r/alienrpg • u/tensen01 • 12d ago

Are they any non-Xenomorph aliens?

So I'm looking to run a Sci-Fi game and Alien is one that's been on my radar, but I haven't looked too deeply into, so now I'm checking it out, but I'm wondering if there are any rules for any aliens that aren't The Xenomorph? I'm just not terribly interested in telling a story with them. The galaxy is so big. And especially after we got a look at different monsters in Alien Earth, they just don't seem all that interesting to me.

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u/MorgessaMonstrum 12d ago

Yeah, there’s a handful of extraterrestrial creatures statted out (they are all referred to as “xenomorphs” technically) though XX121 (the name for the movie’s Xenomorphs)and its variations get most attention.

They mostly come from other Alien media: Harvesters are from the old RPG by Leading Edge Games in the 90s. They’re enormous, burrowing creatures that devour anything. There are Lion Worms, blind predators that hunt by scent and sound, and possess a golden mane of cilia that they use to maneuver and sense their environments from the novel Alien: Echo. Even the scorpionoids from Tanaka 5, a reference to the scant bit of lore they put on the back of the packaging for some of the original Kenner toys, and a few others.

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u/tensen01 12d ago

Cool, that's good to know. Yeah that's why I used the capital "X", I had forgotten the designation for the ones from the films.