Bounty Hunting in Space: Mothership - Wages of Sin

About the adventure

Mothership is a science fiction horror RPG set in the far future, and in this Wages of Sin campaign, you will play the roles of bounty hunters - willing to travel through space to hunt down escaped fugitives, bringing them back to face justice for their crimes. This could include anything from workers trying to escape their contracts, tax evaders, corporate spies, union organizers... anyone that the (primarily corporate) powers that be in this sector decides they want hunted down. You've learned not to ask too many questions - you don't get paid to wax philosophical about the ethics of your job, after all. You get paid for delivering results. As a game system, Mothership is sleek, fast, and easy to learn - you can roll up a character in less than five minutes and be ready to go. It is a 1d100-based system where you want to roll under your relevant stat to succeed, and where failure means your Stress ticks up. The higher your Stress, the more likely you are to panic when something goes horribly wrong - but if you survive, your Stress is also your "experience points", so you'll want to put your character in dangerous situations - and then try your best to claw your way out of it to survive and see another day. I have introduced this system to new players many times, some who had never played a TTRPG before in their lives, and the feedback I get is always that they love the game, the system makes it easy to get into it and involved, and it works great at creating tension. So if you have never played Mothership before, worry not - I am happy to teach you, and you'll be familiar with the mechanics in no time. This campaign will center on a small crew and their spaceship, traveling through a sector of space lacking in any centralized governments. Each planet, moon, or space station has their own rules and laws one must abide by - and when people cross those rules and try to run, a bounty post is published. You are not the only hunters out there, however, and you need to be cunning and ruthless to outsmart, outrun, or outgun the other hunters going after your prey. And while your bounties are human, you know that in the vast expanse of space, there are other, stranger things lurking. Older things, things that man wasn't meant to encounter. You better hope you can avoid them for as long as possible. This campaign is rated 18+, and takes heavy inspiration from the following pieces of media: - Alien - Star Wars (The Mandalorian, Outlaws, anything involving Boba Fett) - Firefly - The Murderbot Diaries - Blade Runner - The Expanse - Cyberpunk 2077