Free Smugglers Pamphlet + Big Announcement_THE GUAC 024
Stoked to announce our next project and return to The Guac Freebies!
Good morning from hot and muggy Kansas!
I’m excited to be back with a new Guac freebie after a few months hiatus. Life has been busy and I felt it was better to focus more on our current projects more than it was to send out The Guac - as much as I love it.
On the flip side, we have a lot to announce this month!! Including:
The first is that The Hands That Feed, our Mothership anthology two years in the making [previously known as Incorporated] has a prelaunch page!!
The second is the freebie this month! Smugglers & Vendors in the Tunaverse. A packed pamphlet giving you more interest during shore leave and mileage out of all of our weapons and stim pack catalogs.
More below!
THE GUAC 024 DOCKET
A handful of new Spicy Tuna Links
The Hands That Feed Re-Introduction!
Exciting Reads and Things Friends Are Doing
Visual Inspiration
Smugglers & Vendors in the Tunaverse + The Guac 40% Discount Coupon on all weapons and stimpak catalogs [on itch.io].
Greenhorns Update
Spicy Tuna Links
NEW
Greenhorns: A Weird Space RPG Preorder Store is Live [Includes a new chance Outsourced and Constant Downpour Remastered bundles]
^ The preorder store will look a little different than what you may be used to because we are using a new feature.
Outer Rim Uprising Preorders [This includes Spicy Tuna titles Knuckles Co + Professional Rebels alongside an incredible slew of other Mothership modules all tied together by a campaign handbook.
Itch Bundle of most of the Outer Rim Uprising modules if you did not want to go all in. [Or you can pick up Knuckles Co or Professional Rebels individually on itch or DriveThruRPG.
Outsourced PDFs are available on itch.io and DriveThruRPG
ALSO
40% Weapon and Stimpak Catalog PDFs - all of them featured in the Smugglers & Vendors freebie!
The Hands That Feed Re-Introduction
The Hands That Feed is a hardcover anthology of powder keg missions & societal controllers. Pervasive corporate horror meets awakened aliens for the Mothership RPG. It’s one part alien horror adventures and two parts plug-n-play leviathan corporations. The parts work together to create and enhance immersive locations for your crew to interact in while on shore leave and on mission.
The eight corporations are detailed to become staples in your campaigns as recurring antagonists, short term allies, job providers, suppliers of goods and knowledge, and more.
Each campaign is a thick and lively survival mission that introduces the crew to four of the corporations.
All of it written by a blockbuster cast
Here’s a reminder dump with a few new WIP spreads and art pieces for different corporations. There are a ton of WIP spreads we will be able to share later. Gontijo has the first 86 pages in wireframe layout and I’ve been chipping away at all of the artwork. This will be our most illustrious book yet, every spread designed in tandem between Gontijo and myself, layout and art together. Since the beginning of working together we wanted to go in making a coffee table worthy book. Here are some of the WIPs. [Layout and font choices are not final].
Exciting Reads and Things Friends Are Doing
Some favorite newsletter/blog reads lately:
The Soloist recently released a Sci-fi Edition
alongside a solo session glimpse
La Esquina Del Rol is starting to release their interviews in English on their substack. The first one is with Jason Tocci.
Exeunt Press talks about types of Death
Relistened to the Weekly Scroll episode for Pacts & Blades and I still like a lot of what Lucas Rolim did with this game! Worth a listen or checking out the zine.
Also diving deeper into narrative-heavy games such as Trophy Dark and Trophy Gold. Also thanks to The Weekly Scroll.
Both Weekly Scroll Trophy actual plays feature Josh Domanski as the GM, of Liminal Horror fame.
They are currently funding Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow alongside Goblin Archives and Space Penguin Ink.
It has about 26 hours left in their Backerkit funding campaign! Josh Domanski is someone I’ve learned a lot from and I highly respect their approach to game and adventure design. Goblin Archives has also been fantastic as they work together to develop Liminal Horror into an even more incredible game.
I’ve seen a bit of the behind the scenes on this one and Josh is fixing up some really great and user-friendly layout. It’s gonna be a gorgeous book decked with artwork by Amanda Lee Franck.
I’m currently playtesting Twisted Unseen by Chris Airiau of 5 Million Worlds. It’s my first time playing Cloud Empress and I’m really loving the more dangerous take on the Panic Engine. Chris is working up something really fun with this adventure where players formulate the unseen city they travel.
Chris is also developing 5 Million Worlds RPG which I look forward to help playtest. A Panic Engine hack, but with a more far future posthuman element and another new interesting take on panic.
The best way to follow along with Chris is to get on their substack.
Space Penguin Ink is having two sales!!
1st BIRTHDAY SALE includes 50% off five of their titles including Dread Nights and a few Mothership favorites! Here’s from the details from their newsletter.
MOTHERSHIP BOXED SET SALE: 25% Mothership titles including Amanda P.’s The Revenant and Kharrak’s VR Dead!
VISUAL INSPIRATION
https://www.counter-print.co.uk/
Tadanori Yokoo
https://www.wikiart.org/en/tadanori-yokoo
Smugglers & Vendors in the Tunaverse Talk
I’m stoked to release the Smugglers & Vendors pamphlet!! I always love making writing plug-n-play material that that give you more mileage from Spicy Tuna zines. This are the types of vagrants loitering around Prospero’s Dream, Gilgamesh Red, or any other shore leave location ready to confidentially get your crew the wares they want. I hope it’s as useful as I think it will be - especially for crews who love shore leave.
With the development of Smugglers & Vendors it came to my attention that several grenades were pretty underpriced and overpowered from the initial Yucatan Tech Co catalogs since they were printed before the Mothership 1E rules were finalized + very possibly on my error. We have an errata list in Smugglers & Vendors for this and we have updated all digital versions!!
You can find all of the YTC catalogs and Stims From the Dark Web catalogs for 40% here.
Greenhorns Update
Walt has edited 90% of the book, and a few more rounds of polishing up some planet layers will get us to 100% written. Layout has been ongoing with writing so we’re designed for the most part, we just need to polish and finalize styles.
Unfortunately, we are running about 6-8 weeks behind schedule, partly due to writing taking a bit longer than anticipated (I found myself needing to take several breaks to not get tangled up in all the moving parts) and partly because art has taken much longer than expected due to some life changes.
Regardless of the delay, it’s always better to take time than it is to rush (at least for me), and I couldn’t be more excited about how much this game has leveled up during it’s development. A big thanks to Walt for all his diligence in editing the ruleset, and obviously Diego and Christian for the stand-out art and awesome bounty hunting mission.
I’m stoked to share it soon, hopefully dodging any future delays. It’s going to be a game worth building on!
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That’s all for today! I’ll have more next month as we get back on to monthly broadcasting.
As always, thank you for being here! Especially if you made it this far. Have a beautiful day ahead!
Marco
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Excited for the Hands that Feed launch! Those preview pages are lookin' real nice!
Hands That Feed!! Looking forward to seeing the rest of that book in all its gorgeous glory!
And thanks for the 5MW shoutout, :)