RPG a Day 2024: Day 21

 RPG a Day 2024: Day 21: Classic Campaign?


The use of the word classic almost made me miss a trick here. Of course, there are a great many classic campaigns. I have written a bucket list of some of them, and am happily working my way through them. HotOE, Masks, Enemy Within, The Great Pendragon campaign, Darkening of Mirkwood. All considered greats. Classics, and deservedly so.

I'm going to take a detour here and suggest something not on that list.

A Pound of Flesh


This is a 51 page A5 booklet, which is literally cover to cover crammed full of information, mostly in the form of random tables, for running a campaign on the space station Prospero's Dream.

This booklet includes multiple factions, their goals, the locations they control throughout the space station, and how their goals change and advance depending on what the players might do when interacting with them and the other various plotlines woven throughout the booklet.

If you never buy another book for Mothership, buy this one. If you ever want a masterclass in getting information across in the most economical and straight-forward fashion, buy this book. If you want a wealth of ideas and plots for any space game, where just looking at the pages of random tables sparks ideas for multiple sessions of play, but this book.

Just buy the damn book.


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