DEAD SHIP

DEAD SHIP: Expanded Edition A Micro-RPG of Sci-Fi Salvage Horror

The distress signal was supposed to lead to an easy payday. Instead, it may be the last thing your crew ever answers. Your crew aboard the Lucky Break has been hired for a simple salvage job: board the abandoned research freighter Vesper, retrieve its sealed flight recorder, and get out alive. But the Vesper isn't as empty as it looks.

The reactor is failing. Emergency systems are breaking down. The ship's artificial intelligence, SABLE, has locked down entire sections. Somewhere in the dark, a mysterious alien predator known as the Hush is stalking anything that moves. And there's still someone aboard who knows what happened.

Welcome to DEAD SHIP: Expanded Edition, a complete science-fiction survival-horror tabletop roleplaying game where exploration, clever decisions, and teamwork matter more than firepower.

Designed for 2-5 players and a Game Master, DEAD SHIP uses a fast, easy-to-learn d6 dice-pool system. Characters have three basic abilities, simple equipment choices, and just enough Health to make every dangerous encounter matter.

No complicated character builds. No lengthy rulebooks. Just your crew, a dying spaceship, and a mission that's rapidly going wrong.

• Complete d6 RPG Rules: Easy character creation, skill specialties, equipment, exploration, combat, hazards, and survival.

• A Ready-to-Run Adventure: Investigate the Vesper, recover the flight recorder, uncover the fate of its crew, and escape before disaster strikes.

• 16 Detailed Modular Ship Rooms: Build your own nine-room spaceship configuration for a different adventure every time.

• 6 Quick-Play Ship Layouts: Ready-made configurations that let the Game Master start playing with minimal preparation.

• Tactical Room Maps: Detailed spaceship interiors featuring corridors, airlocks, laboratories, cargo holds, engineering sections, and more.

• The Hush and Other Threats: Face an intelligent alien hunter, security robots, malfunctioning systems, and deadly environmental hazards.

• Two Danger Clocks: Reactor Countdown and Hush Alert keep the pressure rising as the crew explores.

• 6 Pregenerated Crew Members: Jump straight into the action with ready-to-play characters.

• Printable Game Materials: Character sheets, crew counters, enemy markers, danger trackers, GM worksheets, and reference guides.

• Multiple Endings and Replay Options: Escape with the recorder, rescue a survivor, contain the alien threat, or discover what happens when everything goes wrong.

Choose three mandatory rooms and six optional rooms from sixteen available modules. Connect them to create a new ship, then add hazards, salvage, hidden threats, and mission objectives.

Change the room arrangement, move the creature's nest, introduce new complications, and give your crew another reason to risk their lives.

The ship changes. The danger remains. Can Your Crew Survive?

DEAD SHIP captures the tension of classic science-fiction horror in a straightforward, old-school-inspired RPG. It's ideal for a tense one-shot, a game-night adventure, or a series of dangerous salvage missions. You don't need to defeat every enemy. Sometimes the smartest move is sealing a door, cutting the power, and running.

Find the recorder. Discover the truth. Escape the Vesper. Before something escapes with you.