Book of Broken Dreams

The Book of Broken Dreams

Pages: 120
Game System: OGL 3.5
Genre: Any

The Book of Broken Dreams presents a wide assortment of rules for adding realistic effects of stress, personality, and insanity to your d20 game. With the Book of Broken Dreams you can answer questions like:

How well does a character sleep after watching their friends get dismembered and eaten alive? The stench of blood, the shrieks of death, and the ghastly grip of fear - can they get those horrible visions out of their mind or do they weigh them down with grief, nightmares, and flashbacks?

The answer can be found in Chapter 1 of the Book of Broken Dreams.

How can a DM create interesting and believable NPCs that are always unique and new? What makes people behave as they do? What are the "rules" for personality?

Chapter 2 of the Book of Broken Dreams applies concepts from modern psychology to role-playing, providing all the guidelines you need. Details on paranoid, avoidant, anti-social and other personality types are provided with a system of primary and secondary traits, allowing for thousands of different  combinations of personality traits.

 What really happens when a character becomes insane?

They might start eating broken glass, or become demented. They might suffer from delusions or a severe personality disorder. They might even commit suicide!

 Chapter 3 of the Book of Broken Dreams covers all the possibilities of insanity in detail.

What is it like to be swept up in a riot? What happens to characters that get trampled by a panicking mob? What goes on in jury rooms? How do group members exert influence and power over other members?

The answers to these and many other questions about group dynamics are provided in Chapter 4 along with dozens of examples and plot ideas to help you integrate these concepts into your next creative project.

If that isn't enough, the Book of Broken Dreams also contains dozens of new spells including encumbering load, normalcy, disperse, hesitate, mass hysteria, labyrinthine conundrum, burden of proof and over 40 more! It also presents three new prestige classes, two new feats, and a new template for nightmare creatures.

Get your copy today and take your game to the bleeding edge!

2024 Revision

In July of 2024 the Book of Broken Dreams was revised with a new layout and more pictures. The manuscript was re-edited and some missing tables were added. It is otherwise the original text and is still compatible with 3.5e.