Neighborhood crime drama sandbox module for Mothership RPG. Deep in the belly of an enormous space station, pressure mounts & schemes unravel as corpo security tightens the screws.
Pipesong is a crime drama sandbox set in a cavernous maintenance deck.
Billions of credits of coolant, fuel, and warp cores move into and out of corpo freighters every cycle. To get there, it all has to move through 04 deck's million feet of umbilical pipes.
With all those credits flowing through that infrastructure, Pipesong is rotten with crime. Everyone here is mobbed up, on the take, or paying into the racket. There's money to be made down here on 04 Deck, if you don't mind risking your kneecaps. Just make sure you're packing some heat.
A full color digest zine for Mothership RPG:
A cast of NPCs and their many crimes
A bustling hab-town brimming with potential scores
The Tangle, a vast, dangerous network of pipes, control stations, and towering storage tanks
Unfolding events and consequences, as a new boss comes up in the mob, and security cracks down
Dangerous and irresponsible slickware suited only for a life of crime
32+ pages of content
The boss, Horse Molvo, is dead. The new boss, Chin Molvo, is hooked on ceo-brained slicksim influencers, and has a great new plan: "what if we sold out to the company? The family got the pipefitter’s union contract with bullets and blood, but if we sold it off to the corpos, we could replace all the labor with ox-debtors, and make a shitload of credits."
To stop Chin’s plan, players will have to take out or flip the Molvo lieutenants:
Slick (he/him), a suit-wearing drug-sniffing party-going EVA specialist
Bunko (she/they), a chromed out bodybuilding enthusiast and fight pit champion
Zakk (she/her), an educated professional and quickbooks whiz
Sally (he/him), gangster film enthusiast, owner of a real tommy gun
Rat (they/them), information dealer, with a small army of informants
I've been putting out quality adventure zines under my label, Gravy Press for a few years now. I'm also a working artist, and have to balance my development schedule between what I want to do, and what pays. Crowdfunding represents an opportunity to do paid work that I'm passionate about. I couldn't be more excited and honored to have Pipesong selected as part of Mothership Month 2025.
The funds from the campaign will pay for high quality production of physical rewards, with the rest going to the creative team (Levi and I), for writing, editing, layout, and tons of illustrations.
Levi and I have been best friends for our entire life. We started making games together when we were about ten; tabletop versions of games our computers couldn't run, wargames with paper minis to replace expensive game pieces.
When we found the quickstart for GURPS 3e at our local game store in a stack of freebies, we were hooked. We would spend hours building characters, or poring over rule books at the bookstore. We were consumed with a huge collaborative worldbuilding project for years, imagining intergalactic battles while exploring the summers on our bikes.
A stalwart contributor to Gravy Press as a developmental consultant, Levi stepped up into a role as a co-author with our Mothership RPG trifold Foxtrot Uniform. We couldn't be more excited to be part of Mothership Month, and I can't wait for y'all to see the crazy stuff he cooked up for this project.
A 100% Embroidered patch symbolizes your lifetime contract to work the pipes on 04 Deck
Available as an add-on
Free to all physical backers
A point-crawl pipe-crawl added to the zine, set in the Tangle.
Embark on a dangerous and labyrinthine expedition to the heart of the pipes
Rules for hazards, protective gear, and repair contracts
Bounty contracts for O2-Debtors
12 Additional pages of PIPE!
A bonus full color trifold with rules and mechanics for heat management on player owned ships. Manage the power draw and heat generation of your ships systems, or die an excruciating death in the vacuum of space.
We will be participating in Tuesday Knight Games' collaborative distribution for Mothership Month 25. Once the physical goods are ordered, they'll go to the TKG warehouse, and backers will receive all their MM25 rewards in one shipment (and only have to pay shipping once).
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.
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.
