Alien : Chariot of the Gods

story outline: You are space truckers on the starfreighter USCSS Montero, running “the Gauntlet”—the trade route between Anchorpoint Station and the Frontier. Your ship’s car-go hold is packed with dozens of tanks of the rare gas Helium-3. Usually cargoes such as these are towed in massive tanker modules that transport much higher con-centrations of the gas a safe distance from a freight hauler. The Montero isn’t rated as a commercial towing vehicle, however, and this small run is a special order for a Weyland-Yutani corporate account on Sutter’s World—a newly established Frontier colony. While the trip so far has been fairly routine, the Montero’s sensors developed a glitch before you left Anchorpoint and sporadically pinged contact with a sensor reflection before you activated the dis-placement drive and went FTL. Your cargo run so far has been without incident. Now, you are just awakening from hypersleep, ready to deliver your goods to the colony of Sutter’s World.

About the system: the alien game uses a D6 system where you use two sets of dice. Regular dice that are a combination of your attribute and skill scores (1-5 is nothing, any 6s are counted as successes). Then there are stress dice which is equal to your current stress level (just like the regular but rolling a 1 results in total failure). A roll typically has you roll both sets at the same time then add up your successes. The system is intended to be difficult and there is a high chance of character death. When a player dies the can choose to take over a NPC, so all is not lost.

Characters: the game has 5 premade characters. Miller the captain, Davis the pilot, Wilson the corporate rep, then the technicians Cham and Rye. Each character has different skills, abilities, talents and motivations. The characters can be distributed randomly or on a first come first serve basis.

Other notes: this is a one off game and may take two or three sessions to get through. I played through this full campaign IRL on 5/26/19 and it took around 8 hours or non-stop play to get through despite the booklet saying it's a 4 hour game. I'm comfortable running the game text only, voice or video. It's up to the group.

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