From publisher blurb:
Horizon scanning real tech for your game
What is Five Minutes into the Future? (5MF)
5MF are a series of short guides scanning the horizon for cutting edge technologies being developed in the real-world right now. Each issue will present one piece of nu-tech and some ways that you can use it in your roleplaying games.
Volume 1.2 features the Dream Incubator, a device that can influence people's dreams.
Inside you'll find details of:
how the technology works in real life,
a mind-twisting heist setting,
a darkened-mirror cyberpunk setting where every smart device uses the technology to advertise in your dreams,
a techno-horror setting where the manipulated dreams are used to deliver a ritual that frees a dream-demon, and
a post-apocalypse setting where linked dreams cause the collapse of the human shared psyche and the birth of a maelstrom.
5MF is largely system neutral, and presents ideas suitable for a variety of modern and near future genres, including:
modern,
heist,
espionage,
technoir,
near future,
superhero,
cyberpunk,
modern horror,
hard sci-fi, and
(post)-apocalyptic.
Finally, I finish each guide with just a little bit of crunch so you can use the technology (with rules and related character options) in a handful of popular, different systems including;
Fate,
Powered by the Apocalypse, and
D20 modern systems.