The Dreamlands


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Grand Lodge

I have read in the Bestiaries some references to monsters coming from the Dream dimensions (like the Gugs). But in the Great Beyond there is not reference to any Dreamlands. How can anyone travel there?


Its in the chapter at the back with a miscellany of other planes. I think its called the Dimension of Dreams. The entry is quite short but it does sort of explain how to reach it - literally via your dreams with the help of unspecified dream-magic. The dream dimension bubbles up into the ethereal plane as well so I suppose you can reach it that way too.

The realm is apparently based on something from Lovecraft's books so Cthulhu and co stomp through it to infiltrate people's dreams.


While its 3PP, Rite Publishing offers a high level campaign set in Dreamland called Coloseum Morpheuon (15th - 20th)


It's Coliseum and it's a great recommendation for the dreamland rules alone, and also for a great adventure and mini setting.

The plane of dreams existed in 3.5 and before, it was mentioned in the 3.5 Manual of the Planes, the 2E Ravenloft boxed set The Nightmarelands were a spinoff, and there are some 3PP modules about dreams

Check out:
Plane of Dreams in the OGL wiki


There's also Down the Rabbit Hole, a 5-room adventure set in that space, too. And the whole Faces of the Tarnished Souk series.

-Ben.


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Need moar planar books!


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If you need another planar book, there's also Dark Roads, Golden Hells, from Kobold Press.

Shadow Lodge

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It's not for Pathfinder (hell, it's not even for d20), but you couldn't ask for a better Dreamlands sourcebook than H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

Grand Lodge

Is there any monster who can travel back and for to the Dreamlands?


Roger Corbera wrote:
Is there any monster who can travel back and for to the Dreamlands?

Yes. The level 9 Wizard. ;)

and the Denizens of Leng.

-Ben.


Roger Corbera wrote:
Is there any monster who can travel back and for to the Dreamlands?

Moon Beasts and Nightmare Creatures (Nightmare Lords).

Grand Lodge

I wonder... Does experience won at Dreamlands count equal for real world? After all in the Dreamlands you can't die.

Nightmare Lords give me lots of nasty ideas... Thanks everyone?

What's the diference between Dreamlands and Nightmare lands?


Roger Corbera wrote:
I wonder... Does experience won at Dreamlands count equal for real world? After all in the Dreamlands you can't die.

If you're just dreaming, then maybe you'll not die. But if you get on the plane via gate, plane shift or astral projection and get there in trouble, you may die.

Roger Corbera wrote:
What's the diference between Dreamlands and Nightmare lands?

Nightmare lands are deeper then Dreamlands, and are more or less constant part of plane. As I remember, there are some "holds" ruled by Night Hags. Other parts may be home of Nightmare Creatures/Lords.


Leng is described in Into the Nightmare Rift, part 5 of Shattered Star AP. It's the northern part of the Dreamlands, just one dreamscape (demiplane) among countless others within the Dimension of Dreams.


The Nightmare Lands that i meant are the region of dreams in Ravenloft, published in a boxed set for 2nd Edition AD&D. Check out a review on the Fraternity of Shadows site if you want to know more...


Aside from Leng there's Harrowed Demiplane from The Harrow Pathfinder Module.

Thanael wrote:
The Nightmare Lands that i meant are the region of dreams in Ravenloft, published in a boxed set for 2nd Edition AD&D. Check out a review on the Fraternity of Shadows site if you want to know more...

Sorry, misunderstood of which Nightmare Lands was the question (do remember from The Great Beyond manual, that deeper in Dimension of Dreams are some realms of nightmares).

Grand Lodge

Thanael wrote:
The Nightmare Lands that i meant are the region of dreams in Ravenloft, published in a boxed set for 2nd Edition AD&D. Check out a review on the Fraternity of Shadows site if you want to know more...

I will read it, thanks.

Grand Lodge

Numerian wrote:
Leng is described in Into the Nightmare Rift, part 5 of Shattered Star AP. It's the northern part of the Dreamlands, just one dreamscape (demiplane) among countless others within the Dimension of Dreams.

Interesting.


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My hope is the when Occult Adventures is fully released that it will contain some info on the Dreamlands.


Squeakmaan wrote:
My hope is the when Occult Adventures is fully released that it will contain some info on the Dreamlands.

That appears to be in the pipeline.

Grand Lodge

Cthulhudrew wrote:
Squeakmaan wrote:
My hope is the when Occult Adventures is fully released that it will contain some info on the Dreamlands.
That appears to be in the pipeline.

I will look into the playtest.


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Sweet! Thanks for the heads-up


Roger Corbera wrote:
I wonder... Does experience won at Dreamlands count equal for real world? After all in the Dreamlands you can't die.

If you die in the Matrix, you die in real life.

Grand Lodge

Jonathon Vining wrote:
Roger Corbera wrote:
I wonder... Does experience won at Dreamlands count equal for real world? After all in the Dreamlands you can't die.
If you die in the Matrix, you die in real life.

Well, in Call of Cthulhu's Dreamlands (directly inspired in Lovecraft's), you only die in the Dreamlands, and then you awake in the real world, and can't come back.

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Squeakmaan wrote:
My hope is the when Occult Adventures is fully released that it will contain some info on the Dreamlands.

It will.

Grand Lodge

Will the Dreamlands be based in Lovecraft's/Dunsany's?


From the article in Shattered Star, it seems that it's sort of based on Lovecraft -- Unknown Kadath is at the Dreamlands' North Pole, but as you go south in four different directions you will encounter four different iterations of the Plateau of Leng, each very close to that described in Dream-Quest, each leading to a different world's Dreamlands. So Golarion and Earth, and two other worlds, share part of a single Dream "planet."

Grand Lodge

So a Call of Cthulhu/Pathfinder crossover is possible in the dreamlands?

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gamer-printer wrote:
While its 3PP, Rite Publishing offers a high level campaign set in Dreamland called Coloseum Morpheuon (15th - 20th)

For anyone interested in an adventure set in Dream, drawing upon Rite Publishing's Coliseum Morpheuon and Faces of the Tarnished Souk series, the new novel Lost In Dream in now available. (shameless plug, this is my book)

"A man called Rube is on a perilous quest, searching this unhinged land for something more precious than life or sanity – his own lost child. Captive on a black ship crewed by the dreaded Men of Leng, he finds himself crossing the Slumbering Sea in chains, brought face-to-face with a mischievous blue monster who might just be his salvation – or his doom. Struggling to reunite father and daughter, their odyssey past the edge of reality reveals ancient evils, fiendish plots, and a trans-planar scheme which threatens the very foundation of Dream.

Bursting forth from Rite Publishing's epic Coliseum Morpheuon and the high-octane Faces of the Tarnished Souk, Matt Banach's debut novel blends the wonder of Lewis Carroll and the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft to produce a wicked and witty fantasy adventure with a bittersweet heart, testament to the enduring power of a parent's love."

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