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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9521755" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Alien is awesome... but note: the adventures for it are NOT for campaign play! They're specifically for the cinematic mode and are indeed very heavily slanted for quick death and clock timed events. They're intended to directly feel like the movies in scope.In the cinematic mode, the characters are intended to be pregens, they have backgrounds that tie in to the adventure, and they have a set of 3 priority cards per PC. There may or may not be a prologue scene or two. Act One varies in length, but it's comparable to acts I-II of the movies. Act II is comparable to act III of the movies, and act III is comparable to acts IV-V of the movies. Each of the acts, you give the player their matchingThere is also the campaign mode, which is essentially a Travelleresque space opera game, with three well supported modes: Space Truckers, Mercenaries, and Colonial residents. It scratches my Traveller itch better than my kitbash of Traveller editions. (And that is better than any particular published edition.) There is the chance of a Xenomorph encounter... but it's 1/36 of missions (not sessions) and could easily be used for other obnoxious beasts...I created a Vorpal Bunny... it took them another two missions (3 sessions) to eradicate them from the ship. No, they were not cargo... they were a local pest... cute, furry, lapine-like 6-toothed   (each arcade 1 incisor and 2 carnassials), R-strategy, social hyper carnivores.it's a solid game, with a nifty thematic stress system - a little stress is good; a lot breaks you.</blockquote>

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