Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9521682" data-attributes="member: 6785785">[USER=7030100]@J.Quondam[/USER] I’ve run both Alien and Mothership. They’re pretty similar games, but have a slightly different approach. Both are pretty straightforward, rules wise, with Alien being a little more involved. I think one of the main differences is that Alien has more character abilities based on class. You pick from a list of class abilities when you create your character, and when you level up. In Mothership, there are no such class abilities. Your class just determines which stats and skills you get a boost to, and what kind of effect kicks in for Panic. So if your players are focused on ideas like character build and like to have class abilities and the like, then Alien might be the way to go. One thing I like about Alien as well is that the Xenomorphs (and other critters) include a random table to determine their attack. Some of their attacks will kill a PC outright, so I like this way of putting such a decision to the dice rather than the GM. Other than that, though, I would say go with Mothership. The 1E Boxed Set has everything you need to play. If you want to try it out, the Player’s Survival Guide is available for PWYW on Drivethru. I do think, however, that you need something else to run the game. The PSG provides all the player facing stuff, but none of the rules for monsters or enemies. I’d suggest grabbing a module as well as the PSG. The modules for Mothership (the ones by the publisher, Tuesday Knight Games, anyway) are all very well done. Each of them has a different vibe and purpose. Dead Planet is a point-crawl type scenario. Another Bug Hunt is a site based scenario. A Pound of Flesh is a space station sandbox. Gradient Descent is a mega-dungeon, each of those is $20 on DTRPG. I’ve used A Pound of Flesh and gotten 20 sessions out of it, and have barely scratched the surface of what’s there.  There’s also The Haunting of Ypsilon-14 which is a two page one-shot that you can grab for $5. That might be a good way to gage interest for a cheap price.</blockquote>

Verification