ALIEN RPG: Building Better Worlds | Exploring the Lost Colonies

About the adventure

Published by Free League in the Building Better Worlds source book, The Lost Worlds is an exploration campaign where you play colonists sent in the Far Spinward Systems to bring back these planets left for dead for nearly 80 years in the bosom of civilization. It’s the biggest colony mission ever attempted by humankind, bringing together people for every supernations and every megacorporations. Hundreds of billions of investments and five years in hypersleep later, you wake up to discover the Core Worlds are at war, and that there is something sleeping here that may be more dangerous than death itself. This campaign is quite different from your usual Alien RPG game. First, because it’s leaning mostly on exploration, where every scenario is about exploring a new world that never looks quite like the previous one. Then, because it’s a faction story where you will have to take sides in a complex and moving political environment. It has some strong The Expanse vibes, sometimes. As such, this campaign is probably best suited for players who already went through a couple of Alien RPG scenarios before. The campaign consists of a session 0 for character creation, seven official scenarios, downtime events happening between them on the colony ship, and a management phase where you are expected to build and run your own colony. It will probably last between 20 and 25 sessions, played biweekly. 🔹 A cinematic and immersive experience 🔹 A strong focus on the players’ agenda and interactions 🔹 A mature and deadly hard sci-fi world, where death is never far 🔹 An easy-to-learn system, based on Free League’s Year Zero Engine 📘 I am a Free Agent, part of Free League’s ambassador program for conventions. I ran literally hundreds of Alien RPG games during different events, and every game I present on Startplaying has been thoroughly playtested before with other groups. This is allowing me to offer you the most immersive experience possible, with official maps, artworks, music and animated scenes.

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