![]() ![]() To their credit, this works out decently. The measurements they give, then, are designed to be applicable to all three of these styles. As one might expect, they include "just use your imagination and don't bother with minis" and "get some minis and a grid", but, always the ambitious one, Alpha Omega also suggests setting up some terrain and measuring things in inches, like a wargame. The opening of the book suggests not one, not two, but three distinct ways to represent the game's action. You would be right! Chapter 1: Three ways to play! Now, you may think that someone had way too many ideas and crammed all of them into a single game, and that it would come off as an unfocused mess as a result. And did I mention that when the aliens came, they brought magic with them? Wielders, individuals who could exert influence over matter and energy through force of will, began to appear among the human population, and naturally exist among most non-human races. Also there are bioengineered humans that were once and still frequently are used as servants, soldiers, etc. Now, a few cities remain in the world, amid the blasted wastelands, and humanity has spent the last two centuries recovering, though many have been mutated severely, into what are effectively new races. All of this was predicted by a 19th-century author named Ethan Haas. The Seraph look like Renaissance depictions of Biblical angels, the Ophanum like demons, and serving them both are a bioengineered slave race, the Grigori, whose looks depend largely on the purpose they were designed for. Then, the aliens came.Įvery 10,000 years, the Seraph and Ophanum, two races of aliens, would arrive on Earth to war with one another. After that, meteors began bombarding Earth, wiping out what civilization remained and, perhaps ironically, preventing the other apocalypses from spreading enough to truly wipe out humanity. Humanity responded by going to war with each other, dropping bombs, releasing manmade plagues, developing murderous AI, all of which went basically how you'd imagine it. Hundreds of years in the future, humanity's hubris led nature to revolt, with years of storms, volcanoes, the works. What kind of apocalypse? Pretty much all of them. Well, let's dig in, shall we? The PremiseĪs I mentioned, Alpha Omega is post-apocalyptic. A decade later, and I might be the only person who's ever read the whole core book. The game line died out quickly, its insistence on too-high-for-tabletop-RPGs production values, expensive ARG, and decision to just hand out a bunch of free copies up front led Mindstorm Labs to close quickly, before they could even put the monster manual into full production. He was apparently given a copy to hand out, and as the first person to talk to him, he palms it off on me so he can consider his volunteer job done. He tells me a little about the game, but it's clear he's fairly uninterested in the whole "promotion" thing. I decided to talk a bit with the guy, learn what all the hubbub was supposed to be about. I recall the ARG and the vast disappointment that followed the reveal. ![]() I'm at the FLGS for a Free RPG Day promotion, and get talking with someone as I'm waiting for people to gather to play games. Everyone more or less immediately lost interest.įlash forward just a few months. It was Alpha Omega, a new post-apocalyptic RPG that had nothing at all to do with Cloverfield. However, after weeks of confusion, the solution to the puzzle was revealed. "Ethan Haas was right" was an ARG that for most of its run was widely believed to be related to Cloverfield. ![]() Why am I bringing this up? Because amidst this flurry of speculation, an anomaly arose. Would it be Godzilla? Evangelion? Some sort of remake of The Stuff? In the end, it was a technically competent but utterly forgettable giant monster movie, titled Cloverfield. Fans debated and argued what the nature of this film. Then the viral marketing began, an ARG that swept the internet. One moron misheard a snippet of dialog and thought it would be Voltron. A trailer had released, depicting some sort of cataclysm in New York City. Everyone was excited to vote for one Barack Obama, celebrities died by the dozens, and nerd culture, such as it was at the time, had become consumed. Cast your minds back, if you dare, to the halcyon days of 2008. Yeah, the cover's not much to look at, but the artwork inside the book is great, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Hey, so, I just remembered this here game existed, and apparently nobody else has ever seen it because it died after about six months for reasons that will become apparent as we explore: Alpha Omega: The Beginning and the End It died after about six months for reasons that will become apparent posted by EclecticTastes Original SA post ![]()
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