Wed 26 Jul 2023, 14:16
I have a personal theory as to why Disney/FOX might be delaying the approval/signing-off-of BBW.
(I post this here in the GM section due to possible spoiler discussions)
I am currently running HoD, and OH MAN is that story a bold expansion of the world/IP! It basically re-integrates the mad mindscapes of H. R. Giger back into the Alien universe from whence the xenomorph was originally born, thereby embellishing the setting quite massively. Thinking about it, it’s actually quite surprising that HoD itself passed through the IP checks and got approved.
Following clues from HoD and other Alien RPG stories, we can safely assume that BBW will pick up the Engineer plot and run with it. BBW will take place hundreds of parsecs spinwards of the Middle Heavens, around where the lost colonies were once set up and whereto the Engineer musical notes/DNA sequence/galactic coordinates from FW & HoD were pointing. We will likely explore the major meta-plotlines of the franchise even further in BBW, with ramifications for the entire IP… and the IP holder could very well have major reservations against allowing a random RPG to advance the themes and plots and tropes this bluntly, thereby possibly hamstringing future movies and TV series, etc.
I therefore think it is quite likely that FL got a slap on the wrist from Disney/FOX/whomever-IP-folks, and were asked to tone down the meta-plot explorations to something less invasive and resolute for the IP.
Or, I could have finally lost the last of my marbles… who knows?
"And the rain sets in,
it's the Angelman.
I'm deranged".
--David Bowie, I'm Deranged