Playing On your turn
Incredibly
You may take one of three actions:
● Explore
Dramatic Space Beginnings
● Attack
Each player: Name your Faction and its ● Develop
Empires current leader. Then, make three planets. You The player to your left goes next.
control all three.
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All players: Decide on a Power goal and Explore action
name the star system. The youngest player goes
Either:
What is this? first.
● Gain control of an uncontrolled planet, or
● Make a new planet, and roll the die:
I.D.S.E. is a half pen-and-paper game, half
Making a planet 1-3: The planet is too difficult for your
TTRPG about empires warring in space. But not
explorers right now.
just empires: Noble houses, kingdoms, guilds, Name the planet. Decide its overall
4-6: You establish a thriving colony on
corporations (preferably not corporations), etc. biome/geography/etc. Decide one good thing
the planet. You control it.
about it, and one bad thing.
Required things Attack action
Elimination and winning
● One or more players Choose a planet another player controls, and roll
● A six-sided die or two If you lose control of all your planets, your the die:
● At least one imagination faction falls and you are out of the game. 1: You fail, and lose control of one planet.
● One or more pencils If the amount of planets you control equals or 2-3: You fail to conquer the planet.
● Paper exceeds the Power goal, your faction conquers 4-6: You conquer the planet, and gain control
● Tokens (optional) the galaxy and you win. over it.
Develop action
You do no planet-conquering, but advance and
bide your time. Explain what you do.