In our final installment of Add-on Arsenal, we shine the light on some of my own Mothership add-ons. These are a mixture of Terry Herc Games back catalogue deep cuts and some new trifold adventures:
In our second installment of Add-on Arsenal, we feature the writing talents of Scott Garriott. With his publishing imprint, Molgannard Press, Scott brings a menu of religious sci-fi horror, corporate dread, and sandbox madness:
Campaign starter sandbox: The Sins of Eden Prime
Two-shot double feature: Echoes of Eden Prime
One-night station horror: The Gasping Light
2-4h corporate retreat chase: Corporate Survival
Hostage negotiator thriller: The Ship Who Swallowed a Spider
If you only grab one, get Sins of Eden Prime for a campaign backbone, or The Gasping Light for a brutal run-tonight session.
THE SINS OF EDEN PRIME (62-page point-crawl sandbox)
A fallen religious colony built to bring its people closer to God… until Mother (an AI) and Father (a tentacled robotic overseer) turned salvation into a hunting ground.
Beyond the parasite-soaked pamphlets, this campaign has a pile of add-ons, extras, and bundles. Clive Lancaster (writer and layout wizard) brought three options for Wardens who want fast, nasty, table-ready sci-fi horror.
Upgrade your pledge in seconds:
Run tonight mini-arc (1-2 sessions): Milk Run
Quick side-job: An Ear for Trouble
$2 forever-tool: D100 Space Junk
To grab them: click Manage Pledge -> Add-ons. Or upgrade to the PDF Adventure Library / Box Set Collector Bundle for the best value.
MILK RUN (12-page zine)
A medical aid vessel in distress… snared in the tentacles of a vast void jellyfish. Help them. Board them. Salvage them. Or learn what’s really happening when it’s already too late.
Keyed ship map & player-facing version
Stats included for NPCs, the ship, and void jelly
Plugs into a campaign or runs as a brutal one-shot
Bonus: void jelly lore echoes in our adventure Worm Jelly (see our last update for the PDF preview!)
AN EAR FOR TROUBLE (trifold pamphlet)
A noir caper in the back rooms of Club Nebula, where the wrong people are high on the wrong thing, and it’s about to become a huge problem.
Skeezy nightclub with desperate enforcers & cartel goons
Ties into the drug from Milk Run (and what happens when you take too much)
Perfect as a “we should not be here” opener or a nasty mid-campaign detour
D100 SPACE JUNK (2 pages, system-agnostic)
Need a travel complication right now? Roll a d100 and throw something weird at their ship.
Derail a course, complicate a chase, start a session cold
Works for Mothership or any space system
Cheap, reusable, always useful
If you want more Mothership with less prep:
Get Milk Run + An Ear for Trouble in the PDF Adventure Library or Box Set Collector Bundle tiers
Add D100 Space Junk as a digital add-on from any tier
Campaign pricing for add-ons is cheaper than retail (discounts end when the campaign ends)
Good news: the infestation isn’t the only thing spreading.
ZineTopia is stacked with cool content this month. This year's event has loads to offer, including these projects which are genuinely worth a look. Be sure to check out at least one zine that speaks to you and make this year's event even more successful!
New Narratives
Blightfall - You are doomed villagers infected by darkness sacrifice shreds of humanity for power. This is a collaborative worldbuilding game with a player driven narrative and tactical combat.
The Deepest Dark - A turn-based, GM-less one-shot system inspired by the Quiet Year and Ten Candles. You are scientists trapped in a cave-in, forced to explore the underground.
H.O.M.E. - This is a tactical cyberpunk horror game set in a dystopian city split between corporate rich and the poor… isolated in an unreal Dreamlands-like dimension.
Three punk games - 3 small, fast punk games: SEX/VIOLENCE/POOP 3, HEX & THE PUNKS, We Were Punks.
GM Tools
Great Hexpectations - Explore hex-based encounters and tables to feed your fantasy game and turn the humble hex into a campaign driver.
Fang Dungeon Bestiary - Get 36 whimsical monsters with children’s-book-illustrator Monster Manual energy. Plus a stretch goal for Dolmenwood stats!
Wildest Shape (5E) - A 5e subclass that let's your druid transform into creatures from another universe. Includes new spells, items and creatures.
Solo Play
The Wanderer’s Bookshop - A mixed-media solo journaling bookshop simulator. Guided by tarot cards, read books, solve a mystery, and make your own a journal keepsake.
Tales from the Cockpit - A print run for a solo game about a giant robot, its many pilots, and the passing of time. Plus an extra, The Cog That Remains, a mecha mechanic solo game.
We’ve released a PDF preview of our full adventure Worm Jelly, a drop-in Mothership one-shot you can run fast and hard with minimal prep.
Backers: grab it in the Backer-Only section at the bottom of this update. Followers: back the campaign to unlock it instantly. Campaign ends Thu Feb 26 at 11:00am MDT.
What Worm Jelly is about
A wounded (and gargantuan) void jelly drifts into a major shipping lane and triggers a scavenger stampede. You’re caught between a brutal choice:
Protect a majestic alien organism from being harvested…
Or cash in on psychic pearls and get out alive.
You’re not the first to arrive: four other ships are already here. Are they allies or the competition? And inside the jelly, while the pearls give off a psychic drone, something massive wriggles nearby...
Help us spread the outbreak
If you can do one thing for us this week: share this campaign with one Warden who loves misery. That single message moves the needle more than any social post.
