Deathship One – Now Available!
My new (mini) miniatures game Deathship One, is now available as a PDF or print-on-demand through DriveThruRPG.com. In this solo or co-operative game, you play a squad of soldiers that has been pulled out of time and dumped into an alien deathtrap. So, whether you are playing ancient Greeks or power-armoured space marines, you must fight your way through five rooms of aliens and traps to see if anyone survives!
While the game encourages the use of whatever miniatures you already have, it does feature 4 distinct alien races. And I’m excited to announce that famed miniature sculptor Bobby Jackson has made STL files for the aliens which you can purchased directly from his new shop. If you are in the US, you can also order physical prints. In the UK and the rest of the world, you can order from North Star.
As a bonus for my Patreon supporters, I have also created rules for taking a wizard into the Deathship.
This game originally appeared in the Blaster gaming anthology, but this is a revised edition with new material.
Will you be adding more aliens creatures to the game
Probably. I have no specific plans, but it is something I tend to do!
Joe
I know the blaster version didn’t have rules for this, but does this version have rules for mixing the three tech levels? Like having a space marine with some World War II guys and a hoplite?
No. Unfortunately, there is no perfect formula for this. As things stand, if a middle-tech soldier is worth 1 pt, then a low tech soldier is worth about 0.6, and a high-tech 1.5, but that’s really only for ‘baseline soldiers’, not special weapons or officers or the like. Still, since the game is designed to be so tough, you could play with it a bit, and still get a good game out of it.
Will this be going to RETAIL STORES?
No. I mean, it might appear in a select one or two, but DriveThru will be the main place to get it as it is print on demand.