Giant insects, tree-people, mushroom-people, zombies, robots… CDDA has everything. Why not aliens?
Aliens could offer a lot to the game not just by adding to encounter and monster variety, they could also bring with them alien technology, mutations and CBMs, which sounds awfully awesome. An alien anti-gravity hover-craft anyone? Did you ever want to scavenge a crashsite of a flying saucer? Or inflitrate an alien base and defend Terra from outsiders?
What are your thoughts, ideas, suggestions regarding aliens? Would oyu want to see them? Do oyu think they are unnecessary, too much? Do you have favorite aliens you would like to see in-game?
Yea, the “smash all the horror movie tropes together” thing is pretty much the core of dda. We DO have a few bright lines, like no psionics and no magic, but if we have 5 different kinds of aliens already, it’s pretty hard to argue that a few more are over some line.
Having said that, some kinds of aliens don’t really fit, like War of the Worlds and ID4, the scale of interaction is all wrong.
I think it could work. Here’s a background idea for some aliens:
When the dimensional event occurred on Earth, a small fleet of exploratory craft were travelling nearby. As their faster-than-light drives utilised these dimensional physics, the event caused them to malfunction and their ships came crashing down to Earth.
The alien survivors are without a means to contact their homeworld, low on supplies, and facing a world filled with unimaginable horrors.
I imagine them working a bit like groups of raiders, but with very different abilities and equipment. This strange world is incredibly hostile to them, and it’s unlikely that they would see the player as any different.
Maybe alien crash survivor could be one of the weirder challenges. You start with some fancy items, but like Churl you cannot learn from books, and human NPCs are always hostile.
I meant their ships used similar technology. It’s not the same stuff humans messed with but is based on the same physics. The connection between the rifts and their FTL is what causes them to crash.
They might even have teleport-based utility items or weapons. Kill targets by translocating microscopic chunks out of them at a distance. I imagine it as low damage but ignoring armour entirely, probably at a hefty battery cost.
Low damage? Teleport a small portion of the heart or cerebral cortex out of a body and it’s instant death. (near instant with the heart. Vtac would take about 30 seconds)
I thought psionics had to fit with CDDA, not that it was a hard and fast rule you couldn’t have them. I thought the dislike was in making them something inherent to human beings.
