In September 2024 we presented the new Shadows Over Sol Quick Deal featuring Shadows Over Sol, the hard science-fiction horror RPG from Tab Creations. In 2241, in the wake of World War IV, humanity has colonized the inner Solar System and explored the outer planets, bringing along its old rivalries and new conspiracies. You might be a Groundside techno planning the colonization of Alpha Centauri – a spacer from the lost Jovian Trojan colonies running corporate espionage – a cyborg soldier seeking a new life in the void – a gene-lined Quicksilver, android, or uplifted animal. Whether you’re fighting bioengineered monstrosities, salvaging abandoned space stations, or hunting Sovereign Liberation Front terrorists in the Belt, Shadows Over Sol supports your adventures in many styles of science-fictional horror, from investigation to action to brute survival, using the playing card-based Saga Machine rules (also seen in Tab’s Against the Dark Yogi, Dime Adventures, and Age of Ambition.
Inspired by Alien, The Expanse, The Thing, and Europa Report, as well as the RPG settings in Eclipse Phase and Transhuman Space, Shadows Over Sol explores themes of isolation, social change, and conspiracy. Discover the secrets of Sol System from Mercury to the Oort Cloud. Rules for personal combat, engineering, hacking, and more support three styles of play (action, investigative, and survival horror) with multiple options to keep players on their toes.
In summer 2025 Tab Creations launches the new Kickstarter for Shadows Over Sol 2nd Edition. “2E is mostly a reorganization and cleanup of the existing rules, rather than an entirely new beast,” says designer Thorin Tabor. “Existing supplements should be compatible with the forthcoming edition.”
This Shadows Over Sol Quick Deal presented the core rules, four sourcebooks, and play aids for an unbeatable bargain price. There were seven titles in our Sol Quick Deal (retail value $42) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete 240-page Shadows Over Sol core rulebook (plus Ready-Made Heroes and the GM Screen Inserts) along with four full-length sourcebooks: Beyond Human, Contacts, Fatal Frontier, and Shiny New Toys.
