First Contact - X-Corps

First Contact is a tabletop roleplaying game that allows you to live intense adventures in a near future where humanity is visited by a hostile alien race. Play a member of X-Corps, the men and women who are part of Global Defense, the organization set up to fight the Chandra threat, or live through dangerous adventures as a normal everyday person in a crumbling world.

This RPG is your passport to a dangerous future. A future where an advanced alien race - called “Chandra” by the humans - have arrived on Earth full of hostile intent.

This is not a large scale invasion, at least not at first, but only a succession of apparently random attacks. Any attempt at negotiation or communication is useless; there is only one way out, war.

Humanity, in a great joined effort, has created a multinational military organization in charge of facing the Chandra threat: Global Defense. Early on, this organization is hampered by the political interests of its different member nations and it faces not-entirely-undeserved accusations that it spends more time and uses more operatives defending the countries than contributing to the cause financially. Global Defense is an organization which is trying to defend humanity, a species who still need to learn to put aside its differences if it wants to survive.

Meanwhile, all across the globe, people lives in a perpetual state of alert, attempting to get on with their daily life without knowing when war is going to invade their lives. Abductions and attacks on populations are increasing. Nobody is safe; chaos and anarchy have made some regions ungovernable.

In this book you’ll find a detailed setting that will allow you to play an endless number of adventures; all you need are a few friends, some pencils and paper, and a handful of six-sided dice, like those used in most tabletop games.