Sleeping Gods
Sleeping Gods explained: explore a 26-page atlas, manage the Manticore crew, resolve story choices, fight diceless battles and search for divine totems.
Captain Sofi Odessa and the crew of the Manticore explore a vast wandering sea through a connected atlas, storybook encounters and persistent campaign choices.
The campaign is designed to be paused and resumed, letting players explore the world over roughly 10–20 hours rather than in one sitting.
Why We Love It
Sleeping Gods treats exploration as discovery rather than a fixed scenario path. The atlas gives direction without telling you which destination is the correct one.
About Sleeping Gods
Players manage nine crew members, travel between atlas locations, complete quests, gather resources and make narrative choices whose consequences persist.
Combat is diceless and rewards assigning damage and abilities carefully across enemies and crew.
Game at a Glance
Sail the Atlas
Move between connected map pages and discover new locations.
Choose Your Story
Quest decisions change later encounters and opportunities.
Plan Combat
Resolve battles without dice using crew abilities and damage placement.
Find Totems
Search the Wandering Sea for the objects needed to return home.
Who Sleeping Gods suits
Solo players and cooperative groups who want a long narrative campaign, open exploration and persistent choices rather than isolated scenarios.
Rules overview
Travel the Manticore across the atlas, spend command to activate crew, resolve numbered storybook locations and manage health, fatigue, resources and quests. Combat assigns crew actions and damage against enemy grids rather than relying on random attack rolls. Progress is recorded on the journey log so a campaign can be stopped and resumed.
Key decisions
Editorial analysis: Exploration works best when travel solves several goals at once. Track unresolved quests geographically, protect flexible crew members from excessive fatigue and avoid spending scarce resources on fights that do not advance a meaningful objective.
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Sources and edition notes
Facts checked September 17, 2026. This guide covers the standard base game, not Distant Skies or Primeval Peril.