#Mothership TTRPG

[popfizzles]

i deal with upsetting circumstances with humor

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[seekingcylem]

We're playing Mothership 🦀

[ballsdotjpeg]

I am super keen Perpetua and Realis dont get me wrong, but I would give my left kidney to see the FaTT crew do a horror season run in Mothership, Sangfielle dipped into horror so frequently I am dying to see what would happen if they took the plunge fully.

I would also give my right kidney to see them run a hard cyberpunk season (there are so many cool and fun cyberpunk systems to run and they could go so crazy in that setting).

[spaginithethird]

Been working on a module for the Mothership TTRPG called Kopii! It’s a module about androids, memory, and non-euclidian spaces inspired by rose-engine's Signalis, Kane Pixels Backrooms series, and Silent Hill. The adventure included takes place on Atlantis Station, which was previously renowned for revolutionary treatments done on androids suffering from a condition called S.A.D. or Synthetic Anemoia Disorder. Now the station has vanished, and it waits in the periphery of known space waiting to be found again.

Included so far in the module are:

-Rules for human to Android conversion.

-Rules for Android memory limiters, along with the benefits and consequences of disabling them.

-Alternative stat-lines for the Android class, taking equipment from the Marine and Teamster kits who specialize in their own array of tasks.

-The wreck of the Ahab, a ship that crashed into the lobby of Atlantis Station’s visitor center.

-A lucky spanner.

It’s been a blast to work on this so far, and I’m excited to see where it goes!

[rxttenfish]

its mothership day! happy mothership day! mothership 1e is now out! you should get mothership! you should play mothership with me! do it. now. i am no longer asking.

[crzyimp]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[doggogills]

i almost gave up on this one ngl. glad i didn’t tho!

kai and his corporate espionage buddies preparing to face The Horrors

[bfleuter]

Starting a Mothership game! Here's my two characters - Bethesda Millions (marine) and Cas 106 (Android).

[chrisairgames]

When in Rome

Right, so I write for Mothership RPG, yeah?

It was basically a professional obligation for me to go see Alien: Romulus on its opening weekend.

Short review: Cool. Though I wish directors would make a new alien horror movie instead of new Alien movies.

Lemme tell ya, I might have designer brain disease, but this movie really is a series of problems for a sci-fi adventure, haha. My favorite thing about this movie was the smart, player-skill level problem solving the characters came up with. I was actually impressed. The film made me want to put my friends through the same ringer, and write up a similar scenario.

So I did.

When in Rome is a 20pg Mothership RPG adventure module with two player handouts, obviously heavily inspired by Alien: Romulus. I started last weekend, and released it yesterday. (What’s wrong with me, right?). That is: writing, playtesting, Mothership 3pp approval, peer review (thanks Josh Domanski, Christian Sorrell, Iko and Allen Hall!), hiring Brandon Yu “Chaoclypse” for the sick art, revising and putting into layout.

So yeah, this module is basically an adaptation of the film, but it does have some very notable (read: legally distinct) differences.

It's free for the next five hours, and I would love to hear what you think, and how your PCs fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Click here to download the module on itch.io. Note that I’m still working on the plaintext file and VTT asset updates. I would love to hear what you think, and how your players’ crews fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Good luck.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Re-Introducing the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club & FAQ

Alright, so, we have this discord server called the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. A discord server, run by the A.N.I.M. Team, for reading, analyzing, and playing TTRPGs. It’s free to join, and at the time of writing this it has a community of nearly 200 members.

Also at the time of writing this, for a limited time, you can get a FREE PDF of the July 11th update of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy just by joining the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club! This is a huge upgrade over the free May 10th version!

Here’s how the book club operates:

Nominations. Members nominate RPGs they wanna play.

Voting. After we finish the current RPG, we vote on what the next one will be. You can vote for as many nominations as you want, and nominations with the most votes wins.

Reading. We encourage you to buy the winning game to support the developers, but if you can’t for any reason, we will find a way to get you a PDF. A rough deadline is set that will allow everyone to read the rulebook at a rate of about 10 pages a day, though reading faster or slower is okay.

Playing. We assign GMs on a volunteer basis, and players are assigned to groups with GMs based on schedule compatibility. Each group plays the same adventure module, so each group will have commonalities in their adventure that they can talk about and compare their experiences with, even with different GMs, players, and characters.

Repeat. Voting begins anew with the nominations that we have accumulated in the mean time.

A.N.I.M.’s current Patreon goal is also tied to the Book Club. If y’all can raise our Patreon income to $310/month, that will allow us to set aside manpower to carve out and organize a small additional space within the ANIM TTRPG Book Club server for other games which do not fit the nomination criteria for the main book club! At the time of writing this, it sits at $259/$310. Signing up to the patreon grants you access to monthly rulebook updates as we continue to finish the game, adventure modules, short fiction, and our patreon discord server.

Below is a bit of an FAQ as an attempt to quell any concerns or hesitations

“The Book Club games probably don’t fit with my schedule.”

They might! Because we assign multiple different groups based on schedule compatibility, the book club games are actually very very schedule-flexible! You might be surprised!

And if they still don’t, even just reading the rulebook and joining in on discussions is a valuable form of participation!

“I’m afraid to play with strangers.”

They won’t exactly be strangers if you hang out around them in the book club long enough! Yes we do get what you mean, but there’s nothing to worry about. The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club is a safe community, and we have rules and, more importantly, procedures designed to make playing with relative strangers as smooth an experience as it can be!

“What if I don’t like the RPG that wins the vote?”

While we encourage you to step a little out of your comfort zone, participation in any given round of the book club is not mandatory, there’s no punishment for sitting out! It’s cool to just hang around in the discord server and discuss virtually anything if you want to.

Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. If you’re just now reading this and learning about Eureka for the first time, you missed the crowdfunding window unfortunately, but our Kickstarter page is still the best place to learn more about what Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy actually is, as that is where we have all the fancy art assets, the animated trailer, links to video reviews by podcasts and youtubers, and where we post regular updates on the status of our progress finishing the game and getting it ready for final release.

Beta Copies through the Patreon

If you want more than just status updates, going forward you can download regularly updated playable beta versions of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy and it’s adventure modules by subscribing to our Patreon at the $5 tier or higher. Subscribing to our patreon also grants you access to our patreon discord server where you can talk to us directly and offer valuable feedback on our progress and projects.

The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club

If you would like to meet the A.N.I.M. team and even have a chance to play Eureka with us, you can join the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club discord server. It’s also just a great place to talk and discuss TTRPGs, so there is no schedule obligation, but the main purpose of it is to nominate, vote on, then read, discuss, and play different indie TTRPGs. We put playgroups together based on scheduling compatibility, so it’s all extremely flexible. This is a free discord server, separate from our patreon exclusive one. https://discord.gg/7jdP8FBPes

Other Stuff

We also have a ko-fi and merchandise if you just wanna give us more money for any reason.

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

[gehennatruther]

Artist: Sean McCoy

Book: "Player's Survival Guide" (2018)

Gameline: "Mothership RPG"

Publisher: Tuesday Knight Games

[norgad-art]

DEAD WEIGHT, my new module for Mothership RPG, is live on Kickstarter now!!

[keftiu]

My new solo TTRPG is out!

HARDCASE is a light-weight solo TTRPG about trying to make it to payday in space. If you're a fan of grimy sci-fi and hate corporations (or just really like Mothership, 2400, and World of Dungeons), there's a lot for you to love with it!

You can grab it half-off for the next week <3

[spaginithethird]

Kopii Dev Update #1

Progress has been going smoothly, and I've been building a larger roster of monsters and characters to meet aboard Atlantis Station! Along with that, I've been workshopping a mechanic for navigating Atlantis Station; some places might not be the same as they were on a return trip, and doors won't always lead to where they're supposed to.

A large scale map of the station has also been created and annotated. The plan is for a different map to be included for each area of the station along with supplementary art to help the Warden paint a more vivid picture of the surroundings!

That's all for now, the next stage of development will be focused on nailing down how the station changes over time, and creating tables to roll on in the event that a room changes or a door leads somewhere else!

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

I’ve got an article out in Interstellar Flights Magazine on Alien-inspired RPGs! I talk about the Free League game, Mothership, and The Wretched, and the ways each of those texts interpret Scott’s iconic film

[christiansorrell]

Cloud Empress Rulebook FOR FREE!

Several months ago, I did development work on Cloud Empress, a standalone, Nausicaa-inspired TTRPG by worlds of watt. It's full, beautiful rulebook recently went up on DriveThruRPG FOR FREE so I think folks should check it out. I'm really proud to have taken part in the project and think the end result is tremendous! Plus, there's so much more coming for it in the near future!

Get your copy HERE!