Alpha Omega RPG

[Stormonu]

A thread here on ENWorld directed me to a podcast, and I happened to notice one of the sponsors had a RPG game I'd never heard of called Alpha Omega. After drooling over the site and the page samples therein, I'm mighty tempted to purchase the book just for the sheer gorgeousness of it.

However, trying to be practical, has anyone heard of this game or even run a few games of it? I'm curious to know how it actually plays.

Here's a link:

MindStormLabs::CoreRulebooks::AlphaOmegaCoreRulebook-Fr...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Have it and have played a couple of games - it is enjoyable, beautiful books.

Review:
Review of Alpha Omega: The Beginning and the End - RPGnet
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14335.phtml
http://www.roleplayingtips.com/articles/reviews/alpha-omega-review.html

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Ooh, I remember seeing this site a while back while it was still in development. Thanks for the reminder and the link.

 

[Ghostwind]

Such beautiful books. I have them but can't find anyone around here interested in playing or running a game.

 

[Crothian]

Books are neat to look at, good to read, but I was no fan of the rule set.

 

[Stormonu]

Books are neat to look at, good to read, but I was no fan of the rule set.

[MENTION=232]Crothian[/MENTION], can you elaborate more on what you didn't like?

 

[Crothian]

It seeemd overly complicated. I'll see if I still have the book later today to give some specifics but I'm not sure I kept it.

 

[ppaladin123]

I got seriously caught up in the ARG the developers used to advertise Alpha Omega during the run up to its release.* The webpage and books look downright amazing but the setting looks like an absolute mess: there are angels and demons and half-human hybrids of the former....and sentient animals...and mutants...and cyborgs...and hybrids of all of those....and magic...and machine guns...and psionics...and everybody appears to be fighting for some reason.


* For a while people conflated it with the advertising campaign for Cloverfield, which got AO a ton of publicity from unlikely sources.

 

[Antonlowe]

I got seriously caught up in the ARG the developers used to advertise Alpha Omega during the run up to its release.* The webpage and books look downright amazing but the setting looks like an absolute mess: there are angels and demons and half-human hybrids of the former....and sentient animals...and mutants...and cyborgs...and hybrids of all of those....and magic...and machine guns...and psionics...and everybody appears to be fighting for some reason.


* For a while people conflated it with the advertising campaign for Cloverfield, which got AO a ton of publicity from unlikely sources.

Sweet.

 

[Antonlowe]

I got seriously caught up in the ARG the developers used to advertise Alpha Omega during the run up to its release.* The webpage and books look downright amazing but the setting looks like an absolute mess: there are angels and demons and half-human hybrids of the former....and sentient animals...and mutants...and cyborgs...and hybrids of all of those....and magic...and machine guns...and psionics...and everybody appears to be fighting for some reason.


* For a while people conflated it with the advertising campaign for Cloverfield, which got AO a ton of publicity from unlikely sources.

Sweet.