If you’re going to the huge horror convention NecronomiCon Providence (August 13-16), Dreamland RPG will be there! The astounding Aaron Vanek will be running several Dreamland and surrealism-themed games in the gaming area. Band on the Run (Friday August 14. 2-6pm): A powerful force pursues first-time dreamers who don’t even…
Dreamland RPG Preview: Dylath-Leen
Every time the Dreamland Discord or the Dreamland Facebook group reaches another 25 members, I write another Dreamland RPG blogpost like this one. This particular post was written in celebration of reaching 675 members on the Facebook group. If you’re interested in more long-form Dreamland info, please join the groups,…
Nightmares: The Dark Gods of Dreamland
Every time the Dreamland Discord or the Dreamland Facebook group reaches another 25 members, I write another Dreamland RPG blogpost like this one. This particular post was written in celebration of reaching 650 members on the Facebook group. If you’re interested in more long-form Dreamland info, please join the groups,…
Setting Preview: Amadis
This blogpost was written in celebration of reaching 375 members on the Dreamland Discord server. I originally said that I would post about another setting, “The Land of the Seven Dreamers”, but upon reflection I realized that setting wasn’t ready to show, even in an abridged preview form. Instead, here…
50 Love Customs of Dreamland
Happy late Valentine’s Day! Continuing the series of Religious Customs and Death Customs of random Dreamland cultures, here is 50 (plus change) random Love and Marriage Customs for the strange societies of Dreamland. This list contains weird love customs from the writings of Marco Polo, 1970s science fiction novels, and…
Paths to Dreamland: Dr. Seuss
Many children’s books are about lessons, or about establishing reality for young kids: this is a cat, this is a ball. Dr. Seuss (1903-911) wrote his share of lesson stories, but at core, his books are about questioning reality. Game designer Kenneth Hite once brilliantly referred to Dr. Seuss as…
Dreamland RPG February-March 2026 Playtests
Inbetween drawing art for Dreamland, we’re back with a new set of Dreamland playtest/demos! Like all our online games these will be run on a combination of roll20 (for the cards/images) and the Dreamland Discord (for audio). February 23, 7PM PDT – Dreamland/Wonderland: A Dreamland playtest set in the worlds…
Dreamland RPG December 2025 Playtests
Here’s the final playtest schedule for the remainder of 2025! Like all online Dreamland playtests, these will be held using a combination of Discord and roll20. Unlike the last couple of months, none of these will use other writers’ settings, and will instead be set in our ‘canon’ (or as…
Fairies of Dreamland
Whenever enough new folks join the Dreamland RPG Facebook group or Discord server, I’m going to be posting new Dreamland material (the FB and/or Discord folks get to vote on what it is). In celebration of the Facebook reaching 600 folks, here is a brief post on the Secret Empire, the fairy folk of…
What Would a Modern Dreamland Look Like?
Should modern technology exist in Dreamland? In Dunsany and Lovecraft’s stories, Dreamland is implicitly a Medieval place, in keeping with both writers’ love of the past, and the general tropes of the fantasy genre. (You could even say it’s pre-Medieval: Dunsany’s stories and Lovecraft’s The Doom That Came to Sarnath…