History TabletopGame / TheAwfulGreenThingsFromOuterSpace

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* FrickinLaserBeams: Two crew weapons are Stun Pistols and Communication Beamers.

''The Awful Green Things From Outer Space'' is a board game originally created for Creator/{{TSR}} of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fame by Tom Wham, and first published in 1980. After being out of print for many years, the rights for the game were picked up by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. The game is again out of print, but there's still an [[http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/ official webpage]] on the [=SJG=] website with some details and extra goodies.

''The Awful Green Things From Outer Space'' is a board game originally created for Creator/{{TSR}} of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fame by Tom Wham, and first published in 1980. After being out of print for many years, the rights for the game were picked up by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. There's an [[http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/ official webpage]] on the [=SJG=] website with some details and extra goodies.

* ArmlessBiped[=/=]{{Cephalothorax}}: The Things; see below under Bizarre Alien Biology.

* FeedItWithFire[=/=]KillItWithFire: Welding Torches and Rocket Fuel can do either to the Things, depending on what chit is drawn.

* ArmlessBiped / {{Cephalothorax}}: The Things; see below under Bizarre Alien Biology.

* TheDreaded: Leadfoot the Robot, for the Things. If he's in a room, all present Things must attack him.

* FeedItWithFire / KillItWithFire: Welding Torches and Rocket Fuel can do either to the Things, depending on what chit is drawn.
* FictionalSport: The crew's version of "Pool" evidently involves whacking a ball with a Pool Stick so it ricochets off multiple walls and.. hits one of your opponents. The Sticks can be used as a weapon.

* UnpredictableResults: When a weapon type is used for the first time, a random draw determines its effect. Subsequent uses of that weapon type remain consistent, however.

'''The Awful Green Things From Outer Space''' is a board game originally created for TSR of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fame by Tom Wham, and first published in 1980. After being out of print for many years, the rights for the game were picked up by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. There's an [[http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/ official webpage]] on the [=SJG=] website with some details and extra goodies.

'''The Awful Green Things From Outer Space''' is a board game originally created for TSR of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fame by Tom Wham, and first published in 1980. After being out of print for many years, the rights for the game were picked up by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. The game is once again out of print, but there's still an [[http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/ official webpage]] on the [=SJG=] website with some details and extra goodies.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the intro comic, the newly-collected Mascot is unfortunately prevented from attacking the Egg.

* UnpredictableResults: When a weapon type is used for the first time, a random draw determines its effect. Subsequent uses of that weapon type remain consistent, however.

* UnpredictableResults: The weapons again.

* FragileSpeedster: The Redundan crew members (and the Mascot) can move quickly, but are weak in combat.

* KnockoutGas: The crew can toss gas grenades. Unfortunately, as implied by the trope's name, whatever they do to the Things, any crew-members present get rendered unconscious for a turn.

* MysteryMeat: In the included intro comic, some of the crew treats Zgwortz as this, while other guzzle the stuff.

* ArmlessBiped: The Things.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The Things start out as eggs, hatch into caterpillar-like Babies, and then become globby two-legged Adults. At no point do they have visible mouths.

* TheDreaded: Leadfoot, for the Things. If he's in a room, all present Things must attack him.

* MightyGlacier: Leadfoot the Robot, as implied by his name, is powerful but painfully slow.

'''The Awful Green Things From Outer Space''' is a board game originally created for TSR of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fame by Tom Wham, and first published in 1980. After being out of print for many years, the rights for the game were picked up by Creator/SteveJacksonGames.

The game is for two players, one of whom controls the eponymous Things, while the other controls the non-human multi-racial crew of the starship Znutar, the rooms and corridors of which make up the board. The AGT attempt to multiply and devour the crew, while the crew must collect and test various would-be weapons, applying a randomly-drawn chit to determine the effects, hoping to wipe out the Things. The game tends to heavily favor the Things, which can reproduce and replace their losses, while the crew are pretty much doomed if they fight hand-to-hand, and must desperately try to scrounge up a weapon that kills the Things, instead of being useless or even causing the creatures to grow.

* FirstContact: How the Things (and the crew Mascot) get on board.

* HollywoodAcid: One potential crew-weapon
* ImprovisedWeapon: Some of the things the crew can deploy, most prominently canisters of the "food" Zgwortz.

* KnockoutGas: The crew can toss gas grenades. Unfortunately, as implied by the trope's name, whatever they do to the Things, any crew-members present get rendered unconscious.

* TakingYouWithMe: If Rocket Fuel proves to be an effective anti-Thing weapon, a crewmember can set off a canister of the stuff and most likely die in the process. (Fortunately, the game ''does'' allow canisters to be tossed into adjacent chambers.)

* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Inverted, in that the crew try to find a weapon that shrink the Things back one stage in their life-cycle.

* AlienInvasion: Only a single ship, but that's what AGTs do.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The Things start out as eggs, hatch into caterpillar-like Babies, and then become globby two-legged armless Adults. At no point do they have visible mouths.

* ExtraEyes: The Redundans, on the other tentacle, have three eyes.

* ForeignQueasine: In the included intro comic, some of the crew treats Zgwortz as this, while other guzzle the stuff.

* FragileSpeedster: The Redundan crew members can move quickly, but are weak in combat.

* KnockoutGas: The crew can toss gas granades. Unfortunately, as implied by the trope's name, whatever they do to the Things, any crew-members present get rendered unconscious.

The game is for two players, one of whom controls the eponymous Things, while the other controls the non-human multi-racial crew of the starship Znutar, the interior of which is the board. The AGT attempt to multiply and devour the crew, while the crew must collect and test various would-be weapons, applying a randomly-drawn chit to determine the effects, hoping to wipe out the Things. The game tends to heavily favor the Things, which can reproduce and replace their losses, while the crew must desperately try to scrounge up a weapon that kills the Things, instead of being useless or even causing the creatures to grow.

* FeedItWithFire / KillItWithFire: The crew's weapons can do either, depending on what chit is drawn.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Two crew weapons are Stun Pistols and Commmunication Beamers.

* PlanetOfHats: Only has a minor effect gameplay, but the various crew-races tend to specialize: Smbalites are engineers, Redundans are doctors, and the Snudalians are the soldiers and officers.

* AsteroidsMonster: One possible result with the crew's weapons.