• In English

  • Online Only
  • 3 Weeks / 3 Sessions

Mothership RPG: Designing an Adventure Module

Mothership, Tuesday Knight Games’ sci-fi horror RPG, is much more than an extraordinarily successful indie TTRPG. It is a deeply original and brilliantly designed game that supports the creation of 3rd party commercial and hobbyist modules.
Min students: 4 | Max students: 8

What you will learn

  • Design horror, sci-fi TTRPG adventure modules.
  • Understand the systems and worlds of Motherhsip.
  • The TOMBS design structure.
  • Balancing, encounter design, and narrative design for TTRPGs.
  • Intro to the commercial world of indie RPGs.
  • Elements of world building.
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Start Date
July 9, 2025
End Date
June 23, 2025
Wednesdays

17:00 CET, 16:00 GMT, 11:00 EST

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Your Instructor:
Konstantinos Dimopoulos is an engineer, educator, game urbanist and designer with a PhD in urbanism. He is the author of the Virtual Cities atlas, and has contributed chapters and articles to publications such as Retro Gamer magazine and books like Game Writing: 2nd Edition. He has been working professionally in video games since 2010, has worked with tabletop studios like Edge of Mythos and Tuesday Knight Games, and has been teaching about them since 2017.  [full bio]

Explore sci-fi horror TTRPG Mothership, and design a complete adventure module for it. 

The Course Includes:

  • 3 Live Sessions
  • Lecture Recordings
  • Lecture Notes in PDF

Requirements:

Interest in tabletop RPGs is enough. Some GM/DM or player experience would be helpful. Access to Zoom is required.

This course is ideal for:

  • TTRPG Gamers
  • Horror sci-fi storytellers and narrators
  • Game Masters, Dungeon Masters, Wardens etc
  • Adventure module designers
  • Anyone interested in creating commercial or hobbyist adventure modules for the Mothership RPG
Mothership, Tuesday Knight Games’ sci-fi horror RPG, is much more than an extraordinarily successful indie TTROG. It is a deeply original and brilliantly designed game that supports the creation of 3rd party commercial and hobbyist modules. 

In this course, you will be introduced both to the world of indie TTRPGs, and to the world of Mothership. You will also get to experience a designer-focused online one-shot session of Mothership, meant to help you understand the mood, flow, atmosphere, mechanics, and structure of the game. 

Following the opening workshop, we shall explore the ways in which Mothership adventure modules tend to be designed, study the TOMBS structure, and analyse existing adventures. Additionally, we shall look into the writing of NPCs, the sketching out of plots, and the organising of adaptive stories, before actually starting working on your own, complete adventure module for Mothership. 

The workshops shall be completed with the presentation, discussion, and feedback session on each learner’s work. It is this course’s goal that, by its end, everyone attending will have created their own, quality Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG module.
Skills developed: Game design, world building, adventure module design, ttRPG design, narrative for TTRPGs

Lectures Schedule

Times in Central European Time (CET)

Syllabus

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to have Zoom installed?

Yes. All online lessons are taught via Zoom.

What's the refund policy?

A 100% refund -no questions asked- if you cancel up to 24 hours before the first live session.

More questions?

Please contact us directly here. We will respond within 1 to 2 days.
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