Mothership

Classes

Choose one class during character creation and apply its adjustments to your stats and saves.
Class loadouts are on page 7
Class benefits are on the character sheet, on page 42
Marine
- Soldiers and fighters — handy in a fight, but their panic is contagious and dangerous for the crew.
Android
- Non-human crew members whose cold inhumanity unnerves those around them, even when they're trying to help.
Scientist
- Doctors, researchers, and specialists — deeply knowledgeable but prone to losing their grip on sanity.
Teamster
- Rough blue-collar workers — mechanics, miners, and pilots who are broadly capable but not specialists.

Player's Survival Guide, page 4, Player's Survival Guide, page 42, Player's Survival Guide, page 7

Armor Points (AP): ignore damage below your AP
- If a hit equals or exceeds your AP: take remaining damage and armor is destroyed
Damage Reduction (DR): reduce all incoming damage by the listed amount

Player's Survival Guide, page 26, Player's Survival Guide, page 27, Player's Survival Guide, page 28

When you take damage, subtract it from your health
If you take more damage than you have health, add a wound, and reset your health to maximum
- Then subtract any remaining damage
- If you reach your maximum wounds, make a death save

To make a death save, roll a d10, under a cup, and wait for assistance
Don’t check the dice until someone checks you
- Consult the Death Table (page 29)

Healing
- Once per day, after 6+ hours of rest, make a body save to reset Health to maximum (don’t heal wounds)
- To heal wounds, conditions, or stat modifications, you require professional medical care

Player's Survival Guide, page 28, Player's Survival Guide, page 29, Player's Survival Guide, page 34

Only make a check when there’s a significant risk, or a serious consequence to failure
Determine which stat / save to check against
- If you’re using one of your skills, add it to your stat for this check
Roll a d100
- Less than your stat: success
- Equal to or over: failure, gain 1 stress
- 90–99: always a failure
- Doubles: critical (pass or fail)
  - 00 is always a Critical Success
  - 99 is always a Critical Failure
Advantage: roll twice, take the lower result
Disadvantage: roll twice, take the higher result

Player's Survival Guide, page 18

The more stress you have, the more likely you are to panic when bad things happen
Keep track of your stress (you start with 2)
- You have a minimum stress and can't go below this
- Maximum stress is 20; any stress taken over 20 reduces the most relevant stat or save instead
- To relieve stress, make a Rest Save using your worst save
  - Success: reduce stress by the ones digit of the roll
  - Failure: gain 1 stress
  - Leisure activities give advantage; unsafe locations give disadvantage
Make a panic check whenever
- You roll a critical failure
- Dramatically appropriate events (e.g. witnessing death, encountering strange entities)
- Whenever you choose to
When you need to make a panic check, roll a d20
- Greater than your stress - Success
- Equal to or under - Failure, consult the panic table

Player's Survival Guide, page 20, Player's Survival Guide, page 21

Player's Survival Guide, page 30, Player's Survival Guide, page 31

Player's Survival Guide, page 18