Alien RPG Expansion “Building Better Worlds” Announced
In 1979, a crew of seven landed on the planet LV-426 and left with eight on board — a decision that would change the course of cinema forever. To make this occasion, April 26 is known as Alien Day, because of the 4-26 number sequence. And it’s on this day that Free League has chosen to reveal the next expansion to their hit Alien RPG: Building Better Worlds. What’s it about? Here’s what they have to say…
All the wonder and danger of the stars is yours—if you can just wipe the grime off your face and dig the dirt out from under your fingernails first.
Airless moons circle swirling gas giants, eager to be transformed into tomorrow’s paradise. Dark ancient mysteries wait to be unearthed beneath a millennium of debris. Searing solar flares boil your flesh and blacken your bones as you harness their power to light a hundred worlds. Long lost mysteries lie entombed in the frozen hearts of icy comets. Unstable tectonic plates shift to drown iridium mines in scalding lava.
Even the truth of humanity’s origins awaits you out there, orbiting some dying star. And out there amongst it all is something truly horrifying—something that nature never intended. Something alien.
What we gather from all this is that the expansion adds a story from the perspective of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and its employees. Weyland-Yutani is the monopolistic company that owns the whole galaxy and has been searching for a way to capture the Xenomorph and turn it into their own personal product. Such an act would doom humanity, but there’s no convincing Y-T otherwise, making the Alien series a struggle not just against creatures from space, but from Earth.
● History of Colonization – the story of humanity’s reach for the stars.
● Creating Explorers & Colonists – expanded character creation rules for life on the frontier.
● Gear & Ships – an extensive chapter with new gear and spaceships, gloriously illustrated.
● Extrasolar Species Catalog – new Xenomorphic creatures to encounter.
● The Lost Worlds – the framework and backstory for a frontier campaign.
● Expeditions – six thrilling expeditions into uncharted space, playable in any order.
● The Endgame – the final showdown with everything at stake.
Free League should be releasing more information about Building Better Worlds as the expansion gets closer to release. Preorders are now open at Free League’s website; the core Alien RPG rulebook is required to play.
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