This system is so streamlined you could get the game in the morning, read the rules, look at a few UA-cam videos and if you have some GM experience under your belt, you can be running it for your group in the evening with a high degree of confidence that you are not totally butchering the rules. I let my players roll up a couple of characters each and put them straight into the one shot Ypsilon 14. Their last adventure had been in Burning Wheel, which was essentially a magical version of medieval Europe and a hardcore role master game based loosely around Warhammer 40k. My pitch, imagine you are in the Alien's universe with all their technology, and you run into The Thing. Pick the character you want to begin with, and you have the option of your other character being revived from hypersleep if that character dies, or you want to run two characters at once. By giving them that option, I don't really need to make it explicit that this is a deadly scenario. As a GM I loved Burning Wheel, but for half of my players, figuring out how to engage with the belief system consumed too much game time. By making life so much more expendable, it is refreshing to focus on the more day to day survival. I don't know how this will play out in the long term, that's something that only time will tell.
4/5 for the system but you said you adore it!? "It's all awesome" So, why the loss of a point? Clearly it's a great system, but I am earnestly curious what holds back from the full five points?
Probably something that I should have clarified. I like holding out for 5/5 when I feel like it's "best of the best". While Mothership's rad, I do feel like Alien RPG has a better overall system, and since I gave that 5/5 (and this system is super similar but not quite as dynamic), I felt like 4/5 was appropriate.
Hey! I DO want to play mothership 1e. I was hoping you can let me know where I can get it? Is it out in game stores? I have the zero edition but would love the box set.
a few years ago I was admin of the lamentations of the flame princess discord. I had joined the Mothership discord and had spoken to the devs quite a bit, they seemed very nice. The girlfriend of Zak, a LotFP adventure writer, posted a huge allegation of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse against Zak. Immediately most of the OSR devs sided with the girlfriend and I said in the LotFP discord, not the mothership discord, “We need to hear both sides of the story before this turns into a witch hunt and Zak is wrongfully cancelled.” Well this exploded with negative reaction because most of the OSR devs follow the: BELIEVE ALL WOMEN! Mindset. I wasn’t saying she was lying I said we needed to be logical and get all the facts. The mods of the mothership discord went to other OSR discord I was in and tried to get me kicked out. I was banned from the mothership discord. To this day I have tried many times to talk with the seemingly friendly devs of Mothership and they wont let me. You either cancel what turned out to be an innocent man or you aren’t one of them. So, after Zak got proof that the girlfriend was lying nothing has changed. Zak is taking everyone to court that tried to cancel him. Most of those devs you’ve probably heard of. The dev of electric Bastionland, the dev of Gardens of Ynn, Mothership, and lots more. I don’t hate the mothership devs, but I’m a customer and was mistreated so every chance I get I warn people about these devs. I’d love to talk with the devs and put this behind us. I’d delete every post I made online, but I know they won’t talk to me. Maybe this new edition will sell enough copies to cover their legal fees when Zak takes them to court.
This system is so streamlined you could get the game in the morning, read the rules, look at a few UA-cam videos and if you have some GM experience under your belt, you can be running it for your group in the evening with a high degree of confidence that you are not totally butchering the rules. I let my players roll up a couple of characters each and put them straight into the one shot Ypsilon 14. Their last adventure had been in Burning Wheel, which was essentially a magical version of medieval Europe and a hardcore role master game based loosely around Warhammer 40k. My pitch, imagine you are in the Alien's universe with all their technology, and you run into The Thing. Pick the character you want to begin with, and you have the option of your other character being revived from hypersleep if that character dies, or you want to run two characters at once. By giving them that option, I don't really need to make it explicit that this is a deadly scenario. As a GM I loved Burning Wheel, but for half of my players, figuring out how to engage with the belief system consumed too much game time. By making life so much more expendable, it is refreshing to focus on the more day to day survival. I don't know how this will play out in the long term, that's something that only time will tell.
yes you should play it. i have. love it. im playing a teamster with a robotic arm. really cool setting. high tension feel.
Character death and massive violence?= I love it aready (Sven, 38, always the GM)
4/5 for the system but you said you adore it!? "It's all awesome" So, why the loss of a point? Clearly it's a great system, but I am earnestly curious what holds back from the full five points?
Probably something that I should have clarified. I like holding out for 5/5 when I feel like it's "best of the best". While Mothership's rad, I do feel like Alien RPG has a better overall system, and since I gave that 5/5 (and this system is super similar but not quite as dynamic), I felt like 4/5 was appropriate.
Hey! I DO want to play mothership 1e. I was hoping you can let me know where I can get it? Is it out in game stores? I have the zero edition but would love the box set.
It's not quite out as a box set yet, but you should keep an eye on Tuesday Knight Games, as I think it should drop pretty soon!
@@WorldofGameDesign thank you!!!
a few years ago I was admin of the lamentations of the flame princess discord. I had joined the Mothership discord and had spoken to the devs quite a bit, they seemed very nice.
The girlfriend of Zak, a LotFP adventure writer, posted a huge allegation of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse against Zak.
Immediately most of the OSR devs sided with the girlfriend and I said in the LotFP discord, not the mothership discord, “We need to hear both sides of the story before this turns into a witch hunt and Zak is wrongfully cancelled.”
Well this exploded with negative reaction because most of the OSR devs follow the: BELIEVE ALL WOMEN! Mindset.
I wasn’t saying she was lying I said we needed to be logical and get all the facts.
The mods of the mothership discord went to other OSR discord I was in and tried to get me kicked out. I was banned from the mothership discord.
To this day I have tried many times to talk with the seemingly friendly devs of Mothership and they wont let me.
You either cancel what turned out to be an innocent man or you aren’t one of them.
So, after Zak got proof that the girlfriend was lying nothing has changed. Zak is taking everyone to court that tried to cancel him. Most of those devs you’ve probably heard of. The dev of electric Bastionland, the dev of Gardens of Ynn, Mothership, and lots more.
I don’t hate the mothership devs, but I’m a customer and was mistreated so every chance I get I warn people about these devs.
I’d love to talk with the devs and put this behind us. I’d delete every post I made online, but I know they won’t talk to me.
Maybe this new edition will sell enough copies to cover their legal fees when Zak takes them to court.
Wtf are you on about mate
@@archiegrishipol try reading?
@@japandave3871 you look like exactly the kind of American who defends domestic abusers and goes to live in Japan hahahaha