So in a few short sessions the party is going to be entering into the dream of a long-slumbering god. The idea behind the adventure is to have a lot of fun with the concept of dreams (think Inception) and allowing the PCs to really play around with the environment, their abilities, etc. The catch is, the god is long-slumbering because he is locked into a nightmare from which he cannot escape.
So the question becomes: What sort of things would constitute a nightmare for a god. The god in question is good-aligned with the Travel, Sun, and Good domains. Since this will take place on the Dream plane, I am not concerned about level as I can simply adjust anything to be level-appropriate. As always, any help would be much appreciated.
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Being stuck in the "It's a small world" ride at disney land. Forever.
Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes.
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Electric sheep?
Sadly, said god is not an android. :p
@Joanna: Curse you! Now the dang song's running through my head!
Celestial sheep.
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Someplace cramped, gloomy and evil ... basically Disney World on a weekend.
The God is trapped in a dream where he is unworshiped,hated and ignored.
The PC's find themselves defending him to a jury,prosecuting him,sitting in judgment and then ignoring him.
Unless the PC's accomplish all three hard to achieve goals they find themselves drawn into the dream and have to redo the goal with a different harder to achieve goal. Every time they fail they become more ensnared until at the end either they win(and are thanked by a small Godly aspect of the God who realizes the party tried to help)or become trapped forever in the nightmare(if its enough to trap a God I doubt tiny mortals would be immune).
A day off.
Lets be honest, if you'd hadn't had a break in millenia thanks to millions dumping their demands on your desk, wouldnt you dream of a day off. By a lake, in the sunshine, with your feet up , a cool drink, and maybe a good book ?
A key villian could be the xixititzl (spelling!) From bestiary 3. Its description says they are sent out to eat suns and shut down worlds!
Being stuck in the "It's a small world" ride at disney land. Forever.Truly, Cthulhu could devise nothing crueler.
Hey, don't give the big C a bad rap. There's not a cruel bone in Cthulhu's body. You don't think people are cruel for eating the bacteria on their sandwich, do you?
Being stuck in the "It's a small world" ride at disney land. Forever.
My brother and dad got trapped on that for two hours straight because it broke down midway... Neither of them have ever forgotten it and vowed never to ride it again. I would say that's more of a god's nightmare rather than dream.
So the question becomes: What sort of things would constitute a nightmare for a god. The god in question is good-aligned with the Travel, Sun, and Good domains. Since this will take place on the Dream plane, I am not concerned about level as I can simply adjust anything to be level-appropriate. As always, any help would be much appreciated.
Someplace that appears as endless space with walls on all sides. Someplace with many places to hide and few places to shine. Someplace dark and awful with creatures suggestively at all sides, even when there are none. There is no good, its the same sight at all times, its haunting, and there is no light.
For some reason I imagine the enderman game... Oh well! It does give you a space you can work with on the map and it retains a surrealistic approach you might appreciate for dreaming.
Enderman game...? Slenderman? I'm confused XD
Yes! That guy. I don't know his name. I just know I saw this computer game once with him on someone else's computer.
Dude! When Gods Dream its Minecraft!
It's a nightmare, so it'll have to be things that are diectly against his domains.
Travel: The labyrinth-thing suggested above is excellent. The opposite of travel are either isolation or being imprisoned.
Sun: The antithesis to Sun is most likely darkness and eternal night.
Good: Doh. Evil. But not necessarily baby-killing evil. It could also be everyday evil. Egoism, not helping out your neighbour, opressive and unjust laws.
I'd imagine isolated villages living in constant darkness. Everyone is selfish and unwilling to help each other. The isolation could be of choice, because it would actually be worse to a travel-god if people decided not to travel, rather than were unable.
I agree with those who have proposed oppositions to his domains: an endless labyrinth in darkness, filled with evils that the god is impotent to prevent. And definitely go with the "super-size me!" option.
Hey all, thanks again for all the help. Plenty of great ideas here!
When you do this, you need to at least suggest that the players are actually being dreamt, and if they end the god's dream, they too will end. Maybe all of existence. Maybe that's why the world is so horrible, that it's the nightmare of a deity.
'He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's dreaming about?'
Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.'
'Why, about you!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. 'And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?'
'Where I am now, of course,' said Alice.
'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!'
'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out— bang!—just like a candle!'
'I shouldn't!' Alice exclaimed indignantly. 'Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?'
'Ditto,' said Tweedledum.
'Ditto, ditto!' cried Tweedledee.
He shouted this so loud that Alice couldn't help saying 'Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise.'
'Well, it's no use your talking about waking him,' said Tweedledum, 'when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real.'
'I am real!' said Alice, and began to cry.
'You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying,' Tweedledee remarked: 'there's nothing to cry about.'
'If I wasn't real,' Alice said—half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous—'I shouldn't be able to cry.'
'I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.