Mothership Month 2025 is almost over and I’m just posting about it now because I am very smart and good at this.
MM25 is a group crowdfunding event set up by Sean McCoy of Tuesday Knight Games largely to help share some of their success with third party publishers which is pretty fuckin cool of him.
I’m mostly done with the second draft of Bombs Bursting in Air, with editing by Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink and illustrations by Boson Au.
Like all MM25 projects, BBiA takes place on the critically damaged but inhabited space station Prospero’s Dream. In this case it was written to take place before any of the events described in A Pound of Flesh.
The player crew has been hired to deliver a surgical bed to an oxygen shelter in a deoxygenated neighborhood in the damaged region of the station known as the Choke. By the end of the first session they’re accused of the crime of the century, and are left to prove their own innocence by finding the culprits themselves.
Back it! Or don’t, I’m not your boss. One thing the Backerkit page doesn’t mention is that at the end of the campaign when all the backers are tallied and being confirmed, you’ll have the option to upgrade your pledge with an add-on. Specifically, the Survivors of the Core Wars character cards I wrote for MM24. I used almost half of these characters in the adventure, so you’ll have a way to use them right away.
I've also been playing as the president of the Teamsters Local 32819L in the game Over/Under, which you may have heard of if you're on Bluesky. It's a massive wargame with political elements from the faction bosses' perspective and a sort of freeform larp from the perspective of more than a thousand denizens. Well I was playing until I got assassinated at the measurable peak of my political popularity. I'm planning on digging into the experience from my character's perspective here but I can't do that until it ends tomorrow because everything I know is actionable intelligence.
