1. I'd hate to act like a rule lawyer here but having a negative bond is kinda weird as it allows you to regen stress by not helping a comrade, and this is necessary to easily come back to 0 if you're too deep in the negative with somebody.
"If you ignore a comrade who needs help, take stress equal to your bond and you both reset your bond to 0." => negative bond means you're healing stress. I can perfectly understand this: you don't like the guy and his suffering makes you happy. But did you planned for this use or is it a side effect of the negative bond ?

2. If I recall the movie correctly (Aliens, as the xeno in Alien is acting a little bit differently), the xenos are more intelligent/cautious when the queen is nearby (ie hive mind). I would thus reverse the grit bonus near the queen.
Example: Coldly brutal (2-grit, -1 grit when near queen)
This is what we see in the movie, where, when the queen is in the vincinity, the survival instact is higher (thus more suceptible to stress : retreat, cautious...).
Does that make sense ? :)

Could we get a second version of the printer frilendly pdf where all even pages would be flipped ?
When I try to print the current pdf (the printer friendly one) on a duplex printer, the result (ie the booklet) is unusable.

Thx.

Gavinwulf, I plan to run my first AW game using your hack in May.
I'll let you know how things turn out (most probably bloody and messy ^^ )

Thx again for this great hack !

Gavinwulf,
I noticed some minor typo (ex: hocus mentionned in the cultist playbook, some weapon with the autofire tag) but nothing serious.

I need to read all the playbooks a second time now, writing down all my questions. :)

During your play, did you took the time to write a summary of your play sessions ?
If yes, I'd be interested in reading it.

Thx.

Ok. Thx for the info.

I'd really like to see your Conan hack ! :)