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Of Dreams and Magic: The Shared Dream is a cooperative board game for 2-4 players. In The Shared Dream, players take on the role of Anima, special people who can make their dreams (and nightmares) real in the waking world. All of the players have awoken to find that they all had the same dream and parts of it (good and bad) are coming to life. The players must re-experience their shared dream in the waking world while avoiding or destroying the nightmarish creatures that have sprung from that same dream.
In game terms, the players must follow the instructions on the chosen "Shared Dream" card in an attempt to prevent the nightmares from that dream from spreading to the innocent sleepers of the city. This generally includes traveling through the city to find clues, destroying shadows and reavers, and taking on a nemesis born from the shared dream.
- Highly thematic with players getting the full effect of the story.
- Cooperative gameplay where players work together to manifest and destroy nightmares.
- Modular map with rearrangeable tiles for variable difficulty and setup.
- Variety of distinct nightmare enemies (Mind Reader, Killer Klown, Shadow Creatures, Reavers).
- Personal reflection decks for individual player stories.
- Discovering that magic is real and nightmares are also real.
- Each player has their own personal reflection deck that takes them through their own little story, providing the full effect of the story as they play.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — you're going to work with your friends and you are going to manifest those nightmares into the city so that you can finally destroy them all.
- Deck Building — Each scenario each player will have their own personal reflection deck.
- Tile Placement — The map is made up of tiles so you could rearrange that however you'd like and make it difficult or easy to play or random.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- we are continue or 2019 Gen Con coverage
- this is the shared dream you'll be playing not only as who you are when you're away but who you are when you are asleep
- the whole theme in this game is that you are discovering through your dreams that magic is really very cool what nightmares are also real not so cool
- so in this game you're going to work with your friends and you are going to manifest those nightmares into the city so that you can finally destroy them all
- it's highly thematic and everybody gets the full effect of the story as they play the game
- we'll be doing a review copy of shared dreams are the first edition and hopefully if you get also the second edition and see how that compares
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