Sleeping Gods

Crew and turns: All nine crew members remain in play. The active player controls Odessa, while the other eight are divided as evenly as possible. Each turn proceeds through a ship action, an event, two actions and passing the captain token to the left. Move the ship action figure to a different room; the same room cannot be used on consecutive turns, and a fully damaged room is unavailable.

Command and cards: Ship actions grant ability cards, command or other effects according to player count. Command equips or activates abilities and supports cooperation. Each player has a secret hand of at most three ability cards and cannot simply give away hand cards or command. A crew member normally equips at most two ability cards; level cards are separate. Food, coins, materials and adventure cards are shared by the group.

Two actions: Choose Travel, Explore, Market or Port. You may choose the same option twice or skip an action to gain one command. Travel uses a Craft challenge to determine movement. Exploring, visiting a market or using a port requires the corresponding location in the ship's region. Read only the instructed story entry, making choices or resolving challenges before turning to the next entry; do not read ahead into branches.

Skill challenges: Choose eligible crew you control to participate. Each gains one fatigue and contributes the relevant skills; add a fate draw. Another player can normally pay one command to contribute their crew. You may send no crew and draw fate alone. Any player may discard matching-skill ability cards from hand for +1 each. Meeting the target succeeds. Crew with two fatigue or zero health cannot participate in challenges.

Combat: The group has four combat action tokens per round, distributed by player count; transferring one costs one command paid by either participant. A crew member may use at most two tokens per round. Draw fate and add weapon accuracy against enemy defense. On a hit, place weapon damage in adjacent enemy squares; cover every heart to defeat the enemy. A surviving target counterattacks, and enemies still present at round end attack and use abilities again. Weapon block applies to counterattacks, not automatically to end-of-round attacks.

Fatigue and defeat: Crew with two fatigue can still fight, but deal one less attack damage. Crew at zero health cannot attack, join challenges or use their own abilities. Defeat occurs if all crew reach zero health or the ship suffers eleven damage. In normal mode, follow the rules to return to the nearest port, recover the appropriate damage and discard six events, continuing at a cost in time and final score. Brutal mode instead ends the campaign.

Campaign time: When the event deck runs out, finish the current turn; on the next turn, replace the event draw with the instructed story entry. A campaign normally runs through three event decks. After the third runs out, proceed into the final story sequence and end as the actual outcome directs. The game is not simply won by the player with the most totems.

Saving and scoring: At the start of any player's turn, you may record the ship's position and damage, last ship action, and each player's hand and command, then save these together with crew conditions, quests, resources and the current decks. At campaign end, score two points per adventure card plus two extra for each totem card, one per quest card including used quests, two per level card, one per two coins and one per remaining artifact. Reaching an ending adds ten points; each normal-mode defeat loses ten, while brutal mode adds twenty-five. Score together as a group, without an individual winner.