My dream -- holy crap!

[Bullgrit]

I dreamed last night that I was playing a table-top miniatures war game called "Roundheads and Cavaliers," fighting battles from the Hundred Years' War, with an old game friend. When I woke up, I remembered it all, but something nagged at the back of my mind about it.

"Roundheads and Cavaliers"? I had never heard of any such game, and I've never played any real-world historical minis war games.

Throughout my morning, the memory of the dream would come to mind, sort of like a shadow of something meaningful was there but I wasn't getting it. So while sitting at my computer, I looked up "Roundheads and Cavaliers" through Google just to see if there actually is a game by this name.

Going through a few web pages, I discovered: Cavaliers and Roundheads, (reverse of the name in my dream), is actually a table-top miniatures war game -- by Jeff Perren and Gary Gygax! It's not from the HYW, (C&R is the English Civil War), but the army tech of the ECW does match the images of the miniatures I had in my dream, (the HYW army tech would not).

I don't remember having ever heard of this game before my dream, but as much as I've read about EGG and his work, I must have seen a reference to C&R at some point. I really doubt that my dream just randomly came up with this name out of the blue. But, wow, it floored me when I just now discovered this.

Now I'm interested in learning more about this game. Anyone here played it?

Something about a dream leading to a strange real-world connection is weird cool. Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

Bullgrit

 

[El Mahdi]

Something about a dream leading to a strange real-world connection is weird cool. Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

Not so much a real world connection like that, but I tend to do my best problem-solving when sleeping/dreaming.

Honest to God, some of my best rules mechanics and campaign plot ideas came about while sleeping/dreaming.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

Most of the ideas in my dreams are not applicable to the real world, or outright goofy or even counter-productive. This includes gaming. Good thing, too. Not sure I could take the current group if they did some of the dream stuff at the real table.

I did once dream an architecture solution to a very tough, intractable software design problem we were having at work. It was very vivid, and when I woke up, I thought, "Another silly dream; that will never work." But after a couple of minutes coming fully awake, I went it over piece by piece, and it was perfect. Saved us about 2 man months of development time, compared to our previous course. I joked to the company that I was going to bill them for overtime that night.

 

[Aeolius]

Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

Two nights ago, I dreamed I was in my old house and all of the pipes had burst, flooding the house. Yesterday, I awakened to discover that a control board on my well's pressure tank had burned out, leaving the house with no water.

For those of you thinking "Sheesh... he even DREAMS about water!".... shaddup.

 

[Stormonu]

[MENTION=31216]Bullgrit[/MENTION], if you used to read Dragon, you may have heard it mentioned there, especially in early issues. I believe they even had quarter or full page ads in the magazine.

I used to be able to remember my dreams very vividly and even wrote an entire adventure based around one such dream - "Forest of the Golden Unicorn". I met a very nasty end in that dream, I was eaten by giant ants in the dungeons of a dwarven ruin in the forest.

 

[SnowleopardVK]

Something about a dream leading to a strange real-world connection is weird cool. Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

I've dreamed I was having a conversation with an online friend of mine once; I'd never seen what she looked like before or had any of it described to me, but her appearance in the dream turned out to be pretty much exactly what she looked like when I met her in real life the next year.

Looks like your dream has led you to discover a new game. Enjoy.

 

[zlorf]

Last night i dreamed of responding to post about dreams on some forum called Enworld...

I dreamed last night that I was playing a table-top miniatures war game called "Roundheads and Cavaliers," fighting battles from the Hundred Years' War, with an old game friend. When I woke up, I remembered it all, but something nagged at the back of my mind about it.

"Roundheads and Cavaliers"? I had never heard of any such game, and I've never played any real-world historical minis war games.

Throughout my morning, the memory of the dream would come to mind, sort of like a shadow of something meaningful was there but I wasn't getting it. So while sitting at my computer, I looked up "Roundheads and Cavaliers" through Google just to see if there actually is a game by this name.

Going through a few web pages, I discovered: Cavaliers and Roundheads, (reverse of the name in my dream), is actually a table-top miniatures war game -- by Jeff Perren and Gary Gygax! It's not from the HYW, (C&R is the English Civil War), but the army tech of the ECW does match the images of the miniatures I had in my dream, (the HYW army tech would not).

I don't remember having ever heard of this game before my dream, but as much as I've read about EGG and his work, I must have seen a reference to C&R at some point. I really doubt that my dream just randomly came up with this name out of the blue. But, wow, it floored me when I just now discovered this.

Now I'm interested in learning more about this game. Anyone here played it?

Something about a dream leading to a strange real-world connection is weird cool. Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

Bullgrit

 

[nedjer]

Still trying to get over the time double pneumonia had me dreaming I was traveling unbelievably fast through the night on the fender of a huge rainbow locomotive. On the plus side, it sure put me off ever trying glue sniffing

 

[Orius]

Oh I'm sure you've heard about it somewhere along the line. IIRC, without checking that Wikipedia link, it was the game Perrin and Gygax cranked out to fund the initial print run of D&D (was it TSR's first game?)

 

[jedavis]

Something about a dream leading to a strange real-world connection is weird cool. Have you had something real revealed from a dream?

Bullgrit

Used to do my discrete math homework by reading the problems right before bed, sleeping, dreaming of them, and then waking up and scribbling furiously before I forgot. Saved me many hours of frustration. Doesn't work so well on exams, though .