Whenever enough new folks join the Dreamland RPG Facebook group or Discord server, I’m going to be posting new Dreamland material (the FB and/or Discord folks get to vote on what it is). In celebration of the Discord reaching 275 folks, here is this week’s new material…five new Roles, the…
Playtest Dreamland Online: March-April 2025
I’m excited to announce that I’m doing some new online Dreamland playtests on the Dreamland Discord!! I hope to run games fairly regularly, at least 3x a month, until the summer. At the moment I’m planning a special series of games. Here is the current schedule, as written in the…
The Cultures of Dreamland
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…
A Message from Gary Myers
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…
Dreamland RPG Adventure List
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…
Filming the Dreamlands (HPLFF Panel)
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…
See Us at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival
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…
Dreamland Facebook Group: What is Dreamland?
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…
Things I Like About Dreamland, Part 2
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…
Things I Like About Dreamland, Part 1
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…