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…
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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…
Playtest Dreamland Online: September-October 2025
After a summer gap in August, I’m excited to announce the next batch of Dreamland playtests!! As always, these playtests will be held online on the Dreamland Discord Server with support from roll20 (roll20 links to be shared in the Discord as the games approach). As previously, we’re testing out…
Abhumans 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 550 folks, here is a brief post on some of the most threatening denizens…
50 Surreal Pillar Effects
As written, the isekai world of Dreamland is a world which mostly looks and feels ‘real’. Though the clothes and cities might look like a fantastical version of the Middle Ages (or the Axial Age, or the Victorian Era), though a buopoth or giant lizard might wander by, the world…
Regions of Dreamland: Aphorat
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 500 folks, here is a brief post on Aphorat, one of the four regions…