[Space] How alien are your aliens?

acrosome · 10-13-2019, 09:19 AM

I'm more of a starfish-alien guy. I liked the aliens in 2300AD for example. (Where, oddly, the designated enemies- the Kafer- were arguably the most humanoid, getting competition only from the Sung.)

But I don't really think of them as PC material. Rather, they are a roleplaying opportunity for the GM. This is sort of how 2300AD did things, and the PCs could have fun figuring out the weirdo aliens, like in the Energy Curve or Ranger adventures.

For PC weirdos I like modified humans, either evolutionary weirdos as in Traveller or modified parahumanity weirdos. I mean, I can think of lots of weird things that some people might want to change themselves into if they could. Furries alone allow nearly limitless variety, and they would potentially still allow for the Star Trek trope of interspecies romance, but there are much weirder things as well.

10-13-2019, 09:19 AM	#18
acrosome Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Land of Enchantment	Re: [Space] How alien are your aliens? I'm more of a starfish-alien guy. I liked the aliens in 2300AD for example. (Where, oddly, the designated enemies- the Kafer- were arguably the most humanoid, getting competition only from the Sung.) But I don't really think of them as PC material. Rather, they are a roleplaying opportunity for the GM. This is sort of how 2300AD did things, and the PCs could have fun figuring out the weirdo aliens, like in the Energy Curve or Ranger adventures. For PC weirdos I like modified humans, either evolutionary weirdos as in Traveller or modified parahumanity weirdos. I mean, I can think of lots of weird things that some people might want to change themselves into if they could. Furries alone allow nearly limitless variety, and they would potentially still allow for the Star Trek trope of interspecies romance, but there are much weirder things as well. __________________ I'd need to get a grant and go shoot a thousand goats to figure it out.