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Mothership: Managing the Expendables

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Category: Role Playing Games

“There are a thousand derelicts ripe with salvage around Sagittarius A”

This boardgame/OSR-inspired zine is the perfect mini-campaign for your first session of Mothership. 

Managing the Expendables is a toolkit to help wardens create infested derelicts full of valuable salvage and monstrous entities.

Place your players in a nightmarish race against the clock to salvage their company mandated quota while a horrific array of alien entities wake up and begin to hunt!

Included with this zine are:

  • Managing the Expendables - a booklet full of tools to create thousands of derelict spacecraft for your players to explore, including four sample derelicts:
    • Surplus of Intent – The meat’s gone bad!
    • Unfathomable Pachyderm – Babar’s magical memetic revenge!
    • The Cantankerous Hyperion – The androids are not ok!
    • Fantastical Pretenders – Don’t join the circus!
  • A derelict sheet to record information for your upcoming sessions.
  • Asset contract and onboarding document - a Kafka-esque in-universe legal document. Let your PCs sign away their rights and future for profit!

Written by Jamie Heitler
Art by Thomas Heitler
Proofreading and editing by Joan Lennon

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Customer Reviews (4.7 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Stella ★★★★★

The hook of a derelict-filled salvage run around Sagittarius A instantly sold me, and it did not disappoint—the module's structure makes it dead simple to run cold, with no prep beyond a quick skim. My players were genuinely torn between greed and survival by the second session, which is exactly the

John ★★★★★

The "thousand derelicts ripe with salvage" hook immediately set the tone for a gritty, high-stakes session. We ran it as our group's first Mothership game and the mini-campaign structure made it dead simple to prep with zero railroading. My only regret is that we blew through it in one long night—I

Alexander U. ★★★★☆

Ran this as our group's first Mothership session and the zine format made it easy to keep at the table without page-flipping chaos. The premise around salvaging derelicts near Sagittarius A gave us just enough structure to make the mini-campaign feel focused, though I wish there were a few more rand

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