Brace yourself for Mothership Month—a group-collab project led by Tuesday Knight Games featuring some of the brightest stars from the Mothership third-party publishing (3PP) community. Each 👩🚀 creator has launched a brand new adventure filled with criminals, smugglers, and rimspace pirates.
Mothership Month Supply Pods
🚀 Back 5+ projects at the physical level and gain access to the SUPPLY PODS. Every five projects that fund, you get ANOTHER Supply Pod with more free goodies.
🌟 Supply Pod 1 (Unlocked!): 1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS. Each pack contains 13 pre-made character cards ready for use as pre-gen characters or NPCs. Each pack comes with at least one FOIL card.
🌟 Supply Pod 2 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, 5 foil campaign project stickers.
🌟 Supply Pod 3 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, +5 foil campaign project stickers, and an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin!
🌟 Supply Pod 4 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS,+11 foil campaign project stickers, and Shadow of a Doubt a brand new "reverse murder mystery" pamphlet adventure by Ian Yusem (Hull Breach, The Drain).
All in: if you back 5+ projects you're getting 4 Character Card packs (an entire deck of cards), 21 foil project stickers, an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin, and a brand new adventure pamphlet.
Are there more Supply Pods to come? We're looking into it now!
Streams, Interviews, and more!
All month long, we're diving into the void with daily streams, unsettling interviews, and exclusive, heart-pounding reveals. Whether you're a veteran spacer or new to the Mothership, join us in celebrating the universe’s bravest survivors…and those who didn’t make it back.
Thanks for joining us on our first ever Mothership Month! 👽
PSA: What about shipping?
While it would be amazing if we could bundle all the shipping together, currently with each project's different location, fulfillment timeline, and process it's not feasible for everything to be shipped together. It's a difficult logistical problem to solve and we've got some ideas for next year to help relieve shipping burdens. A few projects may ship together based on the publisher, see each project's page for details.
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Welcome to the first monthly update for Awaiting the Burning Gods. There's lots to share today so let's dive in. First off, I hope you all enjoyed the holidays, however you celebrate. I enjoyed a little time off myself after the rollercoaster of Mothership Month and am happy to be back at the keyboard working away on getting this thing ready for you all.
State of the Zine
Before the holidays I made significant headway on The Smuggler's Guide to 1365, including writing unique alternate start, smuggling scenarios for Awaiting the Burning Gods, Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, The Cleaning of Prison Station Echo, and Nirvana on Fire. Each scenario offers tweaks to the original set up to reframe it to be perfect for your outer rim outlaws and lead them to explore scenarios they otherwise may have missed in a standard run of the adventure.
Meanwhile, Daniel has been working through more of the art for the zine and only has a few pieces remaining. Here's his take on the mysterious Smoking Darkness Reclamations. Watch out for them stalking the shadows between the ruined towers of Ma'at!
Smoking Darkness Reclamation Team on the hunt.
On the layout side of things, Dai has blocked out the book and it's looking like the final page count, with all the art and maps is going to come in around 44! Should be nice and substantial while fitting perfectly into the A5 saddle-stitched format. Here’s a draft of one of Dai’s maps for the upper tomb, showcasing a “1980s cassette futurism” aesthetic inspired by low-res orbital 3D scans. The text boxes on the sides will hold notes from the Landis survey techs, prepping your explorers for their descent.
Draft map of the upper vault
Building theBackerkit
A couple house keeping notes here regarding completing your orders, add-ons, and grabbing your digital copies.
The Late Pledge Store Is Live: If you are reading this but missed the campaign or want to share it with a friend, the Late Pledge Store is open!
Backer Surveys On the Way: I'm on round two of setup working with the Backerkit team to make sure all the stars are correctly aligned for the Survey. Should have those ready to go for you to confirm your order and finalize your add-ons in the next few weeks, so keep an eye on your inbox - especially your junk mail folder! I'll send a quick note when I'm sending them so you'll get a heads up before as well.
Digital Downloads in the works: For those who ordered existing Magnum Galaxy Games titles, I’m setting up your downloads. Initially, these will be available through BackerKit, with final copies delivered through DriveThruRPG during campaign fulfillment to complete your collections.
That's it for this month. Until next time I wish you all warmth, happiness, and a critical success on your next stat check.
Hope you all had an amazing holiday, the TKG team took a good break for the end of the year and we’re all getting back in from being out of office, so let’s dive in!
First off, thank you all so much for making Mothership Month and Wages of Sin such huge successes. It’s been humbling to see all our third party creators thrive and flourish, and really encouraging to see the response to Wages and Megadamage.
What’s the status?
There are a lot of moving pieces to this campaign. Let’s go through each of them:
Wages of Sin
Manuscript is complete.
Editing should be done by the end of January.
Final art should be turned in by the end of January.
Layout template is built, final layout to commence in early February.
Once layout is complete, the draft will be turned over to backers for preview and proofreading.
Final proofreading will commence after backers have turned in any errors they’ve caught.
Final files will then be sent to the manufacturer.
Megadamage
Final articles due by the end of January.
Editing happens article by article as they are turned in. Proofreading for this is handled in house.
Layout, graphic design, and illustration happen as the articles are turned in.
We will send out a preview to backers once the pre-press draft is assembled.
Pledge Manager The basic pledge manager is up and running. You can add Add-Ons to your order now. Shipping will be charged later, closer to when the books are finished printing, as will applicable VAT and Taxes. As this is a book, VAT shouldn’t affect too many of you. We’ll be adding more products to the pledge manager over the next week or two (like PDFs of our back catalog).
We will start working on downloads for those of you who have purchased add ons in the next week.
Character Cards The character cards have been designed and written and are waiting for final art, which should be here by the end of January. Take a look! The fronts have a full sized portrait and the backs have all the details you need to run the character. These can be used either as an NPC, or as a pre-generated PC. Finally, we have included an import code for each card, so any of these cards can be imported into the Mothership Companion App as a full fledged PC. We’re pretty excited about that.
Card back
Card front
Stretch Goals
The ODC prison complex has been written. It’s an amazing addition to the book. It includes the complete plans for the prison complex, tons of new NPCs, and it makes a great location to throw your players into (or start them out at) to see if they can escape.
Printable Warden Posters: We’ll work on these once the books are at the printer’s.
New Ships: These are being designed now and should be done within the next month.
Audio Briefings: The scripts for these have been written, and once they make it through editing they’l be assigned to our VO team. These should release around when we fulfill the physical copies.
Poster Map: These will be designed once the book finishes editing.
Patches: The patches have been designed and should be sent off to print in the next month.
Companion App
If you haven’t heard, the Mothership Companion App recently added an amazing new VTT upgrade: you can run online sessions of Mothership from the app itself, including tokens, dice, characters, map making, and more. Here are two video tutorials about some of the recent additions.
We’ll release an update once each month (we’ve been bad about this in the past, but our New Year’s Resolution is to correct that.). When shipping and fulfillment commence you’ll start getting bi-weekly updates, and then after fulfillment we’ll do bi-monthly updates.
Until then, stay warm those of you with inclement weather incoming in the US (or in the midst of it). We’ll be back in February with another update. As always, if you have any issues, please e-mail Tyler at [email protected]
Hello and Happy New Year! Now that funds have cleared and we are past the holidays I’m starting back in on Death Pays All Debts.
We are about to begin a Dev edit pass on the manuscript. I’m excited to get other eyes on this project and to work with Christian on the module.
We are also in the initial phases of getting the interior illustrations done, once Brandon is able to start on those I’ll share more progress.
I have also been continuing to create more floor maps. I have a good idea of what the layout for each floor should be, just needing minor adjustments and decorations once we finalize the manuscript.
I will also be planning on starting the patch creation and proofing process this month, to ensure those are ready to go when the rest of the project is complete.
I hope everyone had a restful holiday season and I’m looking forward to sharing more as we develop Death Pays All Debts!
We’re excited to share the latest progress on What Was Left to Rot:
Preorder Store Is Live: If you missed the campaign or want to share the project with friends, the preorder store is now open! Spread the word!
Manuscript Update: The finished manuscript is now in the capable hands of our editor, ensuring it’s polished and ready for the next stage.
New Classes Drafted: The first draft of the four new classes—Smuggler, Flesh Mechanic, Data Leech, and The Law—is complete, and we’re gathering peer feedback to refine them.
Sticker Test Print: We’ve received a test print of the freebie “Infected” sticker for physical backers, and it looks fantastic.
“In Case of Infection” Sheet: The draft text for this short guide is coming together nicely. We've decided to go the horror-comedy direction, and it’s full of dark humor and Company-speak.
Backer Surveys Coming Soon: We’re finalizing the finer details of survey setup to ensure everything is accurate and smooth. Surveys will be sent out in the near future, so keep an eye on your inbox!
Thank you, as always, for your support and enthusiasm. We can’t wait to bring everything together for you! If you have questions feel free to reach out to us by email at [email protected].
Surveys have been sent out and most have completed them. There are about 25% of Backers however that have not completed their surveys. Please take a moment to fill it out. I'm adding one extra week before I lock orders to finalize counts so if you're keen on picking up any add-ons or adjusting your Pledge, you'll need to fill the survey out before the 17th (you can still update your information after this date).
Not much to say otherwise at this time. I'll send out a real update when I have something interesting to share!
I hope everyone is kicking along well after a few weeks of festivities and new years celebrations. I know I feel tired and socialed out. And probably a kilo or two heavier let’s be honest.
Where We Are At?
Pledge Manager. I’ve just sent out the Smoke Test for the pledge manager. This is a little behind schedule as I left it a dash to long to send off to the Backerkit team and had to wait till they were back from holidays.
A Smoke Test is simply sending the survey out to 5% of each pledge level to check for any errors. Easier to fix with a few dozen people than a few hundred.
Once that’s come back all gold, I’ll send the survey out to everyone else.
Syndicate Wastrels. At the moment I’m pouring through Stretch Goal creation and some re-designs on the main book. I’m quite hopeful for the end of the month for digital delivery. With that said, there is still art to finish and editing to go, so things could change.
Goodie Arrivals. I’ve actually had some goodies arrive. The Early-Bird Magnet and Bookmark, as well as a test run of the Bounty Cards to see how they look. We’ve changed a few small things from what you see below, but in general it’s the same. In general, I think they all turned out awesome!
That’s it for now. Keep an eye on your emails for the Pledge Manager invite. If you have any issues, feel free to shoot me a message. Here or [email protected]
Next update will be in a few weeks once the digital files are ready.
Hello everyone, we hope your week is going well! We're just dropping a quick update on the following:
1. The BackerKit Pledge Manager is under review, so look for more info on that this week as we get ready to send out surveys.
2. The art and writing have been completed and are all installed in the layout file. Look for a preview version of the digital files some time in the next two weeks.
3. We're ordering a sample of the card deck next week so we will have some cool pictures to share with you all as to what the final product will look like.
Okay, thanks for reading, and cheers until next time!
I understand there is some sort of Discord Server where everybody else is getting updates and information.
I could not find anything in the Backerkit Campaign that suggested that is how we would get information.
Can we get a bumped link or perhaps some cross pollination of information?
