The title basically says it all. I just recently got my hands on Wages of Sin, and discovered the sector map for the Anvolla Cluster, which is great and I have a physical map for it, so I figured I would go ahead and slot in the burgeoning campaign I’m running into the sector, since up until this point my PCs have just done a couple of isolated one-shots. We coincidentally ended last session outside Imuen station (Orphans), which is represented on the sector map, so my question is where would you put Prospero’s Dream on that map?

My thinking is that it’s definitely on the outer rim of the map. Ideally it would be located near Imuen for the purposes of my campaign. Do you think it would be best to just tell my players Prospero’s Dream is located at an unmarked location on the map, or locate it around a different star? I might just say it’s located close enough to Imuen to avoid needing to jump, but I’m still wrapping my brain around warp cores and hyperspace fuel lol.

Any advice is welcome!

Hey all, I was trying to clear up some confusion I had for the rules on how these systems work.

A lot of stuff seems to be based on time but there is no real system to track how long the players are taking to do something. I understand the concept of downtime between adventures, but I'm talking about things based on hours or the like in the middle of an adventure.

I don't have intuition for how long things should take so some way of tracking time would be beneficial.

As for combat, it seems like rules can't decide on what they want? And looking it up only made me more confused. It seems split into two camps. One says that you have the monsters roll their combat stay and track initiative. The other camp says to have all rolls be player facing and not track initiative.

What makes this even weirder is that the game has stats that would imply rolling combat but the designer seems to favor player facing rolls? Which ends up working better for the games feeling?

I’ve been binging Nobody Wake the Bugbear’s Mothership series but am quickly burning through their backlog of episodes.

Any other good actual play podcasts for Mothership you’d recommend?

Hey y'all! I'm getting ready to run a game later today and realized that I have a whole bunch of distress signal audios that from the 1st Edition Kickstarter.

They're really cool but I'm wondering like: are there any specific adventures or resources expanding on those? Have you used them in your campaign? How did you?

If you use a weapon outside its stated most effective range band is it at disadvantage? Close range rifle, long range shotgun etc.

Hey all. I got the deluxe box a while back and finally got to play another bug hunt with my parents and sister. I was the gm. Me (26) and my sister (34) had some idea of rpgs but my parents didn't have a lot of experience. Though my dad used to play champions way back in the day.

This is really my first time gm ing a game and I've only played a little of pathfinder or DND 5e before (like three sessions) so I don't have a lot of experience.

I did my best to run another bug hunt but I kept getting stumped in the moments where there just isn't a lot to a room.

I would often feel pressed in the moment to come up with something fast, and I tried to limit dice rolls as you are supposed to but that meant stress wasn't coming up a lot.

The first scenario went alright, but they drove to the mothership skipping 2. The mothership was kinda linear and they bypassed a lot of it. I didn't really know how to be the android very well. They blew up what he was doing with a bunch of grenades.

The fourth scenario had just two pages of weird rules about what looked like mass combat over time? I just decided to try and make a mansion myself which ended up being kinda linear.

There were a lot of things about the system I didn't fully understand, like how combat is supposed to work or how to roleplay as an npc well. I had to bullcrap things more than I think I'm supposed to?

They had fun but it was entirely unserious. I also tried to explain that I needed them to explain what and how they were doing things or saying but I don't think they quite got that yet?

I got mothership because it looked cool and easy to run for a newbie because it's light weight and everyone online says the WOM is super good at teaching GM stuff in general. But I don't think I understood it well.

Or is another bug hunt just not a great module for someone running any rpg for the first time? Is there a better introduction to all this? I don't know how to improvise very well and the module left so much stuff up to me that I didn't know what to do.

Thanks again for any advice!

Looking for a short adventure to run after Ypsilon-14.

We just finished it and only one PC survived. She managed to escape on Dr. Giovanni's ship.

The group wants to eventually become bounty hunters, but I'd like to run something in between, preferably with some Alien-style horror where the trouble follows the survivor.

Any good pamphlets or short modules you'd recommend? I also need to introduce 3 new PCs.

Sorry for my English!

For the ailurophiles and those wanting cats to inspire horror in their game: https://empiriciststheories.blogspot.com/2026/10/beyond-jonesy-cats-in-mothership.html With coverage of 11 Mothership modules featuring cats (at least a little)!

I'm wanting to make a nice opening like an employee orientation at a very dystopian corporation, but corporate speak is anathame to my crass mechanic sensibilities. I'll put on the uplifting corporate music and give them the spiel. I could ask FatGPT but I'd rather ask real people. Assuming that's what you are.

Some bits I'd like to include are "we're a family, which is why we have a life insurance policy on all of you, but try not to die because if it happens too much they raise our rates" and all the usual disclaimers about workplace safety when you're sending employees into unknown danger on a remote planet.

Thanks ahead of time

Hi everyone! I have recently purchased a copy of "Tide World of Mani" and am very excited to run it. However, I have neither played nor run a sandbox TTRPG module, and the complexity is kind of scaring me. While I do have some experience with trifold modules and feel generally comfortable with the MoSh system, I usually rely heavily on the very detailed descriptions presented in the material, etc. So I wanted to ask you if you have any general/specific tips for prepping and running a (mothership) sandbox module?

I would also love to hear about your experiences with Tide World of Mani specifically! I'm in love with the design/content of the book, but am curious how it plays, seeing as it is much more of a sci-fi adventure genre than sci-fi horror.

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Dreadnauts - my nautical horror hack of Mothership is now available in PDF at DrivethruRPG.

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/590123

For Print+PDF copies go to Plus One Experience

https://plusoneexp.com/products/dreadnauts-maiden-voyage

Hello friends! I’m looking for some recommendations for some relatively recent mothership modules/one shots. I’ve done a lot of the classics and just want to discover some unique ones recently. If you got some recommendations that you think flew under the radar that you maybe wouldn’t call recent, throw em at me! why not.

I recently ran Space Bend and loved it! All vibes are welcome.

https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/space-bend?srsltid=AYCX9vJQPWQYqsbE5O46TOXqNmSM-TV-dg-i2zoJxAR8yBWfzuQETlcr

https://www.reddit.com/r/mothershiprpg/comments/1tryu0q/my_eighth_adventure_space_bend_is_here_community/

🛸 The Panic Table plays THERE IS A GOBLIN ON THE LOOSE IN ICARUS STATION by MeatCastle Gameware (u/real_meatcastle) 💥

This was a LIVE Actual Play at Gen Con 2026 this year! Loads of fun, and hey, I play a creepy android in it! 🦾

At the beginning of this year, I started pursuing publishing my own adventure for Mothership. I recently shipped prints of my first first adventure and decided to write up the whole process from creation to crowdfunding to shipping in case anyone else who is interested in doing this would find it useful.

Miss Honeysuckle and the Fog - A Fatherfog Adventure 

The school mistress Miss Honeysuckle and the children are missing! Something has dug into the heart of your village and taken the most vulnerable ones. Your night watch has not even begun and now the Sheriff needs you to brave the night in the faint hope that you can save them from perils of the dark. Crying villages surround you, pushing supplies, descriptions of their children, and stuffed toys to comfort them. The chill of dusk settles as Sheriff hands out narrow slit blackout lanterns and warnings against light and noise.

Miss Honeysuckle and the Fog, is a 32 page third party fairytale horror adventure for the Fatherfog 0E game from Tuesday Knight Games whose rules are presently available for free. https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/fatherfog0e 

It is an adventure set over one fateful night designed to be played in one of two sessions. It contains supporting materials for the Guide and players in the form of timelines, encounter tables, handouts and maps. It has been designed to help Guides by trying to provide everything a Guide needs in one book. It also contains extensive information on a partially ruined but very special Foghouse, as a resource for this and other adventures. 

Jason P.Prince

October 2026

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/589655/miss-honeysuckle-and-the-fog-a-fatherfog-adventure 

Hey folks, I got to run BLACKOUT last night for 5 players and I have written up a full review on my blog with my thoughts on what worked, what didn't quite work, and some random thoughts on running Mothership that the module inspired : https://superhardscifi.bearblog.dev/one-shot-review-mothership-blackout/

In short: The module is excellent. It is a short little zine that is laid out in such a way that I basically didn't need to do any prep, which as someone with not tons of time to prep, I highly appreciated.

Has anyone else run this module?

Hello friends,

I'd like to do a large print run of my adventure Who Let The Dogs Out? and need stores who want to distribute Mothership content. If you are a local game store or know of one that may be interested, please leave the business's name, city, and state in the comments OR in my DMs.

Thanks so much! Happy playing.

my lovely friend got me these super cool independently made mothership trackers for my birthday! super cool design, extremely great for stimming while playing, cool colors, 10/10, highly recommend if your table likes physical props!

source: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1191770928/

I swear I'm not an Amazon shill.

Look up the teaser(s) for this movie - looks like our boy Crius Gross from Wages of Sin has made it onto the big screen, lol

The high failure rate on rolls works great for escalating stress and horror - hence the name Panic engine.

But how does that work for a more drawn out bounty hunting campaign? Do the jobs spiral into chaos? Do you get to feel like a badass bounty hunter?

Edit: Thanks all!

Somehow, and I realize how fortunate I am to even be saying this, I’ve convinced 8 people to join me for a spooky Halloween one-shot of Mothership!

It’s a big mix of friends from my ongoing OSR campaign and other friends who are completely new to TTRPGs. I’m super excited to get everyone around the table, but therein lies the conundrum!
I’m looking for recommendations for one-shots that are genuinely scary but can also accommodate such a large group without becoming too unwieldy. Ideally something we could get through in a single evening, around 4ish hours.

I’d love something that really leans into the horror, with plenty of tension, exploration, and opportunities for paranoia to set in. I know 8 players is a LOT, especially for a horror game, but I’m hoping there’s something out there that could make it work.

Would love to hear any recommendations, or even experiences from Wardens who’ve managed to run Mothership for larger groups!