I’ve been slow to post, but at lot has been going on with Dreamland. (Please check out the Dreamland Discord for the most updated information and conversations.) For one thing, with the help of our wonderful volunteer Dream Masters, we’ve been running lots of games online and at conventions! I…
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POD Dreamland Cards (Beta Version)
For the first several years of playtesting Dreamland in-person, I made Word Cards by hand, printing them, cutting them out (and sometimes laminating them) at the copy shop. However, I’ve been curious for a long time about POD (print on demand) services, and I have limited free time these days…
Dreamland RPG Actual Play
With huge help from many people, we’ve recorded the first Dreamland RPG actual play video!! I love listening to RPG actual plays while I’m drawing or working, and it was a huge pleasure to actually make one. Many thanks to everyone who was involved. Aaron Vanek edited the video and…
The Paradise of the Unchanging
Right upon the heels of the Dreamland Quickstart PDF from last week, I’m excited to put online: The Paradise of the Unchanging, the first Dreamland playtest/demo adventure! “The Paradise of the Unchanging” is a Dreamland one-shot first playtested at NecronomiCon way back in 2015. Since then, I and other Dream…
Dreamland Quickstart PDF
I’m thrilled to finally reveal what I’ve been working on (in between a zillion other non-gaming things) the last three months… a 48-page quickstart version of the Dreamland rules! This quickstart PDF condenses Dreamland down into all that you need to play and DM (Dream Master) the game for yourself.…
Dreamland on VTTs
Since Dreamland is a card-based RPG, one of my big goals has been to make it available on VTTs (virtual tabletops) so people can use the cards without having to play face-to-face (and, since the game isn’t commercially printed yet, without me or them having to print and cut out…
Tutorial Comics: Core Mechanics of Dreamland
Though I haven’t posted a lot here, I’ve slowly been working behind the scenes on Dreamland. The game has been through a lot over the last two years, but things are moving along. I’ve always loved using comics as a “tutorial” for RPGs or other things, and one thing I…
Review: New Maps of Dream
(This review was originally posted on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5228059223 A review copy was kindly provided by the amazing Cody Goodfellow.) Of all the sides of HP Lovecraft’s writing, his fantasy-genre Dreamland stories have been the least imitated, so a new anthology of Dreamland-inspired writings is exciting. Edited by Cody Goodfellow and…
Upcoming Dreamland Demos
(EDIT: This is a post from Summer 2022. Please check out this page for the latest in upcoming games!) Summer means conventions and I’m excited to announce some more public Dreamland playtest/demos! I’ll be running Dreamland at GenCon Online, as well as at NecronomiCon PVD (also online for me this…
What Dreamland is Like
Dreamland is infinite, and one of the things I wanted to do in Dreamland RPG was have a world which doesn’t depend on “canon” or on a small important landmass where everyone lives and everything happens. Almost anything can exist in Dreamland, and the intention is that DMs and players…