If your group has been itching for a fresh excuse to get torn apart by xenomorphs, Free League has just handed you one. Operation Leading Edge is a new cinematic adventure for ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game, announced on 16 June 2026 with the PDF already available to anyone who pre-orders from the webshop. It casts a squad of Colonial Marines, dropped onto the remote moon Jeremiah VI to secure a rich mineral deposit, which is exactly the sort of routine job that never stays routine in this universe.
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See how it worksFor the uninitiated, ALIEN is the officially licensed tabletop RPG built around the dread of Ridley Scott's films, and it picked up the Gold ENNIE for Best Game back in 2020. Operation Leading Edge runs on the recently released Evolved Edition rules, the revised core system Free League put out to give both newcomers and veterans a cleaner way in. You will want the Evolved Edition core book to play, but the adventure itself is standalone, even though it doubles as the second chapter of the ongoing Jeremiah Saga trilogy.
It is built for 3 to 5 players plus a Game Mother, and the box is properly stuffed: the adventure book, two big double-sided maps, five pre-generated Marines so you can drop straight in, decks of cards for personal agendas and NPCs, plus tokens, GM maps and handouts. There is also a companion Miniatures Set on pre-order, with 20 28mm figures covering Colonial Marines, hostile UPP troops and the Xenomorphs themselves.
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Set up your group for freePhysical copies are slated for the fourth quarter of 2026, released under licence from 20th Century Studios, so UK shops should have it on shelves in time for the darker evenings. A self-contained Marines-versus-monsters scenario is about the easiest horror one-shot you can pitch to a group. Round up four brave volunteers and find a table to play at, then watch the dropship doors close behind them.
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