[Call of Cthulhu] Dreamlands as a campaign setting?

[Neko Princex]

I know there have been a few CoC books detailing the Dreamlands. I have yet to add them into my collection, but they are on my list to get. I am curious how usable the Dreamlands are as a stand-alone campaign setting. What other books outside of Chaosiums' COC system are good for fleshing out and breathing more life into the Dreamlands?

 

[MGibster]

I know there have been a few CoC books detailing the Dreamlands. I have yet to add them into my collection, but they are on my list to get. I am curious how usable the Dreamlands are as a stand-alone campaign setting. What other books outside of Chaosiums' COC system are good for fleshing out and breathing more life into the Dreamlands?

It's been a few years, but Chaosium does have a book that details the Dreamlands and even makes suggestions on how they might be used in a campaign. I haven't thought about it in a long, long time, but it'd be interesting to have a campaign start out in the Dreamlands only for the PCs to wake up in the real world living completely different lives.

 

[General_Tangent]

There is The Sense of The Sleight of Hand Man which is a complete campaign set in the Dreamlands. It does deal with mature themes though

 

[Neko Princex]

It's been a few years, but Chaosium does have a book that details the Dreamlands and even makes suggestions on how they might be used in a campaign. I haven't thought about it in a long, long time, but it'd be interesting to have a campaign start out in the Dreamlands only for the PCs to wake up in the real world living completely different lives.

My interest in using the Dreamlands is to actually use it independent of the waking world, so that the characters in the Dreamlands are their physical selves....physically born into the Dreamlands.

 

[Tantavalist]

It's very possible to run the Dreamlands as a distinct setting that's a standard fantasy world rather than somewhere that people from our world visit in dreams. It would be simple enough to remove the Dreaming-Isekai aspect and just have characters be born in the Dreamlands.

The published Chaosium book I have on the Dreamlands provides more than enough information to do that. I'm not sure what the current edition has for Dreamlands but even older stuff would work for what you want.

Personally I'd use Barbarians of Lemuria rather than anything based on Chaosium's d100 system for a Dreamlands game. Outside of official Dreamlands stuff- there's a lot of OSR scenarios that are surreal and Gonzo enough to fit the Fever Dream tone of the Dreamlands.

 

[Malcolm Serabian]

Interestingly I’ve read that Sandy’s original pitch to Greg for what eventually became Call of Cthulhu was a fantasy RPG set in the Dreamlands…