Somebody wake up Hicks
@jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
I'm all about ALIEN '79.
I wrote the ALIEN RPG adventure Rapture Protocol, Those Dark Places, Pressure, Fireteam & Deep Space.
I also love Tolkien, Robin of Sherwood, OD&D, Dead Space, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, 2000AD, Star Trek, Star Wars.
I wrote the ALIEN RPG adventure Rapture Protocol, Those Dark Places, Pressure, Fireteam & Deep Space.
I also love Tolkien, Robin of Sherwood, OD&D, Dead Space, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, 2000AD, Star Trek, Star Wars.
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The F44AA Pulse Rifle in ALIEN Romulus was cool but where did those 400 rounds go? That's a lot of bullets.
The aiming assist was a nice touch but it makes you wonder why, if it was so accurate, it wasn't still used. Well, the assist was prone to failure so it was redeveloped for the M56 Smartgun.
The aiming assist was a nice touch but it makes you wonder why, if it was so accurate, it wasn't still used. Well, the assist was prone to failure so it was redeveloped for the M56 Smartgun.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The F44AA Pulse Rifle in ALIEN Romulus was cool but where did those 400 rounds go? That's a lot of bullets.
The aiming assist was a nice touch but it makes you wonder why, if it was so accurate, it wasn't still used. Well, the assist was prone to failure so it was redeveloped for the M56 Smartgun.
The aiming assist was a nice touch but it makes you wonder why, if it was so accurate, it wasn't still used. Well, the assist was prone to failure so it was redeveloped for the M56 Smartgun.
Two new boardgames on my radar - This Game is Killer: Alien on Board and Frozen Horror. Neat little party games inspired by two of my favourite movies, ALIEN and The Thing.
Neat, easy to pick up and only about twelve pounds each. Brilliant.
www.smirkanddagger.com
Neat, easy to pick up and only about twelve pounds each. Brilliant.
www.smirkanddagger.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Two new boardgames on my radar - This Game is Killer: Alien on Board and Frozen Horror. Neat little party games inspired by two of my favourite movies, ALIEN and The Thing.
Neat, easy to pick up and only about twelve pounds each. Brilliant.
www.smirkanddagger.com
Neat, easy to pick up and only about twelve pounds each. Brilliant.
www.smirkanddagger.com
Although I really liked Rain as a protagonist my favourite character in ALIEN Romulus was Andy, played brilliantly by David Jonsson. The switch from glitch to bitch is fantastic and - unnecessary use of the well-known ALIENS line aside - he was a delight to watch throughout.
More of him, please.
More of him, please.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Although I really liked Rain as a protagonist my favourite character in ALIEN Romulus was Andy, played brilliantly by David Jonsson. The switch from glitch to bitch is fantastic and - unnecessary use of the well-known ALIENS line aside - he was a delight to watch throughout.
More of him, please.
More of him, please.
If you dislike something and give it a bad review based on your opinion, that's fine.
If you dislike something and make derogatory comments about the creators and think everyone who does like it has no taste or is mentally challenged, then you just want attention and your opinion is worthless.
If you dislike something and make derogatory comments about the creators and think everyone who does like it has no taste or is mentally challenged, then you just want attention and your opinion is worthless.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If you dislike something and give it a bad review based on your opinion, that's fine.
If you dislike something and make derogatory comments about the creators and think everyone who does like it has no taste or is mentally challenged, then you just want attention and your opinion is worthless.
If you dislike something and make derogatory comments about the creators and think everyone who does like it has no taste or is mentally challenged, then you just want attention and your opinion is worthless.
The 28mm miniatures for the ALIEN Evolved Edition TTRPG are really good. I'm not a mini painter at all so I'll probably ask my son to paint them up for me.
The box set also comes with a booklet to use the ALIEN RPG rules as a skirmish game using the big maps provided. That's a cool idea.
The box set also comes with a booklet to use the ALIEN RPG rules as a skirmish game using the big maps provided. That's a cool idea.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The 28mm miniatures for the ALIEN Evolved Edition TTRPG are really good. I'm not a mini painter at all so I'll probably ask my son to paint them up for me.
The box set also comes with a booklet to use the ALIEN RPG rules as a skirmish game using the big maps provided. That's a cool idea.
The box set also comes with a booklet to use the ALIEN RPG rules as a skirmish game using the big maps provided. That's a cool idea.
This is fantastic - I remember the folders that TSR used to make for their AD&D2e range, but this is infinitely cooler. They'll look amazing on a shelf.
I hate how perfect bound books and adventures can't be scanned on a standard bookshelf. Makes it harder to find the one you want and makes the bookself look messy.
So I make these boxed sets for my loose RPG stuff. Each holds 3 inches of 8.5x11 books (I make the labels myself).
So I make these boxed sets for my loose RPG stuff. Each holds 3 inches of 8.5x11 books (I make the labels myself).
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This is fantastic - I remember the folders that TSR used to make for their AD&D2e range, but this is infinitely cooler. They'll look amazing on a shelf.
With Black Friday looming, all my #TTRPG titles are up to 50% off!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
With Black Friday looming, all my #TTRPG titles are up to 50% off!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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Another great photo of the Nostromo interior, with the mirror effect in place creating the illusion of a longer corridor.
Practical effects are fantastic. Even the simplest tricks give a sense of reality and depth. In reality, there are few shots in the film where you get to appreciate the effort.
Practical effects are fantastic. Even the simplest tricks give a sense of reality and depth. In reality, there are few shots in the film where you get to appreciate the effort.
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Another great photo of the Nostromo interior, with the mirror effect in place creating the illusion of a longer corridor.
Practical effects are fantastic. Even the simplest tricks give a sense of reality and depth. In reality, there are few shots in the film where you get to appreciate the effort.
Practical effects are fantastic. Even the simplest tricks give a sense of reality and depth. In reality, there are few shots in the film where you get to appreciate the effort.
A great BTS photo of the space jockey sound stage that helps establish the size and chaos of shooting on the set.
One thing that stands out to me is the size of the cameras back then. Setting up to establish shots would have been a lengthy process and handheld stuff must have been backbreaking.
One thing that stands out to me is the size of the cameras back then. Setting up to establish shots would have been a lengthy process and handheld stuff must have been backbreaking.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A great BTS photo of the space jockey sound stage that helps establish the size and chaos of shooting on the set.
One thing that stands out to me is the size of the cameras back then. Setting up to establish shots would have been a lengthy process and handheld stuff must have been backbreaking.
One thing that stands out to me is the size of the cameras back then. Setting up to establish shots would have been a lengthy process and handheld stuff must have been backbreaking.
When I toured Pompeii many years ago I found myself quite melancholic afterwards. Here I was exploring a snapshot in time, walking streets and sitting in theatres and entering the preserved homes of those who lived there, who had their lives turned upside down in a day.
I really felt a weight of...
I really felt a weight of...
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
When I toured Pompeii many years ago I found myself quite melancholic afterwards. Here I was exploring a snapshot in time, walking streets and sitting in theatres and entering the preserved homes of those who lived there, who had their lives turned upside down in a day.
I really felt a weight of...
I really felt a weight of...
I'd forgotten what a batshit insane movie Nemesis is. It's great stuff.
It's pretty much one of my Shadowrun games. Exposition. Smack talk. Crazy blasting.
It's pretty much one of my Shadowrun games. Exposition. Smack talk. Crazy blasting.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'd forgotten what a batshit insane movie Nemesis is. It's great stuff.
It's pretty much one of my Shadowrun games. Exposition. Smack talk. Crazy blasting.
It's pretty much one of my Shadowrun games. Exposition. Smack talk. Crazy blasting.
If you've picked up these games and want some official adventures to go with them, then there's four full Reports to pick up, as well as a couple of short encounters and a Star Trek-inspired supplement.
They're written for TDP but compatible with Pressure.
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They're written for TDP but compatible with Pressure.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you've picked up these games and want some official adventures to go with them, then there's four full Reports to pick up, as well as a couple of short encounters and a Star Trek-inspired supplement.
They're written for TDP but compatible with Pressure.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
They're written for TDP but compatible with Pressure.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Ron Cobb said that the special effects department got sick of waiting for a decision on the Nostromo and they just went in to the studio and grabbed drawings. The picture they used had the ship coloured yellow, so that's what they did.
It was resprayed but it would have been interesting.
It was resprayed but it would have been interesting.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ron Cobb said that the special effects department got sick of waiting for a decision on the Nostromo and they just went in to the studio and grabbed drawings. The picture they used had the ship coloured yellow, so that's what they did.
It was resprayed but it would have been interesting.
It was resprayed but it would have been interesting.
I'm a huge fan of the ALIEN Fate of the Nostromo boardgame by @scottrogers.bsky.social and released by @ravensburgertcg.bsky.social. it's full of tension and can get really exciting - we've only beaten it once.
The minis are really cool, too. I'd love to see Ash and Kane minis to complete the crew.
The minis are really cool, too. I'd love to see Ash and Kane minis to complete the crew.
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I'm a huge fan of the ALIEN Fate of the Nostromo boardgame by @scottrogers.bsky.social and released by @ravensburgertcg.bsky.social. it's full of tension and can get really exciting - we've only beaten it once.
The minis are really cool, too. I'd love to see Ash and Kane minis to complete the crew.
The minis are really cool, too. I'd love to see Ash and Kane minis to complete the crew.
What a dickhead.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What a dickhead.
Exciting news!
It's finally here! Thank you for your patience but Alien: Cult, the result of nearly 40 years of Loving the Alien* is finally here on 25/11/2025! I hope you guys love it as much as I did writing it: titanbooks.com/8789-alien-c...
*As Bowie would have it.
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Alien: Cult
In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, mysterious ways—it all reeks of Xenomorphs. At a loss, the Hume City police call in Special...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Exciting news!
Not my home, but I know my way around.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Not my home, but I know my way around.
I can't lie to you about your chances, Charlie Brown, but... you have my sympathies.
I watched him for 15 years, sitting in a room… inhumanly patient, waiting for some secret, silent alarm to trigger him off. Death has come to your little town, Charlie Brown. Now, you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it.
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I can't lie to you about your chances, Charlie Brown, but... you have my sympathies.
Other than my work on the ALIEN #RPG adventure 'Rapture Protocol' and my Osprey Games books, I design and write short #TTRPG games and adventures, rules light and very cheap.
They're good for one-shots or campaigns and you can learn and play within an hour.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
They're good for one-shots or campaigns and you can learn and play within an hour.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Other than my work on the ALIEN #RPG adventure 'Rapture Protocol' and my Osprey Games books, I design and write short #TTRPG games and adventures, rules light and very cheap.
They're good for one-shots or campaigns and you can learn and play within an hour.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
They're good for one-shots or campaigns and you can learn and play within an hour.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
This is awesome. Fantastic mood material for games of Those Dark Places/Pressure.
youtu.be/7-E0cBkcb14?...
youtu.be/7-E0cBkcb14?...
Space is Terrifying - Astrophobia
YouTube video by ElmoSanchez
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November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is awesome. Fantastic mood material for games of Those Dark Places/Pressure.
youtu.be/7-E0cBkcb14?...
youtu.be/7-E0cBkcb14?...
Fantastic BTS shot of the Nostromo landing leg. This was another big set made to look even bigger by putting kids into scaled spacesuits.
There's a smaller version of this so they could film the leg touching down, but this is really impressive.
There's a smaller version of this so they could film the leg touching down, but this is really impressive.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fantastic BTS shot of the Nostromo landing leg. This was another big set made to look even bigger by putting kids into scaled spacesuits.
There's a smaller version of this so they could film the leg touching down, but this is really impressive.
There's a smaller version of this so they could film the leg touching down, but this is really impressive.
Actual photo of me running a game of D&D.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Actual photo of me running a game of D&D.
I miss the simplicity of a landline.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I miss the simplicity of a landline.
