Alien: Quarantine - Game Information (Read First)
Alien: Quarantine takes place in the Alien Universe developed by Ridley Scott; a universe with a rich mythology spanning six official Alien movies, fifteen short films, video games, books and tie-in novels. And this is all before you include the Blade Runner franchise of movies. It is a world populated by corrupt corporations seeking financial gain and profit, roughnecks, Colonial Marines, synthetic lifeforms, and the alien Xenomorph. The "perfect organism".
The purpose of this game, and the hope of the GM, is to tell a story and add to the mythology of this world. To do this, we need structure, a way to resolve actions, to add dramatic tension, and to handle combat. For this purpose, we will be utilizing the Alien Roleplaying Game System developed by Free League. In this system, characters will build dice pools comprising their attributes and skills, they will role dice to determine the success or failure of actions, they will push skills, they will gain stress, and, in the end, they will face choices with life or death consequences.
The problem with any roleplaying system, however, is that if it is followed too rigidly, it can stifle gameplay. That's not the goal here. The goal is to tell a story, the system just provides the framework inside which the story will unfold.
So...
Welcome to Alien: Quarantine...
And may the odds be ever in your favor...