Eat the Reich vs Mothership
Compare Eat the Reich and Mothership side by side. See differences in complexity, dice, genre, cost, and more.
| Eat the Reich | Mothership | |
|---|---|---|
| Genre | Historical, Horror | Scifi, Horror |
| Play Style | Cinematic, Pulp Action, Combat-Heavy, Fast-Paced, Mission-Based, Heroic, High-Power, One-Shot Friendly, Theater of the Mind, Fiction-First, Playbook-Driven, Rules-Light | Rules-Light, Deadly, One-Shot Friendly, Survival, Atmospheric, Low-Prep, Cinematic, Fast-Paced |
| Core Mechanic | Roll a pool of d6s equal to your stat plus one die per piece of equipment or ability you activate; discard any die showing 3 or less, count 4–5 as a success, and 6 as a critical. The GM builds a separate Attack pool equal to the engaged Threat's rating and rolls it. You then allocate each remaining die to one of five slots — advance an Objective, eliminate a Threat, defend against the GM's Attack dice, feed for Blood, or trigger a SPECIAL (criticals only) — narrating one scene detail per die as you place it. Any GM Attack dice you don't cancel with defence dice inflict Injuries. | Roll d100 under stat/skill. Stress and panic mechanics escalate tension. |
| Dice | d6 dice pool | d100 |
| Complexity | Low | Low |
| Accessibility | Medium | High |
| Runnability | High | Very High |
| License | Proprietary | 3rd Party License |
| Cost | $$ | $ |
| Publisher | Rowan, Rook and Decard | Tuesday Knight Games |
| Year | 2023 | 2022 |
| Best For | Groups who want a self-contained, ultraviolent anti-fascist action romp playable in two or three short sessions with pregenerated characters and zero campaign overhead. | Terrifying sci-fi horror one-shots and short campaigns. Panic table creates unforgettable moments. |
| Highlights | Every die spent on attack is a die not spent defending or feeding for Blood, so each turn forces an explicit tradeoff between killing nazis, staying alive, and refueling the abilities that make you dangerous. Reinforcement rules ratchet pressure up each round — defeated Threats roll d6 to restore rating and every active Threat's Attack rating ticks up by one — so lingering in a scene gets steadily more lethal. Six pregenerated vampires with fixed mechanics but explicitly malleable backgrounds let the table skip session zero entirely and be drop-coffin-deployed into Paris within minutes of opening the book. | Rules-light, well-regarded module library, panic system creates mechanical tension |
| Considerations | Built around a single fixed scenario — the assault on Hitler's Paris stronghold — with no support for other premises, settings, or open-ended campaign play. Character creation is reskin or hack-from-the-pregens only; the book offers no point-buy or formal chargen system. Splatter-violence tone and nazi subject matter are confrontational by design; the rulebook opens with content warnings, lines-and-veils guidance, and an evil-calibration checklist the table is expected to work through before play. | Panic table can cascade and end sessions abruptly, limited long-campaign support in core rules, stress mechanics can feel repetitive over extended play |