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Please use this thread to post feedback and report any typos or errors in the BETA 2 PDF of the ALIEN RPG Evolved Edition Core Rulebook, no later than June 1. The rules for stress and panic responses and for critical hits have been modified after the first BETA PDF, and many small tweaks made, including armor levels. Thank you for your feedback!

Please not that page references (page xx) and the index at the end are still not completed yet so please ignore these. Before reporting an error, please check to see if it has already been reported. If so, don't report it again. And please note that only clear errors and typos can be addressed now. If you want to have a discussion, please start a separate thread for your topic instead.

Thank you for your support!

Images of the pulse rifles are still missing the trigger on the grenade launcher...

Is a second round of emails going out that we wait for or do we re-download from our original links? Thanks!

Is a second round of emails going out that we wait for or do we re-download from our original links? Thanks!

If you check your library on DriveThruRPG it should show the updated version ready for download.

Is a second round of emails going out that we wait for or do we re-download from our original links? Thanks!

If you check your library on DriveThruRPG it should show the updated version ready for download.

Thank you. It does. I note the file size on this one is a great deal smaller!

It would be helpful if the developers had any kind of change document or just notes so we knew where to look. We're not necessarily going to spot all the things that have changed in a 300+ page document! I'm just going to the areas that have been contentious and looking for anything obvious. I note Serious Injuries is out and Critical Injuries is back. And the Panic table is different. Armour values a little different here and there. I'll give my proper thoughts when I've had a chance to look. If there are other areas that have changed, developers should probably point us at them specifically.

To clarify, does the Kid talent Hard to Catch (p34 & 50) only apply to the Dodge interrupt action for ranged attacks? I feel like if it's only going to apply to one, it should be Close Combat...

P43, under Multiple Successes, there's a repeated ")," after the page reference.

The description for the Colonial Marshal talent Authority on the Career page (p32) doesn't include the line about gaining +2 dice to the roll that appears on page 48.

In the Table of Contents, it still refers to the injuries as "Serious Injuries", instead of the new "Critical Injuries" name used in the section.

I get that you said you don't want feedback, just errors and typos, but I am still concerned about the new Xenomorphology Talent. What game mechanic benefit does a success provide? It is very unclear to me what real use this Talent has for a player.

I get that you said you don't want feedback, just errors and typos, but I am still concerned about the new Xenomorphology Talent. What game mechanic benefit does a success provide? It is very unclear to me what real use this Talent has for a player.

If the Xeno in question has a specific weakness (like fire), the GM informs the player of it.

The feedback I have after reading through the updated version is that while the updated page layouts have greatly improved readability they seem to have also included a reduction in the size and number of art spreads.

For instance the section on "Frontier Life" included a 2-page spread with text overlaid in the original, but it is reduced to a stylized xenomorph tail on one page and an art image that covers the top third of the second page in the evolved edition. Similarly, the career section has been reduced from each career having a 2-page spread to single page entries with cropped images from the original art spreads.

I understand that changes to this aspect could greatly effect blocking and/or page counts, I just wanted to say that I preferred the number of art spreads included in the original edition compared.