Something's about to go terribly wrong aboard the Adamant Lapis. Amongst stacks of unremarkable rock samples, gravel, and ore, there's a large and featureless sphere that does absolutely nothing;
Unless you're already dead.
Dead Weight is a self-published indie TTRPG module for the Mothership RPG system. It focuses on clear information-design and layout to ensure it's intuitive and clear to read, even when used as a reference document mid-session.
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More information available at the project's
itch.io page
The map spreads reprint subsections of the primary map, to give spatial context to each room description.
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Each room uses indentation and careful emphasis to clearly convey it's contents, even when skim-read.
The book's visual language was also pulled through into the promotional pages, with adjustments for the specific formatting and conventions of each website.
A significant portion of the target audience tend to make home-printed copies of their booklets, so the book and printouts avoid printing on the page edges. This, combined with the strictly black-and-while color, ensures that home-printed copies can still be made to a high level of quality without specialty printing or cutting equipment.
The teaser trailer for the crowdfunding page reuses assets from other areas of the project, combining them into a short motion graphic.