🌌 Dreamlands – Surreal Hexcrawl (Set 1)

📜 Description

What if exploration itself became a dream?

Dreamlands – Surreal Hexcrawl brings you to impossible landscapes, paradoxical creatures, and events that blur the line between reality and the subconscious.

This package gives you vast rollable tables to generate surreal adventures on the fly. Perfect for Hexcrawl-style games, but also usable as a random generator of dreamlike events for any RPG system.

🧭 What is Surreal Hexcrawling?

Instead of forests, mountains, or ruins, here you’ll find:

- Rivers flowing upwards 🌊⬆️

- Cities built of glass 🏙️✨

- Forests that whisper memories 🌳🗝️

- Avatars of nightmares and dreams 👹💤

Exploration becomes unpredictable, shifting with every step — just like in a dream.

🚀 What’s Inside (Set 1)

• 🎲 100 NPCs of Dream & Nightmare – lost dreamers, memory guides, mirrored figures.
  
• 🏞️ 100 Surreal Locations – impossible landscapes, dreamscapes, paradoxical terrains.
  
• 👹 100 Dream Entities & Monsters – creatures born from nightmares and subconscious fears.
  
• ⏳ 100 Past Echoes – remnants of forgotten dreams, broken memories, surreal ruins.
  
• 🔥 100 Current Events – sudden paradoxes, living nightmares, dream incursions.
  
• 💎 100 Impossible Items – symbolic relics, objects that break reality.
  
• 🌳 100 Surreal Structures – paradoxical towers, recursive bridges, vanishing temples.
  
• ✨ 100 Notable Phenomena – time loops, gods of dreams, rifts to subconscious realms.
  
• 🌦️ 100 Surreal Climates – rains of memories, storms of color, silencing fogs.
  

🎨 Example Combinations

A single roll might generate:

🌦️ A storm of falling colors…

🏞️ Over a city made of glass towers…

👹 Where a nightmare beast with shifting faces prowls…

💎 Guarding an hourglass that measures your life instead of time.

Every exploration becomes a living dream, full of wonder and danger.

⚡ Quick Start

• Use #GenDreams to trigger impossible encounters.
  
• Add #NPCs or #ImpossibleItems to populate the scene.
  
• Combine results to craft nightmare-fueled dreamscapes on the fly.
  

🗺️ Suggested Game Mode

1️⃣ Choose whether the Dreamlands are:

- A parallel world accessible through portals.

- Or a dreamplane players visit when they sleep.

2️⃣ Roll landscapes and events as the dream unfolds.

3️⃣ Blend the surreal with the real — some dreams might bleed into the waking world.

4️⃣ Let paradoxes shape the story: what happens if a dreamer dies in their own dream?

🎁 Bonus Content – Dreamcrawl Hex Mini-System

Included in this set is a simplified Hexcrawl system, designed specifically for dream journeys.

- 🌀 Dream Map (Hex Grid) – Each hex reveals a surreal location when entered.

- 🎲 Quick d10 Location Table – 10 unique dream icons such as the Tower of Insomnia, Market of Masks, or Subconscious Portal.

- 🧠 Optional Rules – memory fading, lucidity points, and living nightmares.

- 🎨 10 Custom Vector Icons – minimalist silhouettes to bring the Dreamcrawl map to life.

🧩 Why Use It?

This toolkit provides hundreds of unique combinations of places, creatures, climates, and phenomena. Whether your players wander into the Library of the Unconscious, cross a Harbor of Dawn, or face a Storm of Shattered Glass, no two sessions will ever be the same.

It’s not just a supplement — it’s a dream machine for your Roll20 table.

👉 Compatible with D&D 5e and any fantasy RPG system.

🌙 Dreamcrawl Hex – Simplified Rules

🎲 Core Mechanics

1. Dream Map (Hex Grid)

   • Each hex represents a surreal dream or nightmare location.
   • A hex is only revealed when characters enter it.

2. Exploration

   • When entering a hex, the GM rolls on the rollLands(Surreal Hexcrawl icon in map) Table (d10)..
   • Optionally, roll additional tables for Events, Creatures, Phenomena, or Items.

3. Dream Duration

   • Each dream journey lasts for one “sleep period” (a night).
   • Upon waking, characters may remember or forget parts of the dream map.

4. Dream Logic

   • Unlike a normal hexcrawl, dream geography is symbolic rather than consistent.
   • Locations may shift, disappear, or reappear elsewhere.
   • The map itself can be “alive.”

🏞️ d10 Dream Locations

1. Tower of Insomnia – an endless spiral of glowing windows.
   
2. Lake of Broken Reflections – distorted memories shimmer on the surface.
   
3. Cemetery of Shadows – where dead dreams are buried.
   
4. Library of the Unconscious – books float, rewrite, or remain blank.
   
5. Garden of Lost Dreams – flowers whisper or weep.
   
6. Palace of Nightmare – impossible angles and shifting halls.
   
7. Harbor of Dawn – misty boats sail across nothingness.
   
8. Throne of Eternal Sleep – guarded by faceless watchers.
   
9. Market of Masks – identities are traded like coins.
   
10. Subconscious Portal – gateway to deeper dream realms.
    

⚙️ Optional Rules

• Lucidity Points: players spend them to alter dream reality inside a hex.
  
• Living Nightmares: some hexes themselves act as hostile entities.
  
• Fading Memory: after waking, roll to see if one explored hex is forgotten.
  

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