Playing Dice with the Universe

 Painting guide for the Dragonlance figures Goldmoon:  Silvery Gold Hair, furs with red feathers and a bright blue crystal staff. Caramon: Brown hair, white tabard, golden/bronze winged helmet. Tanis: red/auburn hair, green cloak, leathers. Raistlin: golden skin, white hair.  Red robe with blue trim around the hood and sleeves. Staff with glowing blue orb on the end. Laurana:  Honey Blonde Hair, armour and tan trousers. ( sadly the model lacks the distinctive cloak of the artwork ) Sturm: Full armour horned helmet.  Shield with yellow centre and red circle. Brown hair. Riverwind: Brown hair, red headband and sash. ( rather lacking in artwork for this one ) Tasslehoff: Green top (NOT red as in the sample model), blue trousers, brown hair; white furs Flint: Dwarf, black beard, red trousers, white top. Tika: Red Hair, chainmail, red sash, greave on her right leg is a bronze colour unlike the rest of the armour.

  The Aliens RPG starter set contains the "Chariot of the Gods" prewritten adventure.  The adventure is in three acts and each of the five player characters get personal agenda cards for each act.  They can earn story points for completing their objectives.  I ran the adventure with three players as a one off session between our D&D campaigns. Initially we were going to have more but a few people could not make it on the day.  I actually think it worked better with less players at it gave me more NPC's that could get killed without having to hand out new characters to the rest of the players. Overall we liked the system with the option to push rolls and gain stress dice that could make bad things happen.  It certainly works well for a one off adventure. Adventure Summary. The crew of the USCSS Montero were woken from cryo-sleep and found a derelict ship the USCSS Cronus that was lost 77 years ago.  Will had to put some work in to get the airlock br...