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Mechanical abilities aside, in the end, I always go for a character with whom I can identify (even if it takes a bit of wishful thinking). This usually means human, beautiful regal human (aka elf), or suave badass human (aka tiefling*). If I could choose a fourth, it would be aasimar. *though...

So many good things in this game. The whole thing could be ported as a roleplaying game with (relatively) little effort.

Same. Flashback mechanics and unspecific equipment are things I got from BitD and often port to other games. If player-characters set out « prepared » and « well-equipped » they can produce up to three undocumented items during their outing. If they were prepared but travelling light, they may...

Some card initiative systems do that. Others allow you to exchange cards with an enemy before combat. We could also imagine a trump mechanics for some characters, either in round 1 only, or throughout the whole fight.

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!

Yep Well, like my grandmother used to say, “you’ll never get rich if you keep wasting all your money on subtext!” Of all characters in the show, I think he might be the sole survivor because Alien movies typically have at least one, typically the most ‘human’ of them, and my money is on him...