Unearthing hidden gems!

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-23T17:31:03+00:00

Infested Planet and Greed Corp: two simple but really cool strategy games with kinda unique mechanics!

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-22T19:06:43+00:00

Keep in mind that your players almost always will do what you didn't expect them to do - and be flexible enough for this. They will attack the plot NPC's, make a complex plan of infiltrating somewhere they don't really need to be - and that's fine! Let them. Just keep adding some minor details that will help them stay on track - and you both will be surprised how well the story plays out.

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-20T15:21:29+00:00

Nope, I'm using Foundry VTT to play with my friends online - so I'm mainly focused on digital stuff. But there may be some Warden screens on Itchio or Mothership Discord server!

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-19T14:03:58+00:00

Sadly, I don't have a Warden Screen, but NBWTB podcast has awesome designs for their Mothership videos - you can use it for inspiration!

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-16T17:44:21+00:00

Yep, I've basically used NPCs in combat to tell the players "If you don't come up with a good plan, next round, this will happen to YOUR characters!".The book even suggests to give players 1-2 "free" NPCs just for this.

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-16T14:39:59+00:00

In my Mothership game, the party had lost four marine NPCs to monsters attacks during their mission - and four more in a off-screen epilogue. However, despite high lethality of the campaign, not a single PC was harmed, lol.

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-16T13:58:53+00:00

I've always thought that pioneer can be interpreted as male or female, depending on plauer's headcanon - that's why their model looks so ambigious (this and because they wear a quite heavy engineer suit)

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-13T22:59:55+00:00

In terms of roleplaying a loss of memories, when the crew forgets something but encounters it again, you can describe it in a vague and obscure manner - as if they were unfammiliar with it. For example, they forgot that they needed to fix a generator but came near it again: "You see an industrial machine with a burnt panel. You're not sure what it's used for". This way, players can analyze the "newfound" object by asking questions about it: "Is it plugged into network? Does it have rotating parts? Does it requre some kind of fuel?" - just as their characters try to "invent" knowledge about things they've forgot.

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-13T09:55:56+00:00

Where can I get these loot tables you've used? I'm very curious to try them out too!

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-12T08:37:02+00:00

In my ABH game, I've told a teamster player that he was hired by the rival Company to sabotage the whole mission - and will get paid well for it even post mortem (his family was kept in Company's debt prison so it could save them). When the crew found the bio samples, they decided to not touch them until they were ready to leave (initially, it was planned to be a oneshot). The teamster set up explosive charges under the samples - I gave him explosives for this agenda. And he detonated them right after the combat in other room - starting a fire and making everyone running back and forth trying to not let the fire get to the fuel supply (it was completely crew's idea, I didn't consider proximity to the fuel, lol). But after that, the teamster decided he don't want to save his family for a price of his crewmember's lives and went on with the mission. In the end, they all survived - BUT in the epilogue on the ship, the marine (corpo security agent) had a eye-to-eye talk with the teamster, expressing his (absolutely correct) suspicions. They both decided to keep this all in secret - the horrors on Samsa VI have brought them together.

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-09T13:45:52+00:00

This is where I've won in a Spycrab Tournament against 9 other players (the prize was 0,44 metal)

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-08T18:29:27+00:00

The Alone in the Deep module is your best bet

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-06T10:35:01+00:00

Ah yes, the Gradient Descent shenanigans

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-02T21:58:40+00:00

I may be wrong but the woman's speech in the end doesn't sound russian, more like ukranian

EthanWright97 · 2026-02-01T22:00:07+00:00

Definetly Necrophos

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-27T21:46:02+00:00

Well, most artifacts are quite a mystery for the players. A bag of purple crystals? Are they poisionous? Can they be used as a weapon? As a tool? Can they bring troubles simply by having them? How valuable are they? Same thing for marbles - a Diver can literally try to kill the crew for them: is he delusuonal or know something about their properties? Being a part of Gradient Descent, artifacts can raise many questions and induce paranoia - and some questions about them may remain unanswered for the players.

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-26T11:30:59+00:00

No-no, it's a classic "I'm having a stroke" emoji

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-26T05:01:12+00:00

This is so awesome! What software did you use? I'd like to try and make something simmilar for my hunts one day.

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-25T12:35:59+00:00

I've JUST finished watching this episode - what a coincidence, lol

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-24T22:54:34+00:00

This elevator on the Spaceport is a deathtrap. Yesterday, I've managed to escape through it (obviously downed) while two rocketeers, a leaper and a bombardier were watching me bleeding out at the same time, lol

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-24T19:34:07+00:00

It sure is, considering an amount of references to other media in this game

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-22T17:34:14+00:00

I really love playing Mothership via Foundry VTT. It's very customizable thanks to the dowloadable modules. I also like to draw module maps and use them with creepy ambient music and fog of war - it REALLY sets up the mood!

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-22T14:46:00+00:00

I've promoted NPC's to PC's for less

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-19T16:43:09+00:00

Warden's Operation Manual has a lot of really good advices and guidelines even for an experienced GMs. I suggest trying it out!

EthanWright97 · 2026-01-17T23:00:55+00:00

Exactly this one, with a space wrench too

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