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Graffitied streets. 

Long-closed and
picked-over businesses. 

An odd stairwell. 

Then, 
you're never
heard from
again.


Roach Motel is a 36-page booklet adventure for Mothership featuring:

  • A ready-to-run facility crawl through labyrinthine corridors and chambers. Dense-but-organized layout with clear information hierarchy and emphasis makes referencing mid-session a breeze.
  • Dynamic and variable events and encounters. Each area of the facility has its own unique table of events and encounters to punctuate quiet and cautious exploration. An ever-intensifying foe wears down the crew, testing and prying until it's safe to tear out their entrails. 
  • 130+ rooms to ceaselessly wander. As your crew desperately search for an escape, they can piece through the layered history of the facility and discover what's truly at play. Is the facility genuinely endless?
  • Juicy hooks, sockets, and fallout to integrate into your campaign. A variety of gigs the crew could take, and a cast of NPCs that can be run as-is or swapped out for factions from your crew's past adventures. The secrets of the facility cast long shadows on your campaign.

Expect 3–5 three-hour sessions of slow exploration and investigation, increasingly punctuated with tense encounters.

Also included:

  • Printable play-aids for wardens and players. Reminder sheets with the full facility's layout, plus key mechanics and stats. Letters from the crew's employers, to remind them it wasn't worth coming here.

Coming soon:

  • Physical copies at Tuesday Knight Games and below. 
  • Bonus artwork by Fellow Mammal, inspired by the facility and its denizens/victims.
  • Designer's commentary version — annotated on every page with thoughts, process notes, sketches, and bits 'n' pieces that fell to the cutting-room floor.

Content Warning: Harm to Animals, Harm to a Child-like Person, Human Experimentation, Mind Control, Suicide, Mentions of Torture


Writing, Illustration, and Layout by Norgad
Editing and Proofreading by A. Rat and C. Bell

Solarian prayer on page 18 by Jay Hawking
Dicier typeface by Speak the Sky, licensed under CC BY 4.0

This product is based on the Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror Role Playing Game, published by Tuesday Knight Games. This product is published under license. MOTHERSHIP® is a registered trademark of Tuesday Knight Games. All rights reserved. For additional information, visit www.tuesdayknightgames.com or contact contact@tuesdayknightgames.com.

Published 21 hours ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
AuthorNorgad
GenreAdventure
TagsBackrooms, booklet, Horror, maze, module, mothership, OSR, Sci-fi, Tabletop role-playing game

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In order to download this TTRPG module you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Roach_Motel_v1.1.pdf 8.7 MB
Roach_Motel_v1.1_Pages.pdf 8.8 MB
Roach_Motel_Printouts_v1.0.zip 400 kB

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Horrifying! Usable! Versatile! You've made something really clever here, well done <3