Not Enough Scoundrels is a 32pg zine of space truckers, shady smugglers, crooked spacecops, black marketeers, and the spaceships they live & die by. Do Crime. Get Paid or Die Broke. For Mothership the Sci-Fi Horror RPG.
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Not Enough Scoundrels is a new supplement of smugglers, space truckers and the ships they live and die by, for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. This zine contains a campaign framework of competing factions among tons of scoundrel NPCs set within a new spacecrawl procedure for players to travel the hyperlanes. Inspired by sci-fi smuggling truckers, from the Nostromo crew to Serenity, and the Bebop to the Millennium Falcon, the space trucker campaign sets up a challenge to win a massive contract that will take your players all over the Outer Rim, and the contraband that lands them in trouble.
The 28pg32pg zine is packed with eight new ship types, the crews and factions who fly them, a spacecrawl procedure and three 1d100 tables of Rim Stations, Contraband and Scoundrels, brought to you by 5 Million Worlds Press. Written and designed by Chris Airiau with art by Carly A-F, and Tim Zygor (a.k.a. tim4242), and Lur Noise we’ve teamed up to bring you a module of grungy spaceships ready to use at the table. It works as a ship catalogue, one-shot derelict maps with horrors and contraband bounty, or pull the spacecrawl procedure for your ongoing Mothership campaign. Packed with explosive NPCs, crossover easter eggs, and feuding factions, Not Enough Scoundrels brings nefarious tension to fill your game between the space horrors.
Not Enough Scoundrelscontains spaceships and the people who run them. The zine gives Wardens new space-faring tools to thread together their Mothership campaigns. The ships are locations to host adventures, their Rimwise crews ready to skew rival or allies. The Contraband table packs in personality for the Rim, while providing a potential lil sumpin sumpin on top.
Here’s what the zine is set to contain:
8 new Ship Types, fully statted with Deckplans
The Megafreighter, Freight Carriage, Junk Barge, Star Hopper, Outpost Resupply, Trade Scout, Patrol Runabout and the Hammerhead Heavyfire Cruiser
New Weapons and Ship Upgrades to add to your table’s roster
Ship crews for your players to run into, work for, or compete against
3 new factions, each with gameable hooks, NPCs, and tables for Crews to engage with.
The space trucker’s Hyperlane Logistics Union
Outer Rim Runners Organization, an expedited freight service group (i.e. smugglers)
Corrupt spacecops (redundant, I know): Universal Allies PMC
Spacecrawl Procedure of Hyperlane and Stationside Events perfectly compatible with the official ruleset to help Wardens keep tension high between the space horrors.
1d100 Rim Stations: A table of station designations Wardens can use to name Trade Posts on the fly.
1d100 Contraband: New drugs, guns, electronics, animals, counterfeit products, organs, foodstuffs, passenger freight, personal data files, and xeno artifacts.
1d100 Scoundrels: NPCs to serve as contacts and patrons, ready to drop into your game at the roll of the die.
Interconnections with loads of other Mothership Month projects: Devil’s Due, Orgy of the Blood Leeches, Awaiting the Burning Gods, PK49, Johnson2, Straight Arrows, and more!
Not Enough Scoundrels Deluxe adds four double-sided Ship Deckplan postcards to hand out to your players during your games.
Also available as Digital & Printable Ship Deckplan Fiches to hand out to your players, or VTT use!
When in Rome is a 24pg adventure module for Mothership RPG inspired by the film Alien: Romulus written by Chris Airiau, with art by Brandon Yu.
Everett's Moon is a shithole where the Company sends spacers to die. Captain Archie of the Conrad called you up with a way out: theft from a decommissioned Electorenzo Resources spaceship near Everett's Rings. Get the tech, upgrade the Conrad, and run for freedom on the Outer Rim world of Caer Wydion. Easy, right?
Except Caesar/Augustus is no spaceship, this state-of-the-art research space station has gone cold and errant. What was the Company experimenting on? Where did everyone go? Can you make it out alive?
This module contains:
Two maps of Caesar/Augustus, player-facing and Warden-facing, containing 10 Sectors with multiple areas to explore.
New Ship Class, the Mining Hauler, with interior map.
6 NPCs and their Drives to complicate your players' lives.
8 Xeno frights and their life cycle to terrorize PCs.
Three Printable Maps: Station, Core, and Spaceship
Digital Maps, with and without notation
NPC and Creature Art
VTT Tokens
Endgame Seeds to carry on the story
Get your 2.5 inch 100% Embroidered Iron-on Patch for the Hyperlane Logistics Union, the premier space trucker union in the Outer Rim. Complete with your own Union Branch number! Smart truckers never risk leaving port without sporting their HLU patch. Remember: Not Even the Stars Are Neutral.
When you gotta go fast, nab this 3x1 inch 100% Embroidered Iron-on Patch for the Outer Rim Runners Organization, the quickest expedited freight service this side of the Rim. Wear your Sponsored Member smugglers mark proudly, and you're sure to find the black marketeers you're lookin' for.
Forever obsessed with speculative space fiction, Chris Airiau operates 5 Million Worlds Press. Writing and publishing Mothership 1E adventures since the wild space cowboy days of the Work-in-Progress drafts, Chris has published Bio-Drones & Cryo-Clones, written for RV Games and SpicyTuna RPG, and collaborated on the Outer Rim Uprising Megabundle.
Josh Domanski is a writer and designer with a flair for diving into the horrid and grotesque. He is an active part of the Liminal Horror design team and helped bring to life projects such as The Bureau, Outer Rim Uprising, Tangled, and the Ennie award nominated adventure The Bloom. Find him on Bluesky @Unenthuser.
Marx Shepherd is an editor, designer, and community manager for Far Horizons CoOp. They make cool games for weird people and weird games for cool people as Marx of High Water. As an editor, he's worked on Samantha Leigh's Anamnesis and Death of the Author, Binary Star's Apocalypse Frame and Valiant Horizon, and Bright Bard Games's Terminus and I Crave The Loop.
Carly A-F is a freelance illustrator making dramatic art for ttrpgs, movie posters, book covers and more! Her art has appeared in Outliers with Sam Leigh and Far Horizons CoOp, and Spire with RRD. See her work at carlydraws.com and check out her info on LinkTree.
Tim Zygor is a tabletop enthusiast and Mothership Discord member from Europe who is bringing their vision of space to Mothership RPG for the first time in Not Enough Scoundrels.
This work was made by humans. No AI or Machine Generated works are included in this project. Supporting this project means you are supporting real human beings who have dreams, passions, & bills. Thank You.
RV Games is a Queer publisher of auteur tabletop games. They have published, fulfilled, or distributed nine crowdfunded projects including Rampant, Graveyard of the Gods, and Ronin.
Shipping
Worldwide shipping will be organized by RV Games via ShipBob.
The following table shows estimated shipping rates. These are only estimates and can change between now and fulfillment.
Pledge Manager
RV Games will be using BackerKit as a pledge manager once the campaign is complete. We will be using a feature called Auto-lock and Charge that will lock your order and charge you for shipping and add-ons when you complete your survey. For this reason, you will end up receiving your survey a little later than you may be used to, surveys will go out once products have arrived at the warehouse.
Add-Ons
After the campaign, you will be able to purchase add-ons from RV Games back catalog, a selection of third party ttrpg zines and books, and a small selection of gaming accessories. Add-ons that contain more than just print material will need to pay VAT in the UK. Shipping is included in the price of the add-ons purchased through BackerKit except for heavier items. These heavier add-ons have a $5 USD (55 SEK, $7 CAD, 4£ GBP, 5€ EUR, $8 AUS) shipping surcharge.
This is a rough overview of the project timeline. I think this could be shorter, but I've learned it's best to overshoot initial estimates. In any case, this is the workflow for the project over the coming months.
Brace yourself for Mothership Month—a group-collab project led by Tuesday Knight Games featuring some of the brightest stars from the Mothership third-party publishing (3PP) community. Each 👩🚀 creator has launched a brand new adventure filled with criminals, smugglers, and rimspace pirates.
Mothership Month Supply Pods
🚀 Back 5+ projects at the physical level and gain access to the SUPPLY PODS. All Supply Pods are now unlocked, so backing just 5 projects will get you all of the below:
🌟 Supply Pod 1 (Unlocked!): 1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS. Each pack contains 13 pre-made character cards ready for use as pre-gen characters or NPCs. Each pack comes with at least one FOIL card.
🌟 Supply Pod 2 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, 5 foil campaign project stickers.
🌟 Supply Pod 3 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, +5 foil campaign project stickers, and an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin!
🌟 Supply Pod 4 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS,+11 foil campaign project stickers, and Shadow of a Doubt a brand new "reverse murder mystery" pamphlet adventure by Ian Yusem (Hull Breach, The Drain).
All in: if you back 5+ projects you're getting 4 Character Card packs (an entire deck of cards), 21 foil project stickers, an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin, and a brand new adventure pamphlet.
Are there more Supply Pods to come? We're looking into it now!
Streams, Interviews, and more!
All month long, we're diving into the void with daily streams, unsettling interviews, and exclusive, heart-pounding reveals. Whether you're a veteran spacer or new to the Mothership, join us in celebrating the universe’s bravest survivors…and those who didn’t make it back.
Thanks for joining us on our first ever Mothership Month! 👽
