Hi Everyone,
This is my second musing on playing the Alien RPG (C) by Free League Games. So far all of the PC's are still alive at session seven, each session lasting for about three hours play. We have had some disasters (big time), some errors of judgement, some out of our hands. We have come across aliens, we killed some, but have also had some casualties amongst the NPC's.
In battle, we get one attack and they get two. You need about 10 six sided dice per player. you roll your stress dice first, to see if you can attack it and then the rest of your dice pool to see if you hit by getting a six, damage is deducted from its hit points depending on what you were using to splat it with..
Without giving anything away, there are other things you will be doing when you are not alien hunting, such as repairing things and trying to get your stress levels down. When you get bad news or you meet a new type of alien, your stress level goes up by one, which affects your performance and in some cases affects your team mates too. You know you are in trouble when your stress score reaches double digits. LOL.
In our latest episode, we have just finished all of our repairs and are just about to head back to base. Will we make it. Tune in next time to find out.......
I have been informed that there are quite a few types of missions that you can go on. A starter kit and expansion modules are available, which is great news, as we are all enjoying ourselves. That counts as a successful use of time and money. It can be used on the FOUNDRY virtual tabletop app.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Regards one and all, keep watching those corners,
Ivor Cogdell
For more information go to https://www.alien-rpg.com
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