Palaces and Pyramids

Over/Under was a month-long wargame within which a mass of more than 1,000 players roleplayed residents of the cyberpunk space station "Prospero's Dream" outlined in A Pound of Flesh . They did so in a single Discord server set up to represent the different factions at play on the station. For many (maybe even most) of the players, this game took over our lives during Mothership month.  I'm not going to try to explain the whole game, because neither I nor any other player played the whole game, very much including the GM. If you didn't play it, you can find a number of illustrative and interesting accounts. I intend to catalog the resources available to players (principally denizens) in the game. Hopefully by outlining these resources I can move toward a better understanding of how this game actually worked. In-Game Resources Denizens of the Dream who did not start as Bosses began the game with just the in-game currency, credits . This was the principal mechanical...

 "This is a bad idea," I think after one of the students grabs the Mothership box set from the pile I've laid out at the first RPG club meeting of the year.  Last year I ran a campaign of Knave 2e for a group of mostly 9th-grade students and had a great time with it, but for this second year I expected the club to expand and needed more games to accommodate new students. More than twenty signed up and I figured having a bunch of games running in rotation would fit the bill. One of the first games they went for was Mothership , decidedly not what I would think of for fun with my mostly 9th- and 10th-graders. Nevertheless, there must have been some reason I set it out on the table to begin with...  Maybe I just wanted to play it and this is my group? I went with Another Bug Hunt for the starter scenario, planning on three 1.5 hour sessions. I gave students materials to create characters, but came prepared with a lot of pregenerated PCs for students who were new to RPGs or ...