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Devil's Due: Space Pirates Are Raiding Mothership Month on BackerKit

Crowdfunding on Nov. 12th, this hardcover book is the first full space pirate supplement for the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG, detailing people and places of interest around the planet of Devil's Due

Jordan Boschman

Oct 13, 2024 — 2 min read

Book mock-up, cover art by Lur Noise

This is a community submitted press release.

Devil’s Due is a roughly 80-page hardcover roleplaying setting book full of space pirate supplements and adventures for the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG from an international team of 20 third-party creators. It launches Nov. 12th on BackerKit as part of the Mothership Month crowdfunding event!

The planet resolved on sensors, emerging from the depths of the black like some silent beast. We long heard rumors of Devil’s Due, the lawless planet ruled by villains, thieves, and raiders. From our viewport we saw its so-called capital city, Azimuth, glistening like sweat on a green beast’s back. We knew then that the Company had sent us to our doom. We would never be able to unwind the tangle of dozens of competing corporate legal claims on this planet, the salvage they made into a city, and the countless ships lost here since. As scanners picked up more and more ships, their transponders disabled, our fate became clear: Join in this desperate anarchy, or scatter our hull among the countless derelicts that encase this treacherous planet like a tomb. —Recovered log from the GBSS Arkle

The first space pirate anthology for Mothership, Devil’s Due brings you 10 pirate crews, a pirate planet with plug-and-play city and wilderness locales, several new modules, mini-games, random raiding tables of pirates and prey, and loads more from 12 writers! This book packs all you need to run space piracy games in the Mothership RPG through several campaigns.

Curious what we’re packing into this space pirate book? Check out what Devil’s Due features:

10 unique pirate captains and crews, each with a statted spaceship, goals, and tactics.
The scrappy city of Azimuth and Flotsam Station above, anchored to the stars by the space elevator Charon’s Ferry, including:
- 10 city locations with NPCs and built-in adventure hooks
- Hexcrawl procedures for exploring the Wilds of Devil’s Due
- Shops and clinics with new cybermods, weapons, and equipment
7 adventures and 2 adventure frameworks on the pirate haven planet and across the Void. Salvage artifacts from a wrecked ship sinking into another dimension, scour a covert corporate research station to steal their horrifying new tech, outrun the competition to deliver some VIPs in a high-stakes prisoner transport, wager a god to double your reward, and more!
4 random tables filled with the bounties needed to answer your pirate questions: Who's that pirate merc eyeing us down? What's that weird gadget? Where can you find your next prey? How did you get press-ganged into service?