How To Play: Alien RPG

Nicely done! I just picked up the starter set and core rulebook. Your overview did a great job touching on the high points of the game system. Thanks a bunch!

Good video. Thank you

I'm really glad you made this tutorial. While I own all the Alien RPG stuff because I'm a sucker for Alien, but I have never played D&D RPG or something like it. Still want to organize a gaming night, but I never know where to start.

Great video, thank you. I just picked it up and will be GM'ing for the first time ever.

Sounds like a really dumb system. Roll any 6 for success 1 for failure regardless of success. That’s pre luck and belongs to the 1990s. Modern games use post luck.

Too bad, I would have almost bought it, so thanks for the warning!

Wonderful video. Subbed for more (hopefully).

Hi Zach, thanks for this rules summary, much appreciated. However, there is one inaccuracy in your explanation. When rolling a 1 on a stress dice during a check, you do not fail the skill check automatically. As per the starter kit's rulebook p35 "A Panic Roll can cause your skill roll to fail", and p70 "If you roll a 10 or higher on your Panic Roll, you will be forced to perform a specific action. If the Panic Roll was the result of a skill check for an action, the action is cancelled and immediately replaced by the forced panic action". So as long as you roll 1-9 on your panic roll, you do not fail your skill check (assuming you rolled at least one 6 on your skill check to start with).

Super useful summary. Many thanks. I also just bought the game and look forward to inflicting it on my players 8-)

Thanks for the concise explanation, very helpful!

Check out Forge out of Chaos. Best mechanics of any game I have ever seen. Also worst history/character creation/magic. lmao

Oh, shit! Hey, Zach! It's great to see you here. Subscribed!

I think Leading Edge Games had the first Alien RPG back in the 90's and it was so slow. Every bullet tracked every fragment of shrapnel tracked. By the end of a long saturday in realtime, we had moved through one level of a building in the game.

Playing a one shot of this tonight for spooky season \O/ ty for the help

Great video! Super appreciated, thanks!

I picked this up at Dragoncon in Atlanta and met one of the creators. Can't wait to have a party wipe.

Can you make your own alien for the alien rpg?

Best one I’ve seen.

Great resource. Our group is taking a break from Call of Cthulhu to play a one-shot of this this evening so I've shared this with them. Thanks!

I would like to see Coriolis and Alien compared. A lot of the mechanics from Coriolis seem like they were used to make Aliens.

I prefer mothership everytime.

Good thing videos like this exist, I have session in hour and the only thing I know is that it's based on Alien movie

So you can't play the aliens. Not interested....

Thanks for the video! I'm about to GM for the first time and I feel like alien is good starting point 😁

I love the idea that as you take stress you get an extra die. I think that's one thing mothership needs in its system. A reward that comes along with your risk/punishment

Great review! It's a lot to consider in a roll. That might be confusing when reading the rules, since all dice are 1d6. Are vehicle's also available for the players? I really liked that tank like vehicle from Aliens and the auto turrets. The forklift harness is also a thing that might be great if it is available in the game. Does the game give the players room to improvise like in dnd? For example, poor flammable fluid on the ground to create a firewall. Will you review future sets from this game? Can you play this game solo cinematic style? I love to hear more about what a campaign would look like. Thanks and you've just got a new subscriber.

Thank you fantastic video

The wonderful thing about Alien RPG is that you never have to worry about your character living through a session. They all die every time! Hahahhaa

When you showed the critical injuries sheet at the end, I instantly remembered the videogame Fallout 1.😀

The only Yahtzee gonna happen is that face-hugger clinging down on my bro

I roleplayed the crap out of our latest game, but all if it made absoblutely no diffierence. I had a D6 chance of death. I got the cranium hit. So literally ALL of the roleplaying made absolutely no difference. All of it meant nothing due to a single dice roll. This is utterly shit. And has massively jaded my gameplay experience.

How do you roll a d66?

From what I've seen, it's easy to play.

Step 1: roll characters.

Step 2: start the adventure.

Step 3: Roll characters.

Step 4: continue adventure.

Step 5: roll cha... you get the picture.

great video!

I once had one of my party members get impregnated by a royal face hugger we weren’t alive for much longer

I'm headed to Gamehole Con in Madison WI this weekend and I'm signed up to play a 4-hour Alien game (which I assume will be Cinematic mode), thank you so much for the overview so I know what to expect! I have tons of 5e D&D experience, but...that's it when it comes to TTRPGs, so this is very helpful.