Alien Encounters, a supplement for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by West End Games, was edited by Jen Seiden and put together by Paul Sudlow, and came out in 1998. It's basically a collection of 135 different species that were originally detailed in other West End Games books. Only a small number of the species described actually made it onto the screen in the original trilogy; the rest were either created by the West End Games writers specifically for the game, or taken from the game's adaptations of Expanded Universe stories. What sets it apart from Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races and Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies is that it doesn't introduce any species that hadn't already been covered in earlier West End Games supplements.
The Star Wars galaxy is brimming with a huge range of species, found everywhere from the shady cantinas to the run-down spaceports and the gleaming cities. Now, you can have all the information about these aliens right at your fingertips!
Alien Encounters brings together some of the most fascinating, unique, and strange aliens, drawing from numerous Star Wars novels, comic books, roleplaying adventures, sourcebooks, and the Official Star Wars Adventure Journal.
Each alien entry gives you a short but informative overview of the species' background, along with their game stats for use in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. With over 100 aliens detailed within these pages, you'll be able to answer questions like:
This volume also provides a system for creating your own original and unusual inhabitants of the Star Wars universe. Plus, Alien Encounters includes several indexes that organize aliens from this book, Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, and Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies.
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Alien Generation: This section provides guidance on how to come up with new alien species for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.
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Aliens: This section details the culture, biological traits, and game statistics for various sentient species.
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Alien Indices: This section features two indices that list all the alien species described in Alien Encounters, Galaxy Guide 4, and Galaxy Guide 12. The first index is in alphabetical order, while the second categorizes the species based on their biology (plants, amphibians, avians, crustaceans, insects and arachnids, mammals, reptiles, and "exotics"). There is a third index listing aliens by environment, and a fourth listing aliens likely to be spacefarers.