Their Shadows Slumber

You'll need 3d6 plus some way to track your total Energy (currency/score), plus a few different types of objects that are easy to differentiate, preferably cubes. But items like tokens, coins, meeples, etc also work: 10 Energy Cubes (I used white cubes) 6 Damage Cubes (I used yellow cubes) 6 Status Trackers (I used green cubes) About the Game As the captain of the spaceship Illumination, your mission is to find Sleeping Planets —planets with dead civilizations— and recover their relics, stories, and histories. Your archival and studies allow them to live on throughout the galaxy. Nearing a Sleeping Planet, your ship hits an asteroid, barely making it to the planet’s orbit. To repair your ship, you’ll have to scrap what you discover rather than save it. Their shadows will slumber forever, but you’ll survive... Each round you'll roll and damage a square, then roll to work and salvage what you can. After each round, you'll extract energy that you can use to upgrade your extractor, build Energy Cells to help you escape, and bank your remaining Energy. You can't possibly lose, but you can win faster or slower! Winning faster requires a balance of luck and skill. Good luck :D Someone Else Used the System! The Librarian, in The Shadow Man Cometh , used the Second Guess System and the core system in Their Shadows Slumber! It was so cool to see it used there, combined with the SGS too!!! You can get it at the link below, along with three other games 🥳 As I add this (June 23rd, 2024) there are also 9,986 community copies, so you can get it for free if you can't afford it! With that said, if anyone else wants to use this system, feel free :D If you let me know, and it's PG-13 and not hateful and stuff, I'll embed it here like I did with Librarian's Archive 3 :D <span></span>&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://iamthelibrarian.itch.io/librarians-archive-3">Librarian&#x27;s&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://iamthelibrarian.itch.io/librarians-archive-3&quot;&gt;Librarian&#x27;s</a> Archive 3 by The Librarian&lt;/a&gt; Trijam 267: Dig It Up! This game was created for Trijam 267 . The theme was "Dig It Up," which couldn't be a more Beth theme if I tried, so despite being busy as heck I took some time to make a game for it. Trijam games are supposed to be made in 3 hours (not including ideation, concepts, etc) but I took 6. Whoops! Oh well, maybe next time! More Games You can check out all of our games here , and some of our space-themed games below: &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/i-went-through-the-stargate-once">I&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/i-went-through-the-stargate-once&quot;&gt;I</a> Went Through the Stargate Once by Beth and Angel Make Games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/the-museum-of-extraterrestrial-rarities">The&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/the-museum-of-extraterrestrial-raritie...</a> Museum of Extraterrestrial Rarities by Beth and Angel Make Games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/the-report">The&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/the-report&quot;&gt;The</a> Report by Beth and Angel Make Games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/definitely-unidentified">Definitely&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/definitely-unidentified&quot;&gt;Definitely</a> Unidentified by Beth and Angel Make Games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-explode">In&quot; class=&quot;redactor-linkify-object&quot;&gt;https://beth-and-angel-make-games.itch.io/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-explode&quot;&gt;...</a> Space, No One Can Hear You EXPLODE! by Beth and Angel Make Games&lt;/a&gt; Find Out More Learn more about Their Shadows Slumber on our Patreon . Or come chat about it on our Discord server! All of our posts are free aside from some exclusive polls. We share news, updates, behind-the-scenes design stuff, and more. Plus, each of our releases is either free for a limited time or has community copies; if you become a free member of our Patreon, you’ll get an email when we release something, and if you’re quick enough you can get everything free! Paid members help fund our creations and can get all of them as they come out, answer polls to help shape our future creations, and even get games and zines printed and mailed to you monthly in North America.