Dreamland
An Adventure beyond time and space
sunday 12/15, 2024: 11am - 5pm
GAME SYSTEM: Dreamland
SETTING: A low-tech, exotic fantasy world
GM: Aaron Vanek
VARIATIONS: N/A
POWER LEVEL: 1
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 5
CHARACTERS PROVIDED?: Made at table
TONE: Dreamland is a wondrous, sometimes scary, sometimes heavy game, set in a low-tech, exotic fantasy world, in which the players are isolated adventurers.
TAGS: Fantasy, Word-based Mechanic, Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, Kij Johnson
Beyond time and space lies Dreamland, an ancient world formed from the hopes and fears of humanity. You are a dreamer, one of the rare few who can enter Dreamland with consciousness intact. In the waking world, you might be an artist, a traveler, or someone for whom dreams are their only escape. In the dream world, you could be a merchant, a beggar, a soldier, a queen, etc.
In Dreamland, you go on adventures and travel to marvelous lands, on perilous roads through deserts and jungles, to the lairs of strange peoples, beasts, and dragons…or perhaps even further than this, east of the sun and west of the moon. But your dream self does not remember all of your waking life, or vice versa. Only a few Memories of your waking life remain, and these Memories are your lifeline between the real world and Dreamland. Lose all your Memories and you will be forever lost in Dreamland, leaving your waking-world body behind…
Dreamland is a tabletop RPG coming in 2025 from Exalted Funeral. Dreamland is inspired by the fantasy stories of Lord Dunsany; H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story; Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities; and Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. Dreamland, like Wonderland or Slumberland, is as much a land of fairytales as of dreams. Dreamers don’t explore people’s individual dreams, but a collective ur-reality of myths, legends and visions. While dreamers can alter reality like in movies such as Inception, DMs and players might find more inspiration in surreal fantasy films and shows like Labyrinth, The Fall, The Wizard of Oz, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Keiichi Sigsawa’s Kino’s Journey and Over the Garden Wall.
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