As the title of this thread suggests: Mothership (by Tuesday Knight Games) is a short but sweet Pn P RPG that sets out to emulate horror science fiction, specifically of the Alien, Event Horizon, Dead Space school. The default mode is the classic set-up of a ship/station having found something they shouldn't have and now the party has to fight to make it out both alive and sane.
The book currently has three main releases, with a fourth incoming: the Player's Survival Guide (corebook), Dead Planet (sourcebook and campaign book centering on the titular hellscape and it's orbiting spaceship graveyard), A Pound of Flesh (sourcebook for Space stations, cybermods, and much more) and Gradient Descent (a megadungeon about 'The Deep' (formerly the Cloudbank Synthetics Production Facility), a not-so-abandoned android factory roamed by indistinguishably-lifelike replicants and a possibly mad AI, forthcoming).
I write all this because this revolution of a game lacks a works page and I do not think I could do it justice myself. And given how much press and how many awards this game has gotten over the last couple years or so, that's a shocker.
So, I discovered this elegant pinnacle of a horror RPG a few weeks ago: https://www.mothershiprpg.com/
As the title of this thread suggests: Mothership (by Tuesday Knight Games) is a short but sweet Pn P RPG that sets out to emulate horror science fiction, specifically of the Alien, Event Horizon, Dead Space school. The default mode is the classic set-up of a ship/station having found something they shouldn't have and now the party has to fight to make it out both alive and sane.
The book currently has three main releases, with a fourth incoming: the Player's Survival Guide (corebook), Dead Planet (sourcebook and campaign book centering on the titular hellscape and it's orbiting spaceship graveyard), A Pound of Flesh (sourcebook for Space stations, cybermods, and much more) and Gradient Descent (a megadungeon about 'The Deep' (formerly the Cloudbank Synthetics Production Facility), a not-so-abandoned android factory roamed by indistinguishably-lifelike replicants and a possibly mad AI, forthcoming).
I write all this because this revolution of a game lacks a works page and I do not think I could do it justice myself. And given how much press and how many awards this game has gotten over the last couple years or so, that's a shocker.
At least give it a read, the PDF of the corebook is Pay-What-You-Want on DriveThruRPG (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/245017/)
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Edited by ProfessorDetective on May 5th 2020 at 2:33:34 PM