Alien RPG is fun and well designed but the panic check does not negate success automatically, unless you fail the panic roll etc... you can be forced to roll a panic check and still succeed. All in all it was a fun one shot to watch. great job and I look forward to seeing more.
Obviously, you guys realized this by now, but a panic roll is d6 + panic level. So, you can't be 8 +4. Your VTT is doing the full panic roll. You didn't need to add anything. Great job though!
Thanks so much! From experience of running it a few more times, you’ll need to set aside two sessions for the scenario. It’s much longer than it would appear when you get into it
Stress is already so punishing by design in Alien RPG, so it is hard to watch everyone adding double stress to panic rolls. And rolling ranged combat then weapons is two attack rolls (just one with fewer dice than it should have). So they basically had disadvantage on attacks (plus bane for -1d4 on their first roll) if you want to think of it in D&D terms. They were really tying their hands behind their backs for this one shot. At least it wasn't Heart of Darkness, or they'd have died of stress in the first act.
Yeah, this was our first time playing it. I've since run more games of it and understand the finer mechanics more. Once our main D&D campaign is finished in the next few weeks we're going to be running Heart of Darkness as a mid season special so I'm paying attention to the rules more Hopefully Alien 2e will simplify some of the rules for this
I loved how the ending turned out.
Alien RPG is fun and well designed but the panic check does not negate success automatically, unless you fail the panic roll etc... you can be forced to roll a panic check and still succeed. All in all it was a fun one shot to watch. great job and I look forward to seeing more.
Heckin good job. Do some more alien content you guys were great!
Obviously, you guys realized this by now, but a panic roll is d6 + panic level. So, you can't be 8 +4. Your VTT is doing the full panic roll. You didn't need to add anything. Great job though!
This was a fun watch! It’s helping me prep to run this for my own group. Despite not making it to the 3rd act I really enjoyed how you lot ended it!
Thanks so much! From experience of running it a few more times, you’ll need to set aside two sessions for the scenario. It’s much longer than it would appear when you get into it
Stress is already so punishing by design in Alien RPG, so it is hard to watch everyone adding double stress to panic rolls. And rolling ranged combat then weapons is two attack rolls (just one with fewer dice than it should have). So they basically had disadvantage on attacks (plus bane for -1d4 on their first roll) if you want to think of it in D&D terms. They were really tying their hands behind their backs for this one shot. At least it wasn't Heart of Darkness, or they'd have died of stress in the first act.
Yeah, this was our first time playing it. I've since run more games of it and understand the finer mechanics more.
Once our main D&D campaign is finished in the next few weeks we're going to be running Heart of Darkness as a mid season special so I'm paying attention to the rules more
Hopefully Alien 2e will simplify some of the rules for this
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