Player Survival Guide v1.2

PLAYER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE
Amicia LeBlanc (Order #44788760)

WEAPONS & DAMAGE
WEAPON COST RANGE DAMAGE SHOTS WOUND SPECIAL
Ammo 50cr N/A N/A Per magazine/container.
Boarding Axe 150cr Adjacent 2d10 DMG N/A Gore [+]
Combat Shotgun 1,400cr Close 4d10 DMG 4 Gunshot 1d10 DMG at Long Range or greater.
Grants [+] on Strength Checks to open
Crowbar 25cr Adjacent 1d5 DMG N/A Blunt Force [+]
jammed airlocks, lift heavy objects, etc.
Fire/Explosives Body Save [-] or be set on fire (2d10
Flamethrower 4kcr Close 2d10 DMG 4
[+] DMG / round).
Fire/Explosives High intensity flare visible day and night
Flare Gun 25cr Long 1d5 DMG 2
[-] from Long Range.
Body Save or become stuck.
Foam Gun 500cr Close 1 DMG 3 Blunt Force
Strength Check [-] to escape.
400cr
Frag Grenade Close 3d10 DMG 1 Fire/Explosives On a hit, damages all Adjacent to enemy.
ea.
General-Purpose Two-handed. Heavy. Barrel can be
4.5kcr Long 4d10 DMG 5 Gunshot [+]
Machine Gun maneuvered to fire around corners.
Hand Welder 250cr Adjacent 1d10 DMG N/A Bleeding Can cut through airlock doors.
Bleeding [+] Two-handed. Heavy. 1 round recharge
Laser Cutter 1,200cr Long 1d100 DMG 6
or Gore [+] between shots.
Nail Gun 150cr Close 1d5 DMG 32 Bleeding
Pulse Rifle 2.4kcr Long 3d10 DMG 5 Gunshot
Revolver 750cr Close 1d10+1 DMG 6 Gunshot
1d10 DMG 100m micro-filament.
Rigging Gun 350cr Close 1 Bleeding [+]
+ 2d10 DMG when removed Body Save or become entangled.
Scalpel 50cr Adjacent 1d5 DMG N/A Bleeding [+]
[-] on Combat Check when fired at Close
Smart Rifle 5kcr Extreme 4d10 DMG (AA) 3 Gunshot [+]
Range.
SMG 1kcr Long 2d10 DMG 5 Gunshot Can be fired one-handed.
Stun Baton 150cr Adjacent 1d5 DMG N/A Blunt Force Body Save or stunned 1 round.
If DMG dealt: enemy must Body Save or
Tranq Pistol 250cr Close 1d5 DMG 6 Blunt Force
be unconscious 1d10 rounds.
Unarmed Free Adjacent Str/10 DMG N/A Blunt Force
Bleeding + When dealing a Wound, roll on BOTH the
Vibechete 1kcr Adjacent 3d10 DMG (AA) N/A
Gore Bleeding AND Gore columns.
ARMOR
ARMOR COST AP O2 SPEED SPECIAL
Standard Crew Attire
100cr 1 None Normal
Basic clothing.
Vaccsuit Includes short-range comms, headlamp, and radiation
10kcr 3 12 hrs [-]
Designed for outer space operations. shielding. Decompression within 1d5 rounds if punctured.
Hazard Suit Includes air filter, extreme heat/cold protection,
Environmental protection while exploring 4kcr 5 1 hr Normal hydration reclamation (1L of water lasts 4 days),
unknown planets. short-range comms, headlamp, and radiation shielding.
Standard Battle Dress
2kcr 7 None Normal Includes short-range comms.
Lightly-plated armor worn by most marines.
Advanced Battle Dress Includes short-range comms, body cam, headlamp, HUD,
Heavy armor for marines deployed in high 12kcr 10 1 hr [-] exoskeletal weave (Strength Checks [+]), and radiation
combat offworld engagements. shielding. Damage Reduction: 3.

CONTENT WARNING
Mothership® is a horror game for mature audiences. It contains violence, foul

language, some sexual content, drug use, and depictions of mental illness, trauma,
stress, and panic that may not be suitable for all audiences. Please be advised.
Created by SEAN McCOY Edited by JARRETT CRADER

Developed by LUKE GEARING, FIONA MAEVE GEIST, TYLER KIMBALL, NICK REED, DONN STROUD, and SAM WILDMAN
Illustrated by RYAN BARRY, JAN BURAGAY, ABE CERDA, JOTA CRAVO, DANIEL FRANCISCO, DAVID HOSKINS, PATRICK LOVELAND,
SEAN McCOY, and ZACH HAZARD VAUPEN
Panic Consulting by CAITLIN JONES and WENDY PIPPIN Proofread by DANIEL HALLINAN, ROZ LEAHY, and JANNE PUONTI
PDF Remediation by DAI SHUGARS
Special thanks to ALAN GERDING, REECE CARTER, MATT KELLEY, THE MOTHERSHIP DISCORD, DAVID N. WILKIE,
and as always LINDSAY, LANGSTON, and JUNIPER
Copyright © 2023 Tuesday Knight Games, LLC | First Edition, First Printing v1.2
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR CHARACTER
Welcome to Mothership®, the

sci-fi horror RPG where you and
MOTHERSHIP® cleo 0
your crew try to survive in the CHARACTER PROFILE Player Name High Score
most inhospitable environment
in the universe: outer space! Character Name
PERSONAL DETAILS
1. ROLL 2D10+25 FOR EACH STAT.
Lilith
Excavate dangerous derelict Pronouns 35 41 32 36
spacecraft, explore strange they/them STRENGTH SPEED INTELLECT COMBAT
unknown worlds, encounter Personal Notes
hostile alien life, and escape the 32 years old 2. ROLL 2D10+10 FOR EACH SAVE.
horrors encroaching upon your
every move. Let’s get started! wife on 25 29 34
ypsilon 14
SANITY FEAR BODY
The sheet at the back of this
book has all the instructions for 3. SELECT YOUR CLASS. Adjust your starting STATS & SAVES.
how to create your character. MARINE ANDROID SCIENTIST TEAMSTER
All you need to do is follow the +10 COMBAT +20 INTELLECT +10 INTELLECT +5 TO ALL STATS
+10 BODY SAVE -10 TO 1 STAT +5 TO 1 STAT +10 TO ALL SAVES
numbered steps in each box +20 FEAR SAVE +60 FEAR SAVE +30 SANITY SAVE
until you’ve filled everything in. +1 MAX WOUNDS +1 MAX WOUNDS
STEP 1. ROLL STATS 4. ROLL 1D10+10 FOR YOUR HEALTH.

5. GAIN
You start at your STRESS.
Maximum Health with zero
HEALTH WOUNDS Wounds. Whenever your STRESS
Characters have four Stats: Health falls below zero,
Strength, Speed, Intellect, and 13 13 0 2 you suffer a Wound. Reset

your Health to its
2 2
Maximum, minus any Current Minimum
Current Maximum Current Maximum
Combat, representing how well Starts at 2. carryover damage. Starts at 2.
they act under extreme pressure.

6. TAKE NOTE OF YOUR CLASS’S TRAUMA RESPONSE.
Roll 2 ten-sided dice (2d10), MARINE WHENEVER YOU PANIC, EVERY CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYER MUST MAKE A FEAR SAVE.
ANDROID FEAR SAVES MADE BY CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYERS ARE AT DISADVANTAGE.

add them together, then add
SCIENTIST WHENEVER YOU FAIL A SANITY SAVE, ALL CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYERS GAIN 1 STRESS.
25. Record the results for TEAMSTER ONCE PER SESSION, YOU MAY TAKE ADVANTAGE ON A PANIC CHECK.
each Stat.
8. ROLL FOR YOUR EQUIPMENT LOADOUT, TRINKET & PATCH.
pg. 7 pg. 8 pg. 9
A Stat of 36 is average, but don’t
get too hung up on the numbers vaccsuit, laser cutter (1d100 dmg),
patch kit, extra battery
right now. patch: “mama tried”
ARMOR POINTS trinket: spiked bracelet
Read about Stats on pg. 18. 40cr
3 CREDITS 2D10X10
STEP 2. ROLL SAVES
Characters have three Saves: STEP 3. CHOOSE YOUR CLASS

Sanity, Fear, and Body,
representing how resistant and There are four basic classes in Mothership:
reactive they are to different
kinds of trauma and danger. • Marines are handy in a fight, but whenever they Panic it may
cause problems for the rest of the crew.
Roll 2 ten-sided dice (2d10), • Androids are a terrifying and exciting addition to any crew. They
add them together, then add tend to unnerve other crewmembers with their cold inhumanity.
10. Record the results for • Scientists are doctors, researchers, or anyone who wants to
each Save. slice open creatures (or infected crewmembers) with a scalpel.
• Teamsters are rough and tumble blue-collar space workers,
Read about Saves on pg. 18. mechanics, engineers, miners, and pilots.

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CHARACTER CREATION
STEP 5. GAIN STRESS

7. NOTE CLASS SKILLS AND CHOOSE BONUS SKILLS.
To take a Master or Expert Skill you must first take at least one of its prerequisite Skills. Characters’ current Stress and
MARINE ANDROID SCIENTIST TEAMSTER Minimum Stress both start at 2.
Military Training, Athletics Linguistics, Computers, 1 Master Skill, and an Industrial Equipment,
Bonus: 1 Expert Skill Mathematics Expert and Trained Skill Zero-G
OR: 2 Trained Skills Bonus: 1 Expert Skill
OR: 2 Trained Skills
prerequisite.
Bonus: 1 Trained Skill
Bonus: 1 Trained Skill
and 1 Expert Skill. STEP 6. NOTE TRAUMA
RESPONSE
TRAINED SKILLS EXPERT SKILLS MASTER SKILLS
(+10 BONUS) (+15 BONUS) (+20 BONUS) Each class deals with Stress
and Panic differently, which
LINGUISTICS PSYCHOLOGY SOPHONTOLOGY comes into play later in the
ZOOLOGY PATHOLOGY EXOBIOLOGY
game. Mark your Trauma
Response for future reference.
FIELD SURGERY
MEDICINE
BOTANY ECOLOGY PLANETOLOGY STEP 7. CHOOSE SKILLS

GEOLOGY ASTEROID MINING ROBOTICS
Each class comes preloaded
INDUSTRIAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
EQUIPMENT REPAIR with relevant Skills, which help
JURY-RIGGING EXPLOSIVES CYBERNETICS characters perform better at
CHEMISTRY PHARMACOLOGY different challenges. Additionally,
COMPUTERS HACKING ARTIFICIAL each class has a number of
INTELLIGENCE
bonus Skills to select.
ZERO-G PILOTING
MATHEMATICS PHYSICS HYPERSPACE To choose a Skill you must

ART MYSTICISM XENOESOTERICISM
have at least one prerequisite
Skill (a Skill that has an arrow
ARCHAEOLOGY
pointing from it) first.
THEOLOGY WILDERNESS
SURVIVAL
Read about Skills on pg. 22.
MILITARY FIREARMS COMMAND
TRAINING
RIMWISE HAND-TO-HAND
COMBAT STEP 8. ROLL LOADOUT,
ATHLETICS TRINKET, AND PATCH
SKILL TRAINING
Roll for a Loadout based on your
In Progress Time Remaining
character’s class.
CONDITIONS
See Loadouts on pg. 7.
Roll for a Trinket and a Patch
STEP 4. ROLL HEALTH Trinkets & Patches on pg. 8-9.
Classes broadly define Characters can suffer a certain Finally, roll 2d10 and multiply it
character backgrounds (e.g., number of Wounds before they by 10 for starting Credits.
scientists know basic info about die. Each class has different
most scientific disciplines). We’ll starting Maximum Wounds. STEP 9. FINISHING
get into specialities in Step 7. Characters gain a Wound when
their Health reaches zero. Write the character’s name and
Mark your class, then pronouns. Mark a zero above
alter your Stats and Saves Roll 1 ten-sided die (1d10) High Score. You’re now ready
accordingly. then add 10. Record the result to play your first session of
for Maximum Health. Mothership!

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CREDITS
Credits (cr) are the primary currency in

Mothership, and are notated as follows:
• 100cr = 100 credits

• 2.5kcr = 2.5 thousand credits (2,500cr)
• 35.2mcr = 35.2 million credits
(35,200,000cr)
• 4bcr = 4 billion credits (4,000,000,000cr)
6.1 STARTING CREDITS
Characters get 2d10x10cr in addition to

their Starting Loadout. If you want to forgo a
Starting Loadout and buy gear piecemeal, roll
2d10x100cr for starting credits instead.

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LOADOUTS
Loadouts contain the weapons, armor, and other gear characters start with. Roll 1d10 on the
appropriate table to determine Starting Loadout, and then record that on your character sheet. Some
are better than others, but all of them are useful in the hands of a desperate person. Underlined items
are not described in the Equipment section—use common sense to determine their use.
MARINE LOADOUTS ANDROID LOADOUTS

D10 LOADOUT D10 LOADOUT
Tank Top and Camo Pants (AP 1), Vaccsuit (AP 3),
00 00
Combat Knife (as Scalpel DMG [+]), Stimpak (x5) Smart Rifle (2 mags), Infrared Goggles, Mylar Blanket
Advanced Battle Dress (AP 10), Vaccsuit (AP 3),
01 01
Flamethrower (4 shots), Boarding Axe Revolver (12 rounds), Long-range Comms, Satchel
Standard Battle Dress (AP 7), Hazard Suit (AP 5),
02 02
Combat Shotgun (4 rounds), Rucksack, Camping Gear Revolver (6 rounds), Defibrillator, First Aid Kit, Flashlight
Standard Battle Dress (AP 7), Hazard Suit (AP 5), Foam Gun (2 charges), Sample Collection
03 03
Pulse Rifle (3 mags), Infrared Goggles Kit, Screwdriver (as Assorted Tools)
Standard Battle Dress (AP 7), Standard Battle Dress (AP 7), Tranq Pistol (3 shots),
04 04
Smart Rifle (3 mags), Binoculars, Personal Locator Paracord (100m)
05 Standard Battle Dress (AP 7), SMG (3 mags), MRE (x7) 05 Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Stun Baton, Small Pet (organic).
Fatigues (AP 2), Combat Shotgun (2 rounds), Dog (pet), 06 Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Scalpel, Bioscanner
06
Leash, Tennis Ball 07 Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Frag Grenade, Pen Knife
07 Fatigues (AP 2), Revolver (12 rounds), Frag Grenade Manufacturer Supplied Attire (AP 1),
08
08 Dress Uniform (AP 1), Revolver (1 round), Challenge Coin Jump-9 Ticket (destination blank)
Advanced Battle Dress (AP 10), General-Purpose Machine Corporate Attire (AP 1),
09 09
Gun (1 Can of ammo), HUD VIP Corporate Key Card
SCIENTIST LOADOUTS TEAMSTER LOADOUTS

D10 LOADOUT D10 LOADOUT
Hazard Suit (AP 5), Tranq Pistol (3 shots), Vaccsuit (AP 3), Laser Cutter (1 extra battery),
00 00
Bioscanner, Sample Collection Kit Patch Kit (x3), Toolbelt with Assorted Tools
Hazard Suit (AP 5), Flamethrower (1 charge), Vaccsuit (AP 3), Revolver (6 rounds),
01 01
Stimpak, Electronic Tool Set Crowbar, Flashlight
Vaccsuit (AP 3), Rigging Gun, Sample Collection Kit, 02 Vaccsuit (AP 3), Rigging Gun (1 shot), Shovel, Salvage Drone
02
Flashlight, Lab Rat (pet) Hazard Suit (AP 5), Vibechete, Spanner,
03
Vaccsuit (AP 3), Foam Gun (2 charges), Foldable Stretcher, Camping Gear, Water Filtration Device
03
First Aid Kit, Radiation Pills (x5) Heavy Duty Work Clothes (AP 2), Explosives & Detonator,
04
Lab Coat (AP 1), Screwdriver (as Assorted Tools), Cigarettes
04
Medscanner, Vaccine (1 dose) Heavy Duty Work Clothes (AP 2), Drill (as Assorted Tools),
05
Lab Coat (AP 1), Cybernetic Diagnostic Scanner, Paracord (100m), Salvage Drone
05
Portable Computer Terminal Standard Crew Attire (AP 1),
06
Scrubs (AP 1), Scalpel, Automed (x5), Combat Shotgun (4 rounds), Extension Cord (20m), Cat (pet)
06
Oxygen Tank with Filter Mask Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Nail Gun (32 rounds), Head
07
07 Scrubs (AP 1), Vial of Acid, Mylar Blanket, First Aid Kit Lamp, Toolbelt with Assorted Tools, Lunch Box
Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Utility Knife (as Scalpel), Standard Crew Attire (AP 1), Flare Gun (2 rounds), Water
08 08
Cybernetic Diagnostic Scanner, Duct Tape Filtration Device, Personal Locator, Subsurface Scanner
Civilian Clothes (AP 1), Briefcase, Prescription Pad, Lounge Wear (AP 1),
09 09
Fountain Pen (Poison Injector) Crowbar, Stimpak, Six Pack of Beer

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TRINKETS
Roll on this table during character creation to find

a random Trinket. May it bring you good luck out
there in the void, or at least give you something to
talk about on your next Shore Leave.
D100 TRINKETS
Manual: Pendant: Shell Fragments Coffee Cup, Chipped, reads:
00 34 67 HAPPINESS
PANIC: Harbinger of Catastrophe Suspended in Plastic IS MANDATORY
Antique Company Scrip Pamphlet: Zen and the Art of Manual: Moonshining
01 35 68
(Asteroid Mine) Cargo Arrangement With Gun Oil & Fuel
Manual: Pair of Shot Glasses Miniature Chess Set,
02 36 69
SURVIVAL: Eat Soup With a Knife (Spent Shotgun Shells) Bone, Pieces Missing
03 Desiccated Husk Doll 37 Key (Childhood Home) 70 Gyroscope, Bent, Tin
04 Pressed Alien Flower (common) 38 Dog Tags (Heirloom) 71 Faded Green Poker Chip
05 Necklace of Shell Casings 39 Token: “Is Your Morale Improving?” 72 Ukulele
06 Corroded Android Logic Core 40 Pamphlet: The Relic of Flesh 73 Spray Paint
07 Pamphlet: Signs of Parasitical Infection 41 Pamphlet: The Indifferent Stars 74 Wanted Poster, Weathered
08 Manual: Treat Your Rifle Like A Lady 42 Calendar: Military Battles 75 Locket, Hair Braid
09 Bone Knife 43 Manual: Rich Captain, Poor Captain 76 Sculpture of a Rat (Gold)
10 Calendar: Alien Pin-Up Art 44 Campaign Poster (Home Planet) 77 Blanket, Fire Retardant
11 Rejected Application (Colony Ship) 45 Preserved Insectile Aberration 78 Hooded Parka, Fleece-Lined
12 Holographic Serpentine Dancer 46 Titanium Toothpick 79 BB Gun
13 Snake Whiskey 47 Gloves, Leather (Xenomorph Hide) 80 Flint Hatchet
14 Medical Container, Purple Powder 48 Smut (Seditious): The Captain, Ordered 81 Pendant: Two Astronauts form a Skull
15 Pills: Male Enhancement, Shoddy 49 Towel, Slightly Frayed 82 Rubik's Cube
16 Casino Playing Cards 50 Brass Knuckles 83 Stress Ball, reads: Zero Stress in Zero G
17 Lagomorph Foot 51 Fuzzy Handcuffs 84 Sputnik Pin
18 Moonstone Ring 52 Journal of Grudges 85 Ushanka
19 Manual: Mining Safety and You 53 Stylized Cigarette Case 86 Trucker Cap, Mesh, Grey Alien Logo
20 Pamphlet: Against Human Simulacra 54 Ball of Assorted Gauge Wire 87 Menthol Balm
21 Animal Skull, 3 Eyes, Curled Horns 55 Spanner 88 Pith Helmet
22 Bartender’s Certification (Expired) 56 Switchblade, Ornamental 89 10m x 10m Tarp
23 Bunraku Puppet 57 Powdered Xenomorph Horn 90 I Ching, Missing Sticks
24 Prospecting Mug, Dented 58 Bonsai Tree, Potted 91 Kukri
25 Eerie Mask 59 Golf Club (Putter) 92 Trench Shovel
26 Ultrablack Marble 60 Trilobite Fossil 93 Shiv, Sharpened Butter Knife
27 Ivory Dice 61 Pamphlet: A Lover In Every Port 94 Taxidermied Cat
28 Tarot Cards, Worn, Pyrite Gilded Edges 62 Patched Overalls, Personalized 95 Pamphlet: Interpreting Sheep Dreams
29 Bag of Assorted Teeth 63 Fleshy Thing Sealed in a Murky Jar 96 Faded Photograph, A Windswept Heath
30 Ashes (A Relative) 64 Spiked Bracelet 97 Opera Glasses
31 DNR Beacon Necklace 65 Harmonica 98 Pamphlet: Android Overlords
32 Cigarettes (Grinning Skull) Pictorial Pornography, Dog-eared, Interstellar Compass,
66 99
33 Pills: Areca Nut Well-thumbed Always Points to Homeworld

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PATCHES
Roll on this table during character creation to find

a Patch that you have sewn on your clothing or
gear. Whether this patch has significant meaning
or not is entirely up to you.
D100 PATCHES
00 “I’m Not A Rocket Scientist / 34 “I Like My Tools Clean / 67 “All Out of Fucks To Give”
But You’re An Idiot” And My Lovers Dirty” (Astronaut with Turned Out Pockets)
01 Medic Patch 35 “The Louder You Scream the Faster I 68 “Travel To Distant Places /
(Skull and Crossbones over Cross) Come” (Nurse Pin-Up) Meet Unusual Things / Get Eaten”
02 “Don’t Run You’ll Only Die Tired” 36 HMFIC 69 BOHICA
Backpatch (Head Mother Fucker In Charge) (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
03 Red Shirt Logo 37 Dove in Crosshairs 70 “I Am My Brother’s Keeper”
04 Blood Type (Reference Patch) 38 Chibi Cthulhu 71 “Mama Tried”
05 “Do I LOOK Like An Expert?” 39 “Welcome to the DANGER ZONE” 72 Black Widow Spider
06 Biohazard Symbol 40 Skull and Crossed Wrenches 73 “My Other Ride Married You”
07 Mr. Yuck 41 Pin-Up Model (Succubus) 74 “One Size Fits All” (Grenade)
08 Nuclear Symbol 42 “DILLIGAF?” 75 Grim Reaper Backpatch
09 “Eat The Rich” 43 “DRINK / FIGHT / FUCK” 76 отъебись (“Fuck Off,” Russian)
10 “Be Sure: Doubletap” 44 “Work Hard / Party Harder” 77 “Smooth Operator”
11 Flame Emoji 45 Mudflap Girl 78 Atom Symbol
12 Smiley Face (Glow in the Dark) 46 Fun Meter (reads: Bad Time) 79 “For Science!”
13 “Smile: Big Brother is Watching” 47 “GAME OVER” (Bride & Groom) 80 “Actually, I AM A Rocket Scientist”
14 Jolly Roger 48 Heart 81 “Help Wanted”
15 Viking Skull 49 “IMPROVE / ADAPT / OVERCOME” 82 Princess
16 “APEX PREDATOR” (Sabertooth Skull) 50 “SUCK IT UP” 83 “NOMAD”
17 Pin-Up Model (Ace of Spades) 51 “Cowboy Up” (Crossed Revolvers) 84 “GOOD BOY”
18 Queen of Hearts 52 “Troubleshooter” 85 Dice (Snake Eyes)
19 Security Guard 53 NASA Logo 86 “#1 Worker”
20 “LONER” 54 Crossed Hammers with Wings 87 “Good” (Brain)
21 “Front Towards Enemy” (Claymore Mine) 55 “Keep Well Lubricated” 88 “Bad Bitch”
22 Pin-Up Model (Riding Missile) 56 Soviet Hammer & Sickle 89 “Too Pretty To Die”
23 FUBAR 57 “Plays Well With Others” 90 “Fuck Forever” (Roses)
24 “I’m A (Love) Machine” 58 “Live Free and Die” 91 Icarus
25 Pin-Up Model (Mechanic) 59 “IF I’M RUNNING KEEP UP” Backpatch 92 ”Girl’s Best Friend” (Diamond)
26 “HELLO MY NAME IS:” 60 “Meat Bag” 93 Risk of Electrocution Symbol
27 “Powered By Coffee” 61 “I Am Not A Robot” 94 Inverted Cross
28 “Take Me To Your Leader” (UFO) 62 Red Gear 95 “Do You Sign My Paychecks?” Backpatch
29 “DO YOUR JOB” 63 “I Can’t Fix Stupid” 96 “I ♥ Myself”
30 “Take My Life (Please)” 64 “Space IS My Home” (Sad Astronaut) 97 Double Cherry
31 “Upstanding Citizen” 65 All Seeing Eye 98 “Volunteer”
32 “Allergic To Bullshit” (Medical Style Patch) 66 “Solve Et Coagula” (Baphomet) Poker Hand: Dead Man’s Hand*
99
33 “Fix Me First” (Caduceus) *Aces Full Of Eights

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EQUIPMENT
Oftentimes the difference between life and death is having the right tools for the job at hand. Below is a
non-comprehensive list of the kinds of gear and tools available to characters at the start of the game.
ITEM COST DESCRIPTION

Assorted Tools 20cr Wrenches, spanners, screwdrivers, etc. Can be used as weapons in a pinch (1d5 DMG).
Nanotech pills that assist your body in repairing Damage by granting Advantage to Body Saves meant to repel
Automed (x5) 1.5kcr
disease and poison, as well as attempts to heal from rest.
Heavy duty battery used for powering laser cutters, salvage drones, and other items. Can be recharged in
Battery (High Power) 500cr
1 hour if connected to power or in 6 hours with solar power. Add waterproofing (+500cr).
Binoculars 150cr 20x magnification. Add night vision (+300cr) or thermal vision (+1kcr).
Long Range. Allows the user to scan for signs of life. Can tell the location of signs of life, but not what that life
Bioscanner 3kcr
is. Blocked by some materials at the Warden’s discretion.
A camera worn on your clothing that can stream video back to a control center so your other crewmembers can
Body Cam 50cr
see what you’re seeing. Add night vision (+300cr) or thermal vision (+1kcr).
Chemlight (x5) 5cr Small disposable glowsticks capable of dim illumination in a 1m radius.
Crowbar 25cr Grants Advantage on Strength Checks to open jammed airlocks, lift heavy objects, etc.
Cybernetic Diagnostic Allows the user to scan androids and other cybernetic organisms in order to diagnose any physical or mental
2kcr
Scanner issues they may be having. Often distrusted by androids.
Electronic Tool Set 100cr A full set of tools for doing detailed repair or construction work on electronics.
A small device that sends up a flare and then emits a loud beep every few seconds. Additionally, sends out a
Emergency Beacon 2kcr call on all radio channels to ships or vehicles in the area, but can be blocked by a radio jammer.
Open-air mechanical exoskeleton used for heavy lifting (up to 5000kg). Loader claws deal 1 Wound. User can
Exoloader 100kcr only wear Standard Crew Attire or Standard Battle Dress while operating. Battery operated (48 hours of use).
Explosives & Explosive charge powerful enough to blow open an airlock. All organisms in Close Range must make a Body
500cr
Detonator Save or take a Wound (Explosive). Detonator works at Long Range, but can be blocked by a radio jammer.
First Aid Kit 75cr An assortment of dressings and treatments to help stop bleeding, bandage cuts, and treat other minor injuries.
Flashlight 30cr Handheld or shoulder mounted. Illuminates 10m ahead of the user.
Portable stretcher that can fit within a rucksack. Allows the user to safely strap down the patient and carry
Foldable Stretcher 150cr them to a location where their wounds can be better treated. Unfolds to roughly 2m.
Geiger Counter 20cr Detects radiation and displays radiation levels.
Heads-Up Display Often worn by marines, the HUD allows the wearer to see through the body cams of others in their unit, and
100cr
(HUD) connect to any smart-link upgraded weapon.
Infrared Goggles 1.5kcr Allows the wearer to see heat signatures, sometimes up to several hours old. Add night vision (+300cr).
Allows wearer to fly up to 100m high and up to a speed of 100km/hr for 2 hours on a tank of fuel. Deals
Jetpack 75kcr
1d100[+] DMG if destroyed. Fuel can be refilled for 200cr.
Lockpick Set 40cr A highly advanced set of tools meant for hacking basic airlock and electronic door systems.
Long-range Comms 1kcr Rucksack-sized communication device for use in surface-to-ship communication.
Grants a magnetic grip to the wearer, allowing them to easily walk on the exterior of a ship (in space, while
Mag-boots 350cr docked, or free-floating), metal-based asteroids, or any other magnetic surface.
Allows the user to scan a living or dead body to analyze it for disease or abnormalities, without having to do a
Medscanner 8kcr
biopsy or autopsy. Results may not be instantaneous and may require a lab for complete analysis.
MoHab Unit 1kcr Tent, canteen, stove, rucksack, compass, and sleeping bag.
“Meal, Ready-to-Eat.” Self-contained, individual field rations in lightweight packaging. Each has sufficient
MRE (x7) 70cr sustenance for a single person for one day (does not include water).
Lightweight blanket made of heat-reflective material. Often used for thermal regulation of patients suffering
Mylar Blanket 10cr
from extreme cold or other trauma.

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EQUIPMENT
ITEM COST DESCRIPTION

When attached to a vaccsuit provides up to 12 hours of oxygen under normal circumstances, 4 hours under
Oxygen Tank 50cr
stressful circumstances. Explosive.
Paracord (50m) 10cr General purpose lightweight nylon rope.
Patch Kit (x3) 200cr Repairs punctured and torn vaccsuits, restoring their space readiness. Patched vaccsuits have an AP of 1.
Personal Locator 200cr Allows crewmembers at a control center (or on the bridge of a ship) to track the location of the wearer.
Pet (Organic) 200kcr Small to medium-sized organic pet animal. Larger or rare pets cost 2d10x base pet cost.
Pet (Synthetic) 15kcr Small to medium-sized synthetic pet animal. Larger or rare pets cost 2d10x base pet cost.
Portable Computer Flat computer monitor, keyboard and interface which allows the user to hack into pre-existing computers and
1.5kcr
Terminal networks, as well as perform standard computer tasks.
Radiation Pills (x5) 200cr Take 1d5 DMG and reduce your Radiation Level (see pg. 33.2) by 1 for 2d10 minutes.
Radio Jammer 4kcr Rucksack-sized device which, when activated, renders all radio signals within 100km incomprehensible.
When worn, filters toxic air and/or allows for underwater breathing for up to 20 minutes at a time without
Rebreather 500cr
resurfacing. Can be connected to an oxygen tank.
Rucksack 50cr Large, durable, waterproof backpack.
Battery operated remote controlled drone. Requires two hands to operate receiver. Can fly up to 450m
high, to a distance of 3km from operator. Can run for 2 hours. Can record and transmit footage to receiver. If
Salvage Drone 10kcr purchased separately, can be equipped with up to two of the following: binoculars, radio jammer, Geiger
counter, laser cutter, medscanner, personal locator, infrared goggles, emergency beacon,
cybernetic diagnostic scanner, bioscanner. Can carry up to 20-30kg.
Used to research xenoflora and xenofauna in the field. Can take vital signs, DNA samples ,and collect other
Sample Collection Kit 50cr
data on foreign material. Results may not be instantaneous and may require a lab for complete analysis.
Allows communication from ship-to-ship within a reasonable distance, as well as surface-to-surface within a
Short-range Comms 100cr
dozen kilometers. Blocked by radio jammer.
Smart-link Add-On 10kcr Grants remote viewing, recording, and operation of a ranged weapon as well as +5 DMG to the weapon.
1kcr Cures cryosickness, reduces Stress by 1, restores 1d10 Health, and grants [+] to all rolls for 1d10 min. Roll
Stimpak ea. 1d10. If you roll under the amount of doses you’ve taken in the past 24 hours, make a Death Save.
Water Filtration Device 50cr Can pump 4 liters of filtered water per hour from even the most brackish swamps.
11.1 PETS
11.2 CARRYING CAPACITY
Pets can be great companions, but failure to
protect them comes at a significant emotional cost. Use common sense to determine what you
can reasonably carry. For reference:
PETS
• The average person can carry about 1/4
ORGANIC SYNTHETIC
their body weight.
Wounds: 1(10) Wounds: 2(15) • The average marine is expected to carry
Instinct: 2d10+40 Instinct: 2d10+30 between 90-160lbs in combat.
1 Trained Skill. 2 Trained Skills or 1 Expert Skill. • Depending on the setting, androids may
[+] on Rest Saves. +5 to Rest Saves. be built to carry 1-5x that amount.
1 Stress whenever pet takes Sanity Save or 1 Stress whenever When in doubt, characters can carry one
Damage. pet takes Damage. light thing in each hand or one heavy thing
with both hands.
Panic Check if pet is killed.
1 Stress if pet is destroyed.
Minimum Stress +1.

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FIREARMS
SK 109 SEEKER SMART RIFLE 5KCR

RANGE Extreme Range
F20 “ARBITER” PULSE RIFLE 2.4KCR DAMAGE 4d10 DMG (Anti-Armor)
SHOTS 3
RANGE Long Range
WOUND Gunshot[+]
DAMAGE 3d10 DMG
SPECIAL [-] on Combat Check when fired at
SHOTS 5
Close Range.
WOUND Gunshot
SPECIAL
KANO X9 COMBAT SHOTGUN 1.4KCR

RANGE Close Range
DAMAGE 4d10 DMG
SHOTS 4
WOUND Gunshot
SPECIAL 1d10 DMG at Long Range or greater.
ARMA 29 SUBMACHINE GUN 1KCR
RANGE Long Range
DAMAGE 2d10 DMG
SHOTS 5
WOUND Gunshot
SPECIAL Can be fired one-handed.
PEABODY FLARE GUN 25CR D&C 7 TRANQ PISTOL 250CR

FN SLUG REVOLVER 750CR RANGE Long Range RANGE Close Range
RANGE Close Range DAMAGE 1d5 DMG DAMAGE 1d5 DMG
DAMAGE 1d10+1 DMG SHOTS 2 SHOTS 6
SHOTS 6 WOUND Fire/Explosives[-] WOUND Blunt Force
WOUND Gunshot SPECIAL High intensity flare. SPECIAL If DMG: Body Save or
SPECIAL Visible day and night. 1d10 rounds unconscious.

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INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT
HAN290 RIGGING GUN 350CR

RANGE Close Range
DAMAGE 1d10 DMG + 2d10 DMG when removed.
SHOTS 1
MNC MODE A LASER CUTTER 1.2KCR
WOUND Bleeding[+]
RANGE Long Range
SPECIAL 100m micro-filament. Body Save or
DAMAGE 1d100 DMG
become entangled.
SHOTS 6
WOUND Bleeding[+] or Gore[+]
SPECIAL Two handed. Heavy. 1 round
recharge between shots.
RAMHORN 1 FLAMETHROWER 4KCR

RANGE Close Range
DAMAGE 2d10 DMG
SHOTS 4
WOUND Fire/Explosives[+]
ROSCO SS6 NAIL GUN 150CR SPECIAL Body Save [-] or be set on fire
RANGE Close Range (2d10 DMG / round).
DAMAGE 1d5 DMG
SHOTS 32
WOUND Bleeding
SPECIAL
EVA MK II HAND WELDER 250CR

RANGE Adjacent
DAMAGE 1d10 DMG
SHOTS ∞
WOUND Bleeding
SPECIAL Can cut through airlock doors.
HALLS B SERIES FOAM GUN 500CR

RANGE Close Range (1sqm quick-hardening foam)
DAMAGE 1 DMG
SHOTS 3
WOUND Blunt Force
SPECIAL Body Save or become stuck. Strength Check [-] to escape.

14 HEADLAMP
ARMOR
BODY CAM
HEADS-UP SHORT-RANGE COMMS

DISPLAY
RADIATION
SHIELDING
RADIATION AIR FILTER

SHIELDING Allows breathing in most toxic
environments and atmospheres.
OXYGEN SUPPLY
Stores up to 1 hour of O2.
HYDRO RECLAMATION
1 liter of water lasts for 4 days.
EXOSKELETAL WEAVE
Grants [+] to Strength Checks. AAVA TECH V-PATH 2 HAZARD SUIT
ARMOR POINTS 5 Designed for planetary
exploration and examination.
ARMADYNE “HEAVY-K” ADVANCED BATTLE DRESS

ARMOR POINTS 10 Combat heavy attire for offworld engagements.
Heavy: Speed Checks at [-]. Damage Reduction: 3.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Protects against extreme heat and cold.

SHORT-RANGE COMMS 15
ARMOR
HEADLAMP X2
SHORT-RANGE COMMS
OXYGEN SUPPLY
Can be fitted with an Oxygen Tank for up
12 hours of oxygen under normal
circumstances, 4 hours under stressful
circumstances. Explosive.
STANDARD CREW ATTIRE

AAVA TECHNOLOGY
ARMOR POINTS 1 Coveralls and
leather jackets. Basic clothing assumed
to be worn by all crew members.
CARTER TACTICAL STANDARD BATTLE DRESS

ARMOR POINTS 7 Light plated armor. Standard dress for
all marines or combat mercenaries.
VALECORE MK2 VACCSUIT

ARMOR POINTS 3 Basic suit worn
while operating in space.
Heavy: Speed Checks at [-].

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SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
16.1 HOW TO BE A GREAT PLAYER
Mothership can be a very challenging game. You should expect:
• Characters to die. Play smart. Make the most of your time.

• Violence to be punishing. If you’re fighting, you’re losing.
Violence is deadly, and should be avoided at all costs.
• The odds to be stacked against you. Rolls are punishing
in Mothership. Find ways to stack the odds in your favor.
• To make difficult choices. Surviving the ordeal, solving
the mystery, or saving the day are often mutually exclusive.
• To pay attention. Stay focused and plug into the fictional
world. It helps you and everyone else get into the spirit of
the game and have a more immersive experience.
• A safe play environment. This is a horror game, and it can
deal with many uncomfortable topics. It’s your responsibility
to make sure you’re not making anyone at the table
uncomfortable with your words and actions (both in and out
of character), and to speak up if you feel uncomfortable or if
you notice anyone else might be uncomfortable.

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HOW TO PLAY
Mothership® is a tabletop roleplaying game. You With these basics in mind, you’re ready to handle
and your friends get together, and one of you, the 90% of the situations that come up in a game. For
Warden, prepares a scenario for the rest of you to everything else, you, the Warden, and the other
explore and interact with. You ask questions, roll players will discuss the situation and come up with
some dice, make some jokes, and die a few times. a House Rule to suit the table’s specific needs.
The rules are simple, but the game is challenging:
With that being said, you can close this book and
• You can attempt to do anything you want, start playing right now! There’s even a handy
and are not limited by what is on your character cheat sheet on the back cover if you forget
sheet. Most things you want to do just happen. something. If you’d like a little more information
• You should ask a lot of questions. The more about how it all works, read on.
information you have, the less likely you’ll have
to make risky rolls like Stat Checks and Saves.
• Stat Checks are made when you want to do
something and the price for failure is high. 17.1 DICE NOTATION
• Saves are reactions, rolled to avoid different
mental, emotional, and physical dangers. There are three ways we notate dice:
Read more about Stat Checks & Saves on pg. 18. • 1d100 means to roll a pair of ten-sided
dice, where one die represents the tens
• When you fail a Stat Check or a Save your digit and the other represents the ones
character gains 1 or more Stress. Stress can digit. For example: if you roll a 90 and a
be bad, as it makes characters more likely to 9 that equals 99. If you roll a 00 and a 0,
Panic, but is also needed to improve Saves. that equals a zero.
• Panic Checks are rolled when the worst has • xd10 means to roll a number of ten-sided
happened and your character snaps. A bad dice (e.g., 1d10, 2d10) and add them
result can lead to a long-term Condition that together.
needs treatment, but a good result can provide • We use a twenty-sided die (1d20) called
focus when it is needed the most. the Panic Die. You use this only to make
Panic Checks.
Read more about Stress & Panic on pg. 20-21. • If you see [+] next to a roll it means the roll
has Advantage while [-] means the roll
• When characters get hurt they lose Health. If has Disadvantage.
they lose enough Health they suffer a Wound.
If they gain Wounds equal to their maximum Read more about Advantage &
they die. Disadvantage on pg. 19.1.
Read more about Violent Encounters on pg. 26.
Player Supplies Checklist

Once you’ve collected all of these items and built
your character, you’re ready to play!
MOTHERSHIP ®
CHARACTER
PROFIL E
Character PERSONAL Player Name 7. NOTE CLASS
Name DETAILS
High Score SKILLS AND
1. ROLL 2D10+25 To take a CHOOSE
Master or
Expert Skill you BONUS SKILLS.
Pronouns FOR EACH MARINE must first
take at least
STAT. Military Training, ANDROID
one of its
prerequisite
Skills.
Bonus: 1 Athletics
Expert Skill Linguistics, SCIENTIST
OR: 2 Trained Computers,
Skills Mathematics
Personal 1 Master
Skill, and
TEAMSTER
Notes Bonus: 1
Expert Skill Expert and an
STRENGTH OR: 2 Trained Trained Skill Industrial
SPEED Skills prerequisite.
Zero-G
Equipment,
INTELLECT Bonus: 1
Trained Skill
COMBAT Bonus: 1
Trained Skill
and 1 Expert
Skill.
2. ROLL 2D10+10 TRAINED
(+10 BONUS) SKILLS
FOR EACH EXPERT SKILLS
SAVE. (+15 BONUS)
MASTER
(+20 BONUS)SKILLS
LINGUISTICS
SANITY
1d100 (or 2d10)

PSYCHOLOGY
3. SELECT FEAR ZOOLOGY
YOUR CLASS. BODY
SOPHONTOLO
MARINE Adjust your PATHOLOGY GY
starting STATS
+10 COMBAT ANDROID & SAVES. EXOBIOLOGY
FIELD
+20 INTELLECT SCIENTIST MEDICINE
+10 BODY BOTANY
SAVE TEAMSTER
-10 TO 1 +10 INTELLECT SURGERY
+20 FEAR STAT
SAVE +5 TO ALL ECOLOGY
+60 FEAR +5 TO 1 STAT STATS GEOLOGY
+1 MAX WOUNDS SAVE
+30 SANITY +10 TO ALL PLANETOLOGY
+1 MAX WOUNDS SAVE SAVES ASTEROID
”Percentile Dice”
INDUSTRIAL MINING
EQUIPMENT
4. ROLL 1D10+10 MECHANICAL ROBOTICS
FOR YOUR JURY-RIGGING REPAIR

HEALTH. ENGINEERING
HEALTH
You start 5. GAIN CHEMISTRY
EXPLOSIVES
WOUNDS at your
Maximum
Wounds.
Health with STRESS. PHARMACOLO
CYBERNETICS
Whenever zero COMPUTERS GY
Health falls your
Current you suffer below zero, STRESS
Maximum a Wound. HACKING
Current your Health Reset ZERO-G
Maximum Maximum, to its
Starts at minus any ARTIFICIAL
2. carryover INTELLIGENCE
damage. Current PILOTING
6. TAKE NOTE Minimum
Starts at
MATHEMATICS
OF YOUR 2.
MARINE CLASS’S TRAUMA PHYSICS
GUIDE
ART
WHENEVER
RESPONS
SURVIVAL
YOU PANIC,
ANDROID EVERY CLOSE E. HYPERSPACE
PLAYER’S
FEAR SAVES FRIENDLY MYSTICISM
MADE BY PLAYER MUST ARCHAEOLOGY
SCIENTIST CLOSE FRIENDLY MAKE A
WHENEVER PLAYERS FEAR SAVE. XENOESOTERIC
YOU FAIL ARE AT DISADVANTAG ISM
TEAMSTER A SANITY
ONCE PER SAVE, ALL E. THEOLOGY
SESSION, CLOSE FRIENDLY
YOU MAY PLAYERS
TAKE ADVANTAGE GAIN 1 STRESS.
WILDERNESS
8. ROLL FOR ON A PANIC
CHECK.
MILITARY SURVIVAL
YOUR EQUIPME TRAINING
NT LOADOUT FIREARMS
, TRINKET RIMWISE
pg. 7
pg. 8
& PATCH. COMMAND
pg. 9 HAND-TO-HAN
ATHLETICS COMBAT D
ARMOR POINTS SKILL TRAINING
In Progress
The Player’s 1d20 Pen & Paper

Time Remaining
CREDITS
2D10X10 CONDITIONS
Survival Guide “The Panic Die”

Your Character Sheet Some tokens (optional) Snacks
(And a spare is handy in case your character dies) for tracking ammo, supplies, etc. (Bring some to share!)

18
STAT CHECKS & SAVES
18.1 STAT CHECKS 18.2 SAVES
Whenever you want to do something and the price In order to avoid certain dangers or trauma, you
for failure is high, roll 1d100 and attempt to roll sometimes need to roll 1d100 lower than your
lower than your most relevant Stat. This is called most relevant Save. This is called a Save. If
a Stat Check. If you roll less than your Stat you you roll less than your Save you succeed.
succeed. Otherwise, you fail and gain 1 Stress. Otherwise you fail, and gain 1 Stress. A roll of
A roll of 90-99 is always a failure. 90-99 is always a failure.
Your Stats Your Saves

You have four main Stats which represent your You have three Saves which represent your ability
abilities when acting under extreme pressure: to withstand different kinds of trauma:
• Strength: Holding airlocks closed, carrying • Sanity: Rationalize logical inconsistencies in

fallen comrades, climbing, pushing, jumping. the universe, make sense out of chaos, detect
• Speed: Getting out of the cargo bay before the illusions and mimicry, cope with Stress.
blast doors close, acting before someone (or • Fear: Maintain a level head while struggling
something) else, running away. with fear, loneliness, depression, and other
• Intellect: Recalling your training and emotional surges.
experience under duress, thinking through • Body: Employ quick reflexes and resist hunger,
difficult problems, inventing or fixing things. disease, or organisms that might try and invade
• Combat: Fighting for your life. your insides.
18.3 WHAT IS YOUR HIGH SCORE?
High Score is a record of the number of sessions your character has survived. It doesn’t affect
gameplay at all, it’s just a fun number to track. Your Warden may have other ideas on how to use it
in game (like as a Reputation stat, or as a spendable luck resource). Don’t stress about your High
Score too much—the average High Score of a character is about 4. Just focus on staying alive and
you’ll beat that in no time.

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MODIFYING STAT CHECKS & SAVES
19.1 MODIFYING STAT CHECKS & SAVES

Calling for a Check
There are three things that can modify the outcome of a Stat Check WARDEN: Okay, so you hear
or Save: Advantage & Disadvantage, Critical Successes & that screeching sound
Failures, and Skills. coming from down the
corridor, what do you do?
Advantage & Disadvantage CLEO: Can I open up the
Whenever you are making a roll of any kind (Stat Check, Save, airlock door quietly and
Panic Check, Damage, etc.) and the character has a situational try and sneak out before it
advantage (like assistance from someone else), roll twice and notices me?
take the best result. When at a situational disadvantage (like WARDEN: It’s jammed
poor weather or bad visibility), roll twice and take the worst result. up pretty bad right now.
Advantage is notated with [+], Disadvantage with [-] (e.g., Body You’ll need to make a
Save [+] means make a Body Save with Advantage). If a character Strength Check. Failure
has both Advantage and Disadvantage, they cancel each other out. risks making a lot of noise
and drawing the creature’s
Critical Successes & Failures attention.
Whenever you roll doubles (e.g., 00, 66) on a Stat Check or CLEO: I’ve got the Industrial
Save, you have rolled a Critical. If the roll is a success, it is now Equipment Skill and a
a Critical Success and something very good happens. If it is a crowbar, does that help?
failure, it is now a Critical Failure and something bad happens, and WARDEN: Definitely! You
furthermore you must make a Panic Check. A roll of 00 is always a can add your Skill’s bonus,
Critical Success and a roll of 99 is always a Critical Failure. and the crowbar will give
you Advantage on your roll.
Read more about Panic Checks on pg. 21. CLEO: Okay, I’m going for
it! I’ve got a 35 Strength,
Skills plus 10 from Industrial
If a character has a Skill that is relevant to the task at hand, you Equipment. So anything
can add the Skill’s bonus to the Stat or Save before making your roll under 45, right?
(giving you a higher number to roll under). WARDEN: That’s right.
CLEO: 66... and... 43...
Read more about Skills on pg. 22. Phew! Just made it.

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STRESS
The unknown horrors of the cosmos and the vast

emptiness of space take a toll on a person. Stress
is a measure of that toll, and how it subtly affects
you, bringing you closer to the brink of Panic.
While Stress by itself doesn’t do anything, the
higher your Stress is, the more likely you are
to Panic, and the more Stress you have when you
Panic, the worse your Panic is likely to be.
20.1 HOW DO I GAIN STRESS?
You gain 1 Stress every time you fail a Stat

Check or Save. Occasionally, certain locations
or entities can automatically give you Stress from
interacting with or witnessing them. Your Minimum
Stress starts at 2, and based on events that
happen in game, such as certain Panic Check
results, it can be increased or decreased. The
maximum Stress you can have is 20. Any
Stress you take over 20 instead reduces the most
relevant Stat or Save by that amount.
20.2 HOW DO I RELIEVE STRESS?

Example: Back at the Barracks
You can relieve Stress by resting in a relatively WARDEN: Alright, you finally make it back to
safe place. To do this, make a Rest Save using the ship and lock yourselves in. You can rest
your worst Save. If you succeed, reduce your now if you want.
Stress by the ones digit rolled (e.g., if you rolled KNOX: I’ve got 12 Stress, so my boy is going
24 under your worst Save of 30, reduce your to rest. He can’t go on like this.
Stress by 4). If you fail, you gain 1 Stress instead. WARDEN: No problem. The barracks is pretty
spartan, but not too bad, so just roll whatever
Players can gain Advantage on their Rest Save by your worst Save is.
participating in consensual sex, recreational drug KNOX: Cleo, you have Psychology, right? Any
use, a night of heavy drinking, prayer, or any other chance you’d be willing to like, talk to my guy
suitable leisure activity. Unsafe locations may incur and calm him down a bit?
Disadvantage on Rest Saves at the Warden’s CLEO: I’ve only got 3 Stress, so I’m down.
discretion. Stress is typically not relieved during WARDEN: If you’re willing to give up your rest,
cryosleep. Finally, if you have more time, you can I’ll give Knox Advantage on his Rest Save.
take Shore Leave and convert your Stress into CLEO: Let’s do it.
improved Saves. WARDEN: Perfect, so you’re like, venting
about all this to Cleo, and Cleo, you’re just
Read more about Shore Leave on pg. 39. talking him through it?
CLEO: Getting him not to spiral, yeah.
WARDEN: Okay, go ahead and roll.
KNOX: My worst Save is Sanity at 14. So I get
Sex a 22 and a 56. So that would be a Crit Fail,
Get everyone at the table’s consent before but with Advantage it’s just a normal fail.
dealing with sex in your game. Set clear CLEO: Jesus, that could’ve been bad.
boundaries for what is acceptable, and WARDEN: So yeah, sounds like talking it out
check in regularly in case anything changes. actually made it worse. Gain 1 Stress.
CLEO: I just texted people while he talked.

21
PANIC CHECKS
Stress, Damage, and emotional wear and tear PANIC

eventually bring characters to their breaking point.
D20 PANIC EFFECT
When that happens, there’s a chance they Panic.
You determine this by making a Panic Check. ADRENALINE RUSH. [+] on all rolls for the next 2d10
01
minutes. Reduce Stress by 1d5.
21.1 WHAT IS A PANIC CHECK? 02 NERVOUS. Gain 1 Stress.
JUMPY. Gain 1 Stress. All Close crewmembers
03
A Panic Check determines whether the character gain 2 Stress.
can keep their cool under extreme pressure. OVERWHELMED. [-] on all rolls for the next 1d10 minutes.
04
Increase Minimum Stress by 1.
To make a Panic Check, roll the Panic Die (1d20)
COWARD. Gain a new Condition: You must make a Fear
and attempt to roll greater than your current 05
Save to engage in violence, otherwise you flee.
Stress. If you roll less than or equal to your
FRIGHTENED. Gain a new Condition: When encountering
current Stress you fail, and you look up your result 06
what frightened you, make a Fear Save [-] or gain 1d5 Stress.
on the Panic Table.
NIGHTMARES. Gain a new Condition: Sleep is difficult,
07
21.2 WHEN TO MAKE PANIC CHECKS gain [-] on Rest Saves.
LOSS OF CONFIDENCE. Gain a new Condition: Choose
08
You must make a Panic Check anytime you one Skill and lose that Skill’s bonus.
roll a Critical Failure on a Stat Check or Save. DEFLATED. Gain a new Condition: Whenever a Close
09
Additionally, the Warden may call for a Panic crewmember fails a Save, gain 1 Stress.
Check at any other appropriate time, including, but DOOMED. Gain a new Condition: You feel cursed and
not limited to: 10
unlucky. All Critical Successes are instead Critical Failures.
SUSPICIOUS. For the next week, whenever someone joins
• Watching another crewmember die.
11 the crew (even if they only left for a short period of time),
• Witnessing more than 1 crewmember Panic at make a Fear Save or gain 1 Stress.
the same time.
• Whenever your Ship rolls a Critical Failure, HAUNTED. Gain a new Condition: Something starts visiting
everyone on board makes a Panic Check. 12 the character at night. In their dreams. Out of the corner of
• Encountering a strange and horrifying entity for their eye. And soon it will start making demands.
the first time. DEATH WISH. For the next 24 hours, whenever
• When all hope is lost and death feels certain. 13 encountering a stranger or known enemy, make a Sanity
• Whenever you, the player, want. Save or immediately attack them.
21.3 CONDITIONS PROPHETIC VISION. Character immediately experiences

14 an intense hallucination or vision of an impending terror or
horrific event. Increase Minimum Stress by 2.
Some results of the Panic Table are so severe that
they leave a lasting impression on you. These are CATATONIC. Become unresponsive and unmoving for 2d10
15
called Conditions, and they affect you until you minutes. Reduce Stress by 1d10.
are able to treat them. RAGE. [+] on all Damage rolls for the next 1d10 hours. All
16
crewmembers gain 1 Stress.
Read more about Medical Care on pg. 34.
17 SPIRALING. Gain a new Condition: Panic Checks are at [-].
COMPOUNDING PROBLEMS. Roll twice on this table.
18
Increase your Minimum Stress by 1.
Panic Checks & Agency HEART ATTACK / SHORT CIRCUIT (ANDROIDS).

Be sure to go over the Panic Table and 19 Reduce Maximum Wounds by 1. Gain [-] on all rolls for 1d10
hours. Increase Minimum Stress by 1.
remove any results that don’t fit with your
group. Remember: roleplaying Panic is
not an excuse to make someone else 20 RETIRE. Roll up a new character to play.
uncomfortable. As usual, check in regularly.

22
SKILLS
Skills represent the accumulated knowledge, craft,

techniques, and training a character possesses in
a certain field. Whenever you make a Stat Check
or Save and you have a relevant Skill, you add
your Skill Bonus to your Stat or Save, giving you
a higher number to roll under.
Each class starts with a few Skills, and characters

can acquire more through long-term study and
rigorous Skill Training.
Read more about Skill Training on pg. 24.
22.1 NO SKILL (+0) 22.2 TRAINED SKILLS (+10)
Just because you don’t have a Skill doesn’t mean You’ve received standard training in this area
you don’t know anything about the subject, and equivalent to a bachelor’s degree or on the job
it usually doesn’t mean you can’t at least make training for a couple years.
an attempt. What it means is that you don’t have
significant enough experience or expertise in the • Archaeology: Ancient cultures and artifacts.
matter to act decisively in high pressure situations. • Art: The expression or application of a species’
Therefore, you get no bonus, and depending creative ability and imagination.
on how complex the task is, you might roll with • Athletics: Physical fitness, sports, and games.
Disadvantage (or not be able to attempt it at all). • Botany: The study of plant life.
• Chemistry: The study of matter and its
Read more about Disadvantage on pg. 19.1. chemical elements and compounds.
• Computers: Fluent use of computers and their
networks.
Example: Outrunning the Meteorite • Geology: The study of the solid features of any
WARDEN: So you’re walking across the terrestrial planet or its satellites.
underbelly of the ship in your vaccsuit. You’ve • Industrial Equipment: The safe and proper
got magboots? use of heavy machinery and tools (exosuits,
PHIL: Yessir. forklifts, drills, breakers, laser cutters, etc.).
WARDEN: Okay, you hear this static in your • Jury-Rigging: Makeshift repair, using only the
comms and see a flare out of the corner of tools and materials at hand.
your eye. • Linguistics: The study of languages (alive,
PHIL: Uh, we’ve got a problem out here. Are dead, and undiscovered).
you guys seeing anything? • Mathematics: The study of numbers, quantity,
CLEO: Are we seeing anything? and space.
WARDEN: Your scanners start blaring and you • Military Training: Basic training provided to all
get a warning of a meteor shower impacting military personnel.
in ten seconds. • Rimwise: Practical knowledge and know-how
PHIL: Shit, I’m running. regarding outer Rim colonies, their customs,
WARDEN: You’re in magboots so it’s slow and the seedier parts of the galaxy.
going, especially in the vaccsuit. You can • Theology: The study of the divine or devotion
make a Speed Check at Disadvantage. to a religion.
PHIL: I’ve got Zero-G, would that help? • Zero-G: Practice and know-how of working in a
WARDEN: Absolutely, you can add ten to your vacuum, orientation, vaccsuit operation, etc.
stat. • Zoology: The study of animal life.
PHIL: My Speed is 36. Plus ten is 46. I roll a...
54 and 77. Fuck. Critical fail.

23
SKILLS
23.1 EXPERT SKILLS (+15) 23.2 MASTER SKILLS (+20)
You’ve received the equivalent of a doctorate or You are advanced in your field and are aware of
have many years of experience in this field. cutting edge techniques or highly specialized and
Expert Skills should generally be a subset or niche information. Due to their focus, Master Skills
specific focus of a Trained Skill. apply very narrowly compared to the broader
Trained Skills.
• Asteroid Mining: Training in the tools and
procedures used for mining asteroids. • Artificial Intelligence: The study of intelligence
• Ecology: The study of organisms and how they as demonstrated by machines.
relate to their environment. • Command: Leadership, management, and
• Explosives: Design and effective use of authority.
explosive devices (bombs, grenades, shells, • Cybernetics: The physical and neural
land mines, etc.). interfaces between organisms and machines.
• Field Medicine: Emergency medical care and • Engineering: The design, building, and use of
treatment. engines, machines, and structures.
• Firearms: Safe and effective use of guns. • Exobiology: The study of and search for
• Hacking: Unauthorized access to computer intelligent alien life.
systems and networks. • Hyperspace: Faster-than-light travel.
• Hand-to-Hand Combat: Melee fighting, • Planetology: Study of planets and other
brawling, martial arts, etc. celestial bodies.
• Mechanical Repair: Fixing broken machines. • Robotics: Design, maintenance, and operation
• Mysticism: Spiritual apprehension of hidden of robots, drones, and androids.
knowledge. • Sophontology: The study of the behavior and
• Pathology: Study of the causes and effects of mind of inhuman entities.
diseases. • Surgery: Manually operating on living or dead
• Pharmacology: Study of drugs and medication. biological subjects.
• Physics: Study of matter, motion, energy, and • Xenoesotericism: Obscure beliefs, mysticism,
their effects in space and time. and religion regarding non-human entities.
• Piloting: Operation and control of aircraft,
spacecraft, and other vehicles.
• Psychology: The study of behavior and the
human mind.
• Wilderness Survival: Applicable know-how
regarding the basic necessities of life (food,
water, shelter) in a natural environment.

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SKILL TRAINING
24.1 TRAIN A SKILL

Example: Skill Training
To learn a new Skill you need to spend the WARDEN: Okay, so after some paper shuffling
requisite amount of time and credits. and some mandatory safety training, the
Company is putting you back to work hauling
• Trained Skills: 2 years + 10kcr in materials. cargo from one end of the galaxy to another.
• Expert Skills: 4 years + 50kcr in materials. KNOX: Oh, thank god. I never thought I’d be
• Master Skills: 6 years + 200kcr in materials. so grateful to go back to my job...
WARDEN: Exactly. Is there anything you all
To train an Expert Skill requires one Trained Skill want to do in your off-time?
prerequisite and to train a Master Skill requires CLEO: I’m just training my Robotics Skill. I still
one Expert Skill prerequisite. have, ugh, forty-two months left to go.
KNOX: I think my guy actually wants to get out
Why does it take so long? of the Company life and get into the action
Skill Training assumes characters are working full more. Is there any way for him to like, take
time, going on missions, and generally living life. Military Training?
If studying full-time (e.g., by going to school), WARDEN: Yeah definitely, but it’s a six year
then training takes half as long. Your Warden contract, so you’d essentially roll up a new
may allow additional resources (private tutoring, character and put the other one aside until
AI assistance, cybermods, slickware, etc.) to time catches up and he gets out. Plus, he
decrease the time required. could die. Is that something you’re into?
KNOX: Oh, yeah, that sounds great actually.
WARDEN: Any of you can do that, by the way.
Like, park a character for some time and roll
someone else up. Just give me a heads up
so I have time to prep something for the new
characters.
CLEO: Oooh, that sounds fun!
WARDEN: For sure. Okay, Knox, your guy
finds a recruiter at a nearby station and
enlists. For everyone else, six months go by,
so you can mark that on your sheets.

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SKILL TRAINING
25.1 MILITARY TRAINING
Military Training is a special exception to the

regular rules of Skill Training for two reasons.
First, it is free. Second, characters must
sign a 6 year contract with the local Colonial
Marine regiment. To find out what happened
during their service, make a Combat Check:
• Success: Gain Military Training, Athletics,

and 2 Trained Skills. Gain +10 Combat,
and reduce another Stat by 10. Gain the
Marine’s Trauma Response.
• Critical Success: as Success, but you
may take an Expert Skill instead of the
2 Trained Skills.
• Failure: Gain Military Training, Athletics,
and 1 Trained Skill, and the Marine’s
Trauma Response.
• Critical Failure: You were killed in action.

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VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS
Violence in Mothership is incredibly dangerous,

and should be avoided at all costs. When all else
fails, this is how to resolve the encounter.
26.1 TURN ORDER
During a violent confrontation, time is split into

roughly 10 second intervals called rounds.
Everything within a round happens at basically the
same time.
The Warden describes the situation and what is

likely to happen if no response, then play goes
around the table and each player describes how
their characters react. As usual, feel free to ask
questions, and the Warden answers and explains
the likely consequences of failure.
Once you understand the stakes and what you

want to do, you commit to a course of action,
either individually or as a group. Once everyone
has done this, the Warden resolves everyone’s
actions at once, assigning any necessary Stat
Checks or Saves. Then everyone who has to, rolls.
After any Stat Checks and Saves are rolled, if

anyone is taking Damage or a Wound, those are
rolled. Finally, the Warden describes the new
situation, and the next round starts. This repeats
until the encounter is resolved.
26.2 SURPRISE
If there is a chance that characters are ambushed

or stunned by a horrific encounter, the Warden
calls for a Fear Save. Those who succeed are able
to react, those who fail are too shocked to react
until the next round.
Strict Turn Order

Some groups prefer a very strict turn
order. If this is the case for your group,
we recommend everyone make a Speed
Check at the start of the encounter. Those
who succeed go before the enemy hostiles,
and those who fail go after. If the situation
changes dramatically (e.g., if new hostiles
enter the encounter), Speed Checks can be
called for again.

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WHAT CAN I DO?
27.1 WHAT CAN I DO?

Example: The Thing That Was Phil
WARDEN: Okay, so the thing that used to Characters can generally move somewhere within
be Phil is galloping down the corridor. His Close Range and then do one thing before the
mouth is unzipping down his chest, into one situation changes.
giant maw. Cleo, it’s reaching out to grab you
and Knox, and unimpeded it’s going to crash Think of the situation like a real life scenario. Think
right into you. What are y’all doing? about what you would do in those circumstances,
CLEO: I’m gonna stand my ground and then describe that to the Warden. If you can’t
unload on this guy. Sorry, Phil. accomplish everything you want to do in one
PHIL: It was my fault. I shouldn’t have opened round, or your choices are especially foolhardy or
that door. dangerous, the Warden will do their best to let you
WARDEN: Cleo, make a Combat Check. know and explain the risks involved.
There’s a lot of pipes here, so you might take
some blowback Damage if you fail. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the kinds of things
CLEO: That’s fine, I hate this ship anyway. I you could attempt in a round:
can add my Military Training?
WARDEN: Definitely. Phil, I think it’s safe to • Attack something or someone.
say you can roll up another character or play • Bandage a wound to try and stop the bleeding.
one of the marines you hired at that last port. • Check vital signs with a medscanner.
PHIL: Oh yeah, I’ll play Cpl. Davis, I liked her. • Move again.
WARDEN: Perfect. She’s still on the bridge, • Fire a vehicle’s weapon.
but if she heads this way she can be here • Maneuver or pilot a vehicle.
next round. Knox, what about you? • Open an airlock.
KNOX: I think I’m just gonna try and get to • Operate a machine.
some cover. I want to get out of the • Reload a weapon.
Being-Formerly-Known-as-Phil’s way. • Throw something at or to someone.
WARDEN: Ex-Phil is running pretty fast, so • Use a computer terminal (to search a directory,
that’ll be a Speed Check. Failure means engage automatic airlocks, send a distress
it’ll be able to get you. Does all of this signal, cycle through CCTV cameras, disable
sound good to everyone? Life Support, etc.).
KNOX: My body is ready.
WARDEN: Okay, sweet. Let’s roll. Additionally, if you decide to do nothing other
CLEO: Fail. than run, you can move somewhere within Long
KNOX: Fail. Range during the round.
PHIL: Y’all.
WARDEN: Okay, so, Cleo, you fire but the Read more about Range on pg. 30.
creature is moving too fast. You hit the pipes

embedded in the bulkhead, and they spray
steam right into your eyes. Take 4 Damage. Being Effective in a Fight
CLEO: Dammit! Your Combat Stat isn’t the only thing that
WARDEN: Knox, the Phil-Thing snatches you matters when it comes to fighting for your
up, and its claws just tear through you. You life. Distract enemies while your fellow
take... ouch. 14 Damage— crewmembers take aim. Study the creature’s
KNOX: That’s a Wound for sure. movement to see if you can spot a pattern or
WARDEN: Alright, Cpl. Davis, you arrive and weakness. Bandage bleeding wounds. Run
you’re seeing this carnage. Your former away (always a good idea). Hide. In short,
character is about to devour Knox alive. treat every round like a completely unique
What’s everyone doing? Oh, and Knox, let’s situation, and try not to look at your character
roll up that Wound. sheet too much. Outsmart, outrun, and
KNOX: Wonderful. outlast your enemy. That’s all that matters.

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ATTACK & DEFENSE
28.1 HOW DO I ATTACK?
Make a Combat Check. If successful, roll the weapon’s

Damage and subtract it from the enemy’s Health. If
you fail, the situation gets worse and you gain 1 Stress.
Read about Stat Checks on pg. 18.
28.2 DAMAGE
When taking Damage (DMG), subtract it from

Health. If your Health reaches zero, gain a Wound
and roll on the Wounds Table. Then, reset the
character’s Health to its Maximum and subtract any
carryover damage. Once your character suffers their
Maximum Wounds, make a Death Save.
Read about Death on pg. 29.2.
28.3 ARMOR
Characters ignore all Damage less than their

armor’s Armor Points (AP). However, if they ever
take Damage greater than or equal to their AP in
one hit, their armor is destroyed and they suffer any
remaining Damage. Weapons with Anti-Armor (AA)
ignore and destroy armor whenever they hit. Some
armor may have Damage Reduction (DR) which always
reduces incoming Damage by the amount stated (even if
the armor is destroyed, or if the weapon has Anti-Armor).
Damage Reduction occurs first (before any Armor).
28.4 COVER
The environment can provide protection called Cover.

It can be destroyed, just like armor, whenever it is dealt
Damage greater than or equal to its AP. Cover typically
only protects against ranged attacks, but in some
situations may help block a hand-to-hand attack. If you
shoot while in Cover, you are considered out of Cover
until your next turn.
COVER
TYPE AP
INSIGNIFICANT COVER AP: 5
Wood furniture/doors, body shields, etc.
LIGHT COVER AP: 10
Trees, bulkhead walls, metal furniture, etc.
HEAVY COVER
DR: 5 AP: 20
Airlock doors, cement beams, ships, etc.

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WOUNDS & DEATH
29.1 WHAT ARE WOUNDS? 29.2 DEATH
When gaining a Wound, roll 1d10 on the Wounds If your death seems imminent, make your last
Table according to the type of Damage: moments count: save someone’s life, solve an
important mystery, give the others time to escape.
• Blunt Force: Getting punched, hit with a
crowbar or a thrown object, falling, etc. When you die, the Warden makes a Death Save
• Bleeding: Getting stabbed or cut. by placing 1d10 in a cup, shaking the cup, and
• Gunshot: Getting shot by a firearm. placing it face down on the table (covering the die).
• Fire & Explosives: Grenades, flamethrowers, As soon as someone spends a turn checking your
doused in fuel and lit on fire, etc. vitals, the die is revealed and the roll is looked up
• Gore & Massive: Giant or gruesome attacks. on the Death Table below. Use common sense.
Use the Severity column (and common DEATH

sense) as a guide. Flesh Wounds are small
D10 RESULT
inconveniences. Minor/Major Injuries
cause lasting issues which require medical You are unconscious. You wake up in 2d10 minutes.
00
treatment. Lethal Injuries can kill you if not Reduce your Maximum Health by 1d5.
dealt with immediately. Fatal Injuries can kill You are unconscious and dying. You die in 1d5
outright. Bleeding wounds, if not treated can 01-02 rounds without intervention.
quickly overwhelm you. Some attacks deal
You are comatose. Only extraordinary measures can
Wounds directly (bypassing any Armor or 03-04 return you to the waking world.
Damage Reduction).
05-09 You have died. Roll up a new character.
Read about Bleeding on pg. 32.2.
WOUNDS
FIRE & GORE &
D10 SEVERITY BLUNT FORCE BLEEDING GUNSHOT
EXPLOSIVES MASSIVE
Grazed. Hair burnt. Vomit.
00 Flesh Wound Knocked down. Drop held item. Knocked down. Gain 1d5 Stress. [-] on next action.
Winded. [-] until you Lots of blood. Those Awesome scar. Awesome scar.
01 Bleeding +1.
catch your breath. Close gain 1 Stress. +1 Minimum Stress. +1 Minimum Stress.
Sprained Ankle. [-] Blood in eyes. [-] Singed. [-] on next
02 Broken rib. Digit mangled.
on Speed Checks. until wiped clean. action.
Minor Injury
Concussion. [-] on Laceration.
03 Fractured extremity. Shrapnel/large burn. Eyes gouged out.
mental tasks. Bleeding +1.
Leg or foot broken. Major cut. Internal bleeding. Extensive burns. Ripped off flesh.
04 [-] on Speed Checks. Bleeding +2. Bleeding +2. -1d10 Strength. -1d10 Strength.
Arm or hand broken. Fingers/toes severed. Lodged bullet. Major Burn.
05 Paralyzed waist down.
[-] manual tasks. Bleeding +3. Surgery required. -2d10 Body Save.
Major Injury
Snapped collarbone. Hand/foot severed. Gunshot wound to Skin grafts required. Limb severed.
06 [-] on Strength Checks. Bleeding +4. the neck. -2d10 Body Save. Bleeding +5.
Lethal Injury Back broken. [-] on Limb severed. Major blood loss. Limb on fire. 2d10 Impaled.
07 all rolls.
(Death Bleeding +5. Bleeding +4. Damage per round. Bleeding +6.
Save in Skull fracture. [-] on Major artery cut. Sucking chest wound. Body on fire. 3d10 Guts spooled on floor.
08 1d10 rounds) all rolls. Bleeding +6. Bleeding +5. Damage per round. Bleeding +7.
Fatal Injury Throat slit or heart Engulfed in fiery Head explodes.
Spine or neck broken. Headshot.
09 (Death pierced. explosion. No Death Save.
Save) Death Save. Death Save.
Death Save. Death Save. You have died.

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RANGE & DISTANCE
Range, distance, and movement IT CAN TOUCH YOU

are tracked abstractly in Range Example: Run Away
Bands. These are: 30.1 ADJACENT WARDEN: Alright, so the
airlock door breaks down
• Adjacent You’re basically touching. This and more of these Phils
• Close Range covers fist fights, close-quarters start swarming the base.
• Long Range combat, and trying to get out of KNOX: I’m running. Just
• Extreme Range the grips of a hideous terror’s pure running, non-stop.
claws. More than that, it covers Cleo: I’m going to lob a
Describing distance should be things like using a computer grenade before running.
done in human casual terms. terminal or administering first WARDEN: It’s within Close
What’s important is whether aid to someone. You can talk Range. You’re throwing it or
someone can touch you, comfortably, whisper, and even just dropping it?
whether they can get to you, smell someone at this range. CLEO: Just dropping.
whether you can shoot them, or WARDEN: In that case it
whether you can’t. makes sense to give them
an Instinct Save to avoid.
RANGE GUIDELINES LESS THAN 1 M / 3 FT

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RANGE & DISTANCE
IT CAN GET TO YOU YOU CAN SHOOT IT YOU CAN HEAR THEM SCREAM
31.1 CLOSE RANGE 31.2 LONG RANGE 31.3 EXTREME RANGE
Someone Close can be reached Things in this band are far Only the longest range
by running over to them in a enough away that they take an weapons, like smart rifles, can
few seconds. They’re near entire round or longer to get to. hit something accurately in this
enough that you could likely Rifles are effective at this range, band. It takes more than one
throw something at them and but handguns and shotguns turn to get to something here,
hit them. You’d have to speak less so. You’d have to yell at and even if you hear a scream
loud enough that someone on someone to get their attention, you might not know which
the other side of the room could and you probably won’t smell direction it’s coming from.
hear you. Powerful stenches anyone at Long Range, no
can be smelled if they’re Close. matter how bad they stink.
Firearms like shotguns are
most effective at this range or
Adjacent.
ROUGHLY 510 M / 1530 FT ROUGHLY 20100 M / 50300 FT MORE THAN 100 M / 300 FT

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SURVIVAL
Below are some of the most common afflictions 32.4 EXHAUSTION

characters may encounter while exploring space.
Long grueling treks on undiscovered planets
32.1 ATMOSPHERES can easily grind you down. If it becomes relevant,
track exhaustion by making a Body Save every
Planets with Toxic or Corrosive atmospheres hour after 12 hours of activity. On failure gain 1
require special gear to explore, otherwise there is Stress and take 1 Damage. After 24 hours of
the risk of harm or even death. exhaustion, roll at Disadvantage on all rolls
until the character can rest for 8 hours.
Toxic Atmosphere
The planet’s atmosphere is not fit to breathe, but 32.5 FOOD & WATER
is otherwise safe. A rebreather or armor with its
own oxygen supply is required. Without these, Humans can survive roughly 3 weeks without
characters take 1d10 DMG per round, Body food. After 24 hours without food, roll at
Save for half. Disadvantage to all rolls.
Corrosive Atmosphere For the bare minimum of

The planet’s atmosphere is deadly and destructive. survival you need 1 liter
It deals Damage every round while on it. This of water a day. However,
ranges from 1 DMG / round (Mildly Corrosive) at this level, any
to 10 DMG / round (Highly Corrosive). Anything strenuous activity
higher is simply impossible to safely traverse (e.g., running, combat,
without specialized equipment and armor. making mechanical
repairs) forces you to
32.2 BLEEDING make a Body Save or
pass out. When water
Some weapons or Wounds cause characters to is scarce and you’re
Bleed. This means they take 1 Damage every tracking it this closely,
round until the bleeding is stopped. This is you’re at Disadvantage
cumulative. If a character is bleeding 1 Damage on all rolls.
per round and gains Bleeding +1, they now take
2 Damage per round. Bleeding damage ignores
armor and damage reduction.
Read more about Violent Encounters on pg. 26.
32.3 CRYOSICKNESS
To endure long space journeys or hyperspace

jumps, crews use cryopods, which are coffin-
like capsules that freeze them in a suspended
animation called cryosleep. While in cryosleep,
vitals are preserved and aging slows down.
However, upon awakening, you experience a
hangover-like feeling called cryosickness, which
causes sluggishness and slow reflexes. While
cryosick you suffer [-] on all rolls for 1 week.
Upgraded cryochambers can help mitigate these
effects, and a stimpak can cure them instantly.
Read more about Space Travel in the

Shipbreaker’s Toolkit on pg. 30.

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SURVIVAL
33.1 OXYGEN 33.2 RADIATION
In space you can last 15 seconds without oxygen Whether it’s cosmic rays, an engine leak, or some
before falling unconscious. After passing out, you previously undiscovered asteroid ore, radiation
can survive for 1d5 minutes before dying. can kill you if you’re not careful.
If all of a ship’s Life Support System goes offline, RADIATION

roll 1d10 and multiply it by the maximum crew
LEVEL DAMAGE
capacity. This is the remaining oxygen supply.
LEVEL 1 - TRACE None immediately. Possible long-
Every 24 hours, subtract the total number of Normal, everyday radiation,
cosmic rays. term side effects (cancer, etc.).
breathing crewmembers from the remaining
oxygen supply. Any crewmembers engaging LEVEL 2 - ACUTE Reduce all Stats and Saves by 1
in strenuous activity (e.g., running, combat, Unshielded reactors/Warp Cores. every round.
mechanical repairs, etc.) further reduce the LEVEL 3 - LETHAL
Every round: Body Save or lethal
oxygen supply by 2 each. Atomic weapons, direct handling
dose (death in 1d5 days).
of Warp Cores.
Whenever the oxygen supply is less
than twice the amount of breathing Armor with Radiation Shielding (e.g., the Hazard
passengers, all rolls are at Suit) blocks all three levels of radiation.
Disadvantage as the crew suffers
headaches, fatigue, anxiety, and Read about Armor on pg. 14-15 and pg. 28.3.
general clumsiness.
33.3 STIMPAK OVERDOSE
Whenever the oxygen supply
is less than the total amount Excessive use of stimpaks (and other dangerous
of breathing passengers, every drugs) carries a risk of overdose. Whenever a
breathing passenger must character takes more than one stimpak in a day,
make a Body Save or roll 1d10. If you roll under the amount of doses
else make a Death Save taken in the past 24 hours, make a Death Save.
(pg. 29.2) as they suffer
panting, dizziness, severe Read more about Death Saves on pg. 29.2
headaches, impaired vision

and tinnitus. 33.4 TEMPERATURE
Once the oxygen supply In most cases, a hot climate or a cold climate has
runs out, you can survive no notable effects. However, in places of extreme
for 15 seconds before you cold or heat, you should make Body Saves every
fall unconscious. After hour or succumb to the Extreme Cold/Heat.
falling unconscious,
you can survive for Extreme Cold
1d5 minutes without In sub-zero temperatures hypothermia and
oxygen before dying. frostbite can set in within 10-30 min for those
not dressed appropriately. To survive you must
Androids do not bring your body up to its normal temperature.
consume oxygen from Hypothermia can kill within 30 min to 6 hours.
the oxygen supply
Extreme Heat
Those in cryosleep do not Extreme heat over 100ºF/40ºC can cause heat
reduce the Oxygen supply. stroke and kill within hours. Victims must move
to a cooler location immediately to get their
temperature down.

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MEDICAL CARE
No matter how careful you are, sooner or later you

are going to get hurt. Minor injuries can usually Example: Recovery
be treated with a quick rest, but Wounds and WARDEN: Congratulations! You make it back
Conditions require professional treatment. to port safe and sound, except for Jamie.
PHIL: Rest in peace, you son of a bitch.
34.1 SHORT TERM RECOVERY WARDEN: Corporate is sending a shuttle
for you, but it won’t be here for a couple of
Once per day, whenever resting, a character’s weeks. Is there anything ya’ll want to do
body attempts to heal itself naturally. After 6+ while you’re waiting? This is a B-Class Port,
hours of rest make a Body Save. If successful, so they have a decent amount of amenities.
reset Health to its Maximum. Wounds, however, CLEO: Yeah, I want to treat this Paranoid
remain the same. condition I’ve got. Is there somewhere I can
go for that?
34.2 LONG TERM RECOVERY WARDEN: Let’s see, there’s a Cognitive
Defragging clinic. It costs about 100k credits
Recovering Wounds, Conditions, or losses to for a 24 hour long surgery. There is however
Stats and Saves takes a longer time. See the a slight 1% chance of total amnesia.
Medical Expenses table for a non-comprehensive CLEO: I don’t have that kind of money even if
list of available treatments. I was okay with losing all of my memories.
PHIL: We have that goo jar we could sell.
KNOX: What about Wounds? I’m hanging on
by a thread here.
WARDEN: Pseudoflesh Injections run about
500kcr a pop.
PHIL: Maybe we should just die, it would be
cheaper.
WARDEN: Well, if you need cash quick, there’s
a little job you could do...

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MEDICAL CARE
MEDICAL TREATMENTS
TREATMENT COST DESCRIPTION
Artificial Wellness Counselor 150cr 1 hour session (max 1 per week) restores 1 Sanity Save. 1% chance you gain a random Condition.
24 hour surgical treatment removes 1 Condition. 1% chance of total amnesia. [-] on Intellect Checks,
Cognitive Defragmentation 100kcr
Sanity Saves, and Fear Saves for 4 weeks.
Deep Tissue Nanogel Massage 24kcr 1 hour session (max 1 per week) reduces Minimum Stress by 1. [-] on all actions for 24 hours.
4 hour virtual treatment restores either 1d10 Combat or 1d10 Fear Save. 1% chance the character is
Immersive Slicksim Therapy 1kcr
stuck in the immersion for 1d10 days and loses 1d5 Sanity Save.
Medpod 6kcr Week long treatment (spent in the pod) restores 1 Wound. Does not restore lost limbs/digits.
8 hour surgical treatment. Restores either 2d10 Speed, 2d10 Strength, 2d10 Body Save, or all Wounds.
Pseudoflesh Injection 18kcr
At [-] on all rolls for 2 weeks, plus an additional 4 weeks of convalescent recovery required.
8 hour surgical treatment restores either Intellect, Sanity Save, or Fear Save to their maximum, or
Psychosurgery 28kcr
reduces Minimum Stress to 2. At [-] on all rolls for 4 weeks.

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EXAMPLE OF PLAY
Example: Empty Vessel

WARDEN: Okay, so once y’all get to the
bottom of the basin you find rows and rows
of these black cylinders. There’s some kind
of carving or sculpture atop each one, sort of
like a canopic jar.
PHIL: Oh, I want one.
CLEO: No, Phil, bad!
PHIL: It’ll be fine. Do I recognize the carvings
at all? I’ve got Archaeology.
WARDEN: It’s faintly reminiscent of some stuff
you’ve seen in your studies, funerary urns
most likely. Your guess would be they contain
preserved organs. Theoretically.
KNOX: Do they look heavy?
WARDEN: They look like they could be, do you
want to pick one up?
KNOX: No thanks, I’m good.
PHIL: I’ll do it. If these have intact remains
from some kind of ancient civilization I
mean... think of what they would fetch on the
black market?
WARDEN: If they were evidence of alien life,
you think you’ve got a contact that could
move these for a few million credits.
CLEO: This is dumb. This is a dumb game.
WARDEN: So Phil, you want to open one?
What’s everyone else doing?
CLEO: If I can see that Phil is doing it, I’m
gonna try to stop him, physically if I have to.
WARDEN: Are y’all okay with a little PVP
(Player vs. Player) here?
PHIL: Yeah, if I’m legit being annoying, please
let me know and I’ll cut it out.
CLEO: No, no this is good. I’m good. Thanks
for checking.
PHIL: Perfect, because I want to look inside
these jars real bad.
CLEO: Yeah, I’m down for a little tussle over
the goo jars if you are.
PHIL: Rock. Yeah, let’s do it.
KNOX: Whatever y’all do, do it quick. I don’t
like being in here.
WARDEN: Okay, Phil you’re reaching for the
jars, you’re just, what, like, opening them
straight up?
PHIL: I’m probably taking my sweet time,
looking at the carvings, muttering about the
importance of the findings, just nerd stuff.

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EXAMPLE OF PLAY
WARDEN: Okay, and Cleo you’re just going to

like, tackle him?
CLEO: No, if he’s not paying attention I’m
going to put my boot on top of the jar and
aim my pulse rifle at him and be like “Nuh uh.
No sir. I’m not getting paid enough for this.”
WARDEN: Okay, Phil you’re studying and then
boom, Cleo’s boot clamps down on the lid
and you see her gun pointing at you. Go
ahead and make a Fear Save for me.
PHIL: Yeah, fair. 23. Success.
WARDEN: Okay, so you see her and you’re
just not that impressed I guess.
PHIL: Yeah I think I’m not really
comprehending that this is a gun in my face.
I’m just thinking dollar signs and alien jar.
WARDEN: Are you still going for it?
PHIL: I think first I’m like, “None of us are
being paid enough for this. But we can
change that. Let’s just take a couple, right
now. We could sell them! I know a guy.”
WARDEN: Knox, while all this is going on one
of the lids on the jar next to you starts to
slide off.
KNOX: Uh, guys. Is that a Fear Save?
WARDEN: I mean, if it creeps you out, by all
means.
KNOX: Yeah I think I’m gonna take a Stress
for that.
CLEO: Can I see that happening?
WARDEN: I think probably you’re paying
attention to Phil, and it’s probably too subtle
a movement for you to catch unless you’re
looking for it. Knox, are you doing anything?
KNOX: Yeah, I’m getting the fuck out of here.
“Guys, this jar is opening. I’m getting out of
here.” And then I just like, book it. I don’t care
if they follow me, I’m out.
WARDEN: Okay, so y’all hear that. Knox just
like, turns tail and gets the hell out of dodge.
Cleo, you see that one of the urns near him
is emitting some kind of gas.
CLEO: I’m wearing a hazard suit, by the way.
PHIL: Stop bragging.
WARDEN: Totally. Yeah it doesn’t seem toxic,
but as the lid slides off you see what looks
like eight spider legs unfold out of the top.
PHIL: Alright, yeah. We can leave. I’m good.
WARDEN: Okay great! Let’s make some
Speed Checks.

38
PORTS
When characters are in need of a place to repair, refuel, and catch a little R&R, they need to dock
at the nearest port. While in port you can buy and sell equipment, look for work, buy a ticket or
charter a vehicle, or take some much needed Shore Leave.
38.1 PORT CLASSES
There are five basic classes of Port based on their safety, importance, and affluence.
• X-Class Ports: Notorious criminal settlements and pirate bases. X-Class Ports are beyond the
reach of the Company, making them much more free and much more dangerous.
• C-Class Ports: Rundown, out-of-the-way outposts, refueling stations, and forward military posts.
You can find C-Class Ports on any frontier settlement or Rimspace backworld, minimally staffed
and minimally supplied.
• B-Class Ports: Blue-collar industrial stations and large-scale military installations. B-Class
Ports build ships, garrison troops, mine ore, and take care of all the heavy industry required to
keep the galaxy spinning.
• A-Class Ports: Overpopulated metropolises, trading centers, and power brokers. A-Class Ports
house millions and contain everything you’d expect to find in a planetside city, and more if you
know where to look.
• S-Class Ports: Luxurious pleasure spas and restricted-access palatial estates of the
uber‑wealthy. S-Class Ports are the rare gems of the void. Heavily guarded, invite only.
While Ports are generally locations capable of docking a ship, these classes can be used to
designate planetside cities (or even districts or neighborhoods) for the purposes of Shore Leave.

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SHORE LEAVE
Surviving on the Rim is tough, but those who do come out even tougher. Between contracts, if they have
some extra credits, characters can take Shore Leave and attempt to convert accumulated Stress into
improved Saves.
39.1 HOW DO I TAKE SHORE LEAVE? SHORE LEAVE COSTS

PORT COST STRESS CONVERTED
You can take Shore Leave at any relatively safe Port.
X-CLASS 1d100 x 10kcr 2d10 [+]
1. Pay the Shore Leave costs. C-CLASS 2d10 x 100cr 1d5
Every port charges a different amount for Shore B-CLASS 2d10 x 1kcr 1d10
Leave based on the different amenities and A-CLASS 2d10 x 10kcr 2d10
activities it has to offer.
S-CLASS 2d10 x 100kcr All
2. Make a Sanity Save.
In order to process Stress into something useful,
make a Sanity Save. Example: Shore Leave at Anarene’s Folly
WARDEN: Alright, so Knox and Cleo make it
• Success: Convert some of the Stress into back to Anarene’s Folly. Phil, you probably
improved Saves. Each port converts a different should roll up a new character unless you
amount of Stress as shown in the table. want to keep playing that marine.
Whatever Stress you don’t convert is relieved, PHIL: I’ll keep playing Cpl. Davis, but I’m
setting the character back to Minimum Stress. going to rename her “Daisy.”
• Critical Success: Convert the maximum WARDEN: You do that. Do you guys want
amount of Stress allowed at that port into to take Shore Leave? Anarene’s Folly is a
improved Saves, and relieve the remainder. C-Class Port, so there’s not a lot to do, but
• Failure: Do not convert any Stress, but they can still get you pretty hammered.
relieve all Stress, setting the character back to CLEO: What’s Shore Leave cost here? I didn’t
Minimum Stress. Then, gain 1 Stress for failing make hardly anything on this job.
the Sanity Save. WARDEN: You can just like, fuck off for a few
• Critical Failure: Do not convert or relieve any days for about 100cr a pop and convert
Stress. Make a Panic Check. a Stress or two. Or there’s a game of
Megadamage going on you might be able to
3. Convert Stress into Saves. get into. If you spend the week doing that it’ll
For every point of Stress you convert, you can be 1000cr, but you could potentially convert
improve any Save by one. You can divide these something like 1d5 Stress.
improvements up however you want. KNOX: I’ve only got 500cr but I’m at 10 Stress,
so I need to do something!
39.2 HOW LONG IS SHORE LEAVE? PHIL: My guy can lend you money, he’s got
like 10kcr after selling that jar.
Characters need something between a long WARDEN: Yeah, but your guy died, they don’t
weekend and a two-week vacation (roughly 2d10 have access to his credits.
days) to benefit from Shore Leave. Any less and PHIL: Oh shit. What?
you may incur penalties at the Warden’s discretion. CLEO: Could we like, uh, hack it?
WARDEN: You could try! It would be like
What happens on Shore Leave? hacking into his bank account essentially. If
Shore Leave can be as detailed or abstract as your you fail, the Company might find out.
group prefers. You might play out the entire time CLEO: And we could use that money to do a
with different leisure activities, social scenarios, bigger Shore Leave.
and costs associated with it, or you could just roll PHIL: Five bucks my password is “password.”
once and head out. Groups that like a little buffer WARDEN: I’ll give that a 25% chance if ya’ll
between horrific adventures might appreciate the want to try it.
break with some “slice of life” sessions.

40
CONTRACTORS
At most Ports throughout the Rim you can find broke and hungry freelancers,
hitchhikers, pioneers, and mercenaries all looking for work or a ride to the
next system. If you find your crew light and in need of extra hands to fulfill
a mission or staff a ship, you may want to hire a Contractor. Be careful,
though, since many contractors can be cutthroat and disloyal, leaving
characters to die when you need them the most.
40.1 CONTRACTOR STATS
Contractors are much simpler characters than the ones

you play, and only have four Stats:
• Combat: This works exactly like the Combat Stat,

showing how good they are in a fight.
• Instinct: This is a catchall Stat for Fear, Sanity,
Body, Speed, Intellect, and everything else.
• Max Wounds: Contractors don’t track their
Health per Wound. Instead, any Damage they take
counts as a Wound. If they take Wounds equal to
their Maximum Wounds they die.
• Loyalty: Loyalty is a Save, and is rolled
whenever the contractor
needs to make a decision
between what’s best for
them and
what’s
best
for you.
On a success they help you out, but
on a failure they help themselves out. Each
contractor starts with a Loyalty Save of
2d10+10, rolled after they are hired.
• Motivation: A contractor’s motivation always
supersedes any sense of loyalty to the crew
they may have. You don’t need to roll up a motivation
for every contractor, just notable ones.
These simplified Stats make Contractors easier to track.

Contractors are generally weaker than your characters, and
don’t last long, so be sure to protect them.
40.2 HIRING CONTRACTORS
Contractors are paid a monthly salary at the beginning

of every month. Additionally, they usually demand
hazard pay (1d5 months of extra pay) any time
they engage in any life-threatening danger as a
result of the job. Non-payment or partial payment
results in a Loyalty Save [-]. Finally, Contractors
always indicate a beneficiary who seek any payments owed them in the event of their death.
Read more about Hazard Pay in the Warden’s Operations Manual pg. 48.2.

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CONTRACTORS
CONTRACTORS
D100 OCCUPATION SALARY COMBAT INSTINCT MAX WOUNDS RANDOM MOTIVATION
00 Archaeologist 6kcr 20 15 1 Secretly investigating a Corporate cover-up.
01-09 Asteroid Miner 2kcr 25 25 2 Sending money back home to family.
10-19 Android 6kcr 20 35 2 Badly needs to pay off a loan shark.
20-24 Bodyguard 2kcr 30 25 2 Can’t stop in one place for too long, gets restless.
25-29 Captain 10kcr 30 40 3 Hears a call from an entity they can’t explain.
30-34 Chaplain 750cr 10 20 2 Using you/your ship to smuggle contraband.
35-39 Corporate Fixer 24kcr 15 30 1 Revenge.
40-44 Doctor 8kcr 15 25 1 Secretly a con artist with no other expertise.
45-49 Engineer 7kcr 20 25 2 Paying a loved one’s medical bills.
50-54 Hacker 8kcr 15 30 1 Secretly a spy for a rival corporation.
55-59 Marine (Grunt) 1.5kcr 30 25 2 Need to pay off jumped bail or a court fine.
60-64 Marine (Officer) 3.5kcr 35 35 3 Undercover secret police investigating your crew.
65-69 Pilot 3kcr 15 25 1 In huge debt to a powerful crime syndicate.
70-74 Pioneer 1.5kcr 25 25 1 Took the money and ran out on their last job.
75-79 Scientist 4kcr 15 10 1 Family member held hostage, needs ransom.
80-84 Survival Guide 3kcr 30 35 2 Secretly a bounty hunter looking for your crew.
85-89 Surgeon 12kcr 15 20 1 Seeking an honorable and glorious death.
90-94 Teamster 2kcr 25 25 1 Unknowingly contagious with a deadly disease.
95-98 Therapist 3kcr 10 20 1 Escaped from a corporate research facility.
99 Void Urchin 100cr 30 40 2 Secretly a wanted serial killer in hiding.
41.1 IMPROVING LOYALTY

Who controls the Contractor?
Contractors who survive a job and are paid in Contractors should generally be controlled
full increase their Loyalty by 1. Increases of by the player who hired them or by any
1d5 or 1d10 should be reserved for extreme player who doesn’t have a character present
circumstances (like saving the Contractor’s life in the scene currently. This helps keep
or splitting large paydays with them). everyone engaged.
Motivation
Not all Contractors need a motivation, but
those who do always fail Loyalty Saves Replacement Characters
when the two come in conflict. Contractors make great replacement
characters, if and when your character
41.2 EQUIPPING CONTRACTORS dies or becomes otherwise incapacitated
or unusable. Simply roll up their Stats as
Contractors generally have the basics tools, normal, dropping Instinct and re-rolling
weapons, and armor required to do their Combat. They may have lower Stats than
job. If necessary, you can roll a Loadout for the Contractor originally had, but this is okay,
them to see what they have on them. because they’ll also have Skills now to help
make up the difference.
Read more about Loadouts on pg. 7.

MOTHERSHIP®
CHARACTER PROFILE Player Name High Score
Character Name
PERSONAL DETAILS
1. ROLL 2D10+25 FOR EACH STAT.
Pronouns
STRENGTH SPEED INTELLECT COMBAT

Personal Notes
2. ROLL 2D10+10 FOR EACH SAVE.
SANITY FEAR BODY
3. SELECT YOUR CLASS. Adjust your starting STATS & SAVES.

MARINE ANDROID SCIENTIST TEAMSTER
+10 COMBAT +20 INTELLECT +10 INTELLECT +5 TO ALL STATS
+10 BODY SAVE -10 TO 1 STAT +5 TO 1 STAT +10 TO ALL SAVES
+20 FEAR SAVE +60 FEAR SAVE +30 SANITY SAVE
+1 MAX WOUNDS +1 MAX WOUNDS
5. GAIN
4. ROLL 1D10+10 FOR YOUR HEALTH.
You start at your STRESS.
Maximum Health with zero
HEALTH WOUNDS Wounds. Whenever your STRESS
Health falls below zero,
you suffer a Wound. Reset
your Health to its
Maximum, minus any Current Minimum
Current Maximum Current Maximum
Starts at 2. carryover damage. Starts at 2.
6. TAKE NOTE OF YOUR CLASS’S TRAUMA RESPONSE.

MARINE WHENEVER YOU PANIC, EVERY CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYER MUST MAKE A FEAR SAVE.
ANDROID FEAR SAVES MADE BY CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYERS ARE AT DISADVANTAGE.
SCIENTIST WHENEVER YOU FAIL A SANITY SAVE, ALL CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYERS GAIN 1 STRESS.
TEAMSTER ONCE PER SESSION, YOU MAY TAKE ADVANTAGE ON A PANIC CHECK.
8. ROLL FOR YOUR EQUIPMENT LOADOUT, TRINKET & PATCH.

pg. 7 pg. 8 pg. 9
ARMOR POINTS
CREDITS 2D10X10
7. NOTE CLASS SKILLS AND CHOOSE BONUS SKILLS.
To take a Master or Expert Skill you must first take at least one of its prerequisite Skills.
MARINE ANDROID SCIENTIST TEAMSTER

Military Training, Athletics Linguistics, Computers, 1 Master Skill, and an Industrial Equipment,
Bonus: 1 Expert Skill Mathematics Expert and Trained Skill Zero-G
OR: 2 Trained Skills Bonus: 1 Expert Skill prerequisite. Bonus: 1 Trained Skill
OR: 2 Trained Skills Bonus: 1 Trained Skill and 1 Expert Skill.
TRAINED SKILLS EXPERT SKILLS MASTER SKILLS

(+10 BONUS) (+15 BONUS) (+20 BONUS)
LINGUISTICS PSYCHOLOGY SOPHONTOLOGY
ZOOLOGY PATHOLOGY EXOBIOLOGY
FIELD SURGERY
MEDICINE
BOTANY ECOLOGY PLANETOLOGY
GEOLOGY ASTEROID MINING ROBOTICS
INDUSTRIAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

EQUIPMENT REPAIR
JURY-RIGGING EXPLOSIVES CYBERNETICS
CHEMISTRY PHARMACOLOGY
COMPUTERS HACKING ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE
ZERO-G PILOTING
MATHEMATICS PHYSICS HYPERSPACE
ART MYSTICISM XENOESOTERICISM
ARCHAEOLOGY
THEOLOGY WILDERNESS
SURVIVAL
MILITARY FIREARMS COMMAND
TRAINING
RIMWISE HAND-TO-HAND
COMBAT
ATHLETICS
SKILL TRAINING
In Progress Time Remaining
CONDITIONS

HOW TO PLAY MOTHERSHIP®
Stat Checks Saves Panic Checks

Roll 1d100 less than your Roll 1d100 less than your When the worst has
Strength, Speed, Intellect, Sanity, Fear, or Body to happened, to avoid
or Combat to accomplish avoid danger, otherwise fail Panicking, roll the Panic
the task, otherwise fail and and gain 1 Stress. Die (1d20) greater than
gain 1 Stress. the character’s current
A roll of 90-99 is always Stress or else Panic.
A roll of 90-99 is always considered a failure.
considered a failure. Panic Table pg. 21.
Skills Advantage & Criticals

If a character has a Skill Disadvantage Whenever you roll doubles
relevant to the task at If a character has a on 1d100, the result is
hand, you can add its Skill situational Advantage [+], special. If the result is a
Bonus to the Stat before roll the dice twice and take success it’s a Critical
rolling a Stat Check. the best result. Success and something
very good happens. If the
• Trained Skills: +10 If a character has a result failed it’s a Critical
• Expert Skills: +15 situational Disadvantage Failure, something bad
• Master Skills: +20 [-], roll the dice twice and happens, and you must
take the worst result. make a Panic Check.
VIOLENCE
Damage & Wounds Armor & Cover Death

Whenever a character You can ignore any Whenever your
takes Damage, reduce Damage less than the character takes Wounds
Health by that amount. AP of armor + cover. Any equal to their Maximum
If Health is reduced Damage greater than Wounds, make a Death
to zero, gain a Wound that value destroys the Save.
and roll on the Wounds armor or cover and carries
Table. over. Damage Reduction See Death pg.
reduces all incoming DMG. 29.2
Wounds Table
pg. 29. See Armor pg. 28.
Range
Adjacent Close Range Long Range Extreme Range
It can touch you. It can get to you. It can shoot you. You can hear them
Less than 1m / 3 ft. Roughly 5-10m / Roughly 20-100m / scream. More than
15-30 ft. 50-300 ft. 100m / 300 ft.
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PLAYER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE

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Mothership® is a horror game for mature audiences. It contains violence, foul

Created by SEAN McCOY Edited by JARRETT CRADER

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Welcome to Mothership®, the

STEP 1. ROLL STATS 4. ROLL 1D10+10 FOR YOUR HEALTH.

Strength, Speed, Intellect, and 13 13 0 2 you suffer a Wound. Reset

they act under extreme pressure.

ANDROID FEAR SAVES MADE BY CLOSE FRIENDLY PLAYERS ARE AT DISADVANTAGE.

STEP 2. ROLL SAVES

Characters have three Saves: STEP 3. CHOOSE YOUR CLASS

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STEP 5. GAIN STRESS

BOTANY ECOLOGY PLANETOLOGY STEP 7. CHOOSE SKILLS

MATHEMATICS PHYSICS HYPERSPACE To choose a Skill you must

Roll for a Trinket and a Patch

STEP 4. ROLL HEALTH Trinkets & Patches on pg. 8-9.

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Credits (cr) are the primary currency in

• 100cr = 100 credits

6.1 STARTING CREDITS

Characters get 2d10x10cr in addition to

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MARINE LOADOUTS ANDROID LOADOUTS

SCIENTIST LOADOUTS TEAMSTER LOADOUTS

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Roll on this table during character creation to find

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Roll on this table during character creation to find

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ITEM COST DESCRIPTION

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ITEM COST DESCRIPTION

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SK 109 SEEKER SMART RIFLE 5KCR

KANO X9 COMBAT SHOTGUN 1.4KCR

PEABODY FLARE GUN 25CR D&C 7 TRANQ PISTOL 250CR

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HAN290 RIGGING GUN 350CR

RAMHORN 1 FLAMETHROWER 4KCR

EVA MK II HAND WELDER 250CR

HALLS B SERIES FOAM GUN 500CR

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HEADS-UP SHORT-RANGE COMMS

RADIATION AIR FILTER

ARMADYNE “HEAVY-K” ADVANCED BATTLE DRESS

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STANDARD CREW ATTIRE

CARTER TACTICAL STANDARD BATTLE DRESS

VALECORE MK2 VACCSUIT

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16.1 HOW TO BE A GREAT PLAYER

Mothership can be a very challenging game. You should expect:

• Characters to die. Play smart. Make the most of your time.

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they die. Disadvantage on pg. 19.1.

Read more about Violent Encounters on pg. 26.