Aliens/predators/stargate crossover campaigns

[mastereji]

I was just wondering if anyone else has run a crossover campaign that included aliens/predators/stargates and if so some comments on how they ran? Did the Empire control all the stargates? Use the aliens as nasty pawns? Or hire the predators as bounty hunters?

[Grimace]

The most I ever did was use an Alien in my Star Wars game, but I called it a different racial name rather than "Alien". For it's brief back story, I said the group that had it was a group that had gone out to the farthest reaches of the Fringe and had found it on a planet there...the only one they could find. They helped it, so it stays with them and helps them.

But that's been about the extent of crossover than I've done in my games

[TrueGrit]

[Grimace]

Oh, don't get me wrong....it didn't ACT like an "Alien". It had the look, the attributes, the blood, all of that of an "Alien", but it wasn't a xenophobic killing machine. It was mean, but not towards those that helped it. It was intelligent enough to recognize its name, and to do some communication with the small group it was with, so it wasn't quite the monster that was the beasts in the movies.

So while I borrowed the body and the attributes of the Alien monster, I didn't borrow everything from it. My players (who were in a different group than the one that had the "Alien" in it) were more scared of an intelligent Alien than a simple killing machine. And, again, it was a sort of created alien for Star Wars rather than a direct crossover with the typical "Alien" of movie fame.

[TrueGrit]

Ah, I understand now.

I never really considered them more then very cunning animals (insects even?). Perhaps the Queens have real intelligence but the aliens themselves always seemed more instinctual to me, rather then smart. Watch a cat hunt and you'll know what I mean - tigers are cunning but certainly aren't intelligent in a sentient sense.

How did it communicate with them? Hand signals? Hissing? Sign?
Did you make consideration for reproduction? Normally it takes a facehugger (awesome little pests) and a "host" to make an alien. Or was it not necessary to have that detail for your scenario? I'm curious now...

[mastereji]

I have some old d20 data on the aliens as a species and thier natures, abilitities, etc and they seem to very intelligent because they have a hive mind with the queen. Anyways, in one of my campaigns i used them as elite agents of a powerful sith sorcerer who happened upon a nest of eggs with facehuggers who use his dark arts and command of the force to manipulate them and their "new hosts" that he provided for them. I had most of them tainted with dark side energies but several of them became independent of the hive and he then trained them in the sith arts, thus making them sith acolytes that wielded lightsabers on top of all their other nasty attacks, the one thing i changed was their size, in that they remained medium size.

Basically, my players really really didnt like them especially the first time they came across them. Imagine being surrounded by multiple xenomorphs in red sith robes who then ignite their lightsabers. The look on all their faces was priceless. Needless to say they are nasty and I don't go that route too often.

Also, i can see your point on having a friendly one, especially a "red" one. My data states that there is an offshoot of aliens that are red in color and oppose the other ones and seek out and kill the opposing queens.

My group even sought out a "hive" of the red ones to aid them and they eventually were successful and the red ones helped them eliminate the dark side aliens and their master.

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[obidancer]

that's the prime example why it's so great to be a member of this forum... I just love you, guys. No joke.

[hisham]

[Esoomian]

Wow thanks for that! I'd been idly wondering about that for ages!
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