Comments on: Employing Dreams and Other Nocturnal Visions

By: PyroMancyr

PyroMancyr — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:21:39 +0000

@Nicholas: well……we’ll see if this experiment (because let’s face it, this is exactly what this is) works out…As of right now, all they know is that I’m asking for mirror characters. That’s all. They won’t know what I’m up to till the first time they shift realities

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:52:25 +0000

Whoops, messed up there. Anyway…

@PyroMancyr: You have some lucky players.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:51:16 +0000

@PyroMancyr

By: PyroMancyr

PyroMancyr — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:41:41 +0000

I’m right now designing an entire campaign using dreams as the main vehicle. I’m going to have my PCs create mirror opposite characters. At the beginning of each session I’m going to roll to see which characters the party will be playing. Each time they shift characters, they’ll find themselves waking up from a “disturbingly realistic dream” even if the session ended up in the middle of combat, or other cliffhanger moment

With each accomplishment they achieve in the main story, reality unravels just a bit more. Eventually, I’ll roll separately for their characters (shifting realities having taken its toll, they’ll not know if they’re still in “the dream” or not)

its a lot of work, but they wanted something original….

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:48:34 +0000

The D&D 3.5 supplement “Heroes of Horror” had a good few pages devoted to the use of dreams in campaigns, too, for those wanting some more fodder for games.

@Nicholas: The battle is shockingly simple if your characters happen to know the Holy spell. Moreso if you have something that decreases MP costs, like Three Stars. Just throwing that out there.