June 2019, the Cinematic Starter Kit PDF for the recently announced Alien RPG from Free League Publishing has reached my inbox and I’m preparing to run it.
With a handful of keen players we ran through the scenario in just over 4 hours. The tension was palpable at the table. One of the players, Ian, did an in character write up of the cinematic, which is linked below. I then jazzed it up to fit the Alien RPG look and feel.
I fell in love with Free League’s games when another member, Josh, got a hold of Coriolis: The Third Horizon and ran the quickstart a couple of times before creating his own mini campaign aboard a prison space ship that I played in.
When Free League announced that they were making an Alien RPG I was immediately excited and pre-ordered right away, and I was in no way disappointed. I’ve since run Hope’s Last Day, the one act scenario in the Alien core rulebook more than few times and not tired of it – each group of players takes the same pre-made characters in a unique direction each time.
Cover art by Martin Grip for Free League Publishing