A silhouette blocks the stars, darker than the space it drifts through. Several amber eyes encased in crystal peer out from the shadows. When dappled in light from the closest sun, the remnants of petroglyphs can be seen carved across its hull, hewn from a single black stone harder than steel. The ship has no comms, no transponder, just a pulsating thump within a membrane running through the stone like a vein of ore. A glistening docking umbilical gently sways as it’s pulled behind the vessel, stretching toward anything that approaches, looking to touch, to connect.

Mockup image showing the front cover and a sample spread from the "Running the Gift" section

The Stone-Flesh Gift is a 40-page, light-prep living ship module with a focus on exploration and body horror, to be played with the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG. The players will wade through the innards of a lost ceremonial offering, an ancient alien bioengineering factory and living ship called the Gift, as they work to avoid its dangers, discover its secrets, and plug their brains directly into its organs to feel their thoughts. (Content Warnings: body horror, violence, gore, disease, addiction, loss of autonomy, themes of reproductive agency)

Traverse the organs of the Gift, a ship that eats and breathes and feels your clumsy boots plodding about within it. Let it caress your brainstem to impart its hopes and fears.

The book contains:

• 25 organs, most of them with unique thoughts and feelings
• 12 creatures, hazards, and NPCs
• 10 diseases and a system to spread them
• 23 items and materials, along with recipes for most of them
• a d100 "I Search the Body..." table
• a custom ship manifest for the Gift
• rules for running and repairing the ship's life support, flight controls, FTL capabilities, and digestion

At the top of this page, you can click the play button on top of the cover image to watch a video of a quick flip-through of a print-proof copy to get a better idea of how it's laid out. For a higher-res version of that video, you can click here.

"The artwork in the book is outstanding, maintaining the Mothership vibe with a retro surrealism art style... I believe The Stone-Flesh Gift can be an amazing addition to any horror table."
—Sammii Scribbles, reviewer

Check out a preview excerpt from the book here!

This crowdfunding campaign is to raise funds for a print run of the module as part of both Zine Month and Crowdfundr's Tabletop Nonstop initiative. It will be printed as a full-color, staple-bound book in the US digest (8.5" x 5.5") size, and the digital PDF will be fully bookmarked and hyperlinked, with every reference to an organ, creature, hazard, or item being a clickable link to the page with its full description. Every organ number is also the page number where its description can be found.

But that's not all! Every pledge will also receive a PDF of a new bonus one-shot adventure pamphlet called So You've Been Chump-Dumped! See the details below.

Mothership RPG is a trademark of Tuesday Knight Games. For additional information, visit www.tuesdayknightgames.com or contact contact@tuesdayknightgames.com.

Mockup image showing the map of the Gift

The Heart ($6)

You get a digital PDF copy of The Stone-Flesh Gift (pages, spreads, and printer-friendly versions), plus a digital copy of the bonus one-shot pamphlet adventure So You've Been Chump-Dumped.

The Innards ($12 + shipping)

You get both a print copy and a digital PDF copy of The Stone-Flesh Gift (pages, spreads, and printer-friendly versions), plus a digital copy of the bonus one-shot pamphlet adventure So You've Been Chump-Dumped.

The Body ($18)

You get a digital PDF copy of both The Stone-Flesh Gift (pages, spreads, and printer-friendly versions) and all of my previous RPG releases ($32 value), listed below in the "Author and Previous Releases" section, plus a digital copy of the bonus one-shot pamphlet adventure So You've Been Chump-Dumped.

The Being ($24 + shipping)

You get both a print copy and a digital PDF copy of The Stone-Flesh Gift (pages, spreads, and printer-friendly versions), as well as digital PDFs of all of my previous RPG releases ($32 value), listed below in the "Author and Previous Releases" section, plus a digital copy of the bonus one-shot pamphlet adventure So You've Been Chump-Dumped.

Retail & Wholesale 5 ($40 + shipping)

If you're a distributor or running a store, this will get you 5 print copies of The Stone-Flesh Gift at a wholesale price of $8 each, to sell to your customers. The MSRP after the campaign will be $16. If you want between 5 and 15 copies, please email me: jordan@atypicalfaux.com. Arrangements will be made for you to provide a PDF version to your customers as well (likely through Bits & Mortar if you're signed up with them).

Retail & Wholesale 15 ($120 + shipping)

If you're a distributor or running a store, this will get you 15 print copies of The Stone-Flesh Gift at a wholesale price of $8 each, to sell to your customers. The MSRP after the campaign will be $16. If you want more than 15 copies, please email me: jordan@atypicalfaux.com. Arrangements will be made for you to provide a PDF version to your customers as well (likely through Bits & Mortar if you're signed up with them).

All prices are listed in USD.

Mockup image showing a sample spread of the organ descriptions

The book has been written, edited, and set in layout, and the art is finished. The first physical proofs have been received, and I'm currently reviewing the print quality, making final revisions, and searching for any last typos. As a result, I expect to print very soon after the campaign ends, in early March, and hope to have all backer copies in the mail by mid-April.

Printing will be handled by Mixam, and I will personally ship out all pledges from the US using Pirate Ship. International pledges will be sent out with Pirate Ship's Simple Export service, which should see it being delivered by the recipient's local postal service.

Digital fulfillment will be handled through itch.io, and the files should be sent out soon after the campaign ends.

The PDFs and any remaining print copies will not be publicly available for sale until after I have shipped the last physical zines to the backers of this campaign.

Mockup image showing a sample spread from the "Hazards & NPCs" section

The cheapest shipping rates I've found come from Pirate Ship, including for international shipping, so I'll be using them.

Any relevant taxes and customs fees from importing the book will have to be covered by the recipient. Books are zero-rated in some jurisdictions, in which case you wouldn't have to pay VAT, but it's the buyer's responsibility to understand the customs fees and taxes applicable to what they import. The buyer will be responsible for any such costs that may be applied.

Shipping Fees:

• US: $4.50 USD
• Canada: $10 USD
• Rest of the World: $12 USD

There are some countries I will likely not be able to ship to due to USPS or UPS restrictions. As far as I'm aware, those countries are currently:

• Afghanistan

• Belarus

• Brunei

• Cuba

• Gaza

• Myanmar

• Russia

• Syria

• Yemen

If you suspect your country may not be able to receive such a shipment, check with USPS and/or your local mail provider.

Every backer will also get a digital PDF for my new one-shot pamphlet adventure for Mothership 1e: So You've Been Chump-Dumped.

This trifold pamphlet starts with the players drifting through space in their vaccsuits, doomed to die, before being miraculously drawn to the Blacklens, a covert weapons research ship where an escaped experiment is wreaking havoc. (Content Warnings: violence, gore, animal experimentation and death, body horror)

So You've Been Chump-Dumped is a solid opener for a new campaign or a fitting scenario to have ready to go if your players ever have the misfortune of being scattered into the inky blackness to waste away.

(Images are previews and works in progress, subject to change.)

If you pledge at The Body ($18) or The Being ($24) level, you'll also get digital PDFs of all of my previous RPG releases to date from my itch.io store:

• The Pried Eye (a Trophy Dark incursion)
• Penumbra (a Trophy Dark incursion)
• Skeleton Justice Warriors (a class-based Lasers & Feelings hack)
• Roseate Growth (a system-neutral, OSR-style adventure)
• Serious Reading (a satirical solo journaling RPG about awful opinion columnists)
• Born of a Bloody Film (4 Mörk Borg monsters inspired by horror movies)
• ⁍⁍⁍⁍⁍TXN SOULS⁌⁌⁌⁌⁌(10 NPCs for [BXLLET>)
• [[CHXMBER] & ()BXRREL) (power-building mechanics for [BXLLET>)
• Hush (a free, conversational micro-game about poisoned words)

Giveaway

If you made it this far, I'm also running a giveaway for the first half of this campaign to send out 3 early print-proof copies of The Stone-Flesh Gift for free! All you have to do is post a link to this campaign somewhere on social media and show me that you did. You can either tag my account (usually @JayEmBosch) or email me the link (at jordan@atypicalfaux.com) to earn an entry into the giveaway. You can do that up to once a week by Feb. 13th, allowing you to earn up to 2 entries. I'll compile all the entries and randomly select the winners on Feb. 15th!