A one-shot, melancholy sci-fi thriller TTRPG  for 2 players.

You hear the hiss of your decompressing cryo-pod. And as you come to your senses, you see in the low glow of the ship’s auxiliary lights, the rest of your crew still in stasis. Your ship is still in hyperspace, you can feel the vibrations through the back of your skull. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to be awake while traveling through hyperspace. But there’s something wrong.

Whatever’s gone wrong, you need to sort it out before you either die, lose your mind, or the ship itself is destroyed.

The Long Dark Space Between the Stars is a single session TTRPG about fighting against the vacuum of space in a hyperspace journey gone wrong. You will decide which you are willing to sacrifice and which you will try to save: Your mind, your body, or your ship. 

Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar and The Expanse are all touch stones for this project. Any story where someone is stuck on a spaceship fighting for their life, and has to decide what they're willing to sacrifice to save either their ship or themselves. 

As a game, The Long Dark Space Between the Stars is very loosely a Forged in the Dark game, and takes inspiration from the dice rolling mechanics and moment to moment action of Blades in the Dark. 

• 18 page rule book
• Needed to play: a handful of d6, and a way for both players to see the playsheet
• 2 -players, one GM and one player
• Sessions between 1-2.5 hours
• Built for one-shots
• Google sheet for easy Online play

• Each roll acts as a sacrifice: Which are you willing to give up—Mind, Body or Ship—to keep the others safe?
• Low prep, rules light, easy to pick up and play.
• Built to be both contemplative and to facilitate moments of intense action.

I'm releasing this as it is currently in the hoped that I can raise some money to help fund other aspects of development, especially to commission some art for the book.

Coming soon:

• Rules for Solo play.
• Art
• Expanded resources for creating Obstacles.