Year of the Rat: A Mothership RPG Adventure
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Year of the Rat: A Mothership RPG Adventure
The lost casino ship Year of the Rat has reappeared in the void, and you have been sent to retrieve its black box with the promise of salvage. With a potential jackpot, will you get a lucky streak, or end up paying the ultimate price for your greed?
Year of the Rat is a two page dungeon for the first edition of Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG, designed to be played in one 3-4 hour session with minimal preparation from the Warden.
Includes pdf and player-facing map along with printer friendly and plain text versions of the module.
Writer: Owen O'Donnell https://twitter.com/AmICoolYet14
Artist: Lettuce https://twitter.com/ZODIOLESTES_
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Organs Without Bodies - https://am-i-cool-yet.itch.io/organs-without-bodies-a-mothership-rpg-low-fi-zine
Rules of Nature - https://am-i-cool-yet.itch.io/rules-of-nature-a-mothership-rpg-adventure
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Ran this last night for a couple of friends and everyone had a blast! I had a terminal and a key card for the vault; the drama of having to split up to open the vault was priceless. Thank you.
Ran this last night, highlights included:
-our very Texan coded marine doing a running slide under a giant rat monster while shooting it with his revolver
-the party scientist and second marine tranquilizing the giant rat and wrestling it into the casino ship vault before fixing up the engines to try and transport it back for sale
-the party android surviving a near death experience only to have its personality reboot, shifting it from friendly German accented crew member to a creepy too-helpful robot that spent the finale trying to communicate with the rats by sending its synthetic vocal chords through a series of horrific shrieks and chitters to try and decipher their language
We had a great time with this! Our run turned into a gory, schlock action horror story fit for a direct to VHS release.
This is my go-to as a starter adventure of Mothership. Love it.
Love the module and the theming, I can tell this one will be a hit at my table. Though I did notice some typos on both my printed copy and the PDF I got from TKG. I'm not sure if my version is older than what you have here, but if you want I can send you what I've found to help clean it up for the future.
Artist: Lettuce Twitter link doesn't work :(
Any plans to release a 1E version?
It was designed with 1e in mind, though the logo for 1e was not out at the time so its not marked "1e compatible. "
Awesome, thanks for the fast reply! I can't wait to grab this! 😁🤘🏽❤️
Read the giant slot machine d10 table
Ah, I see it now! Thanks!
This is a slick, badass adventure that's up there with the best pamphlet adventures.
Thank you for including a plain text file. Unfortunately, the text file is missing some text boxes from the PDF. That includes gameplay relevant parts like the herald and princeling swarm stats.
Thanks for pointing this out, I've updated the file.
Did we play a Skaven in Space e_e ?!
this fucking owns