Alien RPG

Slashers

I like to hack games. I like homebrew content, especially when I make it. :P

Robert Lach recently, on FB, said he was hacking Alien to make a Monarch style campaign and I'm so furious (and jealous) that I didn't think of it first. I've spent the entire morning, resisting the urge to sit down at the computer and whip out an Alien-ized Godzilla. So far, I'm resisting. That's his thing and I don't want to intrude on his impending accolades (Its a really, really good idea). Maybe after he's released his hacks, I'll do Kong or Gamera or someone just to dip my toes in to his pond in honor of that genius idea.

But what to do with all this creative enrgy in the mean time?

Alien is a reletively simple system. Its not "easy" to hack, but works remarkably well for just about anything so long as you keep a few things in mind:

1. Humans don't live long in this/these world(s). The game is made for the protagonists to be squishy.

2. Death is brutal and instantaneous in a lot of cases. With rare exception.

3. Sci-fi works great, but I have seen hacks for Jurrasic Park, and I'm aware and secretly salivating to see the aforementioned Godzilla, and Terminator and Blade Runner have papers in the file section. . All have sci-fi flavoring, but basically take place in the modern day.

So what else would work?

• Friday the 13th
• Any Slasher flick, really
• Jurassic World
• Warhammer 40k
• Game of Thrones
• Lake Placid/Pirannah (This could be lumped in with Jurassic World)
• The Langoliers/The Mist
• It/Mary Poppins
• Predator (Not as a 3rd faction for play but as a single antagonist in the vein of the 1st movie)
• Firefly/Serenity
• Evil Dead
• Stargate

Any franchise or movie where humans are hunted and/or life is cheap.

The three main things you need for any hack are:

• New insta-death, signature attack tables for the monster. Slasher signature attacks are provided here. Its mostly with Jason Voorhees in mind, but it easily adaptable to any of the many Slashers of movies and fiction.
• New panic/break charts for the humans with reactions typical to that type of movie.
• A new skill or talent that brigs the flavor of the world to life. In this document we have "Solo Confrontation" rules.

Credits

Homebrew Content

This is Homebrew Content and not official material released by Free League Studios (even though it should be.) ;) This is all homemade, homebrew content to enhance the experience of the game and not meant as any sort of infringement to Free League's rights and licenses, nor 20th Century Fox's rights and licenses.

Created, Written, and Edited

by Erik Smith

Layouts

Erik Smith

Art and Artwork

Film promotion stills and fan made art from around the internet. No AI was used in the creation of this document.

IP INFO

Free League and 20th Century Fox own all the properties, game rules, and processes used in the creation of this document.

The rights to Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees are stuck in a legal limbo but have been owned by New Line Cinema, Paramount Studios, and Horror Inc. I make no claims. This is just for funsies.

the World of Slashers

Horny teenagers are not Space Marines. Ranged Comat should be De-Emphasized over skills like Mobility and Empathy. Comtech reverts to just Tech. Give the nerds a chance to shine.

The First panic roll of the session should always make the Teenager's situation worse off. If the panic-er has a nervous twitch, they get frustrated and pull the landline out of the wall. If they flee, they drive the car into a lake or into a cell tower. If they go catatonic, then they stay out in the open where the whole group can be spotted and have to be physically carried away. Things like that.

Panic is more frequent in Slasher movies. Instead of 7 or 8, panic starts at 6, so even 1 stress can trigger a panic roll. The Panic options are also tighter. Less options and more of them are bad.

New Panic Option: Solo Confrontation

This is an option unique to the Slasher films. At any time, a PC panics, he or she may opt to ignore the result of the Panic roll and instead confront the creature head on. This almost never works out, but there has been the odd, rare, exception, and the time it takes for the slasher to kill the brave soul, allows the others to get away.

• At any time a Player would Panic, they may instead opt to ignore the result of the Panic roll and challenge the Slasher to one on one combat.
• The Slasher will appear to answer the call in d6-2 rounds.
• The Player gets initiative and gets one attack round (one fast action and one slow action) to do whatever they like, except retreat. If they score a Critical Injury on the Slasher, all Allies that witness the event lose 1 Panic Die.
• If the Slawsher is able to attack back, then it makes a special attack. It gets +1 to the roll.
• Allies of the Confronter have 3 rounds to leave, plan, or rally before the Slasher is done with its victim and can proceed after thee rest of the survivor(s).

Critical Injuries on Slashers

Jason was a challenged child in the late 60's when such things were swept under the rug or hidden in back rooms to keep the sights and sounds away from the "normal" people. Despite this, and with much help from his Mother, Jason did ok in life. He even got to attend Summercamp at Camp Crystal Lake, in New Jersey, with the help of his mother, who rarely left his side. Jason discovered that he really liked the swimming. He snuck out one night, after lights out just to swim in the water again. It was where he was happy. But after a long day of activities, Jason was tired. He realized this once he swam far away from the shore and his legs started cramping. The pain and shock caused him to start drowning, but there was no help available. The night watch group of camp counselors were off doing sex stuff and paid no attention the the boy drowning in the lake. His mother found him washed up on a nearby beach the following morning, all but dead. She took him and nursed him back to health, all while also nursing a grudge against the employees of Camp Crystal Lake. Until one summer in the early 80's, she took her revenge. She killed 8 people before she was herself killed by the last remaining Counselor. And a few days later, Jason killed her...and the rest is history.

Jason has been killed a number of times and has been mystically revived each time by the forces of darkness. He is some sort of zombie like creature. There is some speculation in mystic circles that he may be a Deadite, but the lack of interviews and comparisons make confirming this hyposthesis difficult.