And, welcome to smeagol!

(we will have to have a prehistoric, maybe ivory, ring!)

Yup I have it

Thank you! I want to underline that I have the book, but am not read up. But I will start doing my homework tonight!

No rush in reading the rules (@smeagol).
We should be able to learn/explore things as we go.
(I used to be super up to date on Alien RPG but will get back up to speed on the details I forgot).

Cool InQueli has the rules too.

So, I so far only posted the list of points to go through for character creation (I just updated the topic) but I can post more info' there if FPSMC does not have the book.

Alright, here is Swift-Like-Gazelle, a promising tribe youth (Kid):

Swift Like Gazelle rolled 15 using 1d6+10 with rolls of 5.  Age.

Naturally she insists she's a grown-up now, but nobody's listening. She can't Tik Tok about it, so she just throws rocks and runs aronud sullenly. Being a prehistoric teen is hard shit.

Like her name suggests, she's very fast and agile, and she notices things others don't (because they're all stupid old farts who can't see what how amazing she is).

Being a prehistoric teen is hard shit--she cannot go sulk in her room... she has no room. She cannot go hang out at the mall with her friends...

I put some general character creation up.
And info' on the Pilot.
Of the three Talents for Pilot, 2 do not translate to the Prehistoric setting--so, if you want to take one of those two we can work out some changes... but my experience is that PIlots normally take the 3rd Talent (it being way less situational)  anyhow.

I forgot about character sheets, so I will steal the one that was made by In Queli, and put it in your character sheet (that I'll open and make user editable).
I'll see about changing them / adding stuff if needed, later...

Sure, I'm happy to someone's daughter, sister, etc.

is having only two strength a bad idea? Does that mean the character would be very fragile?
It does mean you only have 2 HP, so that does make you weaker than higher STR and thus higher HP (5 being the starting max')--
--but, it is not as bad as other more HP-based games.

The bad side is that you will probably get broken faster (ie. in one well placed blow) but 5 HP can easily go down in just 2 blows. So it is not that much worse.
But w. low STR you probably have high AGI so can try to Dodge...

Also, the real bad critters have signature attacks.
Wherein, if they hit you (basically if they truly do 1 damage, that is not soaked or blocked or avoided) then they just roll a d6 on their special attack chart.
Often, a 6 on that chart means you are dead.

Side note: if we ever keep on going together, and move on into a full campaign, I will submit the choice (that I am leaning into) of going w. the basic Year Zero rule (Alien being one variation of the basic Year Zero rules) in which HP are the average of STR + AGI ; or else the new Walking Dead rule of 3 base HP for all (regardless of STR or AGI).

So can we post or?

Yes, post away!

Just to make sure all see what Stunts are.
To succeed at an action you need only one success.
If it is a contested action (arm wrestling, chasing, a knife attack vs. armor...) you need 1 success more than your opponent.
So, every success beyond the 1 you need to succeed (each 'extra' success) is called a Stunt.
In some cases this can mean damage (1 extra damage per Stunt).
Otherwise each Skill lists the Stunts you can choose from.

But, in general it is something like giving a success to someone else (you climb the rope, and also help your pal who slipped - failed their roll) ; you impress someone (make Big-Bear think you are stronger than him!) ; you can decide you never need to roll for this again (for specifics: you know how to override this ship's security measures--so, later, if someone blocks things again on this ship, you can override w/o a roll... not 'all' ships) ; you save a die for later ; you do things faster etc.

re. Stealth.

In general these are the rules:

When MOBILITY is used for stealth, make an opposed roll against your opponent's OBSERVATION.
In this case, since you came up with ideas (downwind etc.) and I felt you could use various manners to move, I did not go for an opposed roll (I will roll for Observation on the animals' part, just to see!).

GROUP STEALTH
When you and other characters in a group sneak side by side, don’t make individual MOBILITY rolls to stay undetected. Instead, only the PC with the lowest skill level rolls, and the result applies to the whole group.

Also, since you are splitting up into small groups, and it seemed fine for the situation (with each doing his or her 'thing') I did not go with a group roll.

NOTE: unless I am forgetting some specific rule added somewhere (and I am pretty sure I am not) when doing such a Group roll (the weakest) for Stealth, then you can Help the person rolling (if you come up with an idea of how you can actually help--pointing which way to go or whatever...).

This is just FYI, as a totally open offer, with no obligation whatsoever for anyone to be interested at all--
--I am starting a sandbox The Walking Dead Universe (Free League) campaign, here, on RPOL.
I should have a couple players entering, and am putting this here in case any of you are interested as well, before posting an ad'.
The link is here.

I posted the rules for relieving Stress.

The signature item can be used (and I'll let you note its use, and tell people if we move from one gaming session to another ; or when we change Acts if in a Cinematic).

Two Face Huggers--a reminder: if you have 1 or more than 1 Face Hugger (rolling a 1 on the d6 on your Stress Dice), you 'only' roll for Panic one time.
And--this does not mean your action fails (though w. high panic results, your action could be 'canceled', the panic preventing you from carrying through).

When certain enemies are reduced to zero Health, they are not Broken in the way a human is. Instead, roll a D6 on the critical injury table.

And when the Dice Roller gives your DM a 1 on the d6, you get:
Rise Again
--falls to the ground, seemingly dead, but it’s a ruse. If it’s attacked again, or on its next initiative, it regains one point of Health and rises—fueled by instinctive hatred.

Welcome to tommydan72, who is be joining us for Hope's Last Day.

I will add people to the HLD group soon (it is all ready, just want to wrap up the other scenario first).
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:21, Wed 23 Aug 2023.

Hello everyone, glad to be here! :)

Welcome! Hope we'll have a lot of fun and/or terror together.

Also, I just read two posts up and mistakenly thought the enemy was going to rise again. *Shivers*

Those pesky aliens just won't stay dead!

And welcome aboard, tommydan72, fantastic to have you with us.

And—Welcome to Veda, who is also joining us for Hope's Last Day.

I will soon add people to the HLD group (it is all ready.

In reply to Little Mother (msg # 30):

It might actually be worse than that…

Hey, everybody, glad to be aboard!  :)

Hello all!

Welcome to Hope's Last Day (aka Hadley's Last Hope), or HLD.

You will be four players, and all have access to Group 2.
That is:

• where to choose the pregen you want to play (5 choices):
link to a message in this game

• the general OOC thread:
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• the thread where I put the maps of the station up (and a link to a star map to check out the general location). All the PCs know the station, so you know those maps well:
link to a message in this game

• and the IC thread, where you can describe the fun time you will spend, sipping cocktails and watching tri-vids and such!
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Have a look around, start saying who you might want to play, ask questions etc.

Good week-end to all!

Added the list of actions (fast & slow) in the Rules.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:24, Fri 08 Sept 2023.