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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7778759" data-attributes="member: 6984451">I feel torn about this. On the one hand, Aliens/Predator* is my favorite franchise* and primary fandom. The way most geeks feel about Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever I have always felt about Aliens. It is my main geek jam. So much so that one of the first RPGs I ever made as a kid was an AvP RPG. I've returned to the idea many times over the years.<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114667/The-Singularity-System" target="_blank">The Singularity System</a> actually started out as as an Aliens fan RPG called Bug Hunt before it got rebuilt into a setting neutral, more Traveller-like product. I think some of the fluff that I'd scanned from the Colonial Marines Technical Manual actually made it into the text as copypasta. Hell, as recently as 2017 I posted the entire xenomorph life cycle, the Colonial Marines arsenal, and stats for a playable yaujta (Predator) and their gear and rules for their culture of honor. So an Alien RPG is clearly something I've always felt needed to exist, so much so that I've tried over and over to DIY it over the years.So, yeah, torn. I'm glad that my favorite thing is getting an RPG. I'm sad that I'm not one of the folks making it. I really hope they do an awesome job with it. (I still remember I was in middle school or high school, very new to GMing, we were playing the d20 Star Wars. I had everyone make characters, establish their roles on the ship. I told them that we were doing something "not set in the Star Wars universe" but I did NOT tell them we were doing Aliens. So when I got to do my John Hurt impression as a chestburster exited an NPC (whose name has long since been forgotten) I really went all out twitching and coughing and wretching and clutching my chest and choking and spasming before transitioning from that into narrating what looked like nothing so much as a a blood-slick penis with teeth exploding out of his chest. It scared the living <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> out of my players (and not just, I hope, because they thought I was having an IRL medical emergency).* The Aliens vs. Predator films are awful. The extended universe (graphic) novels that preceded them were excellent.I realize there's only around a 1 in 4 chance of this happening, but that's still a 25% chance you just killed Bishop, and therefore, very likely doomed yourselves. (Annalee Call was also a 'good' synthetic, but much less instrumental to the survivors surviving than Bishop.I can't recommend the Earth War (Earth War/Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, the Female War) series of graphic novels/novels strongly enough. They were written between Aliens and Alien 3 so the characters of Hicks and Newt were central to the plot: when Alien 3 killed those characters off they got retconned into "new" characters with new names, Wilks and Billie. Anyway besides that I love that trilogy, the big reveal at the end of the first book is that the Pilots* (remember that gigantic dead elephant-man looking mother in the original derelict in Alien) are terraforming Earth so we've got more going on than fight aliens or fight predators or both. Also, keep in mind that killing your fellow humans is definitely going to be a major thing if this game is true to the franchise. I don't know about you but I would very much like to put some bullets through those heartless corporate bastards at Weyland-Yutani, and their combat synthetics. *Although I don't know to what extent the Prometheus cycle of movies has retconned the Pilots/Navigators: they might be completely unrecognizable or even non-existent. </blockquote>

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