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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9592443" data-attributes="member: 4534">This past December I ran Destroyer of Worlds for my group.&nbsp; In DoW, the players are Colonial Marines tasked with apprehending some AWOL marines before you have to bug out off world.&nbsp; What I discovered was there's a point in the game where you get into a death spiral so far as Stress is concerned.&nbsp; On the Stress table, one of the more common results is for the player to gain a level as Stress and for all the other players in the area to gain a level as well.&nbsp; Other players might also have to roll on the Stress table and getting a result where everyone else gains a Stress was pretty common when I ran the game.&nbsp; What happened was a chain reaction where one player gained Stress, other players either gained Stress or were also forced to roll on the Stress table, and it often resulted in still more Stress being gained by others.&nbsp; This happened during the many combat encounters from the scenario, so the players had no other choice but to react or they'd be dead.&nbsp; I also found that running a more action oriented scenario on the vein of Aliens didn't work as well as I'd hoped.&nbsp; The biggest problems is the marine pulse rifles just don't do enough damage.&nbsp; A pulse rifle does 2 points of damage + extra if they get more successes than needed to hit, but a lot of the Aliens have like 5-7 hit points, which means all of the PCs would have to concentrate fire on one xenomorph to take it down quickly.&nbsp; Contrast that with Aliens where the marines were gunning down xenomorphs left or right.&nbsp; I'm hoping this new edition fixes these problems.&nbsp; I'm going to wait and see before I participate in the Kickstarter.&nbsp; As it stands, I don't think my players are interested in playing Aliens anymore.&nbsp; Which is too bad, I think it's a solid game overall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9592443, member: 4534"] This past December I ran Destroyer of Worlds for my group. In DoW, the players are Colonial Marines tasked with apprehending some AWOL marines before you have to bug out off world. What I discovered was there's a point in the game where you get into a death spiral so far as Stress is concerned. On the Stress table, one of the more common results is for the player to gain a level as Stress and for all the other players in the area to gain a level as well. Other players might also have to roll on the Stress table and getting a result where everyone else gains a Stress was pretty common when I ran the game. What happened was a chain reaction where one player gained Stress, other players either gained Stress or were also forced to roll on the Stress table, and it often resulted in still more Stress being gained by others. This happened during the many combat encounters from the scenario, so the players had no other choice but to react or they'd be dead. I also found that running a more action oriented scenario on the vein of [I]Aliens [/I]didn't work as well as I'd hoped. The biggest problems is the marine pulse rifles just don't do enough damage. A pulse rifle does 2 points of damage + extra if they get more successes than needed to hit, but a lot of the Aliens have like 5-7 hit points, which means all of the PCs would have to concentrate fire on one xenomorph to take it down quickly. Contrast that with [I]Aliens [/I]where the marines were gunning down xenomorphs left or right. I'm hoping this new edition fixes these problems. I'm going to wait and see before I participate in the Kickstarter. As it stands, I don't think my players are interested in playing Aliens anymore. Which is too bad, I think it's a solid game overall. [/QUOTE]

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