How build a special world setting based on "being able to physically enter someone's dreams“?

[Anonym]

In short, I want to build a special world setting based on the following key elements.

people(especially the spellcaster) can enter other's dream physically,just as they enter another plane.
and when they enter someone's dream, everything they encounter are real, and enemies in the dream can literally and physically attack and kill them, and they can also bring objects from the dream———— such as treasure or other valuable resources———— into reality.
for example, when they enter someone's dream and bring a huge box of gold coins and precious gems back to reality, these treasure will be real, and they can repeat this operation in this way to get anything they want and completely unlimited resource supply.
of course, fictional monsters that could only exist in dreams can also come out of dreams and become real creatures forever,and still retaining any strange abilities that couldn't have existed in the real world.

A very important event is:
A poor boy, somehow, allowed an strange ancient artefact enter his dream, which gave him and his descendants miraculous power about dreams.with such power,he went from a poor boy become a king, and the ancestor of all kings of a furture mighty kingdom,and the origin of the entire world setting (the story takes place several dozen centuries later). ——————but he does not know the truth about the ancient artefact.

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So I need some ideas, especially from existing settings. what world setting have such elements aboutf "physically entering dreams and bringing things into reality, or bringing things of reality into dreams"?

 

[ruemere]

Rules. Specifically, to maintain balance between this and dream realities, a law of conservation should apply. Or several of them: of energy, of mass, of complexity (otherwise one could bring in nukes), of space, that is of size and distance (no ant man wannabees, no teleportation), of ecosystem compatibility (no bringing Cthulhu, Freddie Kruger, no xenomorphs nor HIV or Zombie flu) and probably a few others.

Vurt makes for a great book and game of what happens when realities start to overlap.

 

[Tonguez]

Dreamhounds of Paris is a weird Trails of Cthulhu setting where you play historic surrealist artist (like Salvador Dali) exploring the Dreamlands in the 1920s (and going insane)

White Wolfs Changeling the Dreaming, has strong dream themes

Vurt RPG is a cyberpunk dream world

I'm envisioning a Playbook based system where PCs make choices between their Dream (Motivation) or Nigtmare (Fear) as they make soft moves and the Dreaming resist with Hard moves,

Every PC also chooses 1 - 2 Dream Motifs (bridges, roses) and a nightmare Motif which they can deploy to change a dream scene or overcome a challenge 1 -3 Dreamer Points per scene

 

[Richards]

Don't beholders dream themselves into existence nowadays (in 5E, I mean)? Could that be a player in your campaign world somehow?

Johnathan

 

[aco175]

Who determines what the dream is? What would the difference between the real world and the dream world be be then, if there are no different rules between them?

 

[Anonym]

I want to design a key scene,thebeginning of the entire world setting:THE BLOODBORNED PACT


Simply put, a poor boy signed a pact with a mysterious ancient artefact(It actually a living being, but that boy doesn't know this. ), make it to enter his dream from the real world then get incredible power.“Let me exist in your and your descendants' dreams, my power will benefit you and your descendants forever, and in exchange, you and your descendants should be my vessel and then……"

This scene is a very important prelude, implying the entire worldview and their begining, and I havent idea what it would be like(how did a object that existed in real world enter a boy's dream?).
I want some ideas to make it look very dreamy and lovecraftian.

 

[Tonguez]

I want to design a key scene,thebeginning of the entire world setting:THE BLOODBORNED PACT


Simply put, a poor boy signed a pact with a mysterious ancient artefact(It actually a living being, but that boy doesn't know this. ), make it to enter his dream from the real world then get incredible power.“Let me exist in your and your descendants' dreams, my power will benefit you and your descendants forever, and in exchange, you and your descendants should be my vessel and then……"

This scene is a very important prelude, implying the entire worldview and their begining, and I havent idea what it would be like(how did a object that existed in real world enter a boy's dream?).
I want some ideas to make it look very dreamy and lovecraftian.

he found it half-buried in the black muck of the river, where the low tide drew the cities breath away, baring its ribs and detritus to the fingers of its most desperate scavengers.

The boy felt it hard and cold in the silt, long as his forearm and carved from fine ivory, with holes drilled along its length and a sculpted mouthpeice at its end. The flute pulsed as he gripped it, as if remembering a heart that beat deep beneath the waves, his fingers spreading so naturally along its contours.

That night, on his pallet of rags beneath the bridge, the boy dreamed of water — not the brown, sour stink of the river, but a black sea under a vault of stars swirling overhead as if tossed by an angry squall, and shapes vast and monstrous rising just beyond the edge of his vision.

"Blow, little root in the mud" the voice was beautiful as a song, immense as the ocean, as it slid into his flesh "give your breath to my bones and I will be your voice"

That is when the boy raised the flute to his lips, his heart thumping as loud as a war drum, his fingers working the holes and his ribs aching as his entire soul strained to fill the notes, shrill and high as a scream....

 

[Anonym]

he found it half-buried in the black muck of the river, where the low tide drew the cities breath away, baring its ribs and detritus to the fingers of its most desperate scavengers.

The boy felt it hard and cold in the silt, long as his forearm and carved from fine ivory, with holes drilled along its length and a sculpted mouthpeice at its end. The flute pulsed as he gripped it, as if remembering a heart that beat deep beneath the waves, his fingers spreading so naturally along its contours.

That night, on his pallet of rags beneath the bridge, the boy dreamed of water — not the brown, sour stink of the river, but a black sea under a vault of stars swirling overhead as if tossed by an angry squall, and shapes vast and monstrous rising just beyond the edge of his vision.

"Blow, little root in the mud" the voice was beautiful as a song, immense as the ocean, as it slid into his flesh "give your breath to my bones and I will be your voice"

That is when the boy raised the flute to his lips, his heart thumping as loud as a war drum, his fingers working the holes and his ribs aching as his entire soul strained to fill the notes, shrill and high as a scream....

It looks good! It reminds me of some certain feeling of 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'.

ctually, in my imagination, that so-called artefact is a huge strange orb or icosahedron that will appear in any dream of that boy and all his descendants, no matter whatever they dream of (that artefact will hang in the sky like a sun or exist as a prominent landmark),and make their dreams become physically existed alternative reality and where people can physically enter and bring objects and creatures into reality————and creatures in dreams can even take the opportunity to actively enter the real world.
"That artefact can turn dreams into reality", that boy and his descendants believe so. but they are wrong,the fact is not so.

However, any idea will be inspiring anyway.

 

[Piperken]

In short, I want to build a special world setting based on the following key elements.

people(especially the spellcaster) can enter other's dream physically,just as they enter another plane.
and when they enter someone's dream, everything they encounter are real, and enemies in the dream can literally and physically attack and kill them, and they can also bring objects from the dream———— such as treasure or other valuable resources———— into reality.
for example, when they enter someone's dream and bring a huge box of gold coins and precious gems back to reality, these treasure will be real, and they can repeat this operation in this way to get anything they want and completely unlimited resource supply.
of course, fictional monsters that could only exist in dreams can also come out of dreams and become real creatures forever,and still retaining any strange abilities that couldn't have existed in the real world.

A very important event is:
A poor boy, somehow, allowed an strange ancient artefact enter his dream, which gave him and his descendants miraculous power about dreams.with such power,he went from a poor boy become a king, and the ancestor of all kings of a furture mighty kingdom,and the origin of the entire world setting (the story takes place several dozen centuries later). ——————but he does not know the truth about the ancient artefact.

.
So I need some ideas, especially from existing settings. what world setting have such elements aboutf "physically entering dreams and bringing things into reality, or bringing things of reality into dreams"?

Do you have a system in mind? Are you building this first? Are you doing both?

 

[Piperken]

You may find The Cell (2000) excellent as a visual Appendix N for this.