Recent content by Laurefindel

Funny, I was just reading that…

In your OP, you do bring out the existence of unscripted encounters that are not random. Depending on how you define an encounter as « random », you may have gotten slightly different proportions.

I don’t care what people say, WHAC0 was a huge improvement over the clunky Twit Tables…

Unsure what to answer. I went with the last option given the erratum in the OP. At any case, I don’t use random encounters in the classical D&D nomenclature (where encounter = necessarily hostile or adverse, with a randomly generated nature from tables, and randomly triggered regardless of...

I still prefer the original frustrated Vader’s « bring my shuttle! » to the colder Vader’s « alert my star destroyer of my arrival » of the Special Edition of Emipre. The music also flows better in that whole sequence in the original theatrical release, but I agree that out of the three, this SE...

I don’t know, those all sound pretty generic. Not even generic sci-fi. Just generic period. In theatre, my field of work, heat-sink and heat-generation are common concerns, and so are short-range and long-range devices (obviously not missiles). Autocannons are found in virtually every RPG...

I am OFFENDED! The Bard is not a joke! It’s a smokescreen! Editor: « Mr. Gygax, players sometimes find your rules incoherent and inapplicable… EGG: « Oh yeah?!? I’ll show them incoherent and inapplicable! »

Well, I didn’t say she was ‘nice’… But I do think there was an attempt there

…pushing the theory of helpful eye-octopus further, we could even interpret the fact that she goes down to one iris/pupil when inside a host as an attempt at familiarity. The mindset of alien intelligent parasitic creature might not be based on affection as much as humans, but I really think...

As for lady eye-octopus, I’m starting to think she’s trying to be helpful. I believe she did try to warn the doctor back in the lab, and I do think there was an attempt at communication on the bridge. Heck, I even think she tried to make her host smile as a gesture of good intention, only, it...

Not only that, but even if I doubt that Boy Kavalier wanted the ship to crash right in the middle of one of his cities (?), setting up a perfect trajectory for a precise collision in his country and setting up a non-destructive crash-landing from the back end of the ship’s final approach to...

Very thorough bionic enhancements!

Plot twist: Hermit and Morrow are the same character after bionic enhancements and time travel!

That’s always the boon and danger of an IP; it’s narrow scope gives players a clear expectation of what a game is about and rides off the IP’s buzz, but it also tends to limit the game to those expectations, regardless of what t he game is capable of. Aliens RPG is capable of doing much more...

Here comes the juice!