#bug aliens

Species name: Ritakk ("Face-Stealers")

I was making a new oc and I was like "But what if there was more..?"

Thus ending in a new alien race in my world. Meet the Ritakk Race, an aggressive spacefaring insectoid species.

They used to be hunted down for their little gem faces on their head and chitin. The removable their face gems is considered disgraceful whether or not the removal was from themselves or not with force or not.

And I'm not talking about male ones, because yeah, these are already here. I would love to see some aliens that are female, but not made specifically for male audience/beauty standards/gender roles

Make them bigger/taller

Let them be more terrifying than male ones, for example how female mantis eat their mate's head after boiboingis

Give them extra arms! Or Extra teeth!! Or anything extra!!

Set them higher up the social hierarchy in their alien communities

Make them more neutral in colours, let the male ones to be the colourful ones

Smarter? Stronger? Faster?

THEME: Bug Aliens

Hello friend! Many folks seem to feel unsure about whether or not they are asking incorrectly - I want to assure you that I welcome all kinds of asks, and you don't have to worry about asking for something that might have been asked before - it just means that I get to either revisit games that I think are interesting, or add more games that I didn't talk about last time! Let's get started.

XENO, by Caligaes.

XENO is a role-playing game where you take the role of a monstrous ALIEN who arrives on Earth with the sole objective of claiming a new OPPORTUNITY.

From 2 to 5 people (including the Alien Master) can enjoy a ONE SHOT where they will feel like true monstrosities destroying everything in their path. To start your invasion you need this document, 4-sided dice (called d4), a pencil (or pen if you're brave), and a sheet of paper to take notes of your mission.

There is nothing that really decides what kind of alien you are here, only that you are one - so go and fulfill the directives of your ship’s AI and cause psychic strife while you’re at it, and be as buggy as you can be! This game uses only d4’s, and everything fits on a brochure, so it’s easy to print this game out and give everyone a copy. Go forth and wreak havoc!

Mother Needs Flesh, by JoPa

MOTHER roams the galaxy searching for ways to satisfy her hunger. You, her Scions, operate to fulfill her needs. Most of the time, you’ll infiltrate spaceships and moon stations, seeking to end all life aboard so MOTHER can feed on the flesh of your victims. Other times, you’ll forge alliances with pirates and planets to keep MOTHER safe. At dire times, you’ll help MOTHER fight off spacecraft seeking to destroy her. No matter what you do, you do it for MOTHER.

MOTHER NEEDS FLESH is a minimalist tabletop rpg for up to four players and one Game Master. All you need is four, six, eight, ten and twelve-sided dice plus pen and paper to play.

The game sets out the premise that Mother is a fleshy creature that travels through space, and that you are your Scions. There’s not a lot about what your Scions look like, so I think making them bug-aliens is do-able, although you might have to re-flavour some of the lore or moves to really immerse yourself in that kind of game. This is absolutely a horror game, and your characters will be finding humans to rend and feed to Mother, each feast making her (and you) potentially more powerful.

The game system for Mother Needs Flesh is Breathless, which uses a deteriorating dice system. Your dice re-set when Mother mutates or when you Boil Blood, but you’ll start with a d10 or d8 in most things, and that dice will deteriorate down in size with every roll that you make. It’s a neat and concise system, it fits on 2 pages, and it gives you that thrill of being absolute monsters.

Primal Pathways, by UFO Press.

On the harsh shores of this young planet, a new creature crawls out of the primordial ooze to face the forces of evolution.The pressures it will face are far more than natural: Guardians, enigmatic entities from another plane of existence, have seen fit to guide the evolution of a selected few young species.

As new generations rise and Civilisations emerge, what shape will your people take under their Guardian’s guidance?

In this biopunk setting supplement for Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition written by Laurence Phillips and illustrated by Juan Ochoa, you will create a new species and guide its physical and social evolution from the birth of civilisation to the stars. (The core rulebook is required to play.)

This game is unique in that you actually play on two different levels. On one level, you are Guardians, entities that are bigger and more abstract than a singular species. These Guardians will favour and guide the evolotion of smaller Species, out of which you will create individual members who create new stories. This game might be more suitable for a play group where different players have diffferent kinds of themes or goals they want to explore.

If you want to play a bug alien, the Parasite or Devourer might be a playbook that works for you. Other players might want to pick up the Builder or the Otherworldly instead! You’ll track the evolution of your species and decide what kinds of paths they take - the Devourer might priotizize a Hive Society or evolve into an Apex Predator. Meanwhile the Parasite might become raiders or establish an alien culture of spying. If you like the idea of moving between two levels of narrative and two modes of play, then this game might work for you!

Descent into Midnight, by Rich Howard, Taylor LaBresh, and Richard Kreutz-Landry.

Descent into Midnight is a Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying game where the players take on the role of alien psionic creatures who are defending their home from an otherworldly corruption. In a game where sapient krakens and microscopic krill can create a complex society, how strong or dextrous you are isn't as important as the social, emotional, and existential impact of the actions you take. Descent into Midnight is a game about connections, so the statistics used to describe your character describe your relationship to yourself, your team, and the people around you.

This game is meant to happen on a completely alien planet, and your character options are vast and endless. It’s not specifically designed for bug-aliens, but you can 100% make it about bug-aliens, complete with nests and a hunger for flesh. In fact, you don’t even have to create a physical character - your character can be the Concept of Oxygen, or The Environment That Houses All.

That being said, the game does focus on protecting a society from corruption - this means that while the game absolutely has a focus on horror and decay, the idea is that in a campaign game, your characters will be working to fix the problem, rather than making it worse. So I’d say that in terms of concept, it might give you something of what you’re looking for, but tone-wise I’m not sure if it matches what you’re thinking. Regardless, this a gorgeous and captivating game that’s worth looking into.

Listen up, Grunts!

Our system now houses many different species, both visiting and permanent residents!

Here's an example of one such Alien races!