{"product_id":"sleeping-gods","title":"Sleeping Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003eI discovered this game in 2023 and was blown away (possibly helped by unexpectedly succeeding in my first campaign). It's a co-operative story-telling game (hence my initial interest), powered by a paragraph book (think choose-your-own-adventure) and a vast number of cards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set-up is that the players are the crew of a 1920s tramp steamer suddenly thrown into another world. To return, they are told, they must wake the sleeping Gods in the hope that they can send them back to their own world. Thus, the players quest across this strange world (or pages of the atlas), encountering bizarre (and mundane) creatures, making deals, acquiring resources (mmm, food!) and discovering that all is not what it seems…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe game has a quite detailed combat system (not all the natives are friendly… okay, make that not many of the natives are friendly!) that's almost a game in itself. Like a role-playing game, it's designed to be played in 2-3 hour sessions as players work their way through a campaign. One neat touch is that the results (card\/s) of one encounter can affect how another encounter plays out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are a couple of expansions, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/Sleeping-Gods-Dungeons-expansion\"\u003eDungeons\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/Sleeping-Gods-Tides-of-Ruin-expansion\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTides of Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e to add more to the game and a sister game, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"More about Primeval Peril \" href=\"\/products\/Primeval-Peril-Sleeping-Gods\"\u003ePrimeval Peril\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (designed for 1-2 players), set on a dangerous river along which the players must navigate their fishing boat to rescue one of their number. I also stock the game's sort-of sequel set in the same world: \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"More about Distant Skies\" href=\"\/products\/Distant-Skies\"\u003eDistant Skies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, where the players are the crew and passengers of a 1930s aircraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor 1-4 players, aged 13+, playing time 1-20 hours \u003c\/b\u003e(to complete a whole campaign)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSleeping Gods was designed by Ryan Laukat and is published by Red Raven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out more:\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cem\u003eSleeping Gods\u003c\/em\u003e at \u003ca title=\"More about Sleeping Gods at Boardgamegeek (in a new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/255984\/sleeping-gods\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBoardGameGeek\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Pevans recounts his adventures in \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"To Win Just Once issue 238 (PDF, 1 Mb)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pevans.co.uk\/TWJO\/TWJO0238.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eissue 238 of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo Win Just Once\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games from Pevans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58452168966469,"sku":"859","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/0116\/7685\/files\/Sleeping-Gods-cover.jpg?v=1783095803","url":"https:\/\/games.pevans.co.uk\/products\/sleeping-gods","provider":"Games from Pevans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}