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Enter The Nerdom enters the Romulus
Enter The Nerdom enters the Romulus

Enter the Romulus – I Join Enter The Nerdom to Talk ALIEN: Romulus

08/22/2024 / / 0 Comments

Following our one-shot ALIEN The Roleplaying Game session, I was invited back to Enter The Nerdom to discuss the scenario, talk about the history of the ALIEN franchise in roleplaying games, and then discuss the new film, ALIEN: Romulus!

It’s a spoiler-filled discussion filled with our thoughts on not just Romulus but the entire ALIEN franchise across movies, books, games, and comics. We also touch on a few other recent movies and shows.

If you’re looking for more ALIEN discussion, some behind-the-scenes stuff about our game session, and some general nerdy chat, check out the latest episode of Enter The Nerdom wherever you listen to podcasts! Some of the more popular spots:

Reminder: This is a spoilery discussion, not only about our game session, but also about ALIEN: Romulus and a few other shows and movies.

If you enjoy Enter The Nerdom, follow them on Instagram or your favorite podcasting service to catch more episodes! They feature special guests from all walks of nerdom, including Christine Valada (Photographer, Lawyer, and widow of Len Wein, co-creator of Marvel’s Wolverine), and DJ MacHale (writer, Nickolodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark), they report on conventions (SDCC, D23, various horror and comic conventions), and much, much more!

After all this ALIEN stuff, I’ll be changing gears next week with a post about how Tales of Xadia: The Dragon Prince Roleplaying Game might be the best game system for D&D’s Curse of Strahd campaign. Stay tuned!

Enter The Nerdom VS Aliens

Enter The Nerdom Versus Alien the Roleplaying Game

08/19/2024 / / 0 Comments

Once again, I got to run a game for the Enter The Nerdom podcast, along with special guest Dan Mason.

Here’s where you can find Enter The Nerdom Ep. 46 – Alien RPG Tabletop; if you don’t see your favorite podcast venue of choice, check again in case I missed it.

There will be a video version of this episode with cameras on the battle maps and gaming table coming soon!

I ran Steve Hatherley’s Perfect Organism scenario with a few minor tweaks and it was almost a Paranoia-level hose-job for the players! I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a scenario that does a great job tying right into the first two ALIEN movies.

We’ll be doing a sort of post-session breakdown, explore some of the alternative events and some other actual plays of the scenario, and discuss ALIEN: Romulus later this week! I’ll make sure to really take you behind the scenes of the scenario when we do that.

 

ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
ALIEN The Roleplaying Game

Enter The Nerdom Plays ALIEN the Roleplaying Game

07/31/2024 / / 0 Comments

Update 8/5/2024: We pushed the recording to Sunday 8/18, so the podcast episode will be up sometime soon after that.

Last May, my friends from Enter The Nerdom — a podcast about all things fans love about movies, shows, comics, super heroes, gaming, and more, hosted by Chad, Stan, and Watson — invited me to chat about the origins of the tabletop roleplaying game hobby-turned-industry, and then I ran them through a one-shot dungeon crawl using the scenario Puzzle Dungeon: Seer’s Sanctum with the dead-simple rules of Knave (technically, I used a hack of the first edition). Joined by another friend of ours, Dan Mason, we had an absolute blast. (Check out all our antics in these posts.)

In celebration of the release of ALIEN: Romulus, I’m going to run ALIEN The Roleplaying Game for them. I found an incredibly fitting cinematic scenario to run. (I’ll post which one after the episode comes out; free cake* to anyone able to guess it listening to the episode before my reveal!)

As I often do, I spent some time revising the scenario and crafting some homemade props for it, so I’ll share those with the episode reveal, as well. Just to whet your appetite:

  • Custom xenomorph and other character pawns (in the style of Pathfinder Pawns)
  • Additional deck plans
  • Homemade agenda cards
  • Homemade initiative cards for ALIEN’s unique initiative and action tracking system
  • …and other handouts!

We’ll be recording the episode Sunday August 11th, and I’ll drop an update with the reveal and custom goodies once it’s live on all the usual channels!

*The cake is a lie.

ALIEN Roleplaying Game
ALIEN Roleplaying Game

The ALIEN Roleplaying Game Cheat Sheet

07/25/2024 / / 0 Comments

Updated 7/25/2024: I’ve significantly updated the cheat sheet while prepping for an upcoming cinematic scenario. If you have the previous version, definitely check out this new one as it is a huge improvement: page references, full Stealth Mode rules, quick references for Synthetic and Xenomorph rules, and more!

I don’t know what Fria Ligan has done to me, but they sunk their claws in deep when they announced the ALIEN Roleplaying Game coming later this year. I quickly pre-ordered, have been preparing to run the included starter scenario, and have devoured the content people are creating on the ALIEN RPG Forum.

Since I’m picky about what I want on my GM screen, I made the following cheat sheet. This combines a lot of what you’ll find on the forums, but lays it out slightly differently to suit my tastes. Check it out!

Download the PDF Cheat Sheet for the ALIEN Roleplaying Game from Google Drive.

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ALIEN Roleplaying Game
ALIEN Roleplaying Game

ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Resources

11/05/2019 / / 0 Comments

Not too long ago, I posted my version of a GM Screen (AKA ‘Game Mother’ in ALIEN RPG lingo). Since then, the game’s publisher, Free League, has released some better resources themselves, including official print-friendly character sheets, maps, and so on. Of course, being who I am, I saw some opportunities to make some better (form-fill character sheets), and to create some other resources for myself.

Here they are!

Form-fill, print-friendly version of the official character sheet (PDF) – The official Free League character sheet, but with form-fill function.

Cheat sheet / GM screen inserts (PDF) – My GM screen inserts, creating a 3-panel easy-to-use reference for the most often used game rules.

Alien Life Cycle compilation (PDF) – A nicely formatted dump of useful images and information culled from various ALIEN-related wikis and fan resources.

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