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Hello everyone! I play all of mine rpgs with Foundry, and recently I played the Hope Last Day mini adventure.

It was fun, but it was a nightmare to make three levels with a big map.

I saw that there was a foundry module for the Rapture Protocol and got curious. Does it come with pre made maps? If so, can I acess and read the adventure through foundry since I dont have the pdf?

So I've been a player for a long time and have struggled to find the right table. Others have told me that my skillset may be more befitting of a GM, but I don't have any experience with it. A GM friend has agreed to help me run a one-shot in a system I'm familiar with, but now I need to find a one-shot to run (I feel like starting from scratch would take too much out of us at this point). As a player, I really like high-roleplay stories that involve solving complex problems with conflicting priorities and limited resources ("how can we best use this piece of land? Should the money fund a school or a hospital?"), as well as bringing together diverse factions together to accomplish results that they couldn’t achieve alone--in other words, I like the Building Better Worlds side of things more than bug hunts and whatnot. Are there any prewritten one-shots that cater to this desire? Let me know in the comments!

...and it was a blast!

((spoiler-free update))

The players had a lot of fun and we're about to play Act II tomorrow! We're doing 6 hr sessions because we play through dinner and we have a few new players in the group so we have extra time to cover rules questions, banter, etc. I pre-ordered Operation Leading Edge from Free League and you get the PDFs immediately, and after flipping through it I was chomping at the bit to run it so I did! Since I obviously don't have the maps or miniatures yet, I am just using an external monitor connected to my laptop to chromecast a player instance of Roll20 maps/handouts to them so they can all see what's going on. It's super easy to control, only issue was some wireless connectivity stuff mid-session. I also printed out the character sheets, some quick-reference sheets, the agenda cards, and then the actual handouts so they could be passed around as well.

As for the scenario, for those who don't know anything about it you play as a group of Colonial Marines sent down to the remote moon of Jeremiah VI to secure a rich mineral deposit. For the first Act there are definitely a lot of moving parts and multiple "scene" changes, and I felt like I didn't have time to use every Event like I have with other cinematic scenarios because the action was already pretty non-stop. I only got 2 of 5 in. That being said it made for an awesome session though, there was never a dull moment and we had some hilarious interactions amidst the horror.

I ran Lt Anson as an amalgamation of Gny. Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, Sarge from RvB, and the soundslikepizza drill sergeant character from GTA5 YouTube videos. It was meant to be a bit of comic relief and I don't know if I pulled it off but people seemed to get a kick out of it. I put LCpl Decker in charge of the group as he was the highest rank and then proceeded to chew him out when he'd answer the comms with "hello?" or give insufficient answers, but I also made sure to give him praise when he listened to/completed Anson's instructions. The newest player at the table got to play Decker so being able to guide him with Anson was also pretty convenient when he wasn't sure what to do.

The next Act is going to be a little more intense but I can't wait to see how they handle it.

Has anyone else tried running Operation Leading Edge yet?

This isn't necessarily for Alien RPG specifically, but rather for the Demiplane platform as a whole. I'm hoping some other Game Mothers or players here have some context or experience to share.

So I'm trying to set up pre-gen characters for Rapture Protocol on Demiplane to be used in Roll20 for the game. I know how to get them into Roll20, but the one step that's a tiny bit annoying is that it seems like there's no direct character creation link once you're in a specific game system's Nexus.

If I'm in the Alien RPG Nexus, there's a "View Characters" button, but it takes me to the platform-wide characters page which includes all systems for which I've created characters. The "Create" button there takes me to, again, the platform-wide UX where the first thing I have to do for every character I create is scroll down the list of games to find the Alien RPG.

This is definitely a First World problem and ultimately not a massive deal, but I was just wondering if anyone found any more direct means where if I was trying to quickly pull in all pre-gens from a scenario I don't have to select the Alien RPG game system each and every time?

Ever since I've learned about this game's existence I've been in love with those miniatures and wanted them so bad but of course, the actual company making them shut down before that. And of course they didn't think to take and sell printable files of their minies. Is there someone who's scanned or re-sculpted them for printing? I've asked this already in multiple different communities and people sadly ever only send me like a few xenomorph warriors or the Marines' squad or the Papsikels minies which are a bust for me. I want the sheer variety that THB had and I've never discovered anything that would come even close :(

Also I know you can sometimes see them on sale on eBay but they are UNGODLY expensive. I really would rather pay to have them printed custom.

Please help, someone tell me someone here knows of something. I've seriously been trying to get these for ages and I'm broken. It would mean more for me than you know.

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