Building Better Worlds, a New Expansion for the Award-Winning ALIEN RPG Revealed
“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.
Stockholm, Sweden (April 26, 2023) — 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. The expansion is now available for pre-order at the webpage.
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.
Find out more about ALIEN RPG: Building Better Worlds
ALIEN RPG: 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.
ALIEN RPG: Building Better Worlds expansion 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.
About ALIEN – The Roleplaying Game
[Winner of the Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020]
Space is vast, dark, and not your friend. Try to scream and no one can hear you—hold your breath and you rupture your lungs. And there are things lurking in the shadows—things strange and different and deadly. Things alien.
The multiple award-winning official ALIEN – The Roleplaying Game offers a universe of body horror and corporate brinkmanship. It is a harsh and unforgiving universe, and you are nothing if not expendable. Stay alive if you can.
The core rulebook was released in 2019 by Free League Publishing in partnership with 20th Century Studios. The game immediately sold out its first print run and swiftly entered the Top-5 list of best-selling tabletop roleplaying games in the fall of 2019. It won the ENNIE Award for Best Game 2020 and the People’s Choice Award for Best RPG at the UK Game Expo. The game is currently being translated into seven languages. Read more here.
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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. We have 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 Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, Dragonbane, PIRATE BORG, The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame.
Our current game portfolio includes the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, 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), 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 science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).
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