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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1343728" data-attributes="member: 63">In an upcoming game, the party is going to face manifestations of dreams.  Most of these dreams are a single idea, sort of an essence of something one might think of or experience.  I'm going to provide a few prior examples to show how my thoughts have been going, and then I'll ask for a bit of help with creating future ones.So far, the group has encountered Indomitability, Deception, Balance, Aggression, Impersonation, Agony, Time, and Desire.  One PC was bonded with the incarnation of Justice, and an NPC friend of theirs has bonded with Foresight.  In this upcoming game, a lot of lesser dreams are going to be made manifest by a vaguely Christmas-esque festival (parents try to make their children's dreams come true).  The new ones will include a few biggies like Weakness, The Madness of the World Falling Upon Itself, Shadow, and Guilt Over Killing a Loved One, plus lots of weak dreams that are just different aspects of the fear and pain one experiences in nightmares.In my mind, these creatures are something like a cross between ghosts and demons, with sort of a psionic bent.  First, they're born by the dreams and nightmares of a powerful psionic entity.  Then, after they mature, they're somewhat like ghosts with special powers related to their namesake.  Deception, for instance, could almost always bluff someone, and could alter people's memories.  Time aged people to death.  Normally, the dreams are intangible essences, but they can choose to take on a semi-tangible form.  When Deception did this, he appeared either like an inky black semi-humanoid form with multiple tentacles instead of limbs, or as an aged man who looked like Max Von Sydow from 'Needful Things.'Finally, the party has found a type of magic that can force dreams into physical forms, such that their special abilities apply only to themselves.  Only when trapped in one of these forms can they be fully killed, though they can be captured psionically into specially prepared vessels.  As for power, the dreams can range from simple spooks with no real bite, to bizarrely powerful nightmares that are just as powerful when they are embodied as they are in the sleeping mind.So I'll post this now, then get to typing up a few examples, and then hopefully start getting stats ready for a swarm of creatures of the id.  I need this by next Friday, and the PCs are 12th level.</blockquote>

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