Free League Publishing is Taking Preorders for ALIEN The RPG: Building Better Worlds

Apr 26, 2023

Earlier today, Free League Publishing revealed an upcoming supplement for the hit ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game (check out the TGG review of the corebook right here) will arrive this Fall. Building Better Worlds focuses on all you’ll need to tackle the exploration and colonization of distant planets and also includes a six part campaign. Right now you can preorder Building Better Worlds for an MSRP of $41.45 (which includes the PDF) with an expected delivery of the physical book in October.

The announcement:

“Space is a pitch-black room—stick your hand out and you might never get it back. Of course, you also might touch God. It’s a gamble either way. To not try, however, is to wither and die—only those bold and foolish enough to take a chance will change their lives.” —Captain J.V. Gorham, Far Spinward Colonies, Pioneer, Weyland Corp.

Dark mysteries wait to be unearthed. Free League Publishing and 20th Century Studios today announced Building Better Worlds, a new expansion for the multiple award-winning ALIEN The 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.

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.

Building Better Worlds is a complete campaign module, giving you all the tools needed to run a full open-world campaign as a pioneering explorer or colonist.

Building Better Worlds 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.

PLEASE NOTE: The ALIEN RPG core rulebook is required to play Building Better Worlds.

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