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Really want to run a campaign set in something like an Alice in wonderland/American mc gees Alice meets pathfinder setting, with the players getting caught in a situation where they need to deal with a dark entity or threat that has taken up residence inside the mind and dreams of a young girl(who also is connected to an entirely different reality).
The players must travel through this 'wonderland-esque' world, locate the evil, and deal with it. And then probably try to escape back to the normal world before they end up trapped and merged with the girls mind forever.
What I am looking for is some books or ideas for the setting to flesh out the world and encounters more. Does anybody know anything that might help?
Really interested on something likes this too. I would really love it. The most similar I can think of is the Paizo module The Harrowing.
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+1 on the Harrowing. Check it out.
Rite Publishing's Coliseum Morpheon Setting maybe. The novel Lost in Dream by Matt Banach which is set in that setting, is described as Alice in Wonderland meets H.P.Lovecraft. It does involve rescuing a girl who is lost in dream iirc. I suggest checking it out.
Adventure Quarterly #3 has an adventure calles “Dream Harvest” which set in a nightmare, incidently also by Matt Banach. Read the reviews for more info.
There's also Rite's Five Room Dungeon: Rabbit Hole by Matt Banach (and Coliseum Morpheon author Clinton Boomer) again.
And not PFRPG, but still merits a mention imo is Gossamer Worlds: the Nightmare Kingdom a setting/world for the Lords of Gossamer and Shadow game which is a version of Amber Diceless.
Also by Rite but not related to Coliseum or Matt Banach there is the PFRPG Kaidan Setting, which is about japanese gothic horror stories. Kaidan is an archipelago of islands, but has it's own cosmic properties making it very much like Ravenloft, being a land of oriental horror, karmic curses and a spiritual trap. It is heavily influenced by Japanese history, religion, legends, folklore and traditional ghost stories.
From 3.5/3.0? there is Mystic Eye Games which provides a dark setting that iirc is half dream. I bought several adventures and monster books from them to pillage for Ravenloft. The setting book is The Hunt: Rise of Evil.
"The Hunt: Rise of Evil" is our core d20 campaign setting by Mystic Eye Games. In this book you will be immersed into the dark world called Gothos. You will find a new and fantastic land where the dreams and nightmares of our sleeping earth folk find there way into this mystical world. This unique campaign setting will give you new rules, kingdoms, classes, races, magic and much more. Play in our world or simply apply all that you find here to any d20 game. Become a child of the waking dream and join the hunt today! This book will feature more than 20 unique, new classes, new feats, new spells, new monsters and much more for your d20 fantasy game.
The Harrowing is definitely what you want if you want a Pathfinder module.
However, if you don't mind a little conversion, the 2nd Edition modules Dungeonland and Land Behind the Magic Mirror are modeled directly from the Alice in Wonderland books. You could change some creatures directly to their Pathfinder equivalents (Jub Jub Bird, Jabberwock, Bandersnatch) and redo the others.
The Harrowing is my favorite module of any system, however, so I lean towards it, =) It is what you want!