Mothership – System Cheat Sheet (Gamma)

(click for PDF) Mothership is a sci-fi horror RPG. Think Alien, The Thing, Pitch Black, or Annihilation. Its calling card is an old school approach wedded to red hot innovation: Blazing fast character creation. Brutal systems for Combat and Stress. Tons of sandbox support and tools in the Warden’s Operation Manual (the GM book). An overwhelming amount of adventure support, including both first party books and a deluge of third-party support. This last point, in particular, convinced me to make Mothership the basis for my current open campaign. Not only is there a ton of adventure support, a lot of it is designed so that you can spend 15 minutes reading through it and — presto! — you’re ready to go. My expectation is that I’ll be able to rapidly build a stable of adventures that will easily let me run the game with minimal or no prep. I previously shared alpha and beta versions of this cheat sheet. In addition to several minor corrections, the two big changes are adding several key…