PocketQuest 2025 has launched, and Wakeside: What Dreams May Run is no longer just a dream; it’s reality!
To celebrate, we’ve prepared for you some random tables of weird dreamforms, perfect for use in a game of Wakeside, a Dungeons and Dragons Dream adventure, or any other dream-themed TTRPG you may care to play. Here are Delusions, Fancies, Wishes, and Nightmares in their naked forms. They may wear human faces in the waking world, but in dreams they appear as strange as imagination allows.
Using these with Wakeside? These are how dreams might appear to each other and to Lucids. Use them to inspire Wakesiders or for non-runaway dreams caught in the crossfire of the Agents’ investigation.
Using this with DnD? These make great skins for random encounters. Use these to disguise a batch of Goblins and Ogres, and you can generate memorable random encounters in the Realms of Slumber for ages.
Delusions
Working dreams. Irregular Joes. Salt of the Dreamside.
- Argyll-skinned man in a fleshy coat.
- Cotton candy orb.
- A desperate, disembodied smile in a cheap suit.
- Faucet-headed plumber. Pours tar if the taps are opened.
- Disguised ape. Wears the clothes of an academic and an unconvincing wig.
- Papier-mache reporter. The headlines crisscrossing their body report whatever they see.
Fancies
The Princes of Pretend. The Duchesses of Delusion. The Imperators of Imagination.
- A Sun-faced giant, wearing chains of onyx.
- A cricket-legged elven prince, with metre-long pointed ears and emeralds for eyes.
- Sensuous curving wooden figure with a mouth like the soundhole of a guitar, complete with six strings.
- A glass aristocrat full of sloshing wine.
- A woman woven of spiderwebs, cast across a lattice of ice, filled with fog and dressed in silver.
- A king without colour. Black, white, and silver, with bottomless eyes. Semitransparent.
Wishes
The artist-priests of the Dream Kingdom.
- Fashion magazine Frankenstein. A decoupaged doll.
- Man made of money. The portraits on the bills speak as a chorus.
- Irridescent serpent with a human face and the whiskers of a catfish.
- Limousine Centaur. The human torso appears cool, successful, and attractive. The limo is showing its age. Appears as a horseless carriage, if limo-tech hasn’t been invented yet.
- Woman with slot machine eyes. Only one arm.
- Fire, caged into the form of a human being and forbidden to burn. Only 3ft tall.
Nightmares
Warrior-Therapists and Waste Removal Specialists.
- A king made of crumbling bricks. The more bits fall off him, the bigger he seems.
- A hollow snake made of socks. Suffocating. Snergly.
- A faceless stranger. The farther away it is, the closer it feels.
- An amorphous blob of bubbling baby heads. Speaks in tones of judgement, borrowed from your father’s voice.
- Bride full of spiders.
- A beggar with a melting wax face. It is always slipping down, but it never manages to fall.
What are you waiting for? Go check out Wakeside: What Dreams May Run! Did you submit a game for PocketQuest too? Comment below. If you need more convincing to check out Wakeside, see this promo blog post from last week!