How To Play: Alien RPG 

Hi Zach, thanks for this rules summary, much appreciated. However, there is one inaccuracy in your explanation. When rolling a 1 on a stress dice during a check, you do not fail the skill check automatically. As per the starter kit's rulebook p35 "A Panic Roll can cause your skill roll to fail", and p70 "If you roll a 10 or higher on your Panic Roll, you will be forced to perform a specific action. If the Panic Roll was the result of a skill check for an action, the action is cancelled and immediately replaced by the forced panic action". So as long as you roll 1-9 on your panic roll, you do not fail your skill check (assuming you rolled at least one 6 on your skill check to start with).

The wonderful thing about Alien RPG is that you never have to worry about your character living through a session. They all die every time! Hahahhaa

I'm really glad you made this tutorial. While I own all the Alien RPG stuff because I'm a sucker for Alien, but I have never played D&D RPG or something like it. Still want to organize a gaming night, but I never know where to start.

Good thing videos like this exist, I have session in hour and the only thing I know is that it's based on Alien movie

Nicely done! I just picked up the starter set and core rulebook. Your overview did a great job touching on the high points of the game system. Thanks a bunch!

When you showed the critical injuries sheet at the end, I instantly remembered the videogame Fallout 1.😀

Great resource. Our group is taking a break from Call of Cthulhu to play a one-shot of this this evening so I've shared this with them. Thanks!

Great video, thank you. I just picked it up and will be GM'ing for the first time ever.

Thanks for the concise explanation, very helpful!

Oh, shit! Hey, Zach! It's great to see you here. Subscribed!

Super useful summary. Many thanks. I also just bought the game and look forward to inflicting it on my players 8-)

Playing a one shot of this tonight for spooky season \O/ ty for the help

Thanks for the video! I'm about to GM for the first time and I feel like alien is good starting point 😁

Good video. Thank you

I love the idea that as you take stress you get an extra die. I think that's one thing mothership needs in its system. A reward that comes along with your risk/punishment

Great video! Super appreciated, thanks!

Thank you fantastic video

I picked this up at Dragoncon in Atlanta and met one of the creators. Can't wait to have a party wipe.

Great review! It's a lot to consider in a roll. That might be confusing when reading the rules, since all dice are 1d6. Are vehicle's also available for the players? I really liked that tank like vehicle from Aliens and the auto turrets. The forklift harness is also a thing that might be great if it is available in the game. Does the game give the players room to improvise like in dnd? For example, poor flammable fluid on the ground to create a firewall. Will you review future sets from this game? Can you play this game solo cinematic style? I love to hear more about what a campaign would look like. Thanks and you've just got a new subscriber.

I would like to see Coriolis and Alien compared. A lot of the mechanics from Coriolis seem like they were used to make Aliens.

Wonderful video. Subbed for more (hopefully).

Best one I’ve seen.

From what I've seen, it's easy to play. Step 1: roll characters. Step 2: start the adventure. Step 3: Roll characters. Step 4: continue adventure. Step 5: roll cha... you get the picture.

Can you make your own alien for the alien rpg?

Check out Forge out of Chaos. Best mechanics of any game I have ever seen. Also worst history/character creation/magic. lmao

How do you roll a d66?

I prefer mothership everytime.

So you can't play the aliens. Not interested....

I roleplayed the crap out of our latest game, but all if it made absoblutely no diffierence. I had a D6 chance of death. I got the cranium hit. So literally ALL of the roleplaying made absolutely no difference. All of it meant nothing due to a single dice roll. This is utterly shit. And has massively jaded my gameplay experience.

Sounds like a really dumb system. Roll any 6 for success 1 for failure regardless of success. That’s pre luck and belongs to the 1990s. Modern games use post luck. Too bad, I would have almost bought it, so thanks for the warning!

I think Leading Edge Games had the first Alien RPG back in the 90's and it was so slow. Every bullet tracked every fragment of shrapnel tracked. By the end of a long saturday in realtime, we had moved through one level of a building in the game.