[Fluxx] Alien Invasion Fluxx

[Andrew Plotkin]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Andrew Plotkin wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Christopher Hickman wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, March 04, 2008, at 02:40PM, "Elliott C. Evans" 
>> <eeyore at ee0r.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's why you should always make sure to *ground* ("earth"
>>> for our UK friends) your shielding properly. Your foil hat
>>> should always be connected by wire to a physical grounding
>>> point.
>> 
>> Are you freaking kidding!? If you plug the thing into the ground, you're 
>> basically handing yourself over to the subterranean overlords!
>
> Dero wish only best for surfacedwellers. Do not fear the Dero. Dero will 
> take care of you. Do not fear noises from belowground. Surfacedwellers 
> must wear ketchup if possible, please.

Now that I think about it, Alien Invasion Fluxx: The Invasion By Aliens 
would make a good platform for expansion packs. Maybe twelve cards at a 
time, each pack representing a *new* group of alien invaders. Each has a 
handful of thematic new rules and goals. (But sharing the same general 
ruleset, and most of the same keepers and goals.)

- Shape-changing, person-replacing thing-pods from the Antarctic
- Deros from the Lost Hollow Earth (with dinosaurs!)
- Time-travelling Robots from New NovyaTokyo
- Abominable Snowpersons from Titan
- Government conspirators in extremely dark-grey suits
- Hyperevolved brains and pure-energy creatures from Another Galaxy

There's a whole range of pulp-era SF cliches to mine.

--Z

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