Frankfurt Role Players

# GRADIENT DESCENT

A Mothership RPG Campaign
🕳️ Dive into The Deep — a derelict megacorporate labyrinth where explorers whisper of strange inhabitants, haunted machinery, and things that should not exist. Every expedition is dangerous. Most don’t return.

EXPECT

• In-person pen & paper play (Mothership 1E)
• Sci-fi horror (disturbing content & themes)
• Expedition-based open table (1+ sessions per dive)
• Consistent players preferred — finish the expedition you join
• Player-driven exploration & survival
• Beginner-friendly, no prep — turn up and play

📅 When: Fridays (weekly / bi-weekly), sometimes Saturdays
📍 Where: In-person (see invite details)
🎲 System: Mothership 1E

TURN UP & PLAY
Everything needed to play is provided. No prep or experience required.

EXPEDITIONS
Crews dive into The Deep and return when they choose. Each expedition runs 1+ sessions. The open table format means anyone can join and rotate in — you don’t have to play every week, but once you start a dive, you’re expected to see it through with the crew.

COMMUNICATION
We coordinate via a WhatsApp group. First spots go to players already in the group, but new players are welcome to join the waitlist and group to get a chance at upcoming dives.

PLAY STYLE
Fiction-first sci-fi horror with modern OSR principles:

• Player creativity and problem-solving drive the game
• Exploration, investigation, and risk–reward choices come first
• Combat is fast, lethal, and narrative-driven — survival depends on planning, imagination, and use of the environment
• The Deep is vast and open: multiple paths, no fixed story, high lethality
• Character growth emerges from scars, allies, items, and reputation

NOT INCLUDED

• Complex character builds or leveling systems
• Grid maps or miniatures
• Long, rules-heavy combat sequences

⚠️ Content Warning: Horror for mature players. Includes violence, trauma, body horror, psychological distress, and harm to android children.

DETAILS
A shocking crime had been committed in a small town: a 5-year girl had been kidnapped in a broad daylight from the store. The perpetrator is dead, but the accomplice(s) escaped with the girl. What is worse, the girl has a health condition which leaves her at most 5 days, as the abductors failed to obtain the ladybug-shaped backpack containing a steroid pump that keeps her alive.

ABOUT

• One-shot
• Players are welcome from 12:00
• The game starts at 12:00. Try to be punctual.
• 4-5 players
• Duration of 5-6 hours is expected. Please consider the upper limit if you plan to attend.
• Setting: 2015

WHERE
The venue is an appartment on Werrastrasse, 60486, a street near the West Bahnhof / ~650m from Playce.

• New players will be sent details via a private meetup and whatsapp message.

COMMUNICATION
We use a WhatsApp group to share material and to coordinate sessions

FOOD / DRINK
Players organize food and drinks to share.

CONTENT WARNING
Call of Cthulhu is a horror game for mature audiences. It contains depictions of violence, foul language, some sexual content, drug use, suicide, depictions of mental illness, trauma, stress, panic and body horror that may not be suitable for all audiences. Please be advised.

SIGNING UP (RSVP)

• Only sign up if you’re sure you’ll attend, and if you can’t attend, change your RSVP to Not Going as soon as possible to give others a chance to play.
• The organizer reserves the right to move the players to/from the waitlist ignoring the original response order, to prioritize past participants. That happens rarely, though. Hope for your understanding.

DETAILS
The Forby Masterwork

A Call of Cthulhu Scenario battling scurvy in 1890´s London

In the heart of London’s Victorian slums, people are dying. There
is nothing unusual about this, but they are meeting their ends
doing strange things.

The authorities neither know nor care, so it
is down to a group of local wannabe policemen to unravel the mystery, prompted by concerns for their own safety.

It all begins with a gruesome death which, again, is not that unusual.
As the investigators explore the events surrounding the death, they uncover something lurking beneath London.

Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's.
You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St Martin's.
When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch.
When will that be? say the bells of Stepney.
I do not know, says the great bell of Bow.
Here comes a candle to light you to bed;
And here comes a chopper, to chop off your head.”

—Children’s singing game, traditional.

ABOUT

• One-shot
• Players are welcome from 12:00
• The game starts at 13:00. Try to be punctual.
• 3-6 players
• Duration of 5-6 hours is expected. Please consider the upper limit if you plan to attend.
• Setting: 1890´s
• Your previous characters used in other Gaslight settings may be used

WHERE
The venue is a private apartment.

• New players will be sent details via a private meetup and whatsapp message.

COMMUNICATION
We use a WhatsApp group to share material and to coordinate sessions

FOOD / DRINK
Players organize food and drinks to share.

CONTENT WARNING
This scenario includes mention of suicide and the usual Cthulian Mythos Darlings. Please be advised.

SIGNING UP (RSVP)

• Only sign up if you’re sure you’ll attend, and if you can’t attend, change your RSVP to Not Going as soon as possible to give others a chance to play.
• The organizer reserves the right to move the players to/from the waitlist ignoring the original response order, to prioritize past participants. That happens rarely, though. Hope for your understanding.