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Dreamland is a portal fantasy roleplaying game inspired by the fantasy stories of Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, Kij Johnson and Michael Ende.
Dreamland RPG Blog
10h ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
2M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
3M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
3M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
3M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
4M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
5M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
5M ago
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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
6M ago
“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…
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Dreamland RPG Blog
6M ago
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 Exalted Funeral, amazing publishers of great games such as Ultraviolet Grasslands, Land of Eem and Monty Python’s Cocurriculcar Mediaeval Reenactment Programme. I’ve been working closely with the Exalted folks since the beginning of 2024, and together we have just released a teaser of what’s to come: an updated Dreamland Quickstart PDF a ..read more