I've run this game once and hope to play again tonight. The game shares its theme with the recently released Alien RPG from Free League Publishing. I've run that game five times.

I love both, and if I was going to run a bug hunt type adventure set in the Alien Universe, I would use Alien RPG. I like the D6 dice pool mechanics, how stress works, and the overall design is top shelf.

Mothership is as an approachable system for all kinds of Sci Fi fun. I find myself feeling constricted in the Alien game, in terms of a similar type of storyline each time I would run the game, variations on bug hunting. I realize this is partly my doing, but that's the feeling.

Mothership, to me, doesn't share this limitation. Mothership exudes verve and a kinda freefall gonzo approach to storytelling that pulls you into the drama. Plus, I love the charactersheet built with the rules to build the character, inspired idea!

In short, I love both games, but I lean toward the flexibilty of stories you can tell with Morhership over Alien.

I just played this module with 4 young teenagers, we had a blast! I love the tri-fold idea, it made it just seem user friendly and doable as a one shot for a GM. The audio files were awesome, really grabbed the players. We played for two hours and had some awesome stories by the end.

One player got infected and so the android amputed his hand to save him, after shooting him with the Scientist's tranqualizer gun. After piles of horrible rolls and four "surgeries" with a scalpel and a cutting torch later, the guy had lost his arm up to the shoulder. The android character worried his arm pieces would infect the other players so she found a medical bag for contagious material. After putting all the gore in the bag and cinching it up, she looked down at the patient and noticed his patch, which said "meatbag"! We all busted up laughing, so awesome!

Thanks so much, I hope more one shots are made like this, we had a blast.