Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Gaming: The Fraal of StarDrive Alternity and DarkMatter D20

As an avid role player I have collected many books, and years ago it seems my own private horror showed up in my gaming system. It seems in a Sci-Fi RPG known as Alternity, writers decided to use the Grey's in their campaign story system. These Greys called the Fraal, are just one of two known variants to have made contact with earth. These Fraal appear as greys but with more Hybrid like features as they have hair and are more human-like.The other variant are known as the Dark Fraal, a related species bent on exploiting the humans race.

Eitherway, StarDrive was short lived for the Alternity system. Although a conversion for this race would show up for the mainstream D&D system via Dragon Magazine, the greys would come up again in the D20 Modern System.
The new system attempted to reboot StarDrive, but during our modern Day period with a more X-files twist. The new setting was called Dark Matter, in which the Fraal were making contact with earthling via abductions and government cover ups and seeing if humanity was ready for them. Although the Fraal were used in a role playing game, it brought a new element for me, because someone was attempting to provide motives and social background for them. Although most of the works is fiction, you find many of the common traits abductees describe of them. All though this was a great attempt and showcasing these Aliens in an RPG it is not the first. 

1 comment:

  1. The d20 Modern Dark Matter setting was actually a reboot of the old Alternity Dark Matter setting, which shared the presence of the Fraal with Star*Drive long before d20 Modern existed.

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