SAND
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Contents
Game Concept
In a game of SAND one plays a Hypnovatiz or Sleepwalker. Sleepwalkers are human beings who exist with one foot in the waking or real world and one foot in Demosoneiron the World of Dreams.
A major theme in SAND is the struggle to operate as an individual into two different worlds while balancing two different lives all with the same time constraints as mundane folks.
Another major theme is the struggle to distinguish between dreams and the waking world and the resultant madness that can result when failure occurs.
As with all pursuits, the more one practices dreaming the more skilled one becomes, but practice means time expended and time spent dreaming means also being asleep in the waking world
Thus the more skilled and powerful the Hypnovatiz the more time spent asleep. It is said that the most powerful Sleepwalkers are often mistaken for coma patients as they may be inactive for days or even weeks and require helpers who provide food, water and safety to the comatose Hypnovatiz.
In Demosoneiron the Sleepwalker is in her element where the ability to control the dream makes her virtually divine. The weakness of the Hypnovatiz comes while awake, yet even in the waking world the Sleepwalker can still touch the World of Dreams which is the source of her power and if necessary she can expend some of her precious SAND and alter evens in the mundane world. Such somnolent effects vary greatly are measured by the Sleepwalkers level of imagination.
Character Concepts
- Coma Patient --
- Narcoleptic --
- Napster -- Usually a retiree
- Dreamy Dilettante -- Rich Bitch
- Bored Student
- Insomniac
- Depressed Dude
Lexicon
- Woke -- A being that lived the majority of the lives in the Waking World.
- Permutation -- A Permutation is a device for channeling and shaping dreams.
- Recombinant -- A Recombinant is a combinations of two or more Permutations.
- Mirrorist -- A person who uses the device of Mirrors to travel the dream realm. (vulgar argot: An Alice)
Permutations
A Permutation is a device for channeling and shaping dreams.
Types of Permutations
- Crafts -- Crafts alter and create objects.
- Devices -- Devices alter and create places.
- Endowments -- Endowments alter and create individuals.
Crafts
Devices
- Mirrors -- Creating Portals that allow travel between Dream Realities.
Endowments
- Agility (Endowment of Dexterity)
- Physicality (Endowment of Strength)
- Resilience (Endowment of Stamina)
- Simulacrum (Endowment of Appearance)
- Clarity (Endowment of Perception)
Recombinants
- Crypo-Recall -- Being able to see and interact with animals in the dream, including bringing forth magical and extinct animals. Recombinant of
Inspirational Works
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- by Lewis Carroll (1865)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -- by L. Frank Baum (1900)
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant -- Stephen R. Donaldson (1977–2013)
- The Matrix -- is a 1999 science fiction action film[5][6] written and directed by the Wachowskis.
- Falling Water -- is an American supernatural drama television series. (2016 - 2017)
- the Bridge of Birds -- By Barry Hughart - A Chinese tale of a medieval China that should have been.
Character Sheet
| [Personal Mark] | [Character Image] | [Social Symbol] |
| Character: Name | Nature: [] | Profession: [] |
| Player: NPC | Demeanor: [] | Education [] |
| Chronicle: San Francisco | Ichideal: [] | Religion: [] |
| --- | Concept: [] | --- |
| --- | Cameo: [] | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ATTRIBUTES | ||
| Physical | Social | Mental |
| Strength ●○○○○ | Charisma ●○○○○ | Perception ●○○○○ |
| Dexterity ●○○○○ | Manipulation ●○○○○ | Intelligence ●○○○○ |
| Stamina ●○○○○ | Appearance ●○○○○ | Wits ●○○○○ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ABILITIES | ||
| Talents | Skills | Knowledges |
| Alertness ○○○○○ () | Animal Ken ○○○○○ () | Academics ○○○○○ () |
| Athletics ○○○○○ () | Crafts ○○○○○ () | Computer ○○○○○ () |
| Awareness ○○○○○ () | Drive ○○○○○ () | Finance ○○○○○ () |
| Brawl ○○○○○ () | Etiquette ○○○○○ () | Investigation ○○○○○ () |
| Empathy ○○○○○ () | Firearms ○○○○○ () | Law ○○○○○ () |
| Expression ○○○○○ () | Larceny ○○○○○ () | Medicine ○○○○○ () |
| Intimidation ○○○○○ () | Melee ○○○○○ () | Occult ○○○○○ () |
| Leadership ○○○○○ () | Performance ○○○○○ () | Politics ○○○○○ () |
| Streetwise ○○○○○ () | Stealth ○○○○○ () | Science ○○○○○ () |
| Subterfuge ○○○○○ () | Survival ○○○○○ () | Technology ○○○○○ () |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | Secondary Abilities | --- |
| Linguistics ○○○○○○ () [K] | [[]] ○○○○○ () | [[]] ○○○○○ () |
| [[]] ○○○○○ () | [[]] ○○○○○ () | [[]] ○○○○○ () |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | ADVANTAGES | --- |
| --- | Backgrounds | --- |
| Allies ○○○○○ () | Arcane ○○○○○ () | Contacts ○○○○○ () |
| Fame ○○○○○ () | Imagination ○○○○○ () | Influence ○○○○○ () |
| Mentor ○○○○○ () | Rapport ○○○○○ () | Realm ○○○○○ () |
| Resources ○○○○○ () | Retainers ○○○○○ () | Status ○○○○○ () |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Merits & Flaws | HUMANITY | Virtues |
| --- | ○○○○○○○○○○ | Conscience ●○○○○ |
| --- | --- | Self-Control ●○○○○ |
| --- | DREAMING | Courage ●○○○○ |
| --- | ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --- | SAND | Permutations |
| Health Levels | ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| Bruised (0) - { } | ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| Hurt (-1) ---- { } | --- | --- |
| Injured (-1) - { } | WILLPOWER | --- |
| Wounded (-2) - { } | Permanent ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| Mauled (-2) -- { } | Temporary ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| Crippled (-5)- { } | --- | --- |
| Incapacitated- { } | MADNESS | --- |
| Final Death | ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
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