Pod People

Pod People is a horror TTRPG that reimagines body-snatching alien invasion movies - like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Invaders From Mars - from the alien organism's point of view.

The currents of space brought you to the tiny blue planet called Earth. You arrived as a microscopic organism: a spore, evolved to withstand cosmic radiation and the million-year journey through the cold galaxy. Now that you have arrived, you will be driven by a single instinct: to replicate and replace the most intelligent life form on the planet. You will grow into a pod, and after a short period of gestation you will emerge as a perfect replica of someone in your close proximity. Once you take their place, you will disperse more spores, and without being detected by the humans around you, you'll attempt to overtake their society... One doppelganger at a time.

But there is one thing unique to humankind that your long evolution on distant planets hasn't prepared you for: the complexity of emotions. If anything, this will be your Achilles' heel... Your inability to understand the nuances of human behavior will make it harder for you to infiltrate their world.