An open ended Mothership TTRPG module set in Prospero's dream. As undercover agents pressed into corporate service crew are tasked with tracking down the source of malfunctioning blackmarket prototype clones.
The Conduit Print Edition
The Conduit Digital Edition
What is The Conduit?
The Conduit Cover Mockup. Art by Jettila Lewis. Art subject to change.
A 48-page zine for Mothership® RPG, built for hard-edged cyber-noir investigation. Pressed into service by LinneTech, your Crew is tasked with hunting down the source of defective black-market clones. The trail drags you through The Dream’s underbelly: Doptown, the Sink, and beyond. It pulls you into a web tying together an up-&-coming cyber clinic, a “charity” that feeds the medical industry, and a clandestine company blacksite hidden deep in the Sink. At the center is The Conduit, a secret society of clones intent on fleeing the station to found a new civilization. Choose your allies, crack the prison, and decide who gets free and who gets burned before the AI wakes and someone arms the bomb.
Cut & Die Clinic: a meteoric cybersurgery shop with a beggar turned chief surgeon, eerily similar staff, and clients sharing the same dream.
Doptown & NuroLife: a booming “non-profit” neuro-donation hub in the Choke. Lifeline, exploitation, or both?
Sink Blacksite: an off-the-books R&D lab trading relief from oxygen debt for control of your mind.
The Conduit: a hidden clone culture plotting an exodus. They need a ship, a deep-jump pilot AI, and a nuclear bomb. Ally or oppose.
Circadian Recalibration Slickworld: a corrupted virtual prison of blood seas, burning libraries, and sentient black lightning. Social puzzle dungeon plus prison break.
Leverage Table: fast hooks for crews and wardens. What does LinneTech hold over you, and how do you cut the leash?
Scenario
Art by Binx! All art subject to change
Mothership License Logo
This product is based on the Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror Role Playing Game, published by Tuesday Knight Games. This product is published under license. Mothership® is a registered trademark of Tuesday Knight Games. All rights reserved. For additional information, visit http://www.tuesdayknightgames.com or contact [email protected].
We will not have any explicit stretch goals. Extra funding will be used to increase the art budget (and page count) for the zines and to pay equity to contributors.
We are participating in a cross collab with our fellow Mothership Month 25 project All on Red. If both projects fund, A. Jordan DeWitt and Abraham Chester will write a digital pamphlet module, Down to the Wire, that will be given to all backers, and Ben King will write a pamphlet adventure for the backers of All on Red titled Red Line Rush.
We're hyped for this collaboration! Jordan and Ben collaborate on multiple projects, so they enjoy the extra work this creates for them.
Meet your new criminal fixer and discover 4 villainous crews stalking the solar system. Will you hire their services as thieves and assassins or enter their ship lairs to track them down and bring each to justice? This is Columbary TTRPG's entry for Mothership Month 24, in case you missed it.
Death Pays All Debts
Death Pays All Debts Zine Mockup
A heist dungeon set on Prospero’s Dream originally created for Mothership Month 24 by Octopus Ink Games. Standard and Deluxe Editions are both available.
The Stillroom
The Stillroom Zine Mockup
Two crews are pitted against one another deep in space. Inside are 2 one-shot missions in a single 8-page zine: play as a civilian crew waylaid en route to safe-harbor with a traitor lurking in their midst, or as the team of depraved mercenaries sent to hijack their cargo only to fall prey to powers beyond their worst fears. This is Columbary TTRPGs first module, available in print for the first time.
Nurolife Patch Included Exclusively in the Deluxe Edition
We expect to finish the book by July 2026 to meet Tuesday Knight Games timeline for shipping.
The manuscript is in development with the writer and producer, and we will be having an editorial meeting to approve it for copy and line editing and layout quickly after funding is secured for production.
We have concept art and artists, and art will also move art into production quickly after funding.
We will be using Tuesday Knight Games bulk fulfillment for Mothership Month 25.
RV Games is providing development and production support and will work with their 3PL partner to kit Deluxe Editions to get them to Tuesday Knight Games.
Ben King is a grocery clerk in Chicago, Illinois. His blood type is O+. He has work featured in Devil's Due and Hecate Cassette Archive. As a solo creator, I previously published Knowledge Asymmetry for Mothership Month 24. For this project we are partnering with RV Games for development and production support for this larger module.
Producer and Additional Writer - Violet Ballard
Violet Ballard
Dr. Violet is a proudly Queer mom and educator from Fresno, California. She is the owner of RV Games.
Editor - Greenspore
Greenspore
Greenspore is an editor and creator for many projects in collaboration with SpicyTuna RPG and RV Games.
Graphic Designer - Curious Friend
Curious Friend
Curious Friend is a non-binary visual artist & graphic designer based out of Fresno, CA. They appreciate whimsical line work, bold color palettes, & naturally imperfect symmetry. When they aren’t hunched over a canvas they enjoy hiking in the mountains, tending to their collection of exotic houseplants, and being attacked by their 3-legged cat.
Illustrator - Jettila Lewis
Jettila Lewis
Jettila Lewis is a Chicago based illustrator born and raised in the River Styx.
Illustrator - Strega Wolf van den Berg
Strega Wolf van den Berg
Strega Wolf van den Berg is a graphic and industrial designer and illustrator, studying Industrial Design at the Technical University Eindhoven. Illustrator - Binx
Binx
Born between heaven and earth, I drip rainbows wherever I go.
This year, we're trying something different. Nearly every Mothership Month project is part of a shared shipping initiative. That means:
One pledge manager. When Mothership Month ends, you’ll receive one combined pledge manager survey for all participating projects — our “mega pledge manager.” That means just one survey and one shipping payment for multiple projects.
One shipping charge. Because these projects will ship together, you’ll only pay shipping once, saving you money.
One fulfillment timeline. All participating campaigns are scheduled to ship at the same time, ensuring your rewards arrive together.
Two exceptions. Only two creators (Bombs Bursting in Air and Roach Motel) have opted out of this group fulfillment plan; their shipping will be handled separately. Why did they opt out? These two projects are very close to being ready to fulfill, and it didn't make sense to their teams to wait.
Estimated Shipping
Below is a table of estimated shipping prices based on weight. You can see at the bottom what the estimated weights are for different items. Prospero's Dream should be around the same weight (maybe slightly lighter) than the Mothership Core Set. Additionally, if you order several items you'll incur a small charge for additional items, which varies based on your country.
This does not include any applicable VAT or taxes. A reminder that these shipping prices are an estimate and its possible they will change based on global conditions beyond our control.
When will these projects ship? Our collective goal is to have all Mothership Month 2025 projects fulfilled before Mothership Month 2026 begins. Some projects are further along than others, so their timeline for digital rewards will vary. But we have roughly a year to fulfill before Mothership Month 2026, which gives everyone enough time to finish up and get their products to our warehouse.
What is Mothership Month?
Every year, Tuesday Knight Games and dozens of third-party creators launch new Mothership projects around a shared theme. This year’s theme (“The Dream Returns”) centers on Prospero’s Dream, the infamous X-Class back-world, black market space station. Each project ties back to the Dream in some way. Not only that, but we'll be opening up Prospero's Dream as a shared setting for all third-party creators going forward.
Get your exclusive Supply Pod!
This year we're changing up the Supply Pods. Now there is just ONE BIG SUPPLY POD. It's unlocked once all projects fund and it improves as we hit more group achievements. How do you get the Supply Pod? Back 5 or more projects at the physical level and get access to all the cool goodies.
