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We were still in the last days of G+ which helped us with early adopters. We have an amazing team, and indie RPG stars like Jarrett Crader, Fiona Geist, Donn Stroud, and Luke Gearing all threw in heavy support early on when we were no one. “We were lucky and we were prepared to be lucky,” explains Sean McCoy, writer, illustrator, and half of Tuesday Knight Games. A rules-lite D100 system, Mothership openly takes its pointers from Ridley Scott’s Alien and plunges players into a world of tension, terror, and almost-certain death in the uncaring void.

In the case of Mothership, what started with a 41-page Mothership: Player’s Survival Guide released in 2018 by Tuesday Knight Games quickly became a word-of-mouth hit, nominated for Best Rules in the 2019 Ennie Awards alongside the latest incarnations of established systems like Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and Cubicle7’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and winning Best Game. The box contains the updated Player’s Survival Guide, Warden’s Operations Manual, the supplements Unconfirmed Contact Reports, The Shipbreaker’s Toolkit, The Conversion Kit, and Another Bug Hunt, a poster sized map, punchboard pawns, D100 and D20 dice, and a tri-folded Warden’s Screen. The Mothership RPG Core Set is available now priced USD$59 (approx GBP£49). Most of all there’s a gentle, patient sense of this has always been awesome, it’s just that you’ve only just noticed. There’s a vibrant ecosystem, other bands rising on that same tide, a local correspondent for Maximum Rocknroll or maybe a local radio station that plays “real music” after 10 pm on Mondays, and a friendly neighborhood record label/distro run out of someone’s garage. There’s a ‘hero band’ who were the first to break out of the scene and bag a split 7” with, I don’t know, Starkweather. There’s a basement venue where everyone plays plastered with scratchy posters like ransom notes from kidnappers. Speaking to some of the creatives – writers, artists, and games designers – involved in '> Mothership is like lifting the lid on the hardcore punk underground in whatever midwestern town you care to name.

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