X-Files Setting?

[Angel Tarragon]

I've recently started watching X-Files an it is really intriguing me. Is there an official RPG based on it?

 

[Umbran]

Official? None of which I'm aware.

However, the Dark Matter setting for the now defunct Alternity stands as a wonderful unofficial version...

 

[Crothian]

Nope, but it would be easy to do in many modern settings.

 

[atom crash]

I'm in a d20 Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green campaign that I like to think of as rather X-Files-esque. You may want to look into some Delta Green material.

 

[wingsandsword]

Official? Not to my knowledge, and I've looked.

Conspiracy genre games were moderately popular in the mid to late 90's though, and the best one (IMHO) was Dark*Matter, which was WotC's entry into the field with the Alternity system in 1999. It was discontinued when 3e came out so WotC could switch to only producing d20 games.

It also has the easy side benefit that it was mined heavily for ideas for d20 Modern (the d20 Modern Menace Manual has many creatures and organizations from that setting), and you should be able to find the books for the setting pretty easily on eBay, and I think they are (or were) sold as ESD. There was also a Dark*Matter mini-game in one of the last issues of Dungeon/Polyhedron. Even if you aren't interested in the setting per-se, d20 Modern (especially with the Menace Manual) have plenty of Greys, interdimensional abominations, cults & conspiracies, black helicopters and urban legend creatures for an X-Files type campaign (including at least some rules for playing FBI agents).

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I am well aware of Alternity and its settings. Dark Matter is my all time favorite modern/horror game and Star Drive is my second favorite SciFi game (right after Traveller). Guess I'm going to have to sart mixing D20 Modern with Shades of Grey to pull this off.

 

[Wraith Form]

Conspiracy X was also an attempt to cash in on the X-Files cow. I wasn't thrilled with the mechanics of the core book, so I didn't pick up the splatbooks, so I don't know about the "fluff" vs. the "crunch"...for all I know their splatbooks were diamonds in the rough.

Delta Green and DG: Countdown are, as mentioned, very cool X-Files substitutes. God, I love those books with all my heart..... (don't tell my wife, kay?)

 

[Desdichado]

There's also a Conspiracy X for GURPS, which may be a good thing, since the rules seem to have received (at best) a lukewarm reception. Dark*Matter was also very much X-files, but it wasn't really sinister enough for my taste. Delta Green is my favorite of the 90s X-files inspired settings, but it's got a pretty big twist in being based on the Cthulhu Mythos more than your typical gray alien type story. Hastur was huge in Delta Green too.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Conspiracy genre games were moderately popular in the mid to late 90's though, and the best one (IMHO) was Dark*Matter, which was WotC's entry into the field with the Alternity system in 1999. It was discontinued when 3e came out so WotC could switch to only producing d20 games.

Why do you hate America so much that you prefer Dark*Matter over Delta Green?

 

[Sholari]

Dark Conspiracy was put out by GDW a decade or so ago. You could probably use that for background, ideas, flavor, etc. and D20 Modern for mechanics.