME] sys...

Yeah... I do not have a lot to say, really. Sounds like a great and emotionally invested story jj_kapelusz. It's a xeno-adjacent tale, and I do like those a lot. It is the easiest/clearest way to do a non-xeno, Alien-esque story :) Well done! I'm mulling over doing a post on a similar endeavor I did...

Yes, lots of good ideas here. , don't forget a countdown for a nuclear explosion The timer-to-destruction trope is a very good point that I haven’t really used in my homemade scenarios thus far. That’s one of the quintessential Alien -esque tick-boxes, which I’ll definitely have to incorporate in so...

These are the kind of things I hoped we could discuss; tropes and other GMs experiences with them and how they (GMs) build their scenarios so that non-xeno stories feel at home in Alien RPG. But we're going around in circles getting nowhere, so let's just call it a day. This obviously wasn't a usefu...

The issue is not coming up with ideas for scenarios sett in the Middle Heavens -- for the setting is broad enough that a lot of things could technically happen -- but rather to come up with such stories that actually feel like they belong in the company of the filmes and such... without falling back...

Oh, yes; I've written this exact scenario a couple of times in the past -- (victim of Dreamcatcher/Alien Queen dreams turned crazy spree killer) -- and am writing a new version as a commission as we speak. It's pretty much my go-to non-xeno Alien story at this point. I guess an Outland ripoff might ...

Don't worry about it.

I'm just trying to discuss the art of story telling in relation to the Alien genre; and, I guess, what makes Alien Alien, apart from the aliens

But I'll let it lie.

Thanks for the comprehensive source list! But I’m more looking to engaging in discussions with you great GMs about how you have made Alien RPG stories without aliens, work; in other words, what peoples’ experiences are and any tips and such for how to make non-xeno stories feel like Alien RPG storie...

Hi all! A common complaint against Alien RPG and other franchise games is that the stories one can tell within the framework of the setting are too limited. Of course, this is at best a huge misunderstanding or exaggeration, but the sentiment nonetheless does have a point – what is Alien without xen...

Hey all! Here's my first draft of a Seegson special order to the A.P.O.L.L.O. mainframe on Novgorod Station in my game. Context: This is for scenario 2 in a mini-campaign, wherein the PCs must deal with an increasingly impossible A.P.O.L.L.O. AI and its minions of Working Joes to save themselves and...