Alien RPG

Building Better Worlds Evolved Edition

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This is a pre-order. If you include this item in your order, the whole order will be held until a few weeks before the release date, in Q4 2026.

“You don’t understand – this place isn’t what we thought it was. I was wrong. We were so wrong.”

ALIEN RPG: Building Better Worlds is a complete campaign module for the award-winning official ALIEN roleplaying game, giving you all the tools you need to run a full open-world campaign as pioneering explorers or colonists. This 256-page book includes:

History of Colonization – the story of how humanity claimed the stars.
Creating Explorers & Colonists – expanded character creation rules, including two new archetypes.
Gear & Ships – an extensive chapter with new equipment, weapons, and spacecraft.
Systems & Colonies – 36 new worlds to explore, including the Far Spinward Colonies.
Weyland-Yutani Extrasolar Species Catalog – a host of new horrible Xenomorphs to encounter.
The Lost Worlds – the framework and backstory for a massive sandbox campaign, set in the distant reaches of the Far Spinward Colonies.
The Expeditions – seven thrilling missions for your explorers, playable in any order.
Making Your Own Better Worlds – tools for creating worlds to explore and colonizing them with new settlements.

Note: This product still in early access status and not yet finalized – if you spot any typos or errors, please report them in the designated thread on our forums before July 1.

A complete PDF of this product is included in your purchase via DrivethruRPG. If your Free League store account email matches your DriveThruRPG email, the product will automatically be added to your DriveThruRPG library. If not, you will receive an email with a redeemable code.

All the wonder and danger of the stars is yours – if you can just wipe the grime off your face and dig the dirt out from under your fingernails first.

Airless moons circle swirling gas giants, eager to be transformed into tomorrow’s paradise. Dark ancient mysteries wait to be unearthed beneath a millennium of debris. Searing solar flares boil your flesh and blacken your bones as you harness their power to light a hundred worlds. Long lost mysteries lie entombed in the frozen hearts of icy comets. Unstable tectonic plates shift to drown iridium mines in scalding lava.

Even the truth of humanity’s origins awaits you out there, orbiting some dying star. And out there amongst it all is something truly horrifying – something that nature never intended.

Something alien.

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“Move over, Dungeons & Dragons, Swedish publisher Free League has released Alien: The Roleplaying Game, and it is as great as it is terrifying.”
TheGamer

“Free League Publishing has knocked it out of the orbit. It’s an interstellar masterpiece that honors the Alien legacy and builds on the stories that made the series great. It’s a sci-fi adventure that roleplaying fans will surely love, and it’s an accessible system for anyone interested in a good story and a rollicking good time.”
GameTyrant

“The real horror of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi flick Alien has always been the creeping, slithering fear of the unknown. It’s impressive, then, that Free League has been able to craft a tabletop roleplaying game that can conjure up that same pitch-dark dread from the safety of your kitchen table.”
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