Now Your Player-Characters Can Explore Dark Corners of The Universe

Alien Day (April 26) seems an apt date to open pre-orders for the next supplement for Free League's wildly popular Alien roleplaying game.

All the wonder and danger of the stars is yours - if you can just wipe the grime off your face and dig the dirt out from under your fingernails first.

Building Better Worlds is the long-awaited guide to creating explorer and colonist characters and running an "open-world" style campaign.

Airless moons circle swirling gas giants, eager to be transformed into tomorrow’s paradise. Dark ancient mysteries wait to be unearthed beneath a millennium of debris. Searing solar flares boil your flesh and blacken your bones as you harness their power to light a hundred worlds. Long lost mysteries lie entombed in the frozen hearts of icy comets. Unstable tectonic plates shift to drown iridium mines in scalding lava. Even the truth of humanity's origins awaits you out there, orbiting some dying star. And out there amongst it all is something truly horrifying - something that nature never intended. Something alien.

This new book for the multi award-winning game system contains:

● History of Colonization – the story of humanity’s reach for the stars.

● Creating Explorers & Colonists – expanded character creation rules for life on the frontier.

● Gear & Ships – an extensive chapter with new gear and spaceships, gloriously illustrated.

● Extrasolar Species Catalog – new Xenomorphic creatures to encounter.

● The Lost Worlds – the framework and backstory for a frontier campaign.

● Expeditions – six thrilling expeditions into uncharted space, playable in any order.

● The Endgame – the final showdown with everything at stake.

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Free League Wins Alien Day By Opening Pre-Orders On Two New Box Sets

Today, in honour of Alien Day, the annual 4/26 celebration of the Alien franchise and fandom, Free League has announced not one but two major expansions for the official Alien RPG: a boxed Starter Set and a brand-new Cinematic scenario entitled Destroyer of Worlds.

Both titles will be released in August and can be pre-ordered today via the official Alien RPG website. If you pre-order, you will get complete PDFs well ahead of the official release day.

The boxed Starter Set is designed to be the perfect entry point into the game and the Alien universe. It contains everything needed to start playing:

• A 104-page condensed rulebook.
• The 48-page complete Cinematic scenario Chariot of the Gods by Andrew E.C. Gaska.
• Five pre-generated characters to play.
• A huge full-colour, double-sided map (format 864x558mm), with one side depicting chartered space in the year 2183 and the other floor plans for the Chariot of the Gods scenario.
• 84 game markers for keeping track of characters, motion tracker pings, and more.
• 56 high quality custom cards for weapons, personal agendas, and initiative in combat.
• A set each of ten engraved Base Dice and ten Stress Dice, designed specifically for the ALIEN roleplaying game.

Destroyer of Worlds is a complete Cinematic scenario, written by sci-fi novelist Andrew E.C. Gaska just like the previous Chariot of the Gods.

In Destroyer of Worlds, you take the roles of Colonial Marines as seen in Aliens (1986).

The scenario is designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother, and it’s a gauntlet of one hell after another. Expect it to take three sessions to complete. This boxed set contains:

• The main Destroyer of Worlds scenario book.
• A huge double-sided map (format 864x558mm) of the Ariaricus moon colony on one side and the Fort Nebraska space elevator ground base on the other.
• Five pre-generated characters to play.
• Custom cards for weapons, vehicles, and personal agendas.
• Player maps and handouts.

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Mondo Merch For Alien Day

With Alien Day falling on a Sunday (tomorrow) this year, artistic outlet Mondo has released its celebratory products early.

Check out its range of themed Tiki mugs, T-shirts, badges (pins to our American readers) etc here.

Buy Two Aliens, Get One Free!

As a slightly more wallet-friendly offer for Alien Day, Eaglemoss is offering a "two-for-one" deal on select Alien products from its Alien and Predator Collection.

Get the cheapest one item free when you buy two. The offer ends on Sunday (Alien Day), so get young purchasing finger clicking!

Own Your Own Full-Sized Xenomorph!

How better to celebrate Alien Day this weekend than with your own life-sized Xenomorph?

A snip at $6,999.95 from the Orlando-based Hollywood Collectibles Group, this eight foot tall (including base) beauty is limited to a run of 25 pieces worldwide and is available for pre-order now.

The website says:

"We are proud to present our highly anticipated, Officially Licensed, Life-Size Alien Big Chap statue!

Designed by H.R. Giger for the movie Alien, the “Big Chap” needs no introduction. His bio-mechanical Xenomorph became one of the most iconic movie creatures ever created.

Constructed from fiberglass and mixed media, this spectacular statue stands almost 8 feet tall atop its Alien themed display base!

Painstakingly recreated by an Aliens SFX professional with meticulous attention to detail, the Xeno’s terrifying presence has been captured perfectly! To ensure authenticity, the major components of the body can trace their lineage back to the molds used to create the original movie costume.

Each stunning Museum Quality statue is hand finished before being individually painted to the finest detail. It comes complete with an Alien themed display base.

This HCG Exclusive Edition is Limited to just 25 pieces Worldwide, and includes an individually numbered 6” x 4” themed metal plaque. A regular edition is also available, click here for more details.

This is the definitive centerpiece for any Aliens collection!

* Photos are of a factory production piece, not a prototype."

"Another Glorious Day in the Corps!"

Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps! is a new co-operative, miniatures, boardgame from Gale Force 9, based on the battle of Hadley's Hope in James Cameron's seminal Aliens movie.

Originally scheduled for release any day now, in the current climate who knows when we'll actually get to see this in the wild!

This is definitely one to keep an eye out for.

Hopefully, we might hear something on, or around, Alien Day (April 26)

I can't help but be reminded of the incredible Leading Edge boardgame from back in the day, which I played the hell out of and then - for inexplicable reasons - sold, much to my enduring chagrin.

As that old game now commands seriously silly money on the secondary market, I guess it only makes sense to purchase this new game instead.

And it's got miniatures... and we all know my love of miniatures!

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co-operative survival board game where you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers.

But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.

Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest.

Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign.

The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?

Here's a first impressions video, of a prototype edition, from last year's Gen Con (and GF9 were already talking about expansions!!!):

"Is This Going To Be A Stand-up Fight, Sir, Or Another Bug Hunt?"

For a mere €219.95 (approx. £193 or $239) you'll be able to snag a pair of limited edition Reebok U.S.C.M. Bug Stompers this weekend, released at 11pm on Saturday, ahead of Alien Day on Sunday.

Inspired by the shoes worn by Ripley and the combat gear of the colonial marines in Aliens, these bad boys will be available through the official Reebok site.

Stomp aliens in style. These futuristic shoes are inspired by the ones worn in a legendary 1986 science fiction movie. The iconic strap made them easy to slip on and off quickly for quick scene changes. Camouflage graphics and a "Bug Stomper" label give them an authentic vibe. The upper is made of a supple, full-grain leather.

Comics: Alien - Original Screenplay #1

Cover by Guilherme Balbi

Originally due to land in comic stores on April 22, just in time for Alien Day on April 26, Alien: The Original Screenplay #1, is a comic book adaptation of Dan O'Bannon's original 1976 screenplay - putting a fresh spin on an old favourite.

En route to back to Earth, the crew of the starship Snark intercepts an alien transmission. Their investigation leads them to a desolate planetoid, a crashed alien spacecraft, and a pyramidic structure of unknown origin. Then the terror begins . . .

Written by Cristiano Seixas, with art by Guilherme Balbi, Alien: The Original Screenplay is a five issue mini-series from Dark Horse Comics, that offers an alternate sequence of events to those we know so well.

Of course, the current coronavirus pandemic has shut down distribution of new comics, so the immediate future of this title remains up in the air.

Variant cover by Walter Simonson

Preview pages:

Mark "Alien Day" With Covenant Prequel

The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after the events of Prometheus. Set aboard an abandoned Engineer vessel, Dr. Shaw repairs David as they continue their search for humanity’s creators.

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