Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror Campaigns and Adventures with a Complete Soundtrack

Cthulhu Dreamt is an original sci-fi horror Tabletop RPG and Original Soundtrack where you and your team of survivors will explore a near-future Earth that is suffering under the influence of Cthulhu and cosmic entities of unknowable horror. Using your talents, special tech from a secretive military agency, you must rescue one of the few scientists who can help.

Over 700 pages in a two-hardcover-book set, including

Cthulhu Dreamt began in the year 2020, when Reed Reimer, as a tribute to his late daughter, wrote the heart-wrenching musical tragedy of Alya Mudamir: a scientist who loses her daughter in childbirth, then shatters reality trying to bring her back.

Years later, Reed approached Jaron R. M. Johnson about having the team build a TTRPG element to the sequel he was planning for Cthulhu Dreamt. Naturally, he accepted, resulting in the Cthuhlu Dreamt TTRPG. It is carefully crafted by Reed and orchestras around the world to weave every word, event, and sound into a one-of-a-kind multimedia experience. As you play, QR codes throughout the book cue the music written for that exact moment.

Cthulhu Dreamt is built on a unique D12-based system with a focus is primarily on travel and survival, where the players are more at odds with the world itself than with any wizards or dragons.

The Journey mechanic in Cthulhu Dreamt allows players to cross great distances actively, rather than passively. Instead of happening in the blink of an eye, travel involves players to assemble shelter, forage for food, and overcome obstacles cooperatively along the way.

Combat in Cthulhu Dreamt is taken in rounds, with the players and NPCs alternating their actions back and forth—but that’s where similarities between Cthulhu Dreamt and other conventional TTRPGs end.

Rather than enemies having health bars that players wail on over and over until it's depleted, Cthulhu Dreamt’s combat plays out more like a puzzle (that’s trying to kill you). Enemies still have a physical limit, but they can be defeated in a number of ways, and enemies are typically designed with unique facets that make each encounter feel fresh, keeping the players on their toes. Some creatures can be subdued through traditional means, but most will require the players to get creative and think outside of the box to defeat them.

Cosmic Horror, Science Fiction, and Cthulhu lovers will delight at the semi-futuristic approach to the mythos, and modern take towards the storytelling-focused gameplay.

Immersion is taken to new, unexplored depths when the original soundtrack is brought into the mix, with cinematic tracks and ambient soundscapes made specifically to score the campaign.

Indie RPG lovers, or even TTRPG-curious first-timers, will find an intuitive, easy-to-learn system that puts storytelling, immersion, and the cinematic experience first.