Out of Character Thread

We'll use this thread for any conversation or questions not being made as part of the game narative.

Likely tonight or tomorrow afternoon I should have another "Gameplay Rules" thread, where I’ll go over the basic rules you need to know to play mother ship, and then we’ll build on to that thread as necessary, or as the situation requires. Shouldn’t be too much that isn’t covered in the first post; the game isn’t extremely crunchy or anything. I’m pretty sure there’s even a cheat sheet I can just post from the back of the Player’s Survival Guide.

There is a very nice cheat sheet! 😊

Hi!

*waves* Hi

Hi everyone and thanks for the invite!

Looking forward to this... I have a single one-shot under my belt but excited to get more experience.

Hey all, I posted a thread on Gameplay Rules. At the moment it mostly just covers the basics found on the cheat sheet, but consider it a living document that'll grow as situations arise. I've left that thread locked for the time being, and if there's ever any questions or suggestions for things that should be added, we can discuss it here.

Also, if any of you are unhappy with your dice rolls while making your PC, feel free to re-roll a new PC until you're happy with what you get, delete your current one posted, and re-post a better one. Obviously, I don't want anyone just re-rolling individual Stats until you roll double-tens, so if you re-roll a PC you have to re-roll the entire PC... Stats, Saves, the whole works. Likewise, there's an official Mothership app available on mobile devices that lets you roll up a character in minutes. If you wish to download it, feel free to spam the heck out of the app until you get a PC you like, and post that one.
It would seem like letting you start with a nearly-maxed PC is counterproductive to playing a game where the point is that failure is often met with disastrous outcomes, but honestly, I've let letting the players do this in the online game I run over Discord and this game is tough enough that your maxed-out PC is still going to struggle, and PCs with less than ideal numbers are only negligibly weaker than the super-maxed ones. Despite my players coming in with good PCs, two have been killed off already in this one-shot, and the other two are alive if only for hanging back and letting the two now-dead PCs make all the bad decisions.
For those that want to keep their under-powered PCs they rolled, don't worry, you're not going to be all that remarkably weaker or at any really noticeable disadvantage to your stronger counterparts... This game is designed to make failure much more common than success, and death is almost all but assured. That said, bear in mind it's better to try and find options that don't require a Stat check, because barring a relevant Skill Bonus to aid the PC, failure is statistically going to be the more common result, and every failure adds stress, which increases the likelihood the PCs will panic at some point.

Also, I'm thinking the shuttle departing for Prison Station Echo is scheduled to leave no later than Sunday, February 25th. Obviously, if everyone has their PCs finished and we're all ready to go before then, we'll go. But Sunday at the latest...

Sounds good!

Hey everyone! Just joined. I have a tiny bit of PBP Mothership experience but its been a while. Glad to be here!

Welcome to Gamersplane and the game, z3bul0n!

Cool beans on the shuttle departure, GM!

For sending notes put a checkmark on the person's name and also the private box. Only you and that person will see it. If it's just a note to a player and you don't mind the rest of us seeing it than just checkmark their name and add a note.

Awesome, thanks!

Welcome, z3bul0n!

Also if you don't want to have blank posts, you can insert any secret private messages into your post. Forgot to mention that until I saw your blank posts. 😊

Like so:

Oh, so on your end of the screen it comes up looking like a series of blank posts?

Yeah okay, I think I understand. The last campaign I ran on here was a zombie apocalypse adventure a few years ago, and as I recall, when I tried to add multiple private messages to different players in one thread, all of the messages wound up showing to all of the players. It was like a bug or glitch or something.

That’s why I didn’t want to post them all in one thread. Maybe it was fixed.