Mothership

Gradient Descent

Is Luke Gearing too powerful? Certainly. Luke’s latest work for Tuesday Knight Games is Gradient Descent, a megadungeon written for Mothership. The braintrust at Mothership HQ asks the question, “can you fit a megadungeon in a small zine?” Yes, apparently you can. How does it play? Let’s find out.

Players

• Brendan: Upgraded Repair 812 (UR), Android
• Evan: Scott Van Clapper, Teamster
• Stephen: Kjell, Marine / Chaplin
• Josh: Kant, Android

Session Reports

• Session 1, March 8th, 2021, with Brendan, Evan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 2, March 15th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 3, March 22nd, 2021, with Brendan, Stephen
• Session 4, March 29th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 5, April 5th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 6, April 12th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 7, April 19th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh
• Session 8, May 10th, 2021, with Brendan, Josh, Stephen
• Session 9, June 15th, 2021, with Brendan, Evan, Stephen
• Session 10, June 21th, 2021, with Brendan and Stephen
• Session 11, July 4th, 2021, with Brendan, Evan, Stephen
• Session 12, August 16th, 2021, with Brendan, Evan, Stephen

House Rules

Are you even playing an RPG if you aren’t mucking with the rules as you go?