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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4765902" data-attributes="member: 8863">If I have a particularly vivid ream that seems like it would work well in a campaign, I try to jot down some notes about it.  A lot of DMs rip off things like movies, books and so on for ideas, but with that you run the risk of the players knowing what you're doing with it.  If I rip off my own dreams (and there's some good stuff in there), then they won't know what the hell I'm doing.  Some of the great stuff is pretty visual though, and might not be easy to work into a campaign.  Like the one dream I had where I was standing on a forested mountainside looking out over a valley overshadowed by dark storm clouds.  Several red dragons were fighting each other in the clouds, and their fire breath lit up the clouds with a sooty ruddy glow.  Sure I could describe it like this to a group of players, but I'm not sure it would have the same impact and sense of awesomeness it had when I saw it in my dream.There's some dream-based campaign ideas in this thread, although there is a bit of sock-puppetry in it:  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/248056-weird-dreams.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/248056-weird-dreams.html</a></blockquote>