I couldn't believe my eyes after I finished the video and noticed this channel had so few views and subs, your production quality is great while maintaining that sense of authenticity one wishes to see when watching games. Everyone was great at RPing while also being mechanically aware at all times, and the DM did a great job at pacing everything and staying on top of things. I'd been looking for a good gameplay video of this game and this is by far the best I've found, even compared to the bigger sponsored channels.
I know right? His games seem so fun too. October is Aliens month for me because the xenomorph and the possibility something like it is out there in the universe is the most horrifying thing. I would love to be in one of thier campaigns. Seems fun.
A caveat, we made a slight error on "Armor Doubled" at 1:37:00 - it actually means that the armor of a target is doubled when attacked by a weapon with the Armor Doubled trait.
yea, notice a shotgun shoots small pellets at the aliens 8 armor.... more like 16 armor against the shot gun, cinematic play is meant to be scary that your weapons are sorta shit, but campaign play, characters can get some sweet gear, made for bug hunts
I added a box of slugs in the weapon cabinet. The player character had to stand there spending a slow action to reload with slugs, all while watching the alien attacking his buddies lol
Ok I popped here to take a look at people's interpretation of this adventure, and BOY I am happy to see the use of the actual movie's soundtrack at 28:47. I recognize that small violin motif from Aliens anytime, anywhere. I'm considering subbing now thanks to that, cuz I appreciate a DM that puts his efforts on music and mood
Ran this for my friends the other night and they got really lucky up until their first Xeno encounter. Holroyd got muffed right out the gate and they barely managed to get some flamethrower action on it before it tried to get away. Literally rolled 2 headbites and a grab>headbite. First was a surprise attack, then the Xeno had the highest initiatives. Blown away by how badly stacked these guys are if you're not lucky.
I know this comment comes very late. But I wanted to thank you for the fantastic playthrough. Both the cast and GM added a lot of character and tension. I was preparing to run Alien for the first time yesterday (using Hope's Last Day as a "training scenario for us all"). And your playthrough inspired me the most. Despite very minor rules hesitations (I ended up forgetting a more when I ran :) ), you really brought the setting and story to life. Kudos for the amount of preparation put in by Mu/Th/Ur! You inspired me to to do my best to transport the players to LV-426.
Great game to listen to guys. Great performance from everyone and special congrats to the GM for keeping up with anything. My guess was everyone was ment to die but would say Hersh was best through out...very entertaining character to follow^^
Just watched this for preparing my own run and I had so much fun watching! The finale was so awesome and all the players as well as the game mother did a great job. Tanks for making this video!👍
I just bought the starter kit, i watch your game to have an idea. I mainly gm Cthulhu, so this horror sci fi game insterests me. Great work from Gm here. Greeting from France
Very inspiring gameplay and a very good group of players. Really enjoyed it and I hope you do more AlienRPG soon! Only improvement I'd like to see is the volume of some of the players need to be boosted. Other then that excellent done!
Thank you so much! Yes, we've made some adjustments on those players' headsets since then! Check out our "Destroyer of Worlds" 3 parter for more Alien RPG!
@SlicesnDices I know this is old, but just went through all of Heart of Darkness, and felt the need to do all the videos after that. Anyone make it after the ending cut off? My assumption is NOPE. I also want state how great of a GM you are.
Thanks for watching! Unfortunately, YT cut off the ending and we artistically left it like that, so that you, our dear audience, can think about what happened for yourself!
1:43:10 My own group had similar occurrence. I ran Chariot of the gods and the first roll made by an Abomination was an insta death head crush. We spent the next few minutes laughing over the absurdity of it.
I have been playing this game ever since I saw you guys run through the "Destroyer of Worlds" story and have greatly enjoyed it... Sadly though, almost all of my players have pretty much left; and every attempts I have had to try and get new players has ended in a failure (in the fact that after my initial reach out and them saying yes they just don't show up and stop responding to my texts). So it seems like my time with this and other TTRPGs might be coming to an end (in terms of playing); and the saddest part of it, is that I've barely gotten to play as a player (and for this game in particular, I haven't played as a player a single time)
Im thinking if the holryd character based on rulebook as a synth was never stressed and never had to make panic rolls.pg .111 of the rule book ... i know this is from last july but was confused as he was taking stress from the start of the video.
Synthetics don’t take stress if they’re openly being a synthetic. If they’re hiding their status they take stress as normal, as well as having non synthetic stats.
I am hoping to run this one shot myself and your channel runs this game so well! Fantastic job, you deserve so many more subs! Hope you continue to make Alien RPG content! EDIT: would also LOVE to know how you set up the sound effects for your game! I really want to do the same for my game, and your stream has been inspirational!
Real quick, armor doubled rule for the shotgun (page 118 rulebook) that an armor value is doubled. If an alien has 10 armor, it becomes 20 armor. Shotguns are for some reason really bad to have verses xenos...
@@SlicesnDices welp, guess its a no survivors scenario then. Makes it more dramatic that someone was this close from escaping and still failed. Now, to destroyer of Worlds
Yeah, we're sorry about that -- we specify that in big bold letters in the show notes. Perhaps we will run it again some time in the near future (this was our first go at it!). Thank you for watching, though!
Getting up from prone is a fast action. Moving away from a target you're engaged with (retreat) is a fast action as well, as is running into another zone. Striking (close combat) is a slow action. Do remember that aliens have multiple initiatives within a round.
@@erikbjelke4411 I know.... long story short, only one person makes it off Hadley's Hope alive. But he's got a little friend who tags along for the ride....
I am not going to lie, Lovelyllama has some great convincing of her agenda and character, i love it, shes real into it. About to finish the video, "komisky get inside now, get in get in come on , komisky" i can see her awol religious ass hanging out the door way swinging her arm in against the howling winds... cant wait for destroyer of worlds
I might have to run this one (I have done chariot and I am getting ready to do destroyer) and im not sure why but this didn't appeal to me but maybe i should give it a chance
Huh, the video cut off right as the chestburster ran. I still don't know what happened. In my head, the selfish scientist left the soldier and ran away with the shuttle. Shortly after entering orbit, something killed him too.
Arent synthetics suppose to not be subject to panic rolls since they dont have human feelings so they cant feel panic and stress ...Also isnt synthtetics suppose to not be able to push rolls since they dont get adrenaline rushes ?
Hi guys, great production but Sverker is correct. I cannot find where it says once you reveal... (either page 77 or 111 depending which book you are using) It says In combat androids act like humans and they roll skills normally. BUT there are several differences... Skill and Stress: Androids can't push skill rolls. They don't suffer stress, don't have a stress level and the never make panic rolls.
Absolutely fantastic playthrough! I thoroughly enjoyed it! A question for the GM: I want to run this and am wondering if it would be good to give the PCs a chance to decrease stress levels at some point? It felt like at the end or even during some role playing moments in the medical centre, that the stress levels were just too high and crippled players from doing anything unfairly...or do you think that's the whole point of the system to generate tension?
I wonder how the egg got in since the shuttle was locked when they came to it. Clearly the alien would have gotten burnt in atmosphere, or if it could enter it would dmg the ship too badly. Interesting mystery
@@SlicesnDices well to my previous question xD the game lore explained the agent placed the eggs in the shuttle. When it comes to sullaco thats also good question, big plot hole but i guess the queen popped it out of hidden pocket :D ...
Hi! Very cool game to watch! Where did you get this map in such good detail? I tried to use the image from the corebook, but it was not at such a good resolution.
Re: Armor Piercing and Armor Doubled rules. You misinterpreted the stated RAW. Page 118 of the book says: "SPECIAL is any special effects that this weapon has. "Armor Piercing" means that any Armor Rating counts as half against this weapon, rounding fractions up. Armor DOubled" means that any Armor Rating is doubled against this weapon."
Just found this. Great GM. Great players. Interesting module. I am going to run this without to the computer stuff. I see i need to make some bigger printouts for the maps so its easier to visualize where they are and where they are going. Also mark all the tables so I can quickly find them. One question though...Isnt androids immune to stress?
Hey there! Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed our game (and the many that came after)! Androids are indeed immune to stress but only when they are revealed to be an android. Otherwise, they take stress as normal when pretending to be a human.
The rule book is easy to follow. And you just use 6 sided dice, pass or fail…. It was easy to pick up and play, the cinematic modules also have everything you need to run a single scenario like this one, character sheets and everything
I have never run this game, but I am pretty sure that 'doubles armor' means that when using the weapon the armor of the target is doubled. 'Armor piercing' is what halves the armor value of the target. Edit Looks like you guys caught this yourselves! I am kind of curious though, again only having read the rules once through, whether or not MacWhir would be allowed to push that block roll; and finally, doesn't the xenomorph need to roll to see if the special attacks 'hit' before the PCs suffer the effects?
Great question! It depends on the attack! But normally yes the successes need to exceed the armor of the target unless the target dodges or blocks. Even then, the successes need to be greater than the attack successes rolled to block/dodge. He would have probably been able to push that block, but do remember that this was our first foray into this game system, so we made some mistakes. Nevertheless fun was had by all.
@@SlicesnDices thanks for the response! Of course! It was pretty clear that this was a first time play through, and even though this session is was a year or so ago, since I recently acquired a number of the books for this game at Gencon this year, and having read through them only once, I was right there with you kind of learning the system as you guys played.
@@SlicesnDices I'm thinking in movie terms... Game logic not withstanding. I have not yet acquired the book as I have another money pit I'm involved in called Warhammer (plastic crack) :P I do intend to acquire the books here eventually. Also, I am a very big fan of the genre, well Alien and Aliens along with many of the books and comics... I did not care for the other films with the exception of the art directions (I'm a VFX and Graphic artist)...( I built a full scale articulated Queen Alien for a haunted house on an Air Force Base)... If you can find a copy of the novel for Alien from 79 (not the latest reprint) there is much more in that novel than in the film. I have many of the comics as well... all excellent fodder for adventures/campaigns: ALIEN: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore... ALIEN: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebron... and ALIEN: River of Pain by Christopher Golden. Some of the comics have interesting plot points and ideas... like the company harvesting the royal jelly from the Queens and when humans ingest the substance... it makes them "Hulk" out. Then they make a Xenomorph Drone android designed to infiltrate the hive. The screen Play for Alien five that tentatively had Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn to star (but was canx due to Disney's acquisition of Fox) Had a plot point where Ripley infiltrates a hive wearing a bio suit emulating a xenomorph... www.avpcentral.com/images/female-xenomorph/alien-5-ellen-ripley.jpg... Cheers!
I couldn't believe my eyes after I finished the video and noticed this channel had so few views and subs, your production quality is great while maintaining that sense of authenticity one wishes to see when watching games. Everyone was great at RPing while also being mechanically aware at all times, and the DM did a great job at pacing everything and staying on top of things. I'd been looking for a good gameplay video of this game and this is by far the best I've found, even compared to the bigger sponsored channels.
Thank you so much for watching!
I know right? His games seem so fun too. October is Aliens month for me because the xenomorph and the possibility something like it is out there in the universe is the most horrifying thing. I would love to be in one of thier campaigns. Seems fun.
@@HermeticJazz Thank you so much for watching! Happy Halloween!
So much left unexplored, you could redo this place.
The acid blood melted through some of the severs / wiring and then messed up roll 20
A caveat, we made a slight error on "Armor Doubled" at 1:37:00 - it actually means that the armor of a target is doubled when attacked by a weapon with the Armor Doubled trait.
Yeah, too bad your initial guess about Armor Doubled wasn't correct. That would help PCs out a LOT!
yea, notice a shotgun shoots small pellets at the aliens 8 armor.... more like 16 armor against the shot gun, cinematic play is meant to be scary that your weapons are sorta shit, but campaign play, characters can get some sweet gear, made for bug hunts
I added a box of slugs in the weapon cabinet. The player character had to stand there spending a slow action to reload with slugs, all while watching the alien attacking his buddies lol
Ok I popped here to take a look at people's interpretation of this adventure, and BOY I am happy to see the use of the actual movie's soundtrack at 28:47. I recognize that small violin motif from Aliens anytime, anywhere.
I'm considering subbing now thanks to that, cuz I appreciate a DM that puts his efforts on music and mood
This is excellent and not many people stream their ALIEN sessions at all so I'm going to be watching your campaigns for this. You're a fantastic GM!!
I'm GM'ing my first Alien game this weekend, and this has been an amazing guide!
Ran this for my friends the other night and they got really lucky up until their first Xeno encounter. Holroyd got muffed right out the gate and they barely managed to get some flamethrower action on it before it tried to get away. Literally rolled 2 headbites and a grab>headbite. First was a surprise attack, then the Xeno had the highest initiatives. Blown away by how badly stacked these guys are if you're not lucky.
I know this comment comes very late. But I wanted to thank you for the fantastic playthrough. Both the cast and GM added a lot of character and tension. I was preparing to run Alien for the first time yesterday (using Hope's Last Day as a "training scenario for us all"). And your playthrough inspired me the most. Despite very minor rules hesitations (I ended up forgetting a more when I ran :) ), you really brought the setting and story to life. Kudos for the amount of preparation put in by Mu/Th/Ur! You inspired me to to do my best to transport the players to LV-426.
GM has a great voice. Could narrate audiobooks.
Thank you! I’ll look into it lol
My favorite part is the chain reaction panic, everyone making everyone else panic. lol
I'm panicking, you're panicking, everyone panic!
@@SlicesnDices Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
Great game to listen to guys. Great performance from everyone and special congrats to the GM for keeping up with anything.
My guess was everyone was ment to die but would say Hersh was best through out...very entertaining character to follow^^
Just watched this for preparing my own run and I had so much fun watching! The finale was so awesome and all the players as well as the game mother did a great job. Tanks for making this video!👍
I remember first listening to this years ago. Listening to it again made me get a roll20 and discord to try and find other players😊
You guys did great. Sucks about the early technical difficulties but that sometimes cannot be helped!
Thanks so much for watching!
I rolled a Panic attack when Roll20 went down! Great stuff!
The video cuts off just before the ending, but I can only imagine it doesn't end well. Fantastic video, great GM, great players
Glad you enjoyed it, and sorry that YT cut off the end!
@@SlicesnDices any chance it's on twitch our anywhere? Now that I'm invested, before I go watch your other episodes
@@nathanthomas6485 I wish! That was from years ago, so it's no longer available...
Looks like the guys nearly bagged one of Ripley's bad guys...
Cool! This is helping me learn the mechanics of the game watching this. Lot to take in with the core rulebook😅.
Wow. That was seriously top notch. I was on the edge of my seat!
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you so much for this run through it was very entertaining and everyone did a great job!
Thank you so much for watching!
I just bought the starter kit, i watch your game to have an idea. I mainly gm Cthulhu, so this horror sci fi game insterests me. Great work from Gm here. Greeting from France
Merci de votre attention! Bonne chance pour ton jeu!
This was fantastic. I don't have a group to play with so I will watch your vids. I have a few to catch up on. :)
Very inspiring gameplay and a very good group of players. Really enjoyed it and I hope you do more AlienRPG soon! Only improvement I'd like to see is the volume of some of the players need to be boosted. Other then that excellent done!
Thank you so much! Yes, we've made some adjustments on those players' headsets since then! Check out our "Destroyer of Worlds" 3 parter for more Alien RPG!
This was so cool! Hope to see more!
44:00 campaign begins.
You're a legend, this should be pinned for people familiar with the game and don't need the intro explanation
@SlicesnDices I know this is old, but just went through all of Heart of Darkness, and felt the need to do all the videos after that. Anyone make it after the ending cut off? My assumption is NOPE. I also want state how great of a GM you are.
Thanks for watching! Unfortunately, YT cut off the ending and we artistically left it like that, so that you, our dear audience, can think about what happened for yourself!
1:43:10 My own group had similar occurrence. I ran Chariot of the gods and the first roll made by an Abomination was an insta death head crush. We spent the next few minutes laughing over the absurdity of it.
rewatching in 2014!
I have been playing this game ever since I saw you guys run through the "Destroyer of Worlds" story and have greatly enjoyed it... Sadly though, almost all of my players have pretty much left; and every attempts I have had to try and get new players has ended in a failure (in the fact that after my initial reach out and them saying yes they just don't show up and stop responding to my texts). So it seems like my time with this and other TTRPGs might be coming to an end (in terms of playing); and the saddest part of it, is that I've barely gotten to play as a player (and for this game in particular, I haven't played as a player a single time)
Im thinking if the holryd character based on rulebook as a synth was never stressed and never had to make panic rolls.pg .111 of the rule book ... i know this is from last july but was confused as he was taking stress from the start of the video.
Synthetics don’t take stress if they’re openly being a synthetic. If they’re hiding their status they take stress as normal, as well as having non synthetic stats.
Just curious? Where is that stated? Also as far as I know Holroyd isn't trying to hide?
Aww ended with a Cliffhanger!
Very fun to watch, thx!
Thanks for watching!!
3:36:03 ringing the dinner bell with all that screaming! 😆
I am hoping to run this one shot myself and your channel runs this game so well! Fantastic job, you deserve so many more subs! Hope you continue to make Alien RPG content! EDIT: would also LOVE to know how you set up the sound effects for your game! I really want to do the same for my game, and your stream has been inspirational!
Real quick, armor doubled rule for the shotgun (page 118 rulebook) that an armor value is doubled. If an alien has 10 armor, it becomes 20 armor. Shotguns are for some reason really bad to have verses xenos...
I stated this super late. Lol. Sorry. *awkward laugh*
LMFAO.... in space no one can hear you STREAM!! LOL LMFAO OH THATS GREAT
OH NO, THE VIDEO CUTS RIGHT AT THE END, NOOOO.
I wanted to see if the other two get facehugged by the ones at the shuttle
Yeah YT did us dirty for some reason. Draw whatever conclusions you'd like!
@@SlicesnDices welp, guess its a no survivors scenario then. Makes it more dramatic that someone was this close from escaping and still failed.
Now, to destroyer of Worlds
Please be aware everyone: video cuts off before the ending. Hard thing to discover after watching for 4 hours.
Yeah, we're sorry about that -- we specify that in big bold letters in the show notes. Perhaps we will run it again some time in the near future (this was our first go at it!). Thank you for watching, though!
If the creature is prone, doesnt that use one of its actions? Slow or fast? If so the creature could get back up, run and strike?
Getting up from prone is a fast action. Moving away from a target you're engaged with (retreat) is a fast action as well, as is running into another zone. Striking (close combat) is a slow action. Do remember that aliens have multiple initiatives within a round.
No. . . NO! The end is cut off! THE END IS CUT OFF!
Yeah I have no idea why UA-cam did that - it was working fine for 2 years, and then UA-cam cuts off the last 5 mins. Gotta love it. :(
@@SlicesnDices No. No I don't gotta love it. Not at all. :D
@@erikbjelke4411 I know.... long story short, only one person makes it off Hadley's Hope alive. But he's got a little friend who tags along for the ride....
@@SlicesnDices I was wondering how the. . . *surprise party* went.
I am not going to lie, Lovelyllama has some great convincing of her agenda and character, i love it, shes real into it. About to finish the video, "komisky get inside now, get in get in come on , komisky" i can see her awol religious ass hanging out the door way swinging her arm in against the howling winds... cant wait for destroyer of worlds
I might have to run this one (I have done chariot and I am getting ready to do destroyer) and im not sure why but this didn't appeal to me but maybe i should give it a chance
I was honestly afraid it was going to be a wipe at the first encounter.
1:28:56
2:01:06
2:35:28
This is a good GM!
Huh, the video cut off right as the chestburster ran. I still don't know what happened. In my head, the selfish scientist left the soldier and ran away with the shuttle. Shortly after entering orbit, something killed him too.
You're not wrong in your head. :D
Oh come on!!! Please give us the last 15 minutes!!!😂
Yeah I know! So sorry that it cut off!
@SlicesnDices it happens, I know this is 3 years old bit I've been binging your Aliens content and losing it here... man 😄
Nice sound effects.
Thanks! Took a while to get them all into the game but it was worth it!
LOL did anybody make it out? The kill count was brutal.
"Access denied, access denied" lmao
game start 44:33
Arent synthetics suppose to not be subject to panic rolls since they dont have human feelings so they cant feel panic and stress ...Also isnt synthtetics suppose to not be able to push rolls since they dont get adrenaline rushes ?
Great question - it’s only when they are revealed as synthetics that those rules apply.
Hi guys, great production but Sverker is correct. I cannot find where it says once you reveal... (either page 77 or 111 depending which book you are using) It says In combat androids act like humans and they roll skills normally. BUT there are several differences... Skill and Stress: Androids can't push skill rolls. They don't suffer stress, don't have a stress level and the never make panic rolls.
Absolutely fantastic playthrough! I thoroughly enjoyed it! A question for the GM: I want to run this and am wondering if it would be good to give the PCs a chance to decrease stress levels at some point? It felt like at the end or even during some role playing moments in the medical centre, that the stress levels were just too high and crippled players from doing anything unfairly...or do you think that's the whole point of the system to generate tension?
I wonder how the egg got in since the shuttle was locked when they came to it.
Clearly the alien would have gotten burnt in atmosphere, or if it could enter it would dmg the ship too badly.
Interesting mystery
How did the facehuggers get on the Sulaco in the start of Alien3? *scratches temple*
@@SlicesnDices well to my previous question xD the game lore explained the agent placed the eggs in the shuttle.
When it comes to sullaco thats also good question, big plot hole but i guess the queen popped it out of hidden pocket :D ...
What a great adventure! Where did you get/make all the sound effects for the game? It made it very immersive.
Thanks! We get our sound effects from a variety of sources, from the subreddit to freesound!
❤ What setup are you running and or platform playing on?
As if it finishes then!
13:56 Video starts
I'm sad it cuts off at the chestburster. Is there any way to watch or listen to the rest of the scenario?
Unfortunately not. UA-cam had an error which cut it off. The good part is that you can make up your own ending!
Please put this in the description. Watching a 4 hour video only to find out it doesn't have an ending is a pretty sour experience.
7 is nervous twitch!!
Oh yeah, we goofed that up once too. It was out first play through, after all. As the saying goes, we got better.
Hi! Very cool game to watch! Where did you get this map in such good detail?
I tried to use the image from the corebook, but it was not at such a good resolution.
Hey, thanks for watching! Check out the AlienRPG Subreddit! One user supplied a high-resolution set of maps for use with Roll20!
@@SlicesnDices thanks!
I am new to roll20 and i got Alien Bundle. How did you get these nice player tokens ? Or maybe it is default when player will join?
We made them by hand (or rather using rolladvantage.com/tokenstamp) and the amazing Game art!
@@SlicesnDices Thank You very much.
Re: Armor Piercing and Armor Doubled rules. You misinterpreted the stated RAW. Page 118 of the book says: "SPECIAL is any special effects that this weapon has. "Armor Piercing" means that any Armor Rating counts as half against this weapon, rounding fractions up. Armor DOubled" means that any Armor Rating is doubled against this weapon."
Yep, we mentioned that in an older comment. Thanks so much for watching!
What music is this in the beginning?
Nostromo by Tabletop Audio
so ...do they die?
What program are you using to move your characters around the map?
Also great video!! Can't wait to delve more into your channel
@@zekeshadow007 Thanks so much! We're using Roll20!
Hi, I'm a UK based gamer, and if you ever need another player in this system, I.e Alien, please consider me as a candidate, cheers
Just found this. Great GM. Great players. Interesting module. I am going to run this without to the computer stuff. I see i need to make some bigger printouts for the maps so its easier to visualize where they are and where they are going. Also mark all the tables so I can quickly find them.
One question though...Isnt androids immune to stress?
Hey there! Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed our game (and the many that came after)! Androids are indeed immune to stress but only when they are revealed to be an android. Otherwise, they take stress as normal when pretending to be a human.
Nooo, what happened 😳 no ending 😢
Unfortunately, YT killed the last three minutes of the game, no idea why. It ends..... poorly for our heroes.
Thought it might hehe
I have never played a role playing game. How easy is this to learn for a beginner?
Super Simple.
You play as you normally would - just make up and learn the rules as you go
@@C0wb0yBebop never played
The rule book is easy to follow. And you just use 6 sided dice, pass or fail…. It was easy to pick up and play, the cinematic modules also have everything you need to run a single scenario like this one, character sheets and everything
I have never run this game, but I am pretty sure that 'doubles armor' means that when using the weapon the armor of the target is doubled. 'Armor piercing' is what halves the armor value of the target.
Edit
Looks like you guys caught this yourselves! I am kind of curious though, again only having read the rules once through, whether or not MacWhir would be allowed to push that block roll; and finally, doesn't the xenomorph need to roll to see if the special attacks 'hit' before the PCs suffer the effects?
Great question! It depends on the attack! But normally yes the successes need to exceed the armor of the target unless the target dodges or blocks. Even then, the successes need to be greater than the attack successes rolled to block/dodge. He would have probably been able to push that block, but do remember that this was our first foray into this game system, so we made some mistakes. Nevertheless fun was had by all.
@@SlicesnDices thanks for the response! Of course! It was pretty clear that this was a first time play through, and even though this session is was a year or so ago, since I recently acquired a number of the books for this game at Gencon this year, and having read through them only once, I was right there with you kind of learning the system as you guys played.
The Android should not be a target by the alien they have no interest in them... additionally they do not have the same stress reactions.
Androids that are not yet revealed to be androids follow the same stress rules as non androids. Check the core rule book.
@@SlicesnDices I'm thinking in movie terms... Game logic not withstanding. I have not yet acquired the book as I have another money pit I'm involved in called Warhammer (plastic crack) :P I do intend to acquire the books here eventually. Also, I am a very big fan of the genre, well Alien and Aliens along with many of the books and comics... I did not care for the other films with the exception of the art directions (I'm a VFX and Graphic artist)...( I built a full scale articulated Queen Alien for a haunted house on an Air Force Base)... If you can find a copy of the novel for Alien from 79 (not the latest reprint) there is much more in that novel than in the film. I have many of the comics as well... all excellent fodder for adventures/campaigns: ALIEN: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore... ALIEN: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebron... and ALIEN: River of Pain by Christopher Golden. Some of the comics have interesting plot points and ideas... like the company harvesting the royal jelly from the Queens and when humans ingest the substance... it makes them "Hulk" out. Then they make a Xenomorph Drone android designed to infiltrate the hive. The screen Play for Alien five that tentatively had Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn to star (but was canx due to Disney's acquisition of Fox) Had a plot point where Ripley infiltrates a hive wearing a bio suit emulating a xenomorph... www.avpcentral.com/images/female-xenomorph/alien-5-ellen-ripley.jpg... Cheers!
I don't think any of those weapons used a clip. Either a magazine or a cylinder.
Why do you talk in that slow, winded way??? Can you not talk in a normal speaking voice?
Apologies... I... guess... we... all... have... to... catch... up... to... you.