Wages of Sin is your guide to crime on the Rim. It contains 100 bounties, each a story the players steer: they decide who lives and who dies. For criminal campaigns, it features 10 bounty hunters to hunt the players down. If they get captured, it has a court system and (if we hit our achievements) a prison colony: they can look to serve out their time or plan a daring breakout. Play doesn’t stop when you get caught.
Wages of Sin (8x10" hardcover) and the Mothership Core Set (Add On)
What’s Inside?
🎯 100 Bounties, each with consequences based on player actions.
🧑🚀 200+ NPCs, running the gamut from emotionless suits to honest workers caught in a pinch.
🪐 50+ Worlds to explore and expand upon.
🔫 10 Bounty Hunters to pursue your players - or compete with them.
🧰 A toolkit for making your own bounties.
👮 (Stretch Goal / Achievement) A detailed plan of the ODC prison colony, with guards, prisoners, rumors and local wildlife.
👨🏾⚖️ A streamlined system for running legal battles.
The Bounties
The core of the book is built around the d100 bounties. Each one gets at least a page (though several get 2-8) which contains everything you need to know to run them as a scenario. Many are one shots, but several link to others to form a mini-campaign, and a few are such difficult targets that just taking them on will require a few missions.
Not all of the bounties are criminals either, just people who have run afoul of a corporate exec or authoritarian regime. It'll be up to the players to decide their fate.
The Bounty Hunters
The book contains 10 bounty hunters as well, for your players to hire, or more likely, run from. Each of them are basically horrors themselves. They operate extralegally and with psychotic methods.
Everyone Counts
While this book is the perfect toolkit for Wardens who want to run a bounty hunting campaign, it's a lot more than that. Our Warden Educational System [WES] gives tips on every page and there's extensive coverage in the book about viewing these people not as an elaborate game of cops and robbers, but instead of a living and reactive world. Every character your players encounter could be someone with a target on their back, as could their employers, contractors, friends and enemies. What you have here are 100 bad situations and any of them could insert themselves into your campaign at a moments notice.
Wages of Sin is offered in two version: a standard hardcover and a deluxe. Both are high quality books with over 200+ of content. The standard hardcover features the full color cover art by Tyler Garlando with some spot UV varnish on a matte coating. The deluxe version sports a cloth cover with inset gold foil inlay. We anticipate releasing future Mothership hardcovers in a similar deluxe format making this perfect for a collector who wants their books to look and feel like a complete set on the shelf.
MEGADAMAGE is a brand new annual (?) magazine for Mothership. Inside we have short fiction, articles, interviews, comics, and so much more in an oversizd (11x12.5") deluxe magazine format. We are so excited for this one. It's our dream combination of White Dwarf plus Heavy Metal. Here's a taste of what's in this issue:
🚀 The Horror of Unknowing: A Conversation with Phillip Eisner, an enthralling interview with the writer of Event Horizon by up-and-coming screenwriter (Gutboy) Nick Grant.
🌟 The Greatest Sci-Fi Satanic Novel You've Never Read, by Sean McTiernan. A deep dive into Black Easter by James Blish from podcast luminary (Live at the death Factory, SF Ultra, All Units) Sean McTiernan.
💥 Charon, a psionic awakening by indie comics sensation (Night Movies) Jake Butcher.
📺 Gods, Ghosts, and Gargoyles, a survey of the made-for-TV horror and sci fi films of the 70s by esteemed critic and filmmaker (RogerEbert.com, The Unloved) Scout Tafoya.
Mothership® is a critically acclaimed, award-winning tabletop RPG. Don't just take our word for it—check out the videos below to see why Mothership is a must-play game for horror and sci-fi fans!
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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! 👽
