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# DREAMLAND RPG

Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep

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- [Design Blog, Events & Art](https://www.dreamrpg.com/design-blog/) - News and updates from Dreamland RPG creator Jason Bradley Thompson including upcoming events, games, behind the scene design blog notes, and new content.
- [Dreamland at NecronomiCon Providence 2026](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/08/10/dreamland-at-necronomicon-providence-2026/) - 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 know how they got there!
- [Dreamland RPG Preview: Dylath-Leen](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/07/01/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, and you'll also be able
- [Nightmares: The Dark Gods of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/04/15/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, and you'll also be able
- [Setting Preview: Amadis](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/03/16/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 is some information about Amadis,
- [Paths to Dreamland: Dr. Seuss](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/02/23/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 "the USA's greatest fantasist," but
- [50 Love Customs of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/02/27/50-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 other sources. For some players,
- [Dreamland RPG February-March 2026 Playtests](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2026/02/23/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 of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in
- [Dreamland RPG December 2025 Playtests](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/11/20/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 canon as you want it
- [Fairies of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/11/13/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 Dreamland. Fairies, also known as
- [What Would a Modern Dreamland Look Like?](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/10/21/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 feel like Orientalised images of
- [Playtest Dreamland Online: September-October 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/09/22/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 how the Dreamland rules work
- [Abhumans of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/09/08/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 of Dreamland: abhumans. In Dreamland
- [50 Surreal Pillar Effects](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/08/06/50-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 has the same gravity and
- [Regions of Dreamland: Aphorat](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/06/23/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 of Dreamland to be included
- [Playtest Dreamland Online: June-July 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/05/28/playtest-dreamland-online-june-july-2025/) - I'm excited to announce the next two months' lineup of Dreamland playtests using settings and adventures by other RPG creators I love! All these games will be run online on the Dreamland Discord server and roll20 (roll20 link shared on the Discord before the game). June 13, 10AM PDT - Gardens of Ynn! Emmy Allen's
- [50 Death Customs of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/05/27/50-death-customs-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 Discord reaching 350 folks, here is a brief post on funerary customs of Dreamland. What happens after death is one of
- [Dreamland Games at GenCon 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/05/21/dreamland-games-at-gencon-2025/) - GenCon Indy, the USA's biggest gaming convention, is coming up at the end of July! And Aaron Vanek, collaborator and contributor to Dreamland, will be running a smorgasbord of in-person Dreamland games for those brave travellers who make the trip to faraway Indianapolis! One of these scenarios is already released in the Dreamland QuickStart, while
- [Beasts of Dreamland: Ghouls](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/05/16/beasts-of-dreamland-ghouls/) - 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 Discord reaching 350 folks, here is a brief post on ghouls (from Arabic and Western mythology, Edward Lucas White's "Amina," H.P. Lovecraft's
- [Playtest Dreamland Online: April-May 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/04/25/playtest-dreamland-online-april-may-2025/) - Better late than never, with April almost over.... here's the new playtest schedule for the rest of April and May for Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep!! Like February-March's games, all these games will use preexisting adventures or settings which Aaron and I love, with the blessing of their creators, for which
- [New Dreamland Character Sheet (Work In Progress)](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/03/25/new-dreamland-character-sheet-work-in-progress/) - I'm working on a new version of the Dreamland character sheet (page 3 is unchanged). What do you think? If you're looking closely, you might also notice something missing, a rules change to go with the layout change: Impulses are gone. I love the idea of having to resist compulsions and habits of your character's
- [Playtest Dreamland Online: February-March 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/01/28/playtest-dreamland-online-march-april-2025/) - I'm excited to announce that I'm doing some new online Dreamland playtests on the Dreamland Discord!! I hope to run games fairly regularly, at least 3x a month, until the summer. At the moment I'm planning a special series of games. Here is the current schedule, as written in the image (NOTE: The "Through Ultan's
- [Dreamland Rulebook Table of Contents](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/03/19/dreamland-rulebook-table-of-contents/) - 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 450 folks, here is the table of contents of the Dreamland rules, and a general update. The last few
- [Beyond Dreams: Level 4 Dreamers](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/03/07/beyond-dreams-level-4-dreamers/) - 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 Discord reaching 325 folks, here is a brief post on high-level dreamers, specifically Level 4. There are many more levels of
- [100 Religious Customs of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/03/04/100-religious-customs-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 425 folks, here is a brief post on religious customs of Dreamland. As described in a previous blog post,
- [Beasts of Dreamland: Gugs](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/24/beasts-of-dreamland-gugs/) - 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 400 folks, here is a brief post on gugs (from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". Gugs Hairy
- [Beasts of Dreamland: Night-Gaunts](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/19/beasts-of-dreamland-night-gaunts/) - 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 375 folks, here is a brief post on night-gaunts. Night-Gaunts Night-gaunts are human-sized, gargoyle-like creatures with slick black skin,
- [Beasts of Dreamland: Dragons](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/18/dragons-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 350 folks, here is a brief post on Dreamland dragons, including three sample types: pasture, desert and mountain dragons.
- [Love in Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/14/love-in-dreamland/) - Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of the holiday, here's a post about the rules related to love & romance in Dreamland. If you want something to have a place of honor in a game, you need rules for it, and Dreamland was never intended to be a game with just 30+ pages of combat rules.
- [Magic in Dreamland: the Blue Magician](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/10/magic-in-dreamland-the-blue-magician/) - 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 Discord reaching 300 folks, here is a brief post on magic in Dreamland. The Pillars of Magic True magic in human
- [Travel in Dreamland: Part 2](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/05/travel-in-dreamland-part-2/) - 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 325 folks, here is the second part of the "Travel" section for this month. Herds, Steeds and Pack Animals
- [Travel in Dreamland: Part 1](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/02/03/travel-in-dreamland-part-1/) - 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 325 folks, here is this week’s new material, which I'm going to break into two parts. Travel in Dreamland
- [New Dreamland Roles: Jan 2025](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/01/29/new-dreamland-roles-jan-2025/) - 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 Discord reaching 275 folks, here is this week's new material…five new Roles, the Caravan Guard, Porter, Tanner, Weaver
- [The Cultures of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2025/01/15/the-cultures-of-dreamland/) - Happy Late New Year! 2025 will be a big year for Dreamland RPG, and I hope to soon have more news about the upcoming game release from Exalted Funeral. In the meantime, please sign up for the Dreamland Discord server and Facebook group! As incentive, for every 25 new followers on either Discord or Facebook
- [A Message from Gary Myers](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/10/28/a-message-from-gary-myers/) - Art by Gary Myers for the 1970s fanzine "HPL" Gary Myers is the very talented author/artist of some of my favorite Dreamlands and Cthulhu Mythos stories. I first encountered his work through references in the 1980s Call of Cthulhu Dreamlands supplement, which led me to a copy of Myers' cult-famous 1975 anthology The House of
- [Dreamland RPG Adventure List](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/10/18/dreamland-rpg-adventure-list/) - I've been working consistently on the text and art for Dreamland RPG, and running lots of demos/playtests (go check out the Discord if you haven't yet!). So have several other people, especially my co-writer Aaron Vanek. In the process, we've created a lot of Dreamland adventures! By "adventures" I mean scenarios with characters & events,
- [Filming the Dreamlands (HPLFF Panel)](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/10/08/filming-the-dreamlands-hplff-panel/) - We just returned from the HP Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon in Portland, Oregon, where Aaron and I ran Dreamland demos and we watched a lot of cool films. Also, we participated in a "Filming the Dreamlands" panel discussion! Check it out now as we discuss Dreamlands (and Dreamlands-adjacent) films for 50 minutes! Featuring the
- [See Us at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/09/27/see-us-at-the-hp-lovecraft-film-festival/) - I'm excited to announce that Dreamland writer Aaron Vanek and I will be attending the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon on October 4-6 (next weekend)!! We will be running two Dreamland games at Battlegrounds Gaming Cafe (3738 NE Sandy Point Blvd), as well as doing a panel discussion on "Filming the Dreamlands"! ***************
- [Dreamland Facebook Group: What is Dreamland?](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/09/24/dreamland-facebook-group-what-is-dreamland/) - Playtests & demos of Dreamland RPG continue almost every week on the Dreamland Discord! Meanwhile, if you use Facebook, please consider joining the Dreamland Facebook Group! The short format of Facebook posts has made it extra convenient to write lots of posts on Dreamland-esque subjects: not only the game, but Dreamland art, books, games and
- [Dreamland in 2025 from Exalted Funeral!](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/07/21/dreamland-in-2025-from-exalted-funeral/) - Dreamland QuickStart Download: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/dreamland-quickstart Dreamland Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/193573340339 Dreamland Discord Group: https://discord.com/invite/Q5jVAQ6qwm I'm excited to announce what I've been working on secretly for the last several months... Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep has a publisher! The tabletop RPG of Wonder, Mystery, Loathing, Passion and Faraway will be released in 2025 by
- [Things I Like About Dreamland, Part 2](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/08/05/things-i-like-about-dreamland-part-2/) - This concludes Aaron Vanek's essay about Dreamland from the previous post! Thanks Aaron! 6. Diagonal Narrative The more Words a PC uses in a challenge, the greater the chance that they will break one of the Five Pillars of Dreamland. I describe it as the PCs are lucid dreamers who can reshape portions of dream
- [Things I Like About Dreamland, Part 1](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/08/02/things-i-like-about-dreamland-part-1/) - This essay was written by Aaron Vanek, one of the contributing authors and major playtesters of Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep. We're honored & flattered to post it here in two parts. By Aaron Vanek Artist Jason Bradley Thompson, whose orbit transited mine when I hired him to create a wonderful
- [Join the Dreamland Facebook Group](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/07/29/join-the-dreamland-facebook-group/) - “Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.” —Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder Things are moving unexpectedly fast in the eternal world of Dreamland…this week, we've finally got
- [Discord Updates & Homebrews](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/07/12/discord-updates-homebrews/) - In the months since my last post, a lot has been going on in Dreamland! There's much I can't announce yet, but stuff I *can* talk about includes.... On the Dreamland Discord server, we've been running games two or three times a month on Thursday evenings Pacific time (with the occasional game at other times,
- [Dreamland 2024 Plans](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2024/01/12/dreamland-2024-plans/) - Happy New Year! A lot has been going on. I'm hoping that 2024 will be a big year for Dreamland, and I have lots of plans to draw artwork for the game and do many other things. In the meantime, please check out the Playtests & Signups page for the latest Dreamland convention games (online
- [Dreamland PDF Update](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/10/30/dreamland-pdf-update/) - Revisions and playtests have been going on steadily on the Dreamland Discord and at conventions. After 7 months of feedback, I'm happy to announce updated versions of the Dreamland Quickstart PDF and the sample adventure "The Paradise of the Unchanging"! Please read, download, comment, share & play! Dreamland Quickstart PDF (48p.) - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cinvdi3c3p7rfu1io3kwf/Dreamland-Super-Quickstart-10-2023.pdf?rlkey=jysezsc162sluzchdoe1p5vtl&dl=0 The Paradise
- [Dreamland at GenCon Online](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/07/10/dreamland-at-gencon-online/) - 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 don't normally do an entire
- [POD Dreamland Cards (Beta Version)](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/06/02/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 to sit around with scissors
- [On Lord Dunsany](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/12/31/dreamers-lord-dunsany/) - (This post was originally written way back around 2012 on my other website, mockman.com. The context then was Dunsany's influence on Lovecraft, but Dunsany is so important to the Dreamlands, I thought it was worth reposting here, with a few minor edits.) What inspired H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories? You could list his childhood fascination with
- [Dreamland RPG Actual Play](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/04/23/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 suggested making it in the
- [Dreamland Quickstart PDF](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/03/14/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. All you need is the
- [The Paradise of the Unchanging](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/03/27/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 Masters have run it for
- [Dreamland on VTTs](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/03/04/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 300+ Word Cards). I'm proud
- [Tutorial Comics: Core Mechanics of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/01/12/how-dreamland-works-core-mechanics/) - 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 have been doing is drawing
- [Review: New Maps of Dream](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2023/01/04/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 Joseph S. Pulver, Sr, this
- [Upcoming Dreamland Demos](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2022/07/21/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 year-- sadly, I'm unable to
- [What Dreamland is Like](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2022/07/15/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 can create different types of
- [Dreamland: Example of Play](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2022/06/07/dreamland-example-of-play/) - This "example of play" is loosely based on events that happened during a game of the first playtest adventure, "The Paradise of the Unchanging." Unfortunately the color formatting which differentiated the different Pillar Words from one another was lost when transferring it from MSWord to WordPress, but hopefully the gist still comes across. Ideally I'll
- [200 Random Memories](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2022/05/12/200-random-memories/) - What says "RPG" more than random tables? The quickest and easiest way to create a Dreamland character is to begin with your three Memories and work your way backward, fleshing your waking self's character out from there. The suggested method, particularly for new players, is to randomly roll your Memories from one of two tables:
- [Dreamland Bestiary: Zoogs](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2021/08/24/dreamland-bestiary-zoogs/) - I haven't posted in awhile (tho I'm writing behind the scenes, honest!), but I wanted to share a little information about the world of Dreamland RPG. Today's topic is one of my favorite Dream-Quest creatures: zoogs. In Dreamland, most monsters (or rather, beasts) are divided into families of creatures. For example, there are many types
- [Dreamland Books & Stories](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2021/05/21/dreamland-books-stories/) - It's been awhile! There's actually been a ton of Dreamland work and development in the last few months, I've just been bad at posting about it. For now, here's something to chisel into the eternal granite of WordPress: a list of "core" Dreamland books and stories. Essential Works Obviously, I have to begin by listing
- [Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe Movie](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2021/02/12/dream-quest-of-vellitt-boe-movie/) - Just a quick update, but there is Dreamlands news too exciting not to share: Kij Johnson's amazing Dreamlands novel "The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe" has been optioned as a movie! Details are available at the Magnesium Films website. No cast or crew are announced, and it's possibly too soon to say if this project will
- [Dreamland Movies and TV, Part 2](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/12/25/dreamland-movies-and-tv-part-2/) - The 1990s brought a huge pop-cultural discovery that has shaped visions of Dreamland ever since: virtual reality. The Matrix, Star Trek: TNG's holodeck, cyberpunk RPGs and other media popularized the idea of passing between reality and a persistent imaginary world. Ideas like "what happens if you abandon your real life to live in a fantasy?"
- [Paths to Dreamland: Cities of Never](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/12/31/cities-of-never/) - Happy New Year! This article was previously printed in 2012 on mockman.com and is shamelessly reprinted here, with some revisions. It will be part of a series about the inspirations for Dreamland RPG. “When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city."—Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Dreamland is
- [Dreamland Movies and TV, Part 1](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/12/21/dreamland-movies-and-tv-part-1/) - The great RPG designers/podcasters Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws often suggest that, before starting a new campaign, GMs should show players a movie or TV show episode to show them the style they're going for. So, if you're starting a Dreamland campaign, what movies should everybody watch? If players don't want to read a
- [Dreamland at Comic-Con @Home](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/07/28/dreamland-at-comic-con-home/) - For some time now, the wonderful Aaron Vanek has been running Dreamland playtests at The Game Academy, which runs online roleplaying games for educational (and fun) purposes. Now, Aaron and his colleagues Emily Nguyen-Hoai, Keenan Kibrick and Fiona Rene have featured Dreamland in a panel on "Learning through Roleplaying Games"! The panel runs about 45
- [Roles of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/05/14/role-descriptions/) - The core Dreamland rules contain 52 Roles (plus additional Roles not available to starting characters). Here are the rules, descriptive text and suggested starting equipment for several Roles. Each Role is linked to one or more of the Five Pillars of Dreamland. TROUBADOUR The Troubadour, or Bard, is a travelling musician. From town to town
- [Creating Marvels](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/06/05/creating-marvels/) - "'But does all this exist only after I've wished it? Or was it all there before?' "'Both,' said Grograman. "'How can that be?' Bastian cried almost impatiently. 'You've been here in Goab, the Desert of Colors, since heaven knows when. The room in your palace was waiting for me since the beginning of time. So,
- [Dreamland on Roll20](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/05/23/dreamland-on-roll20/) - This possibly doesn't deserve a post, but... Dreamland is now (really truly) working on roll20!! The great Aaron Vanek and I have now run several games and worked out the technical kinks. Naturally, these are just rough playtest versions of all the cards -- things won't actually look like this in "the final". But all
- [Where & What is Dreamland?](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/07/22/sign-up-for-updates/) - Hi! Thanks for reading! This is Jason Bradley Thompson. I mostly draw comics and do illustrations for games and movies. This is the better-late-than-never design blog for the RPG I've been designing with help from my playtest-DM and editor Jumana Al Hashal (with whom I also collaborated on our two comic-making games, Mangaka and Cartooner).
- [Dream Selves & Roles](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2020/02/21/dream-selves-roles/) - When a dreamer enters Dreamland, they do not simply materialize from thin air. Instead, they 'awaken' into a body that already exists, in a person who already lives there: their dream self. Even Randolph Carter did not simply appear in Dreamland, but realized that he was already there, and—like many dreamers—allowed his waking personality to
- [A World Made of Words, 1](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/11/26/design-blog-a-world-made-of-words-1/) - Since language is such an important thing in the mood of Lovecraft and Dunsany fantasy stories, and fairytales in general, my goal when I started working on Dreamland was “a game whose core component is language”. A quick google search early on showed that there weren’t many tabletop games whose rules affected how players could
- [Five Pillars of Dreamland](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/12/03/design-blog-the-five-pillars/) - Whereas other worlds are made of earth, water, air and fire, Dreamland has its own elements. In addition to Words (represented at the table by Word Cards) Dreamland is made of emotions. Sages have identified five primal forces: Wonder, Loathing, Mystery, Exoticism and Passion. These themes suffuse Dreamland, as well as drawing certain types of
- [Who are Dreamers?](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/12/10/who-are-dreamers/) - In the modern era, less than 1 in 10 million people can enter Dreamland. If there were ever societies or religions built around Dreamland’s existence, they have long ago been forgotten and their teachings obscured. Only a few rare people are still capable of experiencing the other reality. Some dreamers are modern-day or 20th-century people
- [A World Made of Words, 2](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/11/28/design-blog-a-world-made-of-words-2/) - Dreamland is a wordplay RPG. Once I had made the Word Tokens, the question was, how to use them in a game? My intention was for a game where players and the DM would quickly, frequently exchange these Words, using them in flowery speeches at the table. Not whole sentences plucked out of Dunsany at
- [Breaking the World](https://www.dreamrpg.com/2019/12/02/design-blog-breaking-the-world/) - In the last post I talked about the core mechanic of Dreamland: gathering Words by making flowery speeches and spending them to perform (or get bonuses on performing) actions. But although Words are the substance of Dreamland, a dreamer who uses too many Words risks suffering for their hubris. (For what are Dreamland stories, even

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