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Mothership: Player's Survival Guide

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Winner of the 2019 Gold ENnie for Best Game!

Winner of the Ramanan Sivaranjan Excellence in Gaming Best G** D*** Books of 2018 award!


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. Choose from one of four classes:

  • Teamsters, the rough and tumble workers. More versatile at first level, Teamsters can be anything from engineers, to pilots, to asteroid miners. If Ripley from Aliens is your hero, then you'll want to play a Teamster.
  • Scientists, doctors, researches or anyone who wants to slice open aliens (or infected crew members) with a scalpel. Become an expert in genetics or xenobiology - or protect your crew from deadly viruses.
  • Androids are an exciting and terrifying addition to any crew. Powerful due to their supreme intellect, speed, and near-immunity to fear, they tend to unnerve other crew members with their cold inhumanity.
  • Marines are here to shoot bugs and chew bubblegum. They're handy in a fight, and better when grouped together, but be wary when a marine panics because it could spell doom for the rest of your crew.

Mothership is actively in development, and this is a beta release. There will be limited print releases of the beta at most major conventions (Origins, Gen Con, BGGCon). 

Looking for an adventure to run? We just released the first adventure for Mothership, Dead Planet, and it's awesome. You can check it out (along with a preview) here.


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Tidus T January 28, 2024 6:48 pm UTC
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I have a question regarding skills, if someone could indulge me.

Does each individual skill come with a set bonus only, or can they be improved individually? For example, say I take the Trained skill of Athletics (+10%), which unlocks the Expert Close-Quarters Combat (+15%). Will Athletics forever remain a +10% skill, meaning that doing something athletic will only ever benefit from a flat +10%, or is there a way to improve that value to +15/+20%?
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Regényi M January 29, 2024 6:48 am UTC
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I had the same question in my head!

However, I think they cannot be improved. the Trained skills are broad, the +15% are narrower set of skills, and master skills are rare and specialised skills. So the +10% can be added to a lot of situations, the others are for more rare situations.

The other question is, can you apply more than one skill to a situation? For example, if you hit an enemy in zero G with a sword, can you use the Zero G skill and Close-Quarters Combat skill together for a +25%?
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Tidus T February 03, 2024 9:02 pm UTC
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Suppose that makes sense!

Just need to find a module now to run this with.
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Raymond M November 03, 2023 8:07 am UTC
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If we have the older PDF version, will we get a free update to the newest version. I see your streamlined it a bit.
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Brandon C November 01, 2023 6:27 pm UTC
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Are we gonna be able to buy 1E on DriveThruRPG?
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Sean T July 02, 2023 12:55 pm UTC
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Backed the Digital Level, gonna grab for free now for a game this afternoon. Thanks!
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Peter S June 11, 2023 3:03 am UTC
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Hi, any chance of a printer friendly pdf version, where the first three pages don't wipe out a standard black ink cartridge? cheers.
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Sebastian E June 08, 2023 7:42 pm UTC
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I was pleasantly surprised at how much play you got for the money in this little book. Excellent basic rules with the best Character Sheet I've seen in a long time. Donkeys Sci-Fi Horror, and will start playing as soon as I get a new group together.
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Abst R May 12, 2023 11:42 am UTC
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I'd like to share some insights I extracted from this inspiring source book:https://abstr.substack.com/p/study-mothership
Here's a list of topics I dive into:

- What's so appealing about that diagram-style layout.
- Key differences between Checks and Saves.
- Panic Check as good illustration on how to leverage "Anchored Tables".
- Bottom-up approach to world-building.
- Additional notes on Initiative, specific entries of random tables.
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Bruno L February 02, 2023 11:28 pm UTC
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Good concept, but there is missing information between core rulebook and modules. Will be using just the modules with other system.
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romain F September 01, 2022 10:50 pm UTC
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Hi, I'm a Kickstarter backer and have decided to get acquainted with the first set of rules while waiting for 1E. Thank you very much for sharing this PDF, I'm devouring it.
There is an example of save roll that I don't quite understand, though.
Page 7: "The Warden calls for Sanity Saves from both Lilith (Sanity 30) and Abel (Sanity 25). Lilith rolls 76, a Failure. The Warden rules that she’ll gain 1d10 Stress from the shock. Abel, however, doesn’t get off that easily. He rolls a 33, a Critical Failure."

Is there a misprint or did I miss something? Shouldn't it be "99" for a Critical Failure?
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romain F September 02, 2022 11:36 pm UTC
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Ignore, I had missed an important not about doubles being criticals :)
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Sebastian L June 29, 2022 4:05 pm UTC
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First two pages after cover in PDF are barely visible.
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robert H July 19, 2022 6:51 pm UTC
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I ran into the same thing when I opened it in my browser. opening it in Adobe acrobat reader fixed the issue for me.
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Vladimir M May 09, 2022 12:37 pm UTC
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Hay un capítulo 2 que no esta en este documento....donde lo encuentro?
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Jean-Sébastien M May 06, 2022 3:00 am UTC
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I have download the PDF and the game look great, but for some reason, I can barely see the first two pages after the cover. There is a white space at the top and the bottom of each page and the middle is really pale. Anyone else got this problem?
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robert H July 19, 2022 6:52 pm UTC
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I ran into the same thing when I opened it in my browser. opening it in Adobe acrobat reader fixed the issue for me.
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Stephen M M April 28, 2022 5:50 pm UTC
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Cool idea, but understand this is a basic PDF with no left-pane or internal links, so search will be your friend.

Ran mine through ABBY FineReader PDF and added my own left pane indexing, so it will be better use on a laptop when e-gaming.
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Andy W March 28, 2022 8:10 pm UTC
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Pre-ordered the digital edition on kickstarter, can't wait!
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Pietro S December 15, 2021 11:27 am UTC
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Will the updated rules from Kickstarter also arrive on this store?
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