Learn more about Mothership at www.mothershiprpg. If I was gonna run a sci-fi horror game this is the only game I'd use. What an impressive achievement for a single designer/writer/layout artist/illustrator! I cannot say enough great things about Mothership. "This thing walks to the line of usability/ performance art, looks down at, and does a jig on it with its tongue hanging out waggling, eyes all googley, while flipping the world off with both hands."
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Share elements of the rules, or the entire rulebook, with your players. If you have some tips and tricks or other information to share, feel free to jump right in and contribute.Contains the entire rulebook in an easily searchable format.Your rogue might have gotten by as a guild thief or commanded audiences. Your Wizard could have been a sage or an artisan. Your Fighter might have been a courageous knight or a grizzled soldier. All this with minimal supervision from the Warden who is probably busy last-minute prepping tonight's session/ordering pizza. Your character’s Background reveals where you came from, how you became an adventurer, and your place in the world. Jump Right InĮven the character sheet makes things easier: Mothership RPG has a custom character sheet on Roll20 including all the information needed to create and play a character, meaning veteran players can zoom through creating a new character when their old character gets shredded by a deadly mutant xeno, and new players can get up and running without having to read through an entire player's guide. That means if you're looking at the combat rules, everything you need to know fits on the two pages open in front of you, no more flipping around to find all the edge cases for a simple question.
Our assets are produced by independent artists and made available for the enjoyment of tabletop gamers worldwide. You can very easily document items on handouts and copy/paste them to sheets though. Never Miss a Beatįor Wardens (GMs), we've made rules easy to reference, and designed everything to fit into clean "control panel" style spreads. The Roll20 Marketplace is the premiere online store for digital maps, tiles, tokens, and modules used in online tabletop gaming. There isn't a custom compendium at this time, and I'm not sure how likely it is that we will get one that is drag/drop to character sheets. For players, our simple d100 Panic Engine ensures that you always know how likely you are to succeed at any given task (not very). Mothership is designed from the ground up to be intuitive to run and easy to play, no system-mastery required. 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.