(RPG PDF Spotlight) The Dose Makes The Poison

A stylized illustration with a repeating pattern of blue and white silhouettes of people with voluminous hair, arranged in a circular formation. In the center, there is a large, outlined teardrop shape. Below the teardrop, the text "THE DOSE" is visible, followed by "MAKES THE" in smaller font. The background features geometric, art deco-inspired patterns.

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The Dose Makes The Poison

Mothership Scenario by And Tomorrow Games

A missing scientist. An art deco pharmaceutical conference centre, now used for... other things. Massive bounties. Zero chance things will go wrong. (3 truths 1 lie.)

The Dose Makes The Poison is a Bioshock inspired, retro-future styled 24 page zine for Mothership RPG that contains a one shot module featuring:  

  • 14 room space station - a dilapidated, off-grid research lab that is now being used for something more sinister. 

  • corporate-espionage mystery, peppered with lethal medical malpractice.

  • simple three act design.

  • 3 experimental adversaries, in various states of glooping meltiness.

  • Nasty drugs that give hefty bonuses, and hefty side effects.

  • A suite of additional high quality in-game audio and video assets, including voice note clues and a full video ad for Hope’s Serum Biotonic to use to add flavour.

In addition to the module, there's an 8 page breakdown on medical giant Hope's Pharma and their base, The Home Of Industry, additional lore on two rival Big Pharma companies that also want in on the action, and loads of NPCs and additional plot hooks to inject more retro-futurism into your Mothership games without breaking your wider game world.

The Dose Makes The Poisonis available through DriveThru RPG in PDF.


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RPG PDF Spotlight. Hope's Pharma Inc. would like you to know that their products are perfectly safe and that the art deco research station is absolutely fine. And Tomorrow Games' The Dose Makes The Poison, a Bioshock-inspired one-shot for Mothership RPG, may disagree.

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