All of this feeds into Mothership’s Stress and Panic system wherein characters might absolutely lose their cool at the worst moment, throwing the rest of the crew into increased danger - not so bad if the scientist begins hucking beakers, but that marine with rifle and an itchy trigger finger is a whole other matter.īy crossing the six-figure threshold, Tuesday Knight Games becomes one of roughly 30 tabletop projects to raise at least US $1m dollars on the platform. It pulls on classics of the space horror genre such as Alien and Solaris alongside Tetsuo, Dead Space, The Thing and Roadside Picnic. It stresses the inherent threat of doing anything in space, as a tear in a pressurised suit or overheating nuclear engine can be just as dangerous as xeno life forms or rival scavenge crews. Mothership uses a d100 system full of random tables but light on rules so that players can roll up characters quickly and bust through the atmosphere as soon as possible. The core experience, though, remains the same - players take on the role of teamsters, scientists, marines and the unnerving androids as part of a crew exploring alien environments and excavating spacecraft left floating in the void of space. Tuesday Knight Games announced a boxed set in September of this year that would revise that initial release, along with adding a facilitator’s guide called the Warden’s Operation’s Manual and other supplementary booklets. It garnered fervent popularity within the independent tabletop scene that culminated in winning two ENnies that year - gold for Best Game and silver for Best Adventure. The Kickstarter campaign for a first-edition boxed set of Mothership’s sci-fi horror tabletop RPG recently reached US $1m putting the indie title in rare company as its crowdfunding campaign nears the final week.Ĭreated by Alan Gerding and Sean McCoy of Tuesday Knight Games, Mothership was initially released in 2019 as a single rules and settings booklet subtitled the Player’s Survival Guide.

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