Sci-Fi Horror RPG ‘Mothership’ Gets A New Boxed Set
The award-winning sci-fi horror RPG Mothership has announced a new boxed set will be coming to Kickstarter in just over a month.
Coming November 2nd, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG Mothership will be putting together a big boxed set of all their first edition rules. The boxed set will be crowdfunded on Kickstarter, and will gather everything you need to delve into gritty horror gameplay in the cold darkness of space, where nobody can hear you scream (and even if they could, there’d be little enough they can do.)
Mothership is an RPG in the same vein of movies like Alien or Event Horizon where you realize that space is scary enough but then you can add monsters and aliens and horror on top of the disease and darkness wrapped in death and despair that is space. It’s also a fairly rules-lite RPG, which enjoyed heaps of praise from all circles when it first released in 2018. Published by Tuesday Knight Games, and created by Sean McCoy, Mothership is an elegantly designed set of rules that focus on letting you get right to the juicy drama and grisly deaths. Mothership is a game that embraces the tragedy and body counts of its inspirations.
When playing Mothership, you’ll play as all the usual suspects: scientists, androids, marines, teamsters, pilots–people with normal jobs but they’re in space. And typically you’ll have a job to do. You’ll just have a steady grind of mounting horror that applies growing pressure that will eventually cause your character to slip up and make a fatal error, thanks to the game’s signature feature, the Panic Engine, which lets you know exactly how screwed you are at any given time.
Mothership is designed from the ground up to be intuitive to run and easy to play, no system-mastery required. For players, our simple d100 Panic Engine ensures that you always know how likely you are to succeed at any given task (not very).
There’s a reason people love this game. It delivers on horror in a way many other games don’t. It embraces the idea that when the dice come out, things are going to be deadly. Unless you’re very lucky. And there’s a build to the tension that you experience both in character, and as someone playing the game. Because the longer things go on, the harder it’s going to be.
Once you start to be panicked, everything gets harder–unless you’re one of the classes who does well in survival mode–but that comes with its own problems. Survival is extremely hard in Mothership, and the game shines for it.
Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! You’ll excavate dangerous derelict spacecraft, explore strange unknown worlds, exterminate hostile alien life, and examine the horrors that encroach upon your every move.
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Happy Adventuring!
