Each has their own set of talents, skills and attributes, and the only thing that holds them back from feeling like entirely new professions is the fact that the talents they have are not unique, and there’s overlap between them. In the book are ten new specializations for marines that pretty much work like new professions. You could mix things up by using other careers to represent different specializations, but now there’s a more elegant solution.
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New Toys & CareersĪs the Colonial Marines Operations Manual is meant to be used for marine focused campaigns you would end up with a pretty boring team if you just stuck with the vanilla marine career from the core rulebook. It explains a lot without explaining too much, and overall makes the Alien universe feel larger and more alive. It takes a slightly different approach to most other history sections in RPG books as it gives multiple timelines, each one focusing on a specific aspect, the integration of androids in the fighting forces, development of biological weapons, wars based on religious beliefs, why the USCM has the position it has in both the United Americas and the Three World Empire and so on. The history section is one of the highlights of the books as it helps flesh out the setting. The Colonial Marines Operations Manual gives an overview of what it is like to serve in the corps, and also a history of it. But at least you’re not wasting your life farming muck in the back end of nowhere. In hypersleep you won’t age, but everyone you know and love will, and you might come back from a campaign not looking a year older than when you left, only to find that your partner is now 30 years older and your kids have careers of their own. If you’re not getting shot at, or attacked by beasts to terrifying to even think about you’ll spend your time in hypersleep. Life in the USCM is not easy, nor has it ever been. This review will try to avoid any spoilers for the included campaign, though it’s hard to review a book like this without at least hinting at some of the things players are not meant to know about. It’s part splatbook, giving more options and equipment for colonial marine characters, part campaign blueprint and part actual campaign for anyone who wants to run, and gives a lot more information about the history of the colonial marines and other fighting forces of the Alien universe. This one, as the name would imply, will focus on the colonial marines.
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The Colonial Marines Operations Manual is the first in a series of books that will focus on different aspects of the Alien setting. The first standalone adventure released for it, Destroyer of Worlds (also reviewed earlier), was also really good.
And that’s well deserved, as the game did an excellent job at capturing the feel of the Alien setting, while at the same time not feeling like it was shackled to just the event of the movies, or even the xenomorphs. Not only did it win the “best game of the year” award at the ENNIEs, but it also seems to have sold really well. The Alien RPG (reviewed earlier) was released in 2019 and made quite a splash on the RPG market.
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