Dreadnaughts: Maiden Voyage

A game of nautical horror & isolation built using the Mothership Panic Engine.
Created by Luiz Ricon.

Welcome Aboard!

A ship trapped in the Arctic ice, struggling to survive the endless night. A
fleet driven to uncharted waters by cruel, relentless storms. Desperate
sailors wasting away in dead calms, praying for winds that never come.
A welcoming island suddenly turning into a deadly trap, or the horrifying
realization that evil is aboard your ship, preying on your crew.
This is Dreadnauts, a hack of Mothership, replacing the cold void of
outer space with the vast, uncharted waters of the Ocean Sea.
In Dreadnauts, players create characters, equip a ship, hire the crew
and sail into the unknown, testing their will and their luck against the
forces of Nature and the horrors from the depths.

Dreadnauts is a game of exploration, survival and nautical horror. Player
Characters face raging winds, relentless storms, maddening dead calms
and the ever-present touch of evil, both above and below the waves.

Dreadnauts is powered by a modified version of Mothership’s Panic
Engine, an elegant rule system for deadly combat and quick resolution
that heightens the tension, paranoia, and danger of venturing into the
unknown.

Like Space Horror in Mothership or Cosmic Horror in Call of Cthulhu,
Nautical Horror is a subgenre of horror rooted in the sense of isolation,
dread, and the cold indifference of the sea. It pits human frailty with a
vast, uncaring ocean, blending natural and supernatural threats and
tapping into the primal fear of the unknown.