This is the page where we post about upcoming convention games and other opportunities to run playtests of Dreamland. Stay up to date by signing up to our mailing list.
If you are a Dream Master, this is where you can find official online assets you can use to run your very own one-shot or campaign of Dreamland. Please join the conversation on our Dreamland Discord channel! I would love to answer any questions you have and hear firsthand about any playtests you have run.
If you are interested in playing, we do Dreamland playtests 2-3 times a month on Thursdays on the Dreamland Discord server, usually starting at 7PM PST. Join the Discord here!
We also have a Facebook group where we share updates, as well as Dreamlands and “dream fantasy”-related art, from Lord Dunsany and Winsor McCay to Kij Johnson and Mercer Mayer. Join the Facebook here!
GENCON |NDY 2025
GenCon Indy, the USA’s biggest gaming convention, is coming up in Indianapolis on July 31-August 3! And Aaron Vanek, collaborator and contributor to Dreamland, will be running a smorgasbord of in-person Dreamland games:
Thursday, July 31, 2-6PM: Band on the Run! Pursued by forces both natural and powerfully preternatural, can the Dreamers survive long enough to figure out why they are being chased?
Thursday, July 31, 8PM-12AM: The Islands of the Devils Masked and Dancing! Far from the Six Kingdoms, the villagers of the jungle isles whisper about a strange curse… a curse of masked figures in the darkness who bring transformation, doom and change. Dream-questing in a strange archipelago beyond the wall of sleep, one of the upcoming Dreamland settings.
Friday, August 1, 2-6PM: The Palace of Memories! Your beloved city suffers a plague of amnesia! Can you stop it?
Friday, August 1, 8PM-12AM: The Islands of the Devils Masked and Dancing (Friday August 1, 8PM-12AM): Far from the Six Kingdoms, the villagers of the jungle isles whisper about a strange curse…. The second of the GenCon “Islands” games, this game is open to newbies but may also continue the story from Thursday for returning players.
Saturday, August 2, 2-6PM: The Goodness of Hlanith! A beautiful port city is besieged by a plague of raging hatred.
Saturday, August 2, 8PM-12AM: The Islands of the Devils Masked and Dancing! Far from the Six Kingdoms, the villagers of the jungle isles whisper about a strange curse… The third of the GenCon “Islands” games, this game is open to newbies but may also continue the story from Thursday and Friday’s games for returning players.
Sunday, August 3, 12PM-4PM: Paradise of the Unchanging! The peaceful, immortal city of Olathoe is threatened by horrific creatures from the depths. Try out the scenario included with the Exalted Funeral Dreamland QuickStart!
Online registration is open now, and games are already filling up, so go click the links and get your tickets!
Stay tuned for updates for more convention games.In the past we have run Dreamland demos at conventions like GenCon, BigBadCon, Strategicon, GameholeCon, NecronomiCon, Convocation, Precognition, Gamex, GoPlayNW, KublaCon and YSDC Game Day.
ONLINE PLAYTESTS (JUNE-JULY 2025)
Please see here for the list of upcoming Discord/roll20 playtests, or check out this schedule image:
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DREAMLAND QUICKSTART RULES
Dreamland will be published in 2025 by Exalted Funeral! You can get the QuickStart version of the Dreamland rules for free from the Exalted Funeral website. This version supersedes all previous QuickStarts and includes:
- QuickStart rules (52 pages)
- “The Paradise of the Unchanging” (introductory adventure) (32 pages)
- Form-fillable Character Sheet
- Print-and-play Dreamland Word, Role, Impairment and Transformation cards
The form-fillable character sheet is also available here at 300dpi:
VTT (VIRTUAL TABLETOP) SUPPORT
Dreamland is a card-based game where players use 300 Word Cards to tell stories and describe marvels of Dreamland. As of March 2023, you can use any of the following ways to play Dreamland:
Tabletop Simulator: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2925695901 – Tabletop Simulator costs a flat fee of $20 to buy on Steam; the Dreamland material is free. Go here to subscribe to Dreamland and you’ll be able to download the cards as well as receiving updates whenever I make edits.
playingcards dot io: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/01gh33ohhknja27rrv32f/dreamland-playingcards-io.pcio?rlkey=dggxt2puazihh1q38enhpbwvo&st=vvlkzqnb&dl=0 Though not a full VTT, this free site works great for simulating Dreamland Word Cards. To use it, click on the file link above and download the “.pcio” file. Then create an account at playingcards.io and upload the file; the Dreamland card set will appear. The .pcio file was last updated July 12, 2024.
Dreamland cards are also set up for roll20, but since roll20 assets can’t be shared except as products in the roll20 store, we haven’t made these available yet (since Dreamland isn’t ready for commercial release yet, we don’t want to charge money for it). Occasionally Jason, Aaron or someone else who has uploaded Dreamland cards to roll20 will run a game on roll20.
Here’s a recording of our first Dreamland actual play video, recorded in April 2023 using OBS on Zoom and roll20:
POD (PRINT ON DEMAND) CARDS
If you want to play Dreamland in person, just download the free Exalted Funeral Dreamland QuickStart and get started! The QuickStart includes all the essential Word Cards (20 pages of 15 cards each) as well as the nice-but-not-necessary-to-play Role, Impairment and Transformation cards.
If you’d rather not cut the cards out yourself, a POD version of the 300 Word Cards is available at The Game Crafter. These are more expensive than the cards would be as an official release, and these are not the final designs, but they’re high-quality and suitable to playtest the game using the Quickstart Rules. If you can’t wait to play Dreamland in-person, please check them out! (And please look forward to an eventual professional release of the game!)
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you’re interested in playtesting Dreamland with your own gaming group, or trying a game on Roll20, feel free to email us at (Jason’s first name) at mockman point com, ping us on twitter or Facebook, or of course ask on the Discord.