Faint Crawl - Mothership 1E Setting

How far have you fallen, and how much did you lose? Will you buy your way back, or fall into suffocating slumber? Regardless, can anything cushion your fall to the wastelands?

Faint Crawl is a Mothership 1E RPG map-making module for 1-4 players. In this low-combat setting, you are a hopeless soul doomed to wander the oxygen-thin derelicts of a once famous downtown core. 

Cast down from the luxuries of Uptown, you awake in its oxygen-thin underbelly: the wasteland of the once-proud Downtown. You can get back to Uptown for a salvage fee of 10kcr – they call this nigh impossible rite the Faint Crawl. Will you earn your way back into Uptown? 

Inspired by Cody Barr's "Glide", this navigation module lets you cling to a sliver of hope while charting various sectors of the downtown core and building your narrative with those partaking in your Sisyphean task. Whether you are guided by a Warden, or trekking Wardenless, you will come out of this journey with a unique string of maps and encounters, dead or alive. Treat this world as its own setting or as a compatible setting for Tuesday Knight Games’s “A Pound of Flesh” to depict travelling in The Choke (pg 32) or The Sink (pg 34) of Prospero’s Dream. This module includes:

• Tables to populate your locations, including various points of interest
• Tables to meet unfortunate wanderers, establishing their possessions and their needs
• Tables for lucky finds
• A unique Oracle table to support crafting narrative out of the noise
• A template page to build out your sector and track your time and integrity
• A custom deprived class to get your journey started appropriately
• A collection of esoteric art to decorate your phones with (absolutely free)

This module was created for the 2025 TripTech Game Jam 2 hosted by LionHearth Games.

Writing and graphics were done by Prashi M, editing was done by Koryn de Vries. No generative AI was used in the making of this module. By supporting this module, you support human artists and creators.

Special thanks goes to akumata, LionHearth Games, and Buzzahfoo for the initial draft feedback.

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