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Sounds like a really cool adventure. The dynamic of the love triangle reminds me a lot of my favorite ballet Giselle. Makes me really intrigued to play it

If anyone wants more great scenarios I recommend the Fanmade - The Stranger They Come (homebrew cinematic) A scenario based on the thing movie. It was really great, one of the best experiences I've had in my years of being a GM, the atmosphere was amazing. Its set up like a official cinematic scenario. You can find it with a quick google search.

It's can be played in low fantasy rpg like Pendragon?

If you move up giving the lighting gun to the ship's NPC then you have to worry less about PC's burning it down.

The goblin raiding party, that’s my version of Tucker’s kobolds. It consists of 4 goblins, 3 wolves and a goblin rogue 3 leader. I created the encounter for 3e originally, so it works best in that or Pathfinder 1st edition. The goblins won’t attack if they don’t have surprise. They’ll run away in the first round if the players are aware of them. They’ll do it over and over again until they catch the players unaware. If they get a surprise round, the two unmounted goblins will fire short bows at horses first if any are present, to prevent the PCs being able to outrun the goblins. The two regular mounted goblins will use spears and their wolves to attack any unmounted or unarmored PCs, preferring to kill the horses and injure the PCs. The leader will focus his attacks on any pc with a staff and robes, trying to down that character as quickly as possible. If the leader manages to get the wizard on the ground with his wolf’s trip attack in the surprise round, he’ll use the first regular round for a second sneak attack on the mage while his wolf will go for a second bite & trip. The two mounted goblins will move to where the two archers are, attacking anyone between them and the archers as they ride by. The archers will fire a second round of arrows at the horses, or anyone with a missile weapon. In the second regular round, the leader will break off and ride to escape. If he was lucky in the previous two rounds, the mage has already suffered a bite (1d6), sneak attack (1d6+2d6), a second bite (1d6) and a second sneak attack (1d6+2d6), which is more than needed to kill a 5th level mage. The two riders pick up the two archers and break off combat to escape. Their goal was to kill anything that looked like a spellcaster and any horses, so the PCs are on foot for the next ambush when the PCs camp for the night. The goblins have an average Stealth +12 or so, which means the PCs likely won’t notice them sneaking into their camp. The four regular goblins will try getting the sleeping PCs while the leader sneaks up on the sentry. The goal is to catch the bulk of the party sleeping and seriously wound whoever is guarding, so they will attack and then leg it away as fast as possible again. If they’re caught before the attack, they’ll grab backpacks and weapons before fleeing, to weaken the party for the next night. They will repeat the late night attacks as often as it takes to kill all the PCs before they can get somewhere safe to camp behind locked doors or city walls. This is a goblin mounted scouting party. If the PCs manage to escape, the scouting party will send someone to fetch a raiding party, consisting of three other scouting parties and the raid leader’s party of three regular goblins, five wolves, a level 1-3 spellcaster and a rogue 3/fighter 1 raid leader. And that’s not even fighting on their home turf. If you attack them on their home turf, they have traps and greater numbers. Just this encounter is a TPK at 5th level. I have never seen PCs beat this encounter in the 30 or so years since I wrote it. Dragons don’t scare my players as much as goblins do.

One thing I don't understand about this adventure is where are all the canning employees? They're never mentioned and investigating the warehouse seems in the book to mean there's very little or no one about. If it's such a big factory, where do the employees live? Is it open 24 hours a day?

This was my first intro to your channel! Love it and subbed! Also, “I don’t like it when a game presents multiple mechanical ways to do the same thing” *laughs/cries in Burning Wheel and Aces & Eights*

I already GMed the chariot and destroyer. I might use this idea to make the heart of darkness a prequel to the destroyer adventure.

I just picked up this adventure a few days ago, I was thinking about running it tomorrow for a group of beginners at the library but noticed that there aren't descriptions on the type of PCs that would fit in that setting. I'd also need to gather up some quick stats for thugs, grave robbers and any NPC that might fit in scenes. I liked your suggestion for PCs and I see that PDM commented some stats. That will definitely help. I was thinking about using Basic Fantasy as the rules or the Deathbringer mechanics, the simpler the better. I'll have to look for a system that has Victorian style PCs and NPCS that I can borrow. I also have an idea for the bride if one of my players or PCs is female and dies. That PC will become the bride. I was thinking about WHY the party would be in the area, The party can start IN the coach ride to the town, (It provides an opportunity to roleplay before meeting Elizabeth and backstories can be fleshed out) and one of the PCs can be someone that Elizabeth wrote and asked to come and look for Victor. A Prop letter from Elizabeth would be fun to make. That PC can easily be Henry Clerval, and he can be the leader of the group. I think i'll run it in October closer to Halloween, I'll have more of a chance to prep and make any props or print outs I can use. Great video and glad I found it!

Sir, @5:20 can we agree on the need for trigger discipline? It is important to keep one's booger hook off the bang switch until it is time to fire. :)

I know, this doesn't really matter much, but a Lance Corporal and a Colonel are completely different rank-wise. A lance corporal is a low rank enlisted, basically almost the lowest of the low, barely above private. A lance corporal is not yet even a non commissioned officer (like a sergeant). A colonel is a fairly high ranking officer: a colonel's next promotion will take them up to general. Lance corporals stand guard, colonels are in charge of entire missions, even the ranking officer on an entire base or post. The lowest ranking officer (lieutenant) outranks the highest ranking enlisted (master sergeant). I know, "who cares"? I served in the military, so i get picky about that. 😊

did the 5e kobolds get cover, and use hit and run tactics with things like disengage, hide, and keeping to mostly ranged attacks. I'd imagine Molotovs are essentially alchemists fire, if the target is hit with it they essentially taking extra attacks each turn unless they use their action to extinguish it, while a kobold or two runs in for an attack on a target possibly disadvantaged by being on fire, then disengages and retreats behind cover. hit the target from murder holes, and another alchemists fire the second the first is extinguished.

Thanks. Deadlands content is hard to find, especially classic. (And not people just playing.)

gurps lite exists, does the job,

Nice review. I ran Chariot and Destroyer for my group some time back and really enjoyed them. I have the PDF for Darkness and I'm thinking about running it, BUT, and this is a big but, I might swap out the Alien RPG rules for Mothership. They look slightly simpler, and although we enjoyed the Alien rules, we all had a hard time remembering them. Do you think Mothership would work just as well as the default? (I'm sure it would, just looking for another opinion).

Outgunned adventure is maybe why the broken compass one disappeared. Edit: readed the other coment about the thing with CMON. But Outgunned Adventure is BC in the outgunned format

I like this way of organising the adventures. The narrative connective tissue makes more sense. I also like the sense of progression in the stakes. Thanks for the suggestion.

Question: is this the type of game where the players make tactical decisions (attempting to optimize mechanical decisions during your turn?) or is the decision making during combat largely just narrative and then the push your luck mechanic?

I did all the scenarios as a GM. I disliked the Heart of Darkness. It was overly complexed. It did get the answers right that chariot of the gods didn’t answer. It introduced a new alien race, but they needed some more depth. But the scenario….it was just a mess. I fell sorry for my players. They still enjoyed it, but not as much as the other 2 scenarios. The way you described the the order of play, i think it’s really good. It only messes around with the timeline. That’s all.

Hey, just found your channel! Is the website down? I am unable to access it to download this great adventure!

Tried running this the first I time I ran GURPS for my friends. None of us had any idea what we where doing so it was really boring. The adventure has some good ideas, but it wasn't the right one for my group. On the other hand, it did spawn one of our group's most infamous characters, The Black Guy With The Sledgehammer, a black guy with two arms, one sledgehammer and zero personality.

I'd go HOD first, players will be like whoa where did this come from? Then Chariot, then Heart with a bit of tweaking

Makes sense, and my GM essentially used Destroyer of worlds as the prologue to the colonial marines campaign.

I was a bit let down by Broken Compass that did not convince me and the double punishment of having to buy Outgunned to do what Broken Compass was supposed to deliver. So, Savage Worlds will still keep the top spot for the moment. Liked and subscribed!

These look pretty great!

Its also worth mentioning that in Chariot its said that in addition to the science module, the life pods are all missing ( save for the corporate one ). Id always assumed that's where the Draconis from DoW came from but I like your idea as well! Hmmm lots to think about

Thanks for the video! This is an idea Worth of trying... I did not yet run this campaign butbifbi do I think l will run it in order of 1-3-2

Interesting idea for sure. I've always felt like they had the names of DoW and HoD switched as each definitely makes way more sense for the other!

I'm trying to convince my players to test the Alien RPG and the order of the modules had me baffled. Your idea seems to solve the issues I had so i'm gonna try it out. Good video!

Makes sense, especially to explain why the engineers visit to drop the goo. Enjoyed watching this!

That map is GORGEOUS! I've not run gurps yet, this might be a good opportunity.

I like this idea. Still feels like you could get the hubris of messing with genetics in there at the end.

I just read somewhere that they are going to make a 2.0 release for Aliens.

This is an absolute banger of a video. Saved my one shot. Keep up the good work! ❤

I love this idea and might run it if my campaign lasts long enough for my players to reach 2nd year 😂 Will be using Murphen44's D&D 5e homebrew, Wands and Wizards

Thanks a lot! Skipping the pirates was a really good idea!

I sort of feel the same way about the extent of Fort Nebraska, although, as written, a lot of it is inaccessible, so it's not *really* five full levels. The thing that bugs me a little is the radiation, which differs in intensity and location across multiple levels. I'm not entirely sure what having it there gains the adventure, although I suppose it could raise thoughts of the nukes, and make rigging a nuke for detonation tougher to do. I dunno ... "nuke the site from orbit" is *absolutely* already going to be an idea from my players, so I think I'm going to skip the radiation.

I'm running DoW now, and for some reason my (wonderful) players fixated on the insurgency, so to get info on the insurgents, the Marshal Station was literally their first stop! Talk about a baptism by fire ... Interestingly, I'm going the other way with the UPP. Sure, they're soldiers and at war, but they're really in the same boat as the Marines when the black goo drops. War may be hell, but what does that make the black goo bombardment? (By the way, I'm pretty sure the Border Bombers aren't the Engineers. I'm not positive, but there are some clues scattered through various media.)

This adventure sounds like the end piece to a longer adventure on the world. The marines arrive to deal with the insurgents, and after some various missions, this is the end. imho

Regarding the UPP invasion, perhaps it could be a mix. I'm guessing it couldn't be detected heading their way in FTL, but can be once the UPP vessels exit FTL in the system. Since the UPP force has to wake up, recover from cryosleep, prep their assault, and spend more time approaching the proper jump-off point at sublight speed, you could have them issue a warning to the troops on the planet to peacefully leave, thereby giving them an appropriate timer for where you are in the scenario at that moment. Send that message shortly after arrival but before they're done preparing. You can still make their arrival a surprise, not detecting them until they arrive, but still provide a time limit via comms while they're still transiting/prepping.

Which VTT do you use?

Thanks for doing this. I'm going to use your adventure tonight to test out my Harry Potter Fate hack I wrote.

Great comparison! How about an Everyday Heroes review? IMO, it's more Outgunned adjacent.

Ran my first convention game in May 2024, homebrew cinematic for AlienRPG. The best thing I did was run the game for some friends first, months in advance. Then I was able to trim, streamline, and build a pace for it. It was an amazing success! All the players had fun, and all are interested in playing when next year. Even convention staff got positive feedback! Honestly next year I might run the same game for new players, and write another for returning or advanced players.

I manage to play it in one session, I don’t understand how you can spend 15 sessions on this. And I agree cutting the Satillo is the best thing to do, even the book tells you it’s optional, and to cut it if you want a shorter session.

pleaaaaase do sailors on the starless sea

My favorite campaign is the orient express!

Subbed for Outgunned as well. Recommend you check out Alchemy RPG. Seems to be a little bit more refined VTT for the game. UpturnedTabletop (all one word) on twitch has a playthrough using the beta version of the Alchemy VTT and it plays really well.

It wasn't until the sequel ("Against the Rat Men" in DUNGEON FANTASY COMPANION) that I really managed to threaten my players' lives and health. Perhaps I wasn't playing the monsters cleverly enough. The 'Rune Limned Corridor' caused them some terrors but despite the fact that the text says you can't neutralise it my players did find a way and I didn't just nix it.

Good review :) one thing l will add though is that many people forget when reviewing 7e material is that the philosophy of dice rolls in the 7e book being that dice rolls are not always about failing or succeeding at the task but are also about who has “possession of the story”. As such, nothing “hinges” on dice rolls. Player succeeds, player gets what they want and how they want it (within reason), player fails the roll, GM controls the story and uses it to ramp up the horror (but that can still mean the task is succeeded). Example, failed mechanical repair on the radio could mean player just takes longer doing so, leaving them out of action in combat making life harder for the others, or cannot flee immediately if they want to fix it whilst hearing creatures crawl up the lighthouse side, or they succeed but just takes a little longer whilst secretly the cultist on the other side picks up the signal and heads over. Failed rolls shouldn’t mean failure at the all the time.