I've seen a couple of different groups playing this scenario and holy shit, your run is the best. The use of sounds and music alone was impressive (the timing, the volume and other details), but then there's also players' engagement in the story and their roleplay, the sound quality, the fluent use of maps and a ton of other stuff you presented as a crew, it was just plain awesome. Great job :)
Thanks to all who watched this EPIC Act 1 live and who watch on UA-cam! For you rules afficionados, we played mostly by the book, but use a couple "homebrew" rules (mainly Death Rolls which you can't do in Roll20 without rolling stress dice) so don't @ me ;D
Are you using homebrew rules for armor versus attack damage? If so, it seems to be a bit unbalanced, especially when a single successful armor roll can completely mitigate a successful hit from a 9-damage weapon (that Xenomorph should have taken 7 damage from the grenade, plus 1 for being the target). I don't want to sound rude or anything, I just wanted to make the suggestion as it might help these scenarios go more smoothly.
@@RepKyle95 Thanks! We've been reading the rule for armor wrong and look to improve it in the next Act of the playthrough! Also note that grenade launchers do Blast Power 9 damage (and 1 for the target automatically) - the output says "Damage 9" by mistake - it should read "Blast 9". It simply means that in the case of the 1st grenade strike from Zmijewski, the alien would have taken 2 damage after the 2 armor mitigation to the damage rolled (Sarah rolled 2 successes). Silva's subsequent grenade shot was 1 success, and the alien rolled 2 successes on its armor for a total of 2 damage mitigated.
Hello ! Matt, you are a good GM. Nice voice sound effects. But just a few things about the rules : - Piloting rolls applie only when there is danger or a real difficulty to drive the vehicle. - Acid splash adds as many dices as the damage received by the xenomorph. So it's an attack with more than 8 damage dices. - Medical aid (and medkits) can be used only on someone who is broken or with a critical injury. Otherwise, the only way to regain health is some peaceful rest. - Critical injury #62 requires two successful Medical aid rolls, the first to heal the wound, the second to avoid death, with a -2 malus. Keep on gaming !
Been listening to ya’ll during work Podcast style and I have to agree with the comments, one of the best playgroups I’ve randomly stumbled upon! Thank you for the hours and hours of entertainment ❤ P.S. Your Hayms’ voice sounded uncannily like Will Arnett through my AirPods 😂
We ran the station Sunday night. Fucking drone one-shotted Hammer. Bit a hole through his face, scrambled into the foyer, threw itself against the glass front doors a few rounds, took several bullet hits, 4 points of damage but not enough to kill it, and eventually smashed through and escaped. Brutal game, jeez.
Wow, incredible job capturing the horror/suspense atmosphere, pacing, and characterization. Definetely will be watching the remaining Destroyer of Worlds episodes and checking out your other content!
Slices'N'Dices is by far the best run scenarios and RP I have seen for the Alien RP so far. Currently planning on running Chariots, then DoW myself for a few groups.
Fantastic use of sound effects and player engagement! I'm currently running the same adventure with my group but made some sweeping changes. I let my Players make their own characters but kept most of the pregens as helpful NPCs. I also decided to throw them into a prequel adventure where they are working with what would later become the traitor NPCs on a mission. Clean out a nest of hostile alien fauna (giant bugs) and investigate a mole in the base that's been informing the rebels of patrol routes for easy ambushes. Get them attached and offer more of a reason to care about Wojchek, Wright, Reese, and Carvalho. Unfortunately the result is what should be a 3 session game into a 6 session mini campaign.
You did that wrong, Matt. Injury 54 is fatal, but only after one shift. One shift is 8 hours. Mason will not die unless 8 hours go by without medical attention.
Thanks for your input! Please note that this was over two years ago and we’ve learned a lot about how the game works by now! That aside, hope you enjoyed the play through!
I've only just come across your video here, but it's great! I'm currently writing my own (kind of) sequel to Hope's Last Day, with "HS" serving as the big bad Company Man two years later (he was the only survivor, having left the other 3 behind as he escaped on the Shuttle alone) on a Weyland-Yutani owned Flora Scientific Research Vessel named the USMR Archimedes. I'm currently working on a nightclub fight scene, haha. I've subbed and look forward to watching future videos of yours! Much love from the UK.
And they forgotted use those extra succes in combat for stunts and extra damage all the time. They also played wrong many times, when damage was aplied to enemy.
I love your narrative and the sound effects are really cool! I wonder about the acid damage though to the structures and flooring? Seems like some of them flooring should have given way from all the acid, dropping everybody down to the next floor below and I thought acid damage was supposed to continue for another turn afterwards or round? I really ignored most of it, with all the fun we were having. Can't wait for the next one!
I always love the inevitable sit around with RP exposition while folks are in shock and missing limbs hahaha! Such a great episode! Talk about meat-grinder! Loved it!
One of the reasons I can't be bothered to watch Critical Role is because every episode is three hours long. But you folks make this gripping and suspenseful enough that I can watch five hours of it. Only past the first hour so far, but I have to say my favorite is Big Z and her entertainingly rendered Brooklyn accent. Makes for a perfect hard boiled military character who's done too much and seen too much. The rest of the crew pulls off a very believable squad of burnt out grunts as well.
Loving the run so far, just a FYI those explosions with a strength higher than 7, hit the adjacent zones with a -7 modifier or something. Nothing that a bit of armour shouldn't handle but still not risk free.
Hey there Matt (nice name btw heheh!) - all the sound effects and music are pulled from various sources on the internet, loaded into Rpll20, and played through my own hand or Roll20Audio Master! Send me a DM and I'll give you more info! Thanks for subbing! Stay tuned to Slices & Dices for more awesome content and be sure to tell your friends about us!
@@SlicesnDices deffently gonna advise you to my mates your channel deserves more views, I couldn't figure out how to DM you so i ended up emailing you instead. cant wait to see the next act XD. If you have not played it yet the chariot of the gods scenario is fantastic (more like the 1st moive).
@@jorgecabrera2599 Ah I Emailed the slice and dice, i didn't get the sound effects but understand how he does it using Audacity and uploading them to role 20 my issue is that I have nearly maxed my space on role 20 between destroyer and chariot (2 alien campaigns) so i would not be able to do what he has done as he has a premium subscription to roll20 where i use it for free so i have far less space (in particular i emailed GM matt (I am not the Matt in this video btw))
@@SlicesnDices I also am not familiar with youtube DMs but I also bought this scenario on Roll20 due to this vid and suscribed. Is there anywhere i could find a guide or somesuch you may have posted on what you did? Thank you!
So, we are four sessions in and around 7.5 hours. The PCs just reached Act 2. They didn't meet Wright at the spaceport, I'll have to introduce her later somewhere, somehow. The UPP has just begun its orbital assault and I had a kilometer wide mother ship with a shadow over Ariarcus (in Roll20, it looked awesome) and it boomed out that tripod sound effect from the War of the Worlds remake and it blasted out windows with a sonic pulse. Next session begins the bombing and air strikes. I really don't know what the PCs are going to do. They're going to freak the fuck out.
@@SlicesnDices Well YOUR sessions are very inspirational! I mean, I've always used sound effects and stuff, but it's great seeing a UA-cam recap where the GM is using it to amazing effect. I do a written recap of all my stories but that doesn't include the sound effects of course.
That happened to me too re: my PCs not going to the spaceport. I ended up introducing Wright by having her hiding out w/ Fei2 in act 2. Worked out great
Live tabletop play: Sidetracked by Princess Bride references, Monty Python references, and snacks. Virtual tabletop play: Sidetracked by technical difficulties. "The aorta's in the chest, not the neck." That's correct. But the heart is in the leg. "Fifteen, twenty minutes to the end of the Act, can we pull through?" (checks timer) An hour and change. . . yep, that's Gamer Time.
What an amazing cast of players and an amazing GM! You really made it feel alive and real! As someone who is trying to learn how to GM this game, it's always great to see someone doing it so well! Have to ask, what did you do to set up those personal agenda cards, and are there any special macros you use to avoid flipping through the book to the many different tables you need to use? EDIT: 2:12:19 When rolling armor, you reduce the total damage by however many successes you rolled. If a weapon does 2 damage default and only got one success, you would still need to roll 2 successes with armor to completely negate the damage. At least that is how I understand it.
You're right! Thanks for the tip! As for the deck, you can take the PDFs and add them all to the online deck in Roll20 and then give the deck a card back. We made a TON of macros! DM me and I can hook you up (if you have a Pro account, it makes it even easier as you can use the API!)
@@SlicesnDices I unfortunately do not have a Pro Account (it's so difficult to find players, and I've just been trying to learn the system to GM), but if it would help me I'd be open to getting one. I'll definitely send you a DM!
@@DavidBis It's actually from Roll20! They have a bunch of hosted sites with in-game music and sound effects, and one of them is called BattleBards! You can check them out here: www.battlebards.com
I've literally just finished my playthrough of this campaign where I played Captain Silva and I'm very excited to see a playthrough where no one plays Silva. Because damn, the Command ability and her talent to use it twice in one round saved our asses so much. Only lost one PC and that was in the final fight which was amazing aswell. EDIT: And no ones playing Dante the mad RPG-lad? My god. He one shot more aliens than the rest of us did damage!
Pvt Hammers player is so in to this and i like it! Hope to see him in future Alien playtroughts. Too bad dindt see him play in campaign after this one.
If you have not already I highly advise that you join the "alien RPG by Free League" Facebook group as we not only share a bunch of resources (I have just shared a lot of tokens i made for the aliens), and discuss stuff people also share their youtube vids etc (with nearly 4k people in the group I am sure that you would get a fair amount of views/subs from that. there is also a "The Alien RPG" discord group which provides similar stuff
Any chance the GM matt has a library available for another GM looking to run this scenario? I loved all the effects and I'm looking at possibly running it myself in a similar manner
Great product review :P Watched as I've got the corebook but wasn't sure about DoW as not a fan of all the prequel additions to the setting, but this puts this in a good light!
If by media, you mean content sharing, we use a combination of Zoom for video, Discord for audio, and Roll20 for the game itself! Hope you like what you watched!
This was an excellent Actual Play. I don't usually like to watch them, but the cast is great here & the presentation is wonderful. Would you consider doing a whole video on how you've set everything up within Roll20 for this high quality Alien experience?
Hi Xoriel! We obtained most of the sound effects by looking online! It's amazing what you can find with a day and half of google searching for mp3s! Also, the Alienrpg subreddit is a great place to ask around! The music is mostly copyright from the Alien movies (which we used with permission) and used sparingly. Join us on our discord at discord.gg/bEneV9 and we can help you out making your own games!
"Ima, guna go outside and see where those fucks went" shes back at it again with some top role play. I watch Sarah just for her golden content. 10/10 (James as hammer was great) nice job everyone. #mattbuildingbetterworlds
Matt -- do you have some tips on how to get the sound effects when people use the weapons working? That's scripting, right, via Roll20 Audio Master? So do you have separate macros for the different weapons, or can this somehow be integrated dynamically ("If weapon=pulse_rifle, play pulse_rifle_audio"), etc. I'd love to implement something like this in my sessions. Fantastic game-mothering by the way. Really tight, great atmosphere, and just the right mix of being positive and generous when the players try something, but also pulling no punches when something bad happens to them.
Yes indeed! We use Roll20AM and use separate macros for each sound placed within the weapon text section for each weapon so that it plays upon character or NPC attack! Then I use a macro as a token action so that the PCs can attack or check their stunts without even having to open their character sheet! Thank you so much for watching!
Fantastic game! Love all the sounds you've thrown in.. however I gotta say, the guy playing chaplain is driving me nuts, lol he should be playing the dumbest marine in the squad
Hey! This is awesome. My guys are going to the Marshalls Sunday night. But how are you doing the drone stat block and having all of its different attacks roll up so easily in the roll20 chat box?
Great question! I added the drone's attacks to a Drone character sheet just as you'd do for the Roll20 character sheets for the PCs. Then, add the dice for each attack as the bonus (since they only roll base dice for their attacks and are not attached to ranged or melee attributes). Thanks for asking and watching our little Alien RPG miniseries!
Hey there, first of all: thanks for that amazing play. i am going to play destroyer of worlds soon and you give me a lot of inspiration :)! one question: is there any chance that youll do a tutorial for roll20? i bought it at the marketplace and found out that there are no tokens (someone else complained about that in the forums too). so i would be a great service for many of us to see how you managed the roll20 work you did :).
Hey there @megamegafalloutboy! We dont usually do roll20 tutorials as there are so many great Roll20 videos on UA-cam. All we can say is that we're Pro users of the system, and the APIs help a LOT! We made our own tokens with the use of some we found on the AlienRPG subreddit (check them out!) but you can join our Discord and we'd be glad to help out in any way!
I know I'm late to the party, great video. I love it. Is the turn order chat, where it sits whoops turn it is, part of the roll20 chat, and was it custom? I'd love to incorporate something like that in my own roll20 games.
Also, which API are you using for initiative, is it Group Init? It looks great, but I don't know how you set it up for ALIEN rpg. I think Roll20 is pretty badass, but the quirky system to access all of the best attributes is a pain in the butt.
We're not using an API for initiative, just the Initiative Tracker and the character sheets for the PCs (they have a Initiative button) and also the Initiative Macro can used from the Macro bar for all NPCs/enemiers.
Hi Daniel! I'd recommend that you try out StartPlaying.games! They are a great place to find games that need players! Many games are free and are great for beginners! Best of luck!
I just have to ask. I have been trolling the past few weeks trying to find good sound clips for all the weapons and things you had and played over the course of the session. Where did you find and collect all these pieces from, or is that a trade secret at this point? xD
Excuse me, but I don't find the option to send you a dm. Could you tell me where to get the sound you played when Wojcik transforms? It's absolutely perfect! Congratulations to all!
Yes! in Roll20 we have access to a site called BattleBards, and one of the selections is called "Woman Brutally Transforms To Werewolf ETPA" - that's what we used!
Hi again :) I have gathered some friends to do our very first Alien session, Chariot of the Gods. We will have our first session on Friday through Roll20. I’m very impressed by the sound effects you use and I wonder if you could assist me in getting the various Alien background music? I have searched but I cannot find any source to get it from. Kr / Marcus
Thanks so much! We pulled many of the sounds directly from the movies (and some from Aliens videogames), and some from an archive of sound effects from very helpful people on the AlienRPG subreddit! Unfortunately, I can't help with music, but I recommend you do a google search for James Horner's Aliens Soundtrack! Good luck!
4:44 min into it and the look on Chaplain and Zmijewski face just said it all 😨😨 Balls to that I'm with Zmijewski and wouldn't of waiting for it to finish transforming, GM's description be damned, and just unloaded everything into it.
I've seen a couple of different groups playing this scenario and holy shit, your run is the best. The use of sounds and music alone was impressive (the timing, the volume and other details), but then there's also players' engagement in the story and their roleplay, the sound quality, the fluent use of maps and a ton of other stuff you presented as a crew, it was just plain awesome. Great job :)
Thank you! Stay tuned for act 2 and 3! Act 3 airs tonight live on our Twitch channel! Come join us!
Great work. Manipulating the Roll 20 and keeping in narrative. Awesome. No way i could do that.
Thanks to all who watched this EPIC Act 1 live and who watch on UA-cam! For you rules afficionados, we played mostly by the book, but use a couple "homebrew" rules (mainly Death Rolls which you can't do in Roll20 without rolling stress dice) so don't @ me ;D
It was amazing! Would love to join one of your sessions! :)
Are you using homebrew rules for armor versus attack damage? If so, it seems to be a bit unbalanced, especially when a single successful armor roll can completely mitigate a successful hit from a 9-damage weapon (that Xenomorph should have taken 7 damage from the grenade, plus 1 for being the target). I don't want to sound rude or anything, I just wanted to make the suggestion as it might help these scenarios go more smoothly.
@@RepKyle95 Thanks! We've been reading the rule for armor wrong and look to improve it in the next Act of the playthrough! Also note that grenade launchers do Blast Power 9 damage (and 1 for the target automatically) - the output says "Damage 9" by mistake - it should read "Blast 9". It simply means that in the case of the 1st grenade strike from Zmijewski, the alien would have taken 2 damage after the 2 armor mitigation to the damage rolled (Sarah rolled 2 successes). Silva's subsequent grenade shot was 1 success, and the alien rolled 2 successes on its armor for a total of 2 damage mitigated.
Question why did the drone attack the android? That doesn’t really make sense
Love the play guys , nicely done! Love that Narrator intro "too many fronts not enough grunts"
Glad you enjoyed it!
When I hear "UPP" all I can think of is, ♪♪"You down with UPP!" "Yeah, you know me!"♪♪
The song is OPP lol
@@MisterNineEleven Yup, that's the joke.
Hello ! Matt, you are a good GM. Nice voice sound effects. But just a few things about the rules :
- Piloting rolls applie only when there is danger or a real difficulty to drive the vehicle.
- Acid splash adds as many dices as the damage received by the xenomorph. So it's an attack with more than 8 damage dices.
- Medical aid (and medkits) can be used only on someone who is broken or with a critical injury. Otherwise, the only way to regain health is some peaceful rest.
- Critical injury #62 requires two successful Medical aid rolls, the first to heal the wound, the second to avoid death, with a -2 malus.
Keep on gaming !
Thank you for your comment!
Been listening to ya’ll during work Podcast style and I have to agree with the comments, one of the best playgroups I’ve randomly stumbled upon! Thank you for the hours and hours of entertainment ❤
P.S. Your Hayms’ voice sounded uncannily like Will Arnett through my AirPods 😂
We ran the station Sunday night. Fucking drone one-shotted Hammer. Bit a hole through his face, scrambled into the foyer, threw itself against the glass front doors a few rounds, took several bullet hits, 4 points of damage but not enough to kill it, and eventually smashed through and escaped. Brutal game, jeez.
Oof... brutal is right!
Zmijewski roleplay right out the gate at the bar was fantastic.
She's the star of the game!
Wow, incredible job capturing the horror/suspense atmosphere, pacing, and characterization. Definetely will be watching the remaining Destroyer of Worlds episodes and checking out your other content!
Omg this is amazing stuff! I definitely picked up that scenario because of how you rocked it! I loved all the effects ya put in! It's awesome
Thank you so much! Have fun!
@@SlicesnDices Oh I will!
Binged through Act 1 in a day, the gameplay and RP was fantastic!
Time for Act 2!!
thanks for the great playthrough. I'm about to run this for my group and this was a HUGE help.
Have fun! Glad we could help!
Slices'N'Dices is by far the best run scenarios and RP I have seen for the Alien RP so far. Currently planning on running Chariots, then DoW myself for a few groups.
Thanks so much for watching!
Good job, guys! I'm looking forward to running this campaign soon!
Great crew, and AWESOME GM!
Good job guys!
Thanks so much for watching
Fantastic use of sound effects and player engagement! I'm currently running the same adventure with my group but made some sweeping changes. I let my Players make their own characters but kept most of the pregens as helpful NPCs. I also decided to throw them into a prequel adventure where they are working with what would later become the traitor NPCs on a mission. Clean out a nest of hostile alien fauna (giant bugs) and investigate a mole in the base that's been informing the rebels of patrol routes for easy ambushes. Get them attached and offer more of a reason to care about Wojchek, Wright, Reese, and Carvalho. Unfortunately the result is what should be a 3 session game into a 6 session mini campaign.
Damn 5 minutes in and I’m already loving it!
Thank you so much for watching!!
You did that wrong, Matt. Injury 54 is fatal, but only after one shift. One shift is 8 hours. Mason will not die unless 8 hours go by without medical attention.
Thanks for your input! Please note that this was over two years ago and we’ve learned a lot about how the game works by now! That aside, hope you enjoyed the play through!
@@SlicesnDices
I did. Almost done with this one, then I will watch the second one. I ran this a few months ago.
I've only just come across your video here, but it's great!
I'm currently writing my own (kind of) sequel to Hope's Last Day, with "HS" serving as the big bad Company Man two years later (he was the only survivor, having left the other 3 behind as he escaped on the Shuttle alone) on a Weyland-Yutani owned Flora Scientific Research Vessel named the USMR Archimedes.
I'm currently working on a nightclub fight scene, haha.
I've subbed and look forward to watching future videos of yours! Much love from the UK.
Thank you so much for tuning in! Make sure to check out our other videos!
wow the game play developed very well...way better then others on youtube have done.
Thank you so much for watching!
And they forgotted use those extra succes in combat for stunts and extra damage all the time. They also played wrong many times, when damage was aplied to enemy.
This was a lot of fun to watch! Really well DMed and well played, am keen on act 2!
I only watched this video because I just bought the game an wanna see how it plays but this is actually entertaining good work
Thanks so much! Hope you come back to watch our other videos!
I love your narrative and the sound effects are really cool! I wonder about the acid damage though to the structures and flooring? Seems like some of them flooring should have given way from all the acid, dropping everybody down to the next floor below and I thought acid damage was supposed to continue for another turn afterwards or round? I really ignored most of it, with all the fun we were having. Can't wait for the next one!
Impressive. So fun to watch. Good group balance and roleplay. Hooked while I'm preparing my first session.
Awesome! Let us know if you need any pointers! And welcome to the channel!
I always love the inevitable sit around with RP exposition while folks are in shock and missing limbs hahaha! Such a great episode! Talk about meat-grinder! Loved it!
Thank you for watching!!
Great playthrough. For a new "Muther" excellent use of rules and understanding of Alien. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
You saw it here, everyone. In outer space, no one can hear you stream.
One of the reasons I can't be bothered to watch Critical Role is because every episode is three hours long. But you folks make this gripping and suspenseful enough that I can watch five hours of it. Only past the first hour so far, but I have to say my favorite is Big Z and her entertainingly rendered Brooklyn accent. Makes for a perfect hard boiled military character who's done too much and seen too much. The rest of the crew pulls off a very believable squad of burnt out grunts as well.
To be in the same sentence as Critical Role is an absolute honor! Thanks for watching!
Loving the run so far, just a FYI those explosions with a strength higher than 7, hit the adjacent zones with a -7 modifier or something. Nothing that a bit of armour shouldn't handle but still not risk free.
Amazing work props to the GM for all the sound effects, how did you get all of those ?
Hey there Matt (nice name btw heheh!) - all the sound effects and music are pulled from various sources on the internet, loaded into Rpll20, and played through my own hand or Roll20Audio Master! Send me a DM and I'll give you more info! Thanks for subbing! Stay tuned to Slices & Dices for more awesome content and be sure to tell your friends about us!
@@SlicesnDices deffently gonna advise you to my mates your channel deserves more views, I couldn't figure out how to DM you so i ended up emailing you instead. cant wait to see the next act XD. If you have not played it yet the chariot of the gods scenario is fantastic (more like the 1st moive).
@@Sn1perCat03 where did you get the email from? I would love some info on those weapon sound effects
@@jorgecabrera2599 Ah I Emailed the slice and dice, i didn't get the sound effects but understand how he does it using Audacity and uploading them to role 20 my issue is that I have nearly maxed my space on role 20 between destroyer and chariot (2 alien campaigns) so i would not be able to do what he has done as he has a premium subscription to roll20 where i use it for free so i have far less space (in particular i emailed GM matt (I am not the Matt in this video btw))
@@SlicesnDices I also am not familiar with youtube DMs but I also bought this scenario on Roll20 due to this vid and suscribed. Is there anywhere i could find a guide or somesuch you may have posted on what you did? Thank you!
Big props to the gm. This was a lot of fun to watch. The metagaming at times was a bit much though.
Thanks for watching! Can you let us know what metagaming you found was an issue?
So, we are four sessions in and around 7.5 hours. The PCs just reached Act 2. They didn't meet Wright at the spaceport, I'll have to introduce her later somewhere, somehow. The UPP has just begun its orbital assault and I had a kilometer wide mother ship with a shadow over Ariarcus (in Roll20, it looked awesome) and it boomed out that tripod sound effect from the War of the Worlds remake and it blasted out windows with a sonic pulse. Next session begins the bombing and air strikes. I really don't know what the PCs are going to do. They're going to freak the fuck out.
NICE!!!
@@SlicesnDices Well YOUR sessions are very inspirational! I mean, I've always used sound effects and stuff, but it's great seeing a UA-cam recap where the GM is using it to amazing effect. I do a written recap of all my stories but that doesn't include the sound effects of course.
That happened to me too re: my PCs not going to the spaceport. I ended up introducing Wright by having her hiding out w/ Fei2 in act 2. Worked out great
I'd love to try the RPG out after watching this video. I'd also love to see or try to write some original campaigns using the rules.
That would be cool! Please share!
Live tabletop play: Sidetracked by Princess Bride references, Monty Python references, and snacks.
Virtual tabletop play: Sidetracked by technical difficulties.
"The aorta's in the chest, not the neck."
That's correct. But the heart is in the leg.
"Fifteen, twenty minutes to the end of the Act, can we pull through?"
(checks timer) An hour and change. . . yep, that's Gamer Time.
That's about average for us. Thanks for watching!!
@@SlicesnDices Thanks for recording!
i am not ód what a great moment❤
What an amazing cast of players and an amazing GM! You really made it feel alive and real! As someone who is trying to learn how to GM this game, it's always great to see someone doing it so well! Have to ask, what did you do to set up those personal agenda cards, and are there any special macros you use to avoid flipping through the book to the many different tables you need to use?
EDIT: 2:12:19 When rolling armor, you reduce the total damage by however many successes you rolled. If a weapon does 2 damage default and only got one success, you would still need to roll 2 successes with armor to completely negate the damage. At least that is how I understand it.
You're right! Thanks for the tip! As for the deck, you can take the PDFs and add them all to the online deck in Roll20 and then give the deck a card back. We made a TON of macros! DM me and I can hook you up (if you have a Pro account, it makes it even easier as you can use the API!)
@@SlicesnDices I unfortunately do not have a Pro Account (it's so difficult to find players, and I've just been trying to learn the system to GM), but if it would help me I'd be open to getting one. I'll definitely send you a DM!
Sent an email!
@@SlicesnDices I looooove the sound for Wojcik transformation! Could you tell me where did you get it from?
@@DavidBis It's actually from Roll20! They have a bunch of hosted sites with in-game music and sound effects, and one of them is called BattleBards! You can check them out here: www.battlebards.com
I've literally just finished my playthrough of this campaign where I played Captain Silva and I'm very excited to see a playthrough where no one plays Silva.
Because damn, the Command ability and her talent to use it twice in one round saved our asses so much.
Only lost one PC and that was in the final fight which was amazing aswell.
EDIT: And no ones playing Dante the mad RPG-lad? My god. He one shot more aliens than the rest of us did damage!
Oh, you just watch. Dante is INTEGRAL to this campaign.
@@SlicesnDices Exciting, after that last combat I’m intrigued as to how this will end!
@@WhiteLama You're in for a wild ride!
Pvt Hammers player is so in to this and i like it! Hope to see him in future Alien playtroughts. Too bad dindt see him play in campaign after this one.
If you have not already I highly advise that you join the "alien RPG by Free League" Facebook group as we not only share a bunch of resources (I have just shared a lot of tokens i made for the aliens), and discuss stuff people also share their youtube vids etc (with nearly 4k people in the group I am sure that you would get a fair amount of views/subs from that. there is also a "The Alien RPG" discord group which provides similar stuff
That's a great idea! Thank you so much!
Amazing GM
Thank you so much for watching!
3 + 2 + 1 massive clue vibes
Is it just me, or did the gm channel captain kirk there in the beginning of the games intro?
Oh, you should see my Zap Brannigan impression.
"You are an aliens..."
I would have been more amused if he had said, "You are a Cylon!"
Any chance the GM matt has a library available for another GM looking to run this scenario? I loved all the effects and I'm looking at possibly running it myself in a similar manner
Destroyer of Worlds is available to purchase and run on Roll20! If you need help with setting up effects for your players, send me a DM
Where did you acquire the sounds for the APC and Dropship?
This was great.
Thank you so much!
Great product review :P Watched as I've got the corebook but wasn't sure about DoW as not a fan of all the prequel additions to the setting, but this puts this in a good light!
Glad we could sway you!
You are great. Where you get these great sounds from?
Will there be any more videos? :)
Cenedir indeed there will! Act 2 streaming live on Twitch.tv/slicesndices October 16th! And on our YT channel shortly after!
@@SlicesnDices Nice. Read the scenario myself two days ago. Seems pretty awesome!
What social media program are you using to play like this? It seems very useful!
If by media, you mean content sharing, we use a combination of Zoom for video, Discord for audio, and Roll20 for the game itself! Hope you like what you watched!
Matt G has the exact same voice as Tom Cruise.
Show Me The Money!
This was an excellent Actual Play. I don't usually like to watch them, but the cast is great here & the presentation is wonderful. Would you consider doing a whole video on how you've set everything up within Roll20 for this high quality Alien experience?
Certainly! I'll give it some thought in the new year on how best to send that out! And thank you for watching!!!
@@SlicesnDices Thanks brother. You earned a new sub; looking forward to more Alien (and any other) content coming.
Amazing stuff!
Thanks!
This is a very well run game! I need to politely ask you where you acquired the sound effects and music as I’m hoping to run an Alien RPG game soon. 🙂
Hi Xoriel! We obtained most of the sound effects by looking online! It's amazing what you can find with a day and half of google searching for mp3s! Also, the Alienrpg subreddit is a great place to ask around! The music is mostly copyright from the Alien movies (which we used with permission) and used sparingly. Join us on our discord at discord.gg/bEneV9 and we can help you out making your own games!
Slices & Dices thanks! Can you please resend that invitation as it appears the one above has expired? 😊
@@xoriel77 discord.gg/U5RqfrW
A link to that sound effect for the transformation into a body burster?
Comes with Roll20 audio library - BattleBards - "Werewolf - Woman Brutally Transforms to Werewolf
Andreas Voukrou"
@@SlicesnDices thank you!
Hammer should of told the Xeno "Cant touch this"
I love that the video end with her saying "They did wha-..."
"Ima, guna go outside and see where those fucks went" shes back at it again with some top role play. I watch Sarah just for her golden content. 10/10 (James as hammer was great) nice job everyone. #mattbuildingbetterworlds
"its not ridiculous, its standard issue"
Do you have a folder with all the audio files in at all?
Matt -- do you have some tips on how to get the sound effects when people use the weapons working? That's scripting, right, via Roll20 Audio Master? So do you have separate macros for the different weapons, or can this somehow be integrated dynamically ("If weapon=pulse_rifle, play pulse_rifle_audio"), etc. I'd love to implement something like this in my sessions.
Fantastic game-mothering by the way. Really tight, great atmosphere, and just the right mix of being positive and generous when the players try something, but also pulling no punches when something bad happens to them.
Yes indeed! We use Roll20AM and use separate macros for each sound placed within the weapon text section for each weapon so that it plays upon character or NPC attack! Then I use a macro as a token action so that the PCs can attack or check their stunts without even having to open their character sheet! Thank you so much for watching!
@@SlicesnDices Fantastic -- thanks so much for the reply! And now I'm off to watching the end of act III.
Hey what was the source of the awesome sound effects for the transformation late in the Act? I’ll be running this scene soon and would love to use it.
We got it off BattleBards - "Werewolf - Woman Brutally Transforms to Werewolf
Andreas Voukrou"
@@SlicesnDices Thanks!
Fantastic game! Love all the sounds you've thrown in.. however I gotta say, the guy playing chaplain is driving me nuts, lol he should be playing the dumbest marine in the squad
Hey What's up yall 😊God Good 👍🙏🤪🙌👏✨👍Game 🎮👌👏🙏🙌😉🎮
Hey! This is awesome. My guys are going to the Marshalls Sunday night. But how are you doing the drone stat block and having all of its different attacks roll up so easily in the roll20 chat box?
Great question! I added the drone's attacks to a Drone character sheet just as you'd do for the Roll20 character sheets for the PCs. Then, add the dice for each attack as the bonus (since they only roll base dice for their attacks and are not attached to ranged or melee attributes). Thanks for asking and watching our little Alien RPG miniseries!
Hey there, first of all: thanks for that amazing play. i am going to play destroyer of worlds soon and you give me a lot of inspiration :)! one question: is there any chance that youll do a tutorial for roll20? i bought it at the marketplace and found out that there are no tokens (someone else complained about that in the forums too). so i would be a great service for many of us to see how you managed the roll20 work you did :).
Hey there @megamegafalloutboy! We dont usually do roll20 tutorials as there are so many great Roll20 videos on UA-cam. All we can say is that we're Pro users of the system, and the APIs help a LOT! We made our own tokens with the use of some we found on the AlienRPG subreddit (check them out!) but you can join our Discord and we'd be glad to help out in any way!
I know I'm late to the party, great video. I love it. Is the turn order chat, where it sits whoops turn it is, part of the roll20 chat, and was it custom? I'd love to incorporate something like that in my own roll20 games.
Hey there! It’s actually an API called Turn tracker which you can add to your Roll20 game if you have a pro account!
@@SlicesnDices thank you.
Also, which API are you using for initiative, is it Group Init? It looks great, but I don't know how you set it up for ALIEN rpg. I think Roll20 is pretty badass, but the quirky system to access all of the best attributes is a pain in the butt.
We're not using an API for initiative, just the Initiative Tracker and the character sheets for the PCs (they have a Initiative button) and also the Initiative Macro can used from the Macro bar for all NPCs/enemiers.
I would love to try rpg but my friends aren’t interested is the any free place where I can almost all discords I try are always empty
Hi Daniel! I'd recommend that you try out StartPlaying.games! They are a great place to find games that need players! Many games are free and are great for beginners! Best of luck!
I just have to ask. I have been trolling the past few weeks trying to find good sound clips for all the weapons and things you had and played over the course of the session. Where did you find and collect all these pieces from, or is that a trade secret at this point? xD
No secret -- we got them from lots of different places, mostly from the AlienRPG subreddit! Give it a shot! The tough part was the organization!
Silva dying was the best thing that could have happened to them
Edit: DAMMIT!!!
How does one sign up for an aliens: rpg sessions to play?
Our current RPG sessions aren't open to the public, unfortunately, but you can certainly join our Discord and chat with our crew! Thanks for watching!
Where did you get the female transformation sound effects?! I wanna use them for this same scenario! Lol
Many have asked this question! Its available on BattleBards - "Werewolf - Woman Brutally Transforms to Werewolf
Andreas Voukrou"
I recommend you use roll 20 for rpgs.
We do indeed use it, and love using it! Thank you for your recommendation!
Iona, there seems to be a malfunction with your comms.
Excuse me, but I don't find the option to send you a dm. Could you tell me where to get the sound you played when Wojcik transforms? It's absolutely perfect! Congratulations to all!
Yes! in Roll20 we have access to a site called BattleBards, and one of the selections is called "Woman Brutally Transforms To Werewolf ETPA" - that's what we used!
@@SlicesnDices thank you so much! 😀
You gave James the Donte character to play after Hammer got burned down by alien acid? That wasn't very nice Matt...
It was either that or Silva. And well, we all know how that ends.
@@SlicesnDices True. It wouldn't end well either way... LOL!
Why is it that UPP sounds like a very dirty coalition just by that abbreviation.
You down with UPP?
Where did you get the character art from??
Character art came from the PDF as distributed digitally.
Never mind. Just got told that it's part of the adventure module. Do you have a fanart page??
@@andreaso8886 we don’t but if you want to send fanart to us we’ll be more than happy to showcase it on our social media!
Hello ! Could you enable subtitles, please ?
Hi Nicolas! We're working on it! Thanks for your patience!
Hi again :) I have gathered some friends to do our very first Alien session, Chariot of the Gods. We will have our first session on Friday through Roll20. I’m very impressed by the sound effects you use and I wonder if you could assist me in getting the various Alien background music? I have searched but I cannot find any source to get it from. Kr / Marcus
Thanks so much! We pulled many of the sounds directly from the movies (and some from Aliens videogames), and some from an archive of sound effects from very helpful people on the AlienRPG subreddit! Unfortunately, I can't help with music, but I recommend you do a google search for James Horner's Aliens Soundtrack! Good luck!
Thanks, I'll have a look!
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I just wish the beginning of the video was edited a bit
Hi @Maxthe2nd! This is a full video upload from our live games on Twitch. What would you have preferred be edited out?
Where do I know your voice from Matt G? (Subscribed, btw.)
I've done some work here and there, mostly in voice over! Thanks for your Sub!
Is this like some kind of a card game? Never seen anything like this, it's not a videogame I don't get it?
Tabletop. Think D&D ( Dungeons & Dragons) But in this case the Alien universe.
The gm was to nice not to let it have acid blood booo I would of done acid blood as I am a evil gm
This system is brutal as is, no need to be an evil GM! :D
@@SlicesnDices no you just play the girl with a cat and you win all the time right XD
@@simpleroleplay2136 unless the cat is an alien..... DUN DUN DUN!
@@SlicesnDices I think the cat in the film was not a Alien
Chaplain is an impostor....
4:44 min into it and the look on Chaplain and Zmijewski face just said it all 😨😨
Balls to that I'm with Zmijewski and wouldn't of waiting for it to finish transforming, GM's description be damned, and just unloaded everything into it.