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This one's adventures in a VERY hostile universe inspired by Alien, Outland, etc. and using a rules system which is also used in one of the Traveller variants:

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This all-new Hostile Bundle offer politely presents HOSTILE, the SFRPG of deep-space horror from Zozer Games. Based on the Cepheus Engine rules (the leading retro-clone of Classic Traveller), HOSTILE is a gritty retro-future setting inspired by movies like Outland, Blade Runner, and Alien -- a universe of harsh planets and toxic atmospheres -- claustrophobic space freighters and brutal industrial colonies -- ancient horrors entombed on icy moons -- killer ETs, perfectly evolved to survive at any cost. Whether you're a combat-weary veteran or a miner on a grungy corporate star tug deep in the Extraction Zones, HOSTILE pits you against deadly hazards in an unforgiving void where no one can hear you scream.

Paul Elliott writes nonfiction books on ancient military history (Warrior Cults, Everyday Life of a Soldier on Hadrian's Wall) and is active in Roman historical reconstruction and re-enactment groups in Yorkshire, UK. He brought this experience to RPGs with the historically accurate 43AD and the sword-and-sorcery Zenobia. In gaming Paul has also written for Fria Ligan (Alien Colonial Marines) and GURPS (Atomic Horror), but he has poured his heart into Classic Traveller, and more recently its modern retro-clone, the Cepheus Engine. HOSTILE, in particular, expands any Cepheus or Traveller game with its supplements for planetary survival, colony building, cargo hauling, and let's not forget all those killer aliens.

This all-new offer gathers much of the HOSTILE line for a bargain price -- obviously a generous and well-meaning gesture. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Hostile offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$102. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $46) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete standalone HOSTILE Rules (retail price $18) and Setting (retail $20) corebooks, the weapon guide Gunlocker (retail $4.50), and the Referee's Screen (retail $3.50).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with eight supplements worth an additional $56 that let referees build out their pitiless unvierse:

• Three guides to survival on bad worlds that don't want you: Explorers (retail $7), Dirtside (retail $6), and Colony Builder (retail $9)
• Two bestiaries about entities that really, really do want you: Alien Breeds (retail $5) and Synthetics (retail $6)
• Two hardware and vehicle guides: Gunboats & Shuttles (retail $6) and Marine Corps Handbook 2215 (retail $9)
• A campaign framework well described by its title: Crew Expendable (retail $8)

My impression is a game that works pretty well if your players can live with corporate betrayal, virtually unkillable monsters, and the other tropes of this side of SF. I'm not entirely sure I want to play in that sort of universe at present, but it's well worth a look and pretty cheap.