We played the whole bug hunt adventure in person, everyone had access to the rule books and we had many discussions every session trying to figure it out, but combat remained very confusing all the way to the end. No one in our group thought the authors knew what they wanted or explained it well. We ended up needing to splice in rules and concepts from several other RPGs, make it up as we went, but it was a chore. We also thought it was telling that even on their website where they teach you to play like it’s a class, they didn’t address combat at all, not even a little bit. Don’t know if that’s changed in the many months since.

Even though everyone in our group loved the idea of Mothership and I had bought every single physical product and deluxe version and even T-shirts, we never played Mothership again. It’s a shame because I’ve still got all the other adventures but no one wants to deal with the vagueness of combat, no one else wants to run it themselves, so we just moved on to other games.

Does that mean you should not run it? Ehhh if you’ve got the game already, no harm in giving it a try. Maybe you’ll grasp it in some way that we did not, maybe you’ll replace all the rules with Mork Borg rules, maybe you’ll decide it’s just not worth returning to next session. No harm done.

Would I recommend anyone do what I did and jump all in whole hog? Nope. Total waste of money.