Aliens Predator: Isolation

[Axlotl]

This is a new medium sized set, based primarily on Alien: Isolation, Alien, the AvP movie, and AvP2010. The emphasis is on Isolation, featuring many areas from the game as locations.

It introduces the Corporate faction, sharing part of the Marine card pool, with an emphasis on Synthetics and research points. Corporate characters are divided between characters loyal to the Company, and those who "just work there".

It also introduces a scrounging mechanic for characters with the Mechanic resource, were those characters can collect components from locations and use them to craft certain powerful "Rigged" items.

Aliens get the addition of Alpha characters, powerful aliens that replace normal drones, but are limited to only 1 per hive.

Irradiated locations: Radiation hazards damage characters and weaken them temporarily.

A small subtheme of manipulating different characteristics of locations is also present.

The set is almost finished with initial drafting, and will soon move into making images. You all can chip in with which sections of the set you'd like to see first. You can pick mechanical themes or which games/movies you would like to see cards from.

Potential spoiler blocks:
Corporate Loyalty
Corporate Research
Corporate Synthetics
Other Corporate Cards
Rogue and Marine Support
Scrounging and Rigging
Alien Alphas
Alien Support
Predator Support
Locations, Resource Manipulation, and Barriers

or, if you prefer to go by material sources:
Alien: Isolation
Alien
Aliens
Alien: Resurrection
Alien Versus Predator
Prometheus
AvP:2010
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Original Content

[doctordolemite]

A torch weapon that can get past barriers by going through high or low locations would be cool. Locations with Sevestapol terminals to change conditions in locations such as security cameras or air supply. An item that can make synthetics ...twitchy.
And maybe something that allows Aliens to make captured characters into facehuggers without a queen or breeding chamber. I love where your going with this set. Alien Isolation was really cool.

[doctordolemite]

Nevermind. I read that too fast lol. I saw "you can all chip in" and then my eyes jumped to "mechanical themes or which games/movies you would like to see cards from." Thought you wanted ideas.

[Axlotl]

Scavenging and Crafting:

A Mechanic character can spend 1 movement point at a location with components to scavenge one of those components. Place a token on the character to signify the scavenged component. This token is considered to be an item in the Scavenger’s possession. Mechanics can rotate during the search round to play a Crafted item if they have the required component tokens on friendly characters at their location. The components are used up and removed from the characters involved in crafting.

Scavenging: Act of finding a component.
Component: Item token used for Crafted items.
Crafted: Item requiring matching components to be spent to play it.

[Axlotl]

Also, this set will negate anything done in the "Rites of Passage" AvP movie set I never finished. I'm pulling certain cards from it, some of which are being rewritten. Most key characters from that movie will make their appearance in this set.

The missing Cloned aliens from Resurrection are in this set also. (Hugger, Burster, Young Queen).

123 cards as of now, with the option to expand.

[zorenathres]

very cool use of components & scavenging i think its a great idea. I don't think character resources got explored enough so its nice to see new stuff for Mechanics to do.

[zorenathres]

looking around I found some corporate characters which I never got around to including in any set yet, if you see them as useful for the set, feel free to include them... nevermind i guess i should wait.

[Axlotl]

Alphas.

Alpha aliens represent aliens born with exceptional talents for battle. Each Alien player may only ever have 1 Alpha during an entire game, once it dies you can't create a new one. You can, however, play multiple Alphas in a deck to improve the odds of seeing one sooner.

A non-Molted Alpha is played when a proper Lineage Burster matures to a Drone, just as if you had converted it to a Alien Warrior or Hybrid character card. Molted Alphas are matured with a Royal Jelly from the appropriate Lineage precursor.

The Alpha resource adds an additional 2 honor value to the alien.

[Axlotl]

Irradiated: At the end of the movement round, all non-Alien, non-Synthetic characters at an Irradiated location take 1 Environmental Radiation damage, and are -1 Speed and Power for the rest of the turn.

Lingering in an Irradiated location is not recommended.

This is the Predator support in this set. Note: Scar, Celtic, and Chopper form a legal Predator Hunting Pack for the Countdown scenario.

[Axlotl]

Here is support for Marines and Rogues.

Machinist Equipment was an unused resource with one card each in Premiere and Res.

Not all Rigged items are Crafted. Like in Isolation, some items you find were hand made by people that came before you.

[whiteumbrella]

Now, I don't see this as an actual issue, more of a quirk of the character, but can Parker, with his no MP cost to scavenge, gain multiple of the same component from each location he enters? I mean, he still has to rotate to craft the items, so, again, its not likely to have a huge impact on gameplay

[Axlotl]

Ah, yes. I forgot to mention that you can only find 1 component per character per location each turn. This prevents excessive early stockpiling, and sitting at 1 location for 3x components a turn with a speed 3 character.

[whiteumbrella]

That makes sense, too. While its technically likely that a hospital would stockpile things like the SCI Injector, its still more balanced that way. Its still fun though with, say, Parker and Brett (nice synergy). Now, which character has to spend MP to transfer Items? The original, or the new owner?

[Axlotl]

Receiving character pays the MP for the swap, like a normal item.

[Axlotl]

This batch includes the last of the Alien cards, including the missing Clone cards from Res, and some reworked cards from the unfinished AvP movie set "Rites of Passage".

Fizzle was supposed to be part of the Rigged/Mechanic card dump, but I missed it.

Worth noting that Transmission can be used by non-Alien players, should non-Alien ways to Infect characters make an appearance. And they will. How else will you sneak an Alien through Quarantine?

Also, the set has grown a little. Up to almost 130 cards now.