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Worms Worms Worms! A pamphlet box set for Mothership RPG

Created by Terry Herc Games

Five one-shot nightmares in a slimy little box.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Add-on Arsenal #2 - Scott Garriott (Molgannard Press)
5 months ago – Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 06:38:26 AM

Good news: the infestation goes holy.

In our second installment of Add-on Arsenal, we feature the writing talents of Scott Garriott. With his publishing imprint, Molgannard Press, Scott brings a menu of religious sci-fi horror, corporate dread, and sandbox madness:

  • Campaign starter sandbox: The Sins of Eden Prime
  • Two-shot double feature: Echoes of Eden Prime
  • One-night station horror: The Gasping Light
  • 2-4h corporate retreat chase: Corporate Survival
  • Hostage negotiator thriller: The Ship Who Swallowed a Spider

If you only grab one, get Sins of Eden Prime for a campaign backbone, or The Gasping Light for a brutal run-tonight session.

THE SINS OF EDEN PRIME (62-page point-crawl sandbox)

A fallen religious colony built to bring its people closer to God… until Mother (an AI) and Father (a tentacled robotic overseer) turned salvation into a hunting ground.
  • Point-crawl sandbox with factions & moving parts
  • 40+ tables (encounters, NPCs, mutations, items, more)
  • Drop-in campaign starter that can fuel multiple sessions
If you like gothic sci-fi and “every choice feels like heresy,” this is the big one.

ECHOES OF EDEN PRIME (26 pages, two one-shots)

Two self-contained one-shots you can drop into any campaign:
  • Moonbase Sonata: a madman, cyborg-zombie servants, and a night marching to crescendo
  • The Prophet’s Mesa: a remote commune and a “blessing” you should not drink
Run one as a detour or chain both as a mini-arc lead-in to Sins of Eden Prime.

THE GASPING LIGHT (12-page one-shot)

You’re hired as auxiliary crew to study the Radiant Nexus, a breathing point of light inside a glass station run by monks.
  • 3-6 hour session with locations, NPCs, and escalating wrongness
  • Encounters shift depending on whether you’re “witnessing” or not
  • This campaign offers the first-ever print run for this zine!

CORPORATE SURVIVAL (trifold pamphlet)

You’ve been invited to a corporate retreat with team-building… and a “special announcement about employment.”
  • 2-4 hour chase across a 3-level resort dome
  • Built to run fast with panic, cover-ups, and corporate security

THE SHIP WHO SWALLOWED A SPIDER (trifold pamphlet)

A distress signal. An advanced research ship. Mercenaries on the bridge. Hostages. And an AI helping you… for totally normal reasons.
  • 4-6 hour hostage situation
  • Great for groups who like talk first / shoot later / regret always

Special pricing is only available through this campaign. Review your pledge level and add-ons to get all the extras.

Thanks for feeding the outbreak,

-Terry Herc

Add-on Arsenal #1 - Clive Lancaster (Skinkworks Games)
5 months ago – Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 09:07:55 AM

Good news: the infestation goes deeper.

Beyond the parasite-soaked pamphlets, this campaign has a pile of add-ons, extras, and bundles. Clive Lancaster (writer and layout wizard) brought three options for Wardens who want fast, nasty, table-ready sci-fi horror.

Upgrade your pledge in seconds:
  • Run tonight mini-arc (1-2 sessions): Milk Run
  • Quick side-job: An Ear for Trouble
  • $2 forever-tool: D100 Space Junk

To grab them: click Manage Pledge -> Add-ons. Or upgrade to the PDF Adventure Library / Box Set Collector Bundle for the best value. 

MILK RUN (12-page zine)

A medical aid vessel in distress… snared in the tentacles of a vast void jellyfish. Help them. Board them. Salvage them. Or learn what’s really happening when it’s already too late.
  • Keyed ship map & player-facing version
  • Stats included for NPCs, the ship, and void jelly
  • Plugs into a campaign or runs as a brutal one-shot
  • Bonus: void jelly lore echoes in our adventure Worm Jelly (see our last update for the PDF preview!)

AN EAR FOR TROUBLE (trifold pamphlet)

A noir caper in the back rooms of Club Nebula, where the wrong people are high on the wrong thing, and it’s about to become a huge problem.
  • Skeezy nightclub with desperate enforcers & cartel goons
  • Ties into the drug from Milk Run (and what happens when you take too much)
  • Perfect as a “we should not be here” opener or a nasty mid-campaign detour

D100 SPACE JUNK (2 pages, system-agnostic)

Need a travel complication right now? Roll a d100 and throw something weird at their ship.
  • Derail a course, complicate a chase, start a session cold
  • Works for Mothership or any space system
  • Cheap, reusable, always useful

If you want more Mothership with less prep:
  • Get Milk Run + An Ear for Trouble in the PDF Adventure Library or Box Set Collector Bundle tiers
  • Add D100 Space Junk as a digital add-on from any tier
  • Campaign pricing for add-ons is cheaper than retail (discounts end when the campaign ends)

Thanks for feeding the outbreak,

 -Terry Herc

ZineTopia Spotlight: 9 projects worth your eyeballs
5 months ago – Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 06:48:42 AM

Good news: the infestation isn’t the only thing spreading. 

ZineTopia is stacked with cool content this month. This year's event has loads to offer, including these projects which are genuinely worth a look. Be sure to check out at least one zine that speaks to you and make this year's event even more successful!

New Narratives

  • Blightfall - You are doomed villagers infected by darkness sacrifice shreds of humanity for power. This is a collaborative worldbuilding game with a player driven narrative and tactical combat.
  • The Deepest Dark - A turn-based, GM-less one-shot system inspired by the Quiet Year and Ten Candles. You are scientists trapped in a cave-in, forced to explore the underground.
  • H.O.M.E. - This is a tactical cyberpunk horror game set in a dystopian city split between corporate rich and the poor… isolated in an unreal Dreamlands-like dimension.
  • Three punk games - 3 small, fast punk games: SEX/VIOLENCE/POOP 3, HEX & THE PUNKS, We Were Punks.

GM Tools

  • Great Hexpectations - Explore hex-based encounters and tables to feed your fantasy game and turn the humble hex into a campaign driver.
  • Fang Dungeon Bestiary - Get 36 whimsical monsters with children’s-book-illustrator Monster Manual energy. Plus a stretch goal for Dolmenwood stats!
  • Wildest Shape (5E) - A 5e subclass that let's your druid transform into creatures from another universe. Includes new spells, items and creatures.

Solo Play

  • The Wanderer’s Bookshop - A mixed-media solo journaling bookshop simulator. Guided by tarot cards, read books, solve a mystery, and make your own a journal keepsake.
  • Tales from the Cockpit - A print run for a solo game about a giant robot, its many pilots, and the passing of time. Plus an extra, The Cog That Remains, a mecha mechanic solo game.
 
Thanks for feeding the wider outbreak,

-Terry Herc

Worm Jelly adventure preview drop (run it tonight)
5 months ago – Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 01:11:46 PM

Good news: the infestation just mutated. 

Worm Jelly Preview Drop

We’ve released a PDF preview of our full adventure Worm Jelly, a drop-in Mothership one-shot you can run fast and hard with minimal prep.

Backers: grab it in the Backer-Only section at the bottom of this update.
Followers:  back the campaign to unlock it instantly. Campaign ends Thu Feb 26 at 11:00am MDT.



What Worm Jelly is about

A wounded (and gargantuan) void jelly drifts into a major shipping lane and triggers a scavenger stampede. You’re caught between a brutal choice:
  • Protect a majestic alien organism from being harvested…
  • Or cash in on psychic pearls and get out alive.

You’re not the first to arrive: four other ships are already here. Are they allies or the competition? And inside the jelly, while the pearls give off a psychic drone, something massive wriggles nearby...

Help us spread the outbreak

If you can do one thing for us this week: share this campaign with one Warden who loves misery. That single message moves the needle more than any social post.

Share the parasites (and campaign link): https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/terry-herc-games/worms-worms-worms-a-pamphlet-boxset-for-mothership-rpg

Thanks for feeding the outbreak.
 
-Terry Herc

3 zine friends (and a quick way to spread the infestation)
5 months ago – Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 02:48:07 AM

Good news: the infestation is growing.

If you haven’t backed yet (or you want to send this to a suffering-loving Warden), here’s the campaign link first:
 👉 https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/terry-herc-games/worms-worms-worms-a-pamphlet-boxset-for-mothership-rpg

Cross-Promo Corner

We’re swapping parasites with some fellow creators this month. If you like Mothership horror, these are genuinely worth checking out:

And if you can do one thing for us this week then share our campaign anywhere you've got Wardens!

Thank you for feeding the outbreak.

-Terry Herc