#mothership

[filibusterfrog]

pathetic space loser for a pal

#my art #commission #mothership

[deesi-academia]

#i need to log off tumblr dot com #mothers and daughters #mothership #mothers #daughters #desiblr #desi #chaotic academia #humor #memes #desi culture #dark academia

[football-in-tuxedos]

You can tell Mulder and Scully is true love, cause if a dude told me he was taking me out for a "Nice trip to the forest" and I wound up getting nearly eaten by murder fireflies, I would kill that man with a hammer.

#the x-files #x-files #txf #mulder #scully #msr #mothership #I'm rewatching the show #Darkness Falls is one of my favorite episodes

[vintagerpg]

What We Give to Alien Gods (2021) is quite the zine. Again, as with most Mothership scenarios, the basic building blocks will feel familiar — anomalies, ruins, a stranded survivor, horrible monsters — but their configuration here feels entirely new, unsettling and unfathomable. It is also, for all its beauty and intrigue, a little difficult to parse and, probably daunting to run.

The central premise of the scenario is the discovery of alien ruins — a kind of temple. An NPC is committed to unlocking the temple, which might also be a prison. The means to assist in this, or foil the scheme, is in deciphering a visual triform glyph language used by the non-verbal civilization who built the temple. Another entity can also introduce a second xenolanguage to decipher. These, and the temple itself, are intriguing, atmospheric puzzle boxes, made more so by the fact that Mothership doesn’t have aliens (so discovering them is kind of a big deal) and the way the new Conviction system imbues events with a sense of imminent revelation. Something important is going to happen! Something that is probably beyond the comprehension of everyone involved.

Including, maybe, the folks playing the game. It is A LOT and it asks a lot of players, requiring a group to really want to play this sort of scenario. I think the end result is amazing, but it is really only going to appeal to a specific sort of player. And they are going to have to tolerate Scientist characters being the center of all the attention — they alone have the skills to directly interface with the mysteries (sort of like Decking in Shadowrun).

Whether or not it is broadly playable, it is a gorgeous experiment. Just reading it conveys a sense of doomful profundity. That’s a rarity, and worth the price of admission alone.

#rpg #d&d #dungeons & dragons #tabletop rpg #roleplaying game #ttrpg #What We Give to Alien Gods #Mothership

[technicalgrimoire]

We got to play Cloud Empress last night!

It's a Nausicaa inspired gritty adventure through a dangerous world. I feel like we're just scratching the surface.

Excited for our next adventure!

#tabletop #indie ttrpg #ttrpg #osr #indie #mothership #mothership rpg #cloud empress #nausicaa #ghibli #scary bugs

[pyromaniacblujay]

silly

#the binding of isaac #survivor lilith #survivor eve #my drawings #mothership #tboi survivor fathoms au

[anim-ttrpgs]

A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club Showcase #2: Mothership

As some of you may know—and if you don’t, here is a post about it—A.N.I.M. runs a TTRPG book club where the whole club votes on, read, and play indie and indie-ish TTRPGs, then discuss them like a book club, with the ultimate goal of exposing people to new games and supporting smaller TTRPG developers. After each game, we do a “showcase” where quotes are compiled and posted for posterity along with a link to the game’s store page or wherever else you’re supposed to get it. Here is what the book club had to say about the second RPG to win a vote: Mothership by Tuesday Knight Games! Mothership was a game I had been looking forward to playing for a long time and I'm very glad to have gotten to play a one-shot with it. Mothership is for-sure an "OSR" game--relatively short rulebook, just enough rules and mechanics to get you by for exactly the genre it is supposed to emulate, fast and easy character creation, and a high chance for careless player-characters to die badly. If you like the Aliens franchise, you'll love Mothership.

Here is what the TTRPG Book Club generally had to say about Mothership by Tuesday Knight Games:

You can pick up a copy of Mothership here.

And hey, if you're a creator who wants to get their game out there in front of people, join our book club and nominate it!

Playing Mothership here led directly to 9 sales!

If you’re an independant TTRPG developer, come hop in, you can nominate your own game, and having a creator in the discussion is always a plus! Reminder, you can join the discord server from the invite link on our website or right here.

Just a reminder also that A.N.I.M.'s own first big project, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is launching on Kickstarter in April 2024!

Here is a preview of the Kickstarter page!

If you would like to pick up a prerelease copy of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy along with three adventure modules, two short stories, and a novella, head over to our Patreon page!

If you want to try it before you decide to spend any money, head to our website to download the free demo of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy!

#eureka: investigative urban fantasy #monsters #rpg #coc #ttrpg #eureka #roleplaying #tabletop #tag #allied forces #mothership #mothership rpg #alien #aliens #space horror #horror #ttrpg design #ttrpg art #ttrpg tumblr #indie ttrpg #ttrpg community #free rpg #sci-fi #sci fi #science fiction #futuristic #book #books #book club #rulebook

[papapandashipyards]

Mothership over Hiigara

Six Months after Hiigaran landfall, the Mothership has been permanently parked in Hiigaras orbit, docked to Hiigaras preexisting Harborstation. It ceaslessly manufactures all space based infrastructure and ships the newly minted Hiigarans will need to secure their place in the Galaxy

#art #digital art #homeworld #spaceship #spaceport #spaceharbor #Mothership #Hiigara #Kushan

[disbestyx]

I swear Aro culture is the constant of where be my aromantic buddies??

Like, where be the other arospecs in my life? Or in my college?? Or in the immediate area???

I need people to help support the aro mothership lol

#aro culture is #aromantic #aro positivity #aromantism #arospec #aro memes #friends #platonic #squish #palentines #online #mothership

[theseworldsareyours]

Mothership by James Fletcher (JamesF63)

#James Fletcher #JamesF63 #sci-fi art #spaceship #mothership

[zachhazardvaupen]

Experimentations in the lab in ANOTHER BUG HUNT for Mothership RPG.

#zach hazard vaupen #illustration #ttrpg art #horror #commission #horror art #ttrpg #mothership rpg #mothership

[evlynmoreau-blog]

My doodle space survivors on meeples!

#mothership

[deesi-academia]

reminder that mothers are also just teenage girls trying to win their mother's affection while dismantling the generational trauma

#when the evil brain inside me forgets #i need to be reminded^ #oh mom but arent i also just like you? is that so bad? #mothers and daughters #mothership #mothers #daughters #desiblr #desi #chaotic academia #dark academia

[christiansorrell]

MeatCastle GameWare Store Launch Sale!

My entire catalog is now available at the MCGW Store! After months of frankly terrible interactions with my last fulfillment partner (more on that later, perhaps in a future Missive), I have finally gotten my inventory back, set up my own store, and have a much better setup overall. To celebrate, EVERYTHING (print AND digital) is 30% off (applied at checkout)! VISIT THE SHOP HERE!

The entire catalog of MCGW-published supplements are here:

The Bloodfields at Blackstar Station (Mothership 1e)

Corpo Culture Killed My Dog (Mothership 1e/System-Free)

Tunnels in White (Liminal Horror)

MeatCastle GameWare Annual #1 (Mothership 1e, Mork Borg, and System-Free)

The Mole on PIRAD ONE (Mothership 1e)

There is a Goblin on the Loose in Icarus Station (Mothership 1e)

ULTIMATE BADASS: Optional Action Movie Rules (Mothership 1e)

You can grab EVERYTHING I’ve ever made in print for around $50 USD or get it all digitally for just $26! The sale will run from now until the evening of 12/10 (so two full weeks)!

Also, @indiepressrevolution will have both The Bloodfields at Blackstar Station and There is a Goblin on the Loose in Icarus Station on sale at Pax Unplugged this weekend (Dec. 1st-3rd) at Booth 3426!

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #ttrpgs #rpg #indie #indie creator #independent #online store #sale #publishing #print #mothership #liminal horror #system agnostic

[vintagerpg]

Ian Yusem’s Meatgrinder (2021) is a continuation of The Drain (2020)…which…crap, I don’t think I have posted about that yet. OK, so The Drain takes place on a colony ship where prisoners are trapped in a never-ending war. Tasked by their corporate jailers to retrieve an artifact in exchange for their freedom, the zine takes the basic concept of the funnel from Dungeon Crawl Classics and applies to to Mothership. It’s good, and has strong horror videogame flavoring.

Which is appropriate, because so does Meatgrinder! Free of the World War I meets Resident Evil vibes of the colony ship, players continue to fight for their survival in an actual hell modeled quite clearly on DOOM, right down to the videogamey maps. There are seven awful locations to explore where players will encounter ten obscene mockeries of existence whilst searching for anti-relics and possibly mutating into new, terrible forms. Handily, a metaphysical womb near the bloodplains constantly spawns new, naked replacement player characters. Their screaming awakening into sentience ensures that total party kills are only temporary.

It’s a good time!

#dungeons & dragons #tabletop rpg #roleplaying game #ttrpg #d&d #rpg #Ian Yusem #Mothership #Meatgrinder

[technicalgrimoire]

Cloud Empress Ready to Rock!

Featuring Fungi of the Far Realms from Melsonian Arts Council

A big chonky panic die

UVG dice from WizardThiefFighter

And my own cryptic notes!

(seriously, you gotta mix Fungi with Cloud Empress)

#tabletop #indie ttrpg #ttrpg #osr #indie #rpg #mothership #nausicaa #cloud empress #fungi #fungi of the far realms #UVG