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ALIEN RPG: Evolved Edition, Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure, and Evolved Edition Starter Set Out Now

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ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition

This week, Free League Publishing released the updated and expanded ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition, a modern take on the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG, in partnership with 20th Century Studios. Joining it at launch are Rapture Protocol, the first chapter of a new cinematic trilogy, a redesigned Starter Set, a deluxe Game Mother’s Screen, and a high-quality Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set that puts the ALIEN universe’s most iconic threats on the tabletop for fans old and new.

The ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook ($57.99), Starter Set ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure Set expansion ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set ($59.99), Game Mother’s “MU/TH/UR” Screen ($24.99), and related accessories are now available through the Free League webshop, hobby stores worldwide, and in PDF format at DriveThroughRPG. Virtual Tabletop Modules are available on Roll20 and Demiplane today, with Foundry and Alchemy versions to follow later.

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook

ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition builds on the beloved sci-fi horror TTRPG with a fully updated and refined ruleset that offers a modern, streamlined experience for both new and veteran players. The expanded core rulebook features refreshed artwork, added content, and a range of enhanced tools for players and Game Mothers, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

  • A striking redesign of the Core Rulebook with updated layouts by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), fresh interior maps and artwork, and a new cover by Colm Geoghegan (Creepy Duck Design)
  • Life path character generation for richer and more varied backstories
  • Revised and expanded core rules for talents, stress and panic, and stealth
  • Reworked combat rules covering armor, ammo, grenades, stuns, and spaceship engagements
  • Iconic weapons, items, ships, and locations drawn from the hit film Alien: Romulus
  • Additional rules and tools requested by players, including zero-gravity hazards, miniatures support, and expanded campaign play
  • The Tartarus Sector, a fully realized campaign setting that expands the frontier of the ALIEN universe
  • Last Survivor, an immersive solo mode crafted by veteran solo game designers Shawn Tomkin and Matt Click

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Starter Set

Redesigned as the ideal entry point to the ALIEN universe, the Evolved Edition Starter Set includes everything needed for game night. Inside are abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, large miniature-ready maps, initiative and reference cards, handouts, tokens, and an expanded Evolved Edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario, set on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope before the events of the 1986 sci-fi horror classic ALIENS.

The set includes:

  • Abridged Evolved Edition rules featured in the included rules booklet
  • A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) featuring chartered space in 2183 on one side and Hadley’s Hope on the other
  • Five pre-generated characters ready for immediate play
  • Playing cards that streamline gear management, combat initiative, personal agendas, and panic responses
  • Durable cardboard tokens representing characters and creatures
  • Rules reference sheets for quick lookup
  • A supply dial that tracks essential resources such as air, ammunition, and power
  • Ten engraved base dice and ten engraved stress dice crafted for the ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
  • A high-quality plastic miniature of the iconic Xenomorph

About Rapture Protocol

Rapture Protocol is a complete cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition and the first chapter of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. Built for three to five players and a Game Mother, the adventure brings the franchise back to its iconic blend of tension and isolation. Players follow the crew of a modest starfreighter on a routine resupply run to the remote Jeremiah VI industrial colony, unaware that something far more dangerous is waiting for them there.

This set contains:

  • The main Rapture Protocol scenario book, full of story details, locations, and guidance for running the adventure
  • A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) showing the starfreighter USS Fidanza on one side and the industrial colony of Jeremiah VI on the other
  • Five pre-generated characters with unique roles and motivations
  • Playing cards that support personal agendas and NPC interactions
  • High-quality cardboard tokens for characters and creatures
  • Maps and handouts to assist players during the scenario

To accompany the adventure, a new Miniatures Set introduces 20 finely crafted 28mm figures of soldiers, space truckers, Xenomorphs, and other threats. These miniatures are perfectly scaled for the large battle maps featured in Rapture Protocol, Hope’s Last Day, and other cinematic scenarios across the ALIEN RPG line. The set also includes a booklet of simplified skirmish rules that enables fast, tactical encounters using the included miniatures.

Free League also offers a deluxe landscape Game Mother’s Screen, styled after a MU/TH/UR ship-intelligence interface. The inward-facing panels compile essential tables and quick references to streamline play, while keeping the Game Mother’s notes and secrets concealed from curious eyes.

Ready, Nerd, Go! 006: “If I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • What you want to play verses what you get to play.
    • Collections on the shelf, getting a group together.
    • Alien Colonial Marines verses Pathfinder 2e.
  • Playing a game in an established fiction.
    • Does the system make a setting more enjoyable?
    • A tangent on D&D and Stranger Things.
  • Introducing new players to systems.
    • Playing with Math Rocks (also known as dice).
  • Book sizes, complexity and amount of books required.
    • Add ons verses editions.
    • Player/GM created tools.
    • Fan ideas, creator collaboration.
  • Book layouts and presentations.

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Get a first look at Alien RPG Second Edition’s Ship and Colony Maps

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Ahead of the Kickstarter campaign later this fall, Free League has shared the first new content reveal for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Second Edition. Today, let’s take a look at some brand-new maps for the game.

These large, detailed, full-color maps are designed to scale for the new RPG miniatures that are also part of the upcoming Kickstarter, as well as the expanded stealth mode in the updated game rules. Using these maps, the miniatures, and the updated rules, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Second Edition can even be played as a miniatures skirmish game.

The maps shown below, designed by acclaimed map artist Miska Fredman (Astraterra), show two decks of the USCSS Fidanza, a Nostromo-style spaceship, and the mining colony Jeremiah VI. Both are included in the new cinematic adventure Rapture Protocol.

More news, including a launch date for the Kickstarter campaign, is on the way. Get ready for a whole new chapter of sprawling, stress-inducing, blood-curdling ALIEN RPG adventures for years to come!

ALIEN and Forbidden Lands RPGs Launched on the Foundry Virtual Tabletop

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Taking another step into the world of virtual tabletop roleplaying, Free League Publishing has released its multiple award-winning RPGs ALIEN and Forbidden Lands on the Foundry platform. The Foundry modules are available as stand-alone digital products or in print and virtual bundles.

For the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE winner for Best Game 2020), the Starter Set, the Core Rulebook, and the Destroyer of Worlds cinematic scenario pack are now all available as Foundry modules, via the Free League webshop.

Alien RPG Foundry

For retro-fantasy survival RPGForbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the core rules as well as the Raven’s Purge and The Bitter Reach campaign modules are both available on Foundry. This is the first official release of Forbidden Lands modules on a virtual tabletop.

Forbidden Lands Foundry

All the released game modules on Foundry are fully integrated with the VTT platform with online maps and diagrams, player handouts ready to share, and more. The Foundry modules are offered at a low introductory price, to invite previous owners of the physical products to try the virtual modules as well. For newcomers, the print & virtual bundles offers both in a competitive package.

A Foundry base license is required to use the VTT modules.

More games from Free League will be launched on Foundry and other virtual tabletop platforms in a near future.

​The ALIEN RPG Spawns on Virtual Tabletop Platforms. Game NOT Over Man!

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Alien The Roleplaying Game

“I can’t lie to you about your chances, but … you have my sympathies.”

Space is vast, dark, and not your friend. Now you and your crew can explore the ALIEN universe through virtual tabletop gaming. The award-winning official ALIEN RPG was launched today on two VTT platforms: Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds.

At Roll20, you can find a virtual tabletop version of the ALIEN RPG Starter Set, including all the rules you need to play and the full-length cinematic scenario Chariot of the Gods, written by scifi author Andrew E.C. Gaska. On the platform, you can also find the scenario Destroyer of Worlds, a sequel to Chariot of the Gods also written by Gaska and requiring only the Starter Set to play.

On Fantasy Grounds, you can find the ALIEN RPG core rulebook, a full conversion of the hardcover book of a massive 392 pages, as well as the Chariot of the Gods and Destroyer of Worlds scenarios. 

All modules are fully integrated with the VTT platforms, with online maps and diagrams, player handouts ready to share, online character sheets, customized virtual dice roller, and more.

The core rulebook for the official ALIEN roleplaying game was released in December 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Studios. The game immediately sold out its first print run and swiftly entered the Top-5 list of best-selling tabletop RPGs in the fall of 2019. It won the ENNIE Award for Best Game 2020 and the People’s Choice Award for Best RPG at the UK Game Expo. The game is currently being translated into seven languages.