Hostile
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 7:39 am
To all intents and purposes this is "Alien" the rpg with the identifying marks removed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ksmlJjIK9c
Uses the Cepheus engine which as you all may know is a kind of open source "Traveller" (only you're not allowed to call it that). It's comparable to 2300AD and maybe Cthulhu Rising. The rules seem more user friendly than the former, and the background more fleshed out than the latter. Could do with a bit more in the way of scenarios and hostile life forms although there are extensive stats for the "Reticulan Parasite" - I'm sure you can guess what that is.
There's also a companion cyberpunk game "Zaibatsu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrSGl2cUmU0
Has an interesting Japanese-centric setting, inspired by the opening chapters of Neuromancer. The hacking rules which use a conventional playing card deck also seem like a good way of dispensing with the sheer tedium of the mini-dungeon bash approach of Cyberpunk 2020 and its progeny. Characters are fairly disposable which as a one time Paranoia GM I rather like. Can't see my players going for it though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ksmlJjIK9c
Uses the Cepheus engine which as you all may know is a kind of open source "Traveller" (only you're not allowed to call it that). It's comparable to 2300AD and maybe Cthulhu Rising. The rules seem more user friendly than the former, and the background more fleshed out than the latter. Could do with a bit more in the way of scenarios and hostile life forms although there are extensive stats for the "Reticulan Parasite" - I'm sure you can guess what that is.
There's also a companion cyberpunk game "Zaibatsu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrSGl2cUmU0
Has an interesting Japanese-centric setting, inspired by the opening chapters of Neuromancer. The hacking rules which use a conventional playing card deck also seem like a good way of dispensing with the sheer tedium of the mini-dungeon bash approach of Cyberpunk 2020 and its progeny. Characters are fairly disposable which as a one time Paranoia GM I rather like. Can't see my players going for it though.