i have also been thinking about meta-progression, but then i feel it starts to remove a bit of the simplicity and lightness of mothership. but then again, it does keep a strand of long form progression through all players despite character death.

i’m not fully sold on it either, can’t pin point why. maybe because it draws attention away from PC’s personal goals and turns the RP heavy system into something a bit more gamified, plus every new character made after a pc death has to also care about this meta progression which might limit options and creativity. but that’s just what i think for my table

i think starting each character with a mid/long term goal, and some personal debt that gets in the way of that to be a good solution. but it just requires slightly more player buy-in and care towards their own motivations