Quote from: jeff37923;752173Really, where?

I'm curious because the meat of that book is about how to create a K'Kree family as either PCs or NPCs and even has an adventure specific to the K'Kree as PCs.

Sorry , I meant Alien Module 2 : K'kree p37 and p39-40. It doesn't specifically say you can't play them as characters but I felt that the implication was that they would be too difficult for most players to handle.

"Vargr were pretty much lifted from Edmond Hamilton's Starwolf trilogy."

Except the starwolves weren't... wolves?

They were viking-style human raiders, weren't they?

Quote from: AaronBrown99;752239"Vargr were pretty much lifted from Edmond Hamilton's Starwolf trilogy."

Except the starwolves weren't... wolves?

They were viking-style human raiders, weren't they?

Vargr are from Lone Star Planet by Piper; you'll find a lot of Piper in Traveller. Think of a young bespectacled soldier in Vietnam with a dog-eared paperback sci-fi tucked in his Flak Vest, dreaming of being somewhere else: that's Marc W Miller.

My favorite from Traveller are the Droyne: smallish, innocent, curious lizard-birds that created everything hundreds of thousands of years ago.

GURPS Traveller Humaniti had all humans with alien masks. None of them are any good though. Mongoose Vargr, Aslan, Zhodani, Solomani are some of the best. Mongoose Darrians are terrible.

The droyne (cute little buggers), vargr and the vrusk. Although I usually changed the vrusk to look more like the tri-keen.

Quote from: dragoner;752259Vargr are from Lone Star Planet by Piper; you'll find a lot of Piper in Traveller. Think of a young bespectacled soldier in Vietnam with a dog-eared paperback sci-fi tucked in his Flak Vest, dreaming of being somewhere else: that's Marc W Miller.

My favorite from Traveller are the Droyne: smallish, innocent, curious lizard-birds that created everything hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Reading this post all I can think of is David Drake and his Hammers Slammers books. Coincidentally based on his experiences in Nam, and it has a setting of the books release for Traveller via Mongoose. Cool stuff.

Quote from: Ronin;752285Reading this post all I can think of is David Drake and his Hammers Slammers books. Coincidentally based on his experiences in Nam, and it has a setting of the books release for Traveller via Mongoose. Cool stuff.

It is a good setting book, I use it for mercs in my campaign, the introduction by Drake is great also, esp where he describes stepping on ants barefoot in the dark in Vietnam!

Well, if we're counting licensed products, obviously Star Wars' aliens have been hugely successful.

Worked (for me):

The Hivers from Traveller - I feel like they are alien enough to be different but playable.

The Qin from Trinity - Super cool, very alien, and I like how the setting handled the difficulty establishing communication.

The Trill in Star Trek - I like the idea of a symbiotic species. The politics behind joining, etc. is ripe for adventures. Also, somewhat easier species to play.

Didn't work (for me):

Any animal-hybrid alien. Dog people, cat people, bear people. Blah. I just picked up the Star Wars RPG from FFG, and saw the Bothans and cringed a little. :-) I don't want to play furries (or run them for that matter).

Orcs in space. Boring.

Vikings in space who have no other culture except to rape and pillage. just dumb. Too singular. I think Klingons are OK because of the culture that has been detailed over the years.

Quote from: David Johansen;752192Kelibor from Star Ace.   Big telepathic polar bears who wear Hawaii shirts and just wanna have fun.

*DING DING DING*

God, I loved Star Ace - we had so much fun with that game...

How could I forget the Urseminites from Bulldogs!

Cigar-chomping teddy bears in space!

Awesome, but less so having to play FATE with no one who has truly grokked it. This includes me.

Quote from: trechriron;752622Any animal-hybrid alien. Dog people, cat people, bear people. Blah. I just picked up the Star Wars RPG from FFG, and saw the Bothans and cringed a little. :-) I don't want to play furries (or run them for that matter).

Something I've wondered lately: have many us always been bothered by animal-hybrid aliens or did they start to feel wrong after we discovered that creepy furries were a 'thing'?

I always thought that the Vargr were fine because they were a result of deliberate genetic manipulation ; the Aslan aren't too bad because they aren't actually leonine and also they remind me of the Tharil from Doctor Who ( ' Warrior's Gate ' ).
The animal races in Jorune are less successful : it seems like someone said ' lets have a bear race and a wolf race and a cougar race ' etc. But Jorune does contain some very ' alien ' aliens as well so I suppose the animal races act as a counterbalance.
The Caitians/Regulans from Star Trek are ok.

Otherwise I agree , animals in space make me wince.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;752892Something I've wondered lately: have many us always been bothered by animal-hybrid aliens or did they start to feel wrong after we discovered that creepy furries were a 'thing'?

Not really. I have no problem with Vargr - canines that were uplifted from Earth by the Droyne. One is a fairly fleshed out alien race and the other are freaks.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;752267GURPS Traveller Humaniti had all humans with alien masks. None of them are any good though. Mongoose Vargr, Aslan, Zhodani, Solomani are some of the best. Mongoose Darrians are terrible.

I enjoy the Darrians, but you're right - the GDW version is much better.