Dreamdancer - The Elders

Content Note

Dreamdancer contains themes of body modification, parasitic technology, and biological horror. Players may encounter loss of control, invasive procedures, and alien anatomy. Players are encouraged to check in with each other regularly and set boundaries before play.

Dreamdancer

A Closed Mondays hack of lost-tech adaptation

Closed Mondays: https://ranarh.itch.io/closed-mondays 

Required for play:
2 standard poker decks (with different backs)
Many dice (at least 11, all of one kind — you choose)
Pens and paper

Dreamdancer is an ancient, towering corpse — four kilometers of calcified mystery and decaying genius. Somewhere in its cranial folds lies hypomnema, a substance said to reverse memory loss and cognitive collapse.

You’ve climbed to its shoulder, slipped in through the jugulum, and now clamber onwards into its skull to find the cure.

Explore fleshy chambers, scavenge biotech, and modify your body with invasive augments — each useful, each with a cost. Succeed, and humanity may gain a sanctuary for the lost and broken. Fail, and be digested into its dreaming flesh.

Features

Modular character growth via biological augments
Fiendish, impersonal enemies that adapt to your attacks
A decaying megastructure full of loot and unknown life
Tactical resource use and group play
GM completely optional

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Created for the Sci-Fi One-Shot TTRPG Jam 2025

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