They just need to find a way out of this very bad situation. They can’t prevent the UPP from invading, or preventing the colony from being wiped out. This is an adventure where a lot of things will be happening around the players, that are outside their control. Some of them are mandatory to move the story forward, but most of them are optional, and are mostly meant to add flavour and some additional challenges for the players to overcome. The only way out is through the USCM fort and up a space elevator, but during all the fighting something far worse managed to escape from the bottom floor of the base.Įach act has a number of events that can happen whenever the GM thinks they would fit in and make narrative sense. A third actor enters the fray, and bombs the colony with the black goo, seen in Prometheus and Covenant, and now the players need to find a way off the colony. Act three is where things get complicated though. The players now need to make their way back to the USCM base and help repel the invaders. The UPP are invading and fighting is happening all around the city. The second act sees war come to Ariarcus. The first act has the players travel through the colony, visiting several important locations six of which are listed in the book. Similarly to Chariot of the Gods before it Destroyer of Worlds is split into three acts. Now it’s important that the missing marines are found, before they’re able to hand themselves over to the insurgents and the UPP. On the colony are insurgents, people who are unhappy the United Americas claiming what they view as rightfully theirs, and now that a scorched earth strategy is being employed some are beginning to view the UPP as their saviours. This colony was once prosperous, but with there being an immediate risk of invasion from the UPP it’s been decided that the colony needs to be evacuated and its valuable resource, oil, has been ruined, so that the invaders won’t gain anything from taking the colony. Four marines have gone AWOL on a small moon colony called Ariarcus located near UPP space. There’s in other words a lot in this box. Finally there’s a deck of cards printed on somewhat flimsy cardstock with the personal agendas for all the player characters, as well as major NPCs, vehicles, new weapons and a few special events. The print quality in the book is great, and despite being a softcover book it feels pretty sturdy.Īpart from the book there are also seven character sheets, one for each player character that the players can choose from at the start of the adventure, a large double sided map where one side shows the colony the adventure takes place on and the other shows the internals of the USCM fort and player-facing maps of all the major locations, split between two roughly A3 sized sheets, both of which have several location maps on them, printed on thick paper. The most important of which is an 88 page soft cover book that’s similar to the rulebook in the starter set. You’ve been warned!ĭestroyer of Worlds comes in a slim box that’s too small for its own good, because it’s packed with stuff. If you’re interested in running this adventure for your group and want to find out if it’s any good or not, and what issues it might have then go on reading, but if you’re a player then stop reading now, or you’ll ruin all the surprises. This is a review for an adventure, and so will contain spoilers. It’s a standalone adventure that does not tie in with anything else that’s been released thus far, and assumes that you’ll be using the pre written characters that it comes with. Any rules necessary from the core rulebook that’s missing from the starter set can be found in the adventure itself.
Unlike pretty much every other adventure and expansion for any other RPG out there this one can be played using the starter set, you don’t need the core rulebook for it, though if you don’t have the starter set but own the core rulebook then this is fully playable with that as well.
Destroyer of Worlds is the first standalone adventure released for the Alien RPG sees a group of Colonial Marines try to find a group of defectors carrying something very valuable before the colony is invaded.
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