Hi everyone, this is my first post of what I hope will be many as I work through the creation of the Xenoterror RPG.
Xenoterror is a science fiction roleplaying game. It depicts a retro-futuristic world of 2151 as depicted in sci-fi and horror movies of decades gone by. The corporations seem to run everything, national governments are either dependent on them or subservient. Humanity is spreading through the stars colonizing worlds and terraforming them, irregardless of the interests of indigenous species. Looming over all of this is the long and powerful reach of the Company.
You will be taking the roles of cogs in
the great corporate machine, starship pilots, junior executives,
mechanics and engineers, dispossessed veterans of disgraced wars, and
android assistants and spies. All working for the never named (that's
a right reserved for each individual Game Master) Company, the PCs go
out into the outer territories to make the desires of the Company a
reality.
Humanity has yet to find signs of
intelligent alien life, all that is out there in deep space is
primitive animals ready to be displaced by earthly fauna, or rounded
up and exploited for whatever unique biochemical processes they may
contain. Unknown to humanity at large is that alien life is out
there, and more dangerous then can possibly be imagined. As the
saying goes 'In space, no one can hear you...”
That in a nutshell is what Xenoterror is about, pitting your hapless and unprepared PCs against unbelievable alien horrors from the cold depths of space, all the while balancing survival instincts and better judgment against the coffers of the corporations and the safety of humanity.
To give an idea where this game is coming from, if Xenoterror had a mommy, it would be Machinations of the Space Princess, where it gets the majority of its rules and systems. Its Granmommy would be Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
I'm pretty up front about my inspirations, and I think Xenoterror will fill an open niche in the scifi OSR market. Most scifi OSR games are pretty solidly Space Opera and Sword & Planet inspired, with the occasional Star Trek thrown in. Xenoterror however will be a bit more grounded and gritty, with a nice focus on the backstabbing culture of the corporate run future.
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