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MattMartin23
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 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: Aliens Crossover into Star Wars |
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I was watching Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection 2 weeks ago and just had a great RPG vision. What if a bounty hunter chases his bounty to a remote world off the grid where colonists were sent there under the guise of industry and instead were abused to become hosts for Aliens? The bounty hunter will be looking for the quarry and be forced to fend off both full grown aliens and facehuggers. The test will be to not become prey while seeking out his prey. I am not thinking about writing this in for my gaming session tonight but maybe 2 sessions from now.
Thoughts?
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I had an idea a while back for Xenomorphs using the racial templates to generate stats. For instance, a human with standard 3D attributes all around would generate adult xenomorphs with one set of stats, but a Barabel would produce a stronger xenomorph with natural armor. In addition, sentient beings would produce xenomorphs of greater intelligence, while beast hosts would produce more animalistic xenomorphs, and so on and so forth.
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| A few years ago, our group ran a short Alien vs Predator story. It was a TON of fun. |
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Fallon Kell
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I your bounty hunter a very advanced character? If not, this could end really quickly...
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CRMcNeill
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Crossovers are also great ways to populate the Unknown Regions and/or Wild Space.
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vanir
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Our group did a WH40K cross over once that was fun. It was actually pretty seamless, Eldar blending Force alchemy with technology and the Space Marines fairly straight powered armour and blasters with gothic overtones. Mostly it was just that they were all xenophobic psychopaths, in the end the moral of the tale turned out to be our Jedi characters realising their role in the galaxy was preventing it becoming like the galaxy the WH40K characters had come from.
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| vanir wrote: | Our group did a WH40K cross over once that was fun. It was actually pretty seamless, Eldar blending Force alchemy with technology and the Space Marines fairly straight powered armour and blasters with gothic overtones. Mostly it was just that they were all xenophobic psychopaths, in the end the moral of the tale turned out to be our Jedi characters realising their role in the galaxy was preventing it becoming like the galaxy the WH40K characters had come from.
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Im running a 40K/Otherspace 1&2 adventure after the next adventure that will be a modified Starfall.... The plan is then to have some 'aliens' (ie genestealers) escape into the SW universe and infiltrating/controlling a moff (the one from Otherspace 2) which will start to build a large scale 'gateway' to let the hiveships through..
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CRMcNeill
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Which do you find more terrifying; the xenomorph's straightforward parasitic reproduction, or the genestealer's more subtle approach?
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ZzaphodD
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| crmcneill wrote: | | Which do you find more terrifying; the xenomorph's straightforward parasitic reproduction, or the genestealer's more subtle approach? |
Im thinking of using a combination... Genestealers will be able to 'control' other beings by inserting a parasite through the mouth/throat that attaches to the host and controls it. The preferred way of infiltrating is however the 'regular' genestealer way of creating hybrids. This is because when using the direct control the controlling genestealer enters a comatose state.
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | | crmcneill wrote: | | Which do you find more terrifying; the xenomorph's straightforward parasitic reproduction, or the genestealer's more subtle approach? |
Im thinking of using a combination... Genestealers will be able to 'control' other beings by inserting a parasite through the mouth/throat that attaches to the host and controls it. The preferred way of infiltrating is however the 'regular' genestealer way of creating hybrids. This is because when using the direct control the controlling genestealer enters a comatose state. |
Hmm. You could just have the parasite be the basis of the genestealer mind-control in the first place, so that the implanted parasite is what attaches the host/victim to the hive mind.
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vanir
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Genestealers are more intellectually terrifying, they form a cult and take over planets like a virus whilst the xenomorphs are more identifiable as an independent enemy, working more like a parasitic attack that produces nasty offspring.
Sort of like xenomorphs you could take on with some gritty fighters in good armour with blasters, but genestealers you want serious powered armour and equally serious weaponry, using only elite fighters which doesn't come easily or cheap.
If I sent a Jedi into a nest of xenomorphs I'd expect the Jedi to come out victorious, albeit possibly scarred. If I sent one into a genestealer nest I probably wouldn't expect him coming back. |
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Zarm R'keeg
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| Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:49 am Post subject: Re: Aliens Crossover into Star Wars |
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| MattMartin23 wrote: | I was watching Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection 2 weeks ago and just had a great RPG vision. What if a bounty hunter chases his bounty to a remote world off the grid where colonists were sent there under the guise of industry and instead were abused to become hosts for Aliens? The bounty hunter will be looking for the quarry and be forced to fend off both full grown aliens and facehuggers. The test will be to not become prey while seeking out his prey. I am not thinking about writing this in for my gaming session tonight but maybe 2 sessions from now.
Thoughts?
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CRMcNeill
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Alien 3 is interesting in that it establishes the idea of aliens deriving physical traits from their hosts. Other than that, I'd rather the series stopped at Aliens, as well.
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garhkal
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From reading several of the aliens comics, that 'gene stealing trait' is common for them.. plus it also happened in AVP2.
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