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The Shared Dream

Created by ODAM Publishing LLC

The Shared Dream is a modern fantasy cooperative board game featuring beautiful miniatures with TRPG-inspired storytelling & gameplay.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

The Final Hours of the Reprint Campaign are here!
over 5 years ago – Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:34:57 PM

Thank you to all of you who have already come over to the new campaign! We're really excited about the Covens expansions and the updates we're making to The Shared Dream.

If you haven't had a chance to check out the new campaign, you only have about 5 hours to back! And remember, if you back for the new Covens expansion, you will receive an updated copy of The Shared Dream for FREE!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/odampublishing/the-shared-dream-reprint-expansion

The Shared Dream Reprint Campaign is Live!
over 5 years ago – Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 02:57:30 PM

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the reprint + expansion campaign is now live!

The Shared Dream Reprint + Expansion

Thank you as always for your support!

Launch Date
over 5 years ago – Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:06:03 PM

Okay Dreamers, the new Shared Dream reprint campaign will launch Monday, October 1st. Mark the date and pledge for your new expansion and updated goodies! And remember, by backing for Covens, the new big box expansion, you'll also get a free updated copy of The Shared Dream.

Joining the campaign on Day 1 will help give the campaign a big boost, letting everyone see what you've helped create, so we would really appreciate your day one support! 

A big question people have been asking us is whether they will be eligible for the free updated version of the game. We've discussed the best way to handle this at length and we have decided on the following:

There will be a special $60 pledge level for you to use. This pledge level will be for anyone who:

a) Backed this campaign

b) Late pledged to this campaign

c) Directly purchased their copy through us at a convention or our web store.

The only other stipulation is that you must use the same email address that you used when you first backed/purchased, as we will be using the email addresses after the campaign to verify who is eligible to receive the updated version 

We love our supporters and want them to know we appreciate them. This is a good opportunity for us to do that.

You guys already learned about the details of the new version and the expansion in the last update, so we hope to see you all October 1st

Let's go wake up some more sleepers!  

Exciting News for The Shared Dream!
over 5 years ago – Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:27:01 AM

Fellow Dreamers,  

What a year 2018 has been for The Shared Dream! After a great Kickstarter and an amazingly successful convention season, our stock of TSD is almost completely gone so it's time to take the next steps.

First and foremost, we will continue to fulfill any leftover obligations from the KS. If you have a missing pledge or if you haven't received your replacements, please send an email to [email protected] immediately. We want to make sure nothing slips through the cracks, so send an email and we'll respond and take action right away. 

 As far as The Shared Dream's future, we've gotten so much great feedback from backers and players that we felt that simply reprinting the game with no additions would be a missed opportunity. 

With that in mind, we are proud to announce that The Shared Dream Reprint + Expansion will be coming to Kickstarter in the beginning of October! 

This Kickstarter will contain 2 separate items: our first big-box expansion, Covens, and an updated reprint of The Shared Dream.

The Shared Dream: Covens

Covens, The Shared Dream’s first big-box expansion, allows players to experience the world of TSD in new ways, providing both backwards compatible and new standalone content. Covens will contain: 

  • 2 brand-new interconnected cooperative scenarios that introduce new mechanics into The Shared Dream. 
  • 2 New, Backwards-Compatible Mechanics: The Phantom House and Covens
  • Solo Campaign Mode
  • 4 New Playable Characters
  • Kickstarter Exclusive Achievement Stickers!

New Cooperative Scenarios

Scenario 1: The Exorcists

Rumors are swirling through the city of a mysterious house appearing at a new location every night. Full of wonder and terror, the house has attracted the attention of local Anima, who are banding together to find and clear it of whatever evil lurks inside, claiming it and its magical properties for themselves. To succeed, players will have to learn new ways to work together and create magic beyond the capability of any individual Anima. 

Scenario 2: Late Arrival 

Although the Phantom House is now under the Animas’ control, there’s no time to rest! No sooner has the house been claimed by the forces of good than an Anima arrives at its doorstep, claiming to be the house’s original owner. But is this strange visitor a victim of the Phantom’s haunting, or the perpetrator? In Late Arrival, players will learn that not all Anima have the same goals, or even fight for the same side. 

New Backwards-Compatible Mechanics

The Phantom House 

The Phantom House is a new piece that is randomly placed and moved in the city throughout play. Players may visit the Phantom House to receive its benefits, and enemies may attack the Phantom House to indirectly hinder the players in return. 

Covens 

The namesake of the big-box expansion, Covens are groups of Anima who come together for a shared purpose. Including a Coven in your scenarios introduces a new layer of cooperative play. 

Each Coven has its own passive benefit and drawback, allowing players to further customize their gameplay experience. Players can choose to spend Conviction and place it on the Coven Card for 2 different purposes. Other players can take this Conviction for themselves when necessary, offering new strategic options. 

Allowing a Coven to stockpile enough Conviction will also give players access to powerful Rituals, magical abilities that have board-wide and potentially game-changing effects.

New Solo Campaign

In the Crux Collection, you learned more about the characters of The Shared Dream by living their stories. Now it’s your turn to tell your own stories. What would you do if you woke up and discovered you could make your dreams real? Would you use your new-found powers for good, or personal gain? What would you do when you realized that the more you make your dreams real, the stronger your nightmares become? Would you allow everyone else to suffer for your desires? Would you allow yourself to suffer for their needs? Will you seek companionship, or walk your own road? And perhaps most importantly, will you live or die when plunged into a world of dreams and magic?

Coven’s solo campaign features a custom “You” character that is built by the player’s choices--mix and match multiple Waking World statistics, Animus passive abilities, and Animus active abilities to create a character all your own. This character customization, combined with multiple story choices and endings, grants the solo campaign great replayability paired with our deepest storytelling yet!

Kickstarter Exclusive Phantom House Achievement Sticker Sheet

Celebrate your victories and mark your achievements using this sticker sheet! Complete previous Shared Dream scenarios with specific results to adorn your base of operations with trophies to commemorate your success. This achievement sheet offers a fun way to track your adventures in The Shared Dream, while providing new goals to strive for when replaying scenarios.

We'll be revealing more info about the new playable characters, sticker sheet, and other exciting details of The Shared Dream: Covens in the weeks leading up to the Kickstarter, both here on KS and on our Facebook page!

The Shared Dream Reprint

While the response to TSD has been overwhelmingly positive, we've also gotten some feedback on what we could have done better. With that feedback in mind, here are just some of the changes we'll be making to the base box:  

  • New character card bi-folds with improved health and action tracking.  
  • New epilogue story cards.
  •  Expanded rulebook with a more detailed component breakdown and further explanation of scenario-specific rules.  
  • Implementation of errata and rules clarifications into the manual and game components 
  • Plastic caps and color-coded Reaver cards for easier enemy tracking.  
  • Card numbering system to make setup and breakdown quicker and easier.  
  • And more!

We know that this update had been on the longer side, but we have a final piece of news that we couldn't wait to share.  

As mentioned earlier, these changes to the base game have been made possible because of YOUR feedback. So, it's only natural that YOU should be able to benefit from them.  

That's why we're proud to announce that any backer of the first campaign who pledges for the new expansion will also receive an updated copy of The Shared Dream FOR FREE!  

More details will be forthcoming in future updates, but we hope this news excites you as much as it does us!  

Keep Dreaming!

Last 50 Shipping Update
almost 6 years ago – Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:29:23 PM

Hey everyone! Short and sweet update today.

Good news! The replacement copies of The Shared Dream are on a boat and heading across the pond! 

The ship is currently scheduled to land May 24th. Clearing customs is a process that can take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks, but a lot of the customs work is being done now, so there shouldn't be much of a delay at all.

At the end of next week, we will send out an email to every person who we have listed as not having received their game. We'll also send out an update with further instructions to make sure you won't have any issues receiving your game.

We are very excited to get The Shared Dream into your hands!