Operation Leading Edge — New Cinematic Adventure & Miniatures Set For ALIEN The Roleplaying Game

Free League Publishing announced a slew of new upcoming releases for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition, headlined by the new cinematic adventure Operation Leading Edge and an accompanying Miniatures Set, all published in partnership with 20th Century Studios.

These items are now available for pre-order in the Free League webshop with immediate PDF access ahead of their Q4 release, alongside a new dedicated dice tray for the ALIEN RPG and Evolved Editions of the fan-favorite cinematic adventure Chariot of the Angels and the major campaign books Colonial Marines Operations Manual and Building Better Worlds.

More information about each title is available below.

Operation Leading Edge

“And they said, there is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.”
Jeremiah 18:12
Operation Leading Edge is a complete cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition. It is a stand-alone adventure but also serves as the second installment of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. The adventure is designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother and lets the players take the roles of a team of Colonial Marines sent to secure a rich mineral deposit on the remote moon Jeremiah VI. Just a routine drop n’ stop mission. What could possibly go wrong?

• The main Operation Leading Edge adventure book.
• Two huge double-sided maps (format 34 × 22 inches) featuring the key adventure locations in great and terrifying detail.
• Five pre-generated characters to choose from.
• Playing cards for personal agendas and NPCs.
• Cardboard tokens for characters and creatures.
• GM maps and player handouts.

Miniatures Set: Operation Leading Edge
Complementing the cinematic adventure Operation Leading Edge, Miniatures Set: Operation Leading Edge features 20 high-quality miniatures of Colonial Marines, enemy troops from the Union of Progressive Peoples (UPP), and a host of horrifying Xenomorphs.

These miniatures in the 28mm scale are perfectly sized for use on the large battle maps included in Operation Leading Edge and other cinematic adventures for the Evolved Edition of the award-winning ALIEN The Roleplaying Game.

In addition, Miniatures Set: Operation Leading Edge includes a booklet with simplified combat rules that make it possible to play quick skirmish battle rules in the ALIEN universe using the included miniatures.

ALIEN RPG Dice Tray
When the horror builds, and the stress dice pile up, the sturdy ALIEN RPG Dice Tray will keep your dice pools in order. This new official accessory to the award-winning ALIEN The Roleplaying Game measures 10.7 inches across (flat) with fiber cloth on the inside and faux leather on the outside.

Chariot of the Angels

The job was routine, the money fair. Then the damn company diverted you to answer a distress call from a ship that disappeared almost 80 years ago – a derelict carrying something bizarre, twisted, and alien. What the ship’s frozen crew brought back with them was bad enough – what they themselves were turning into was a bloody nightmare. Add to that an annoying sensor ghost shadowing you in the void, and your stress level is shot.
It’s all a bit much.

You don’t get paid enough to deal with monsters. But hold your breath, count to three, and play your cards right with this one, and you just might walk away very rich. Oh, who am I kidding?
You’re all going to die.


Chariot of the Angels is a fan-favorite cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, now fully updated to the Evolved Edition. It is designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother and will take you on a thrilling, terror-filled ride into deep space where no one can hear you scream.

• The main Chariot of the Angels adventure book.
• Two huge double-sided maps (format 34 × 22 inches) featuring the key adventure locations in great and terrifying detail.
• Five pre-generated characters to choose from.
• Playing cards for personal agendas and NPCs.
• Cardboard tokens for characters and creatures.
• GM maps and player handouts.
   

Colonial Marines Operations Manual Evolved Edition

“A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm: Every meal’s a banquet. Every paycheck’s a fortune – every formation’s a parade! I love the Corps!”
ALIEN RPG: Colonial Marines Operations Manual Evolved Edition is a complete campaign module for the award-winning ALIEN tabletop RPG, giving you all the tools you need to run a full open-world campaign as the iconic Colonial Marines. This fan-favorite expansion is now fully updated to the Evolved Edition. Contents:

• History & Organization: the inside story of the illustrious USCMC.
• Creating Marines: expanded character creation rules for grunts of all kinds.
• Weapons & Vehicles: an extensive chapter with new gear, gloriously illustrated.
• The Frontier War: the framework and backstory for a Colonial Marines campaign.
• Factions on the Frontier – the powers that be and their dark agendas.
• Marine Missions – six thrilling missions for your marines, playable in any order.
• The Endgame – the showdown against a deadly enemy, finally revealed.
   

Building Better Worlds Evolved Edition

“You don’t understand – this place isn’t what we thought it was. I was wrong. We were so wrong.”
ALIEN RPG: Building Better Worlds Evolved Edition is a complete campaign module for the award-winning ALIEN tabletop RPG, giving you all the tools you need to run a full open-world campaign as pioneering explorers or colonists. This expansion is now fully updated to the Evolved Edition. Contents:

• History of Colonization: the story of how humanity claimed the stars.
• Creating Explorers & Colonists: expanded character creation rules, including two new archetypes.
• Gear & Ships: an extensive chapter with new equipment, weapons, and spacecraft.
• Systems & Colonies: 36 new worlds to explore, including the Far Spinward Colonies.
• Weyland-Yutani Extrasolar Species Catalog: a host of new horrible Xenomorphs to encounter.
• The Lost Worlds: the framework and backstory for a massive sandbox campaign, set in the distant reaches of the Far Spinward Colonies.
• The Expeditions: seven thrilling missions for your explorers, playable in any order.
• Making Your Own Better Worlds: tools for creating worlds to explore and colonizing them with new settlements.
   

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game

Topping charts and capturing hearts since its original fall 2019 release, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game has become a fan favorite across the globe, inspiring new standards for horror and sci-fi RPGs while winning a dozen top awards over the years, including Best Game at the ENNIE Awards.

More information and free downloadable resources are available on the official website: alien-rpg.com.

™ & © 2026 20th Century Studios.

About Free League Publishing

Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

Our game portfolio includes Coriolis: The Great Dark, the renowned fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring (Gold ENNIE winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Nordic 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 RPG (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 blue-collar science fiction game 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), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, The Electric State Roleplaying Game, and the official Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying.

We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, The Labyrinth, and Swedish Machines – Sunset at Zero Point 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.

To stay current with Free League Publishing, follow on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and visit the official website at freeleaguepublishing.com.

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