Dream Park: the RolePlaying Game

by Mike Pondsmith, Larry Niven, Steven Barnes

"Imagine a futuristic amusment park, dedicated to producing the most realistic, live-action roleplaying experiences ever! Now imagine your character as one of a group of of elite Gamers, competing against the toughest Gamemasters on earth, in challenging adventures that combine the best of all genres and time periods!

Now imagine a roleplaying game that allows you to do all of that, with the maximum in flexibility and action. That's Dream Park. With its unique setting, Dream Park allows you to mix, match, combine or change all types of roleplaying genres and characters with every Game Session. Now superheroes and armored knights can battle aliens from the far future, without cumbersome limitations or extra rulebooks! Dream Park's unique character creation system also allows you to re-design your character to meet each new challenge by changing skills, weapons, armor -- even powers and spells -- from Game to Game!

And best of all, you'll never lose a favorite character again! Because even if you're 'killed-out' of a Game, you'll rise to play again in the next! Or even gain back lost Game Points by playing a 'bad guy' for a session!"

Genres: Role Playing Games

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Cyberpunk (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Reviews

[Lady Entropy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept is awesome, the execution is meh -- too similar to cheap D&D games, (every character has a class, and a few more were invented to take into consideration that Dream Park has often futuristic scenarios). I can't fault Pondsmith too much for it because, unfortunately, it's how the books were written, and my chief turn off in regards to them.

Sigh.

This could be glorious, a real "Gameception" but it falls too too short of it.