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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blasphemonkey" data-source="post: 1036544" data-attributes="member: 13023">Ding ding! Argent just introduced my take on it. I have already been running a campaign set in regular "D&D Land." (My own setting.) This idea I got from a Clive Barker novel called The Great and Secret Show (it's a great read, by the way). Some of the names were changed, and some new ideas added.There is the world we know (D&D setting - Prime Material Plane), and there is the Sea of Dreams. When you go to sleep and begin dreaming, your soul floats in the Sea of Dreams, which is a separate plane, just like in the MotP (and yes, this one is permanent). The reason nightmares exist (the dreams, not the monsters) is because your soul happens to drift close to the shore of a terrifying land called Sunbane. (I'm not sure if I should keep this on the same plane or make it a demiplane.) There are these horrific towering creatures known only as The Inhabitants (think: good baddies to fight when you're epic level). Just being a few miles from these things causes fright, horror, panic, etc... There is a group of evil sorcerors/wizards/clerics known as the Six Fingered Hand, who want to bring The Inhabitants into this world. So we have six BBEG's to kill besides The Inhabitants themselves. In order to bring The Inhabitants into this plane of existance, these nasty things must first cross the Sea of Dreams. This causes lots of folks to either die of terror in their sleep, or at least just have the worst nightmares of their lives, depending on how close they get to these things as they float in the Sea. As The Inhabitants get even closer, it begins to affect the Prime Material Plane. In short, nature goes berserk. Animals attack for no reason, clouds of insects fill the air, etc...One thing that I have added is that there is presently a group of defenders of the Sea of Dreams called the Dreamkeepers. These are a group of epic level npc's that will be killed off before they can even help the pc's. The pc's in effect eventually become the new protectors of the Sea, with the new name, Dreamriders (the name of my campaign).My group will one by one get hints and clues of what is really going on/about to go on, as they find the Six Fingered Hand and their cohorts. How successful they will be remains to be seen, of course. They may kill the entire Hand before they finish their rituals and summonings, in which case they'll fight The Inhabitants in the Sea of Dreams, I suppose. If they fail, then The Inhabitants are loosed upon the world, havok and mayhem will reign supreme, and they'll have to save the day.What does everyone think? I'm very interested in your opinions, as well as others ideas/side plots I could throw in.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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