Chariot of the Gods: Second run

We played the Alien RPG beginner box “cinematic adventure” Chariot of the Gods for the second time. Most players were new, but one of them came for a second round. What was different this time? Would I run this again?

Alien The Roleplaying Game cover. It’s a gorgeous book. I wish Free League was tighter on editing, though.

The Cinematic Adventure

The “cinematic adventure” format is meant to generate an experience very close to the source material, in this case the original movie in the franchise, Alien. It achieves this by remixing familiar elements from the source to a very slightly skewed vision of what you’ve already seen as a movie. This may sound like a folly, but in practice, with players who are into the source material, it works like a dream. You need the barest of shorthands to convey entire scenes and moods, because everyone can see them in their mind’s eye, reflecting o