For five glorious years, Free League Publishing and 20th Century Studios have explored the ultimate reaches of the ALIEN universe. In celebration of the critically acclaimed ALIEN RPG’s 5th anniversary in 2024, Free League proudly announced their plans to unleash a Second Edition of the multiple award-winning game rules across an expansive new line of rulebooks, starter sets, cinematics, and accessories. The stress fest begins with bug hunts aplenty through an epic Kickstarter launching this Fall.
Free League has revealed its core line-up for the upcoming Kickstarter, with more details coming soon:
- Based upon feedback from thousands of players over five years of adventures, the Second Edition of the core rules delivers an updated and streamlined version of the ALIEN RPG fans know and love, along with additional new artwork, new content, and a variety of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.
- The new 2e starter set will be redesigned as the perfect starting point for newcomers to roleplaying in the ALIEN universe, containing everything they need for game night including abridged 2e rules, character sheets, custom dice, reference cards, various handouts, and an expanded 2e edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario set on Hadley’s Hope just prior to the unforgettable events of Aliens.
- The new cinematic scenario boxed set, Rapture Protocol, written by Jonathan Hicks and Free League’s Tomas Härenstam, returns to the roots of the ALIEN franchise, featuring the crew of a small star freighter on a resupply run to the remote industrial colony, soon embroiled in a deadly conflict.
- The miniatures set is designed to bring the events of Rapture Protocol to life, but fully complement other adventures and skirmish battles throughout the ALIEN RPG series.
Sign up today to follow the upcoming Kickstarter, look out for more news across Free League’s social channels, and then get ready for a whole new chapter of sprawling, stress-inducing, blood-curdling ALIEN RPG adventures for years to come. We can’t lie to you about your chances, but you have our sympathies.
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Free League is one of the most funded RPG publishers on Kickstarter, raising over $12M across 36 successful campaigns including The One Ring™, Blade Runner, Dragonbane, Coriolis, Vaesen, Forbidden Lands, and Tales From the Loop.
Topping charts and capturing hearts since its Fall 2019 debut, the ALIEN RPG has become a fan-favorite across the globe, inspiring new standards for horror and sci-fi RPGs while snagging 10+ top awards over the years such as Best Game, Best RPG, Best RPG Expansion, Best RPG Adventure, Best Cartography, Best Production Values, and (among our favorites) Best Way to Die in an RPG for the esteemed eyeburster.
Reviews for ALIEN RPG
“Move over, Dungeons & Dragons, Swedish publisher Free League has released ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, and it is as great as it is terrifying.” – TheGamer
“An interstellar masterpiece that honors the ALIEN legacy and builds on the stories that made the series great. It’s a sci-fi adventure that roleplaying fans will surely love, and it’s an accessible system for anyone interested in a good story and a rollicking good time.” – GameTyrant
A full press kit for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Second Edition, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/ALIEN-RPG-2e-Press-Kit
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About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include The Electric State Roleplaying Game and Coriolis: The Great Dark.
Our game portfolio includes the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023),The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate ’80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), and the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu,At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.
