One of the domains of dread in the new supplement has a really interesting city that’s consistently under the effects of magic that forces people that sleep there to enter a dream. I was wondering, however, how this domain would interact with the Kalashtar race from eberron.
One of the Kalashtar’s features (that I have almost never seen come up) is it’s immune to effects that would force it to dream. In the text for this domain it makes provisions for characters that do not sleep (such as elves and warforged, along with other characters that would get such benefit from class features) by allowing them to enter this dream domain via meditation but it makes no provision for a character that cannot be forced to dream like the Kalashtar. Does this mean that, by the games mechanics, a Kalashtar could not join the other adventurers into this dream world by any means?
The only other provision the supplement gives is that a player can physically enter the dream by ringing this bell but that’s a dangerous alternative for a player to be able to join up with everyone else.
(This stuff is on pg. 122 of Van Richten’s guide to ravenloft)
This is one of those things that would be up to DM's discretion because Ravenloft and Eberron are different world settings and are generally not written with each other in mind other than theme. I would probably disallow a kalashtar to be played in that setting because of the complications of something like this.
I will remind you that the Kalashtar are NOT immune to effects that force them to sleep, so in the interpretation that people are forced into a dream a Kalashtar would be forced into sleep and be in total perpetual isolation in their own memories via the forced sleep.
There is also the interpretation that because it specifically states that they are unable to connect to the plane of dreams, but the domains of dread are not necessarily a part of the plane of dreams and could much more be a demiplane that requires one to sleep to enter it completely disconnected from the plane of dreams (As a physical place, which it is in DND)
One of the domains of dread in the new supplement has a really interesting city that’s consistently under the effects of magic that forces people that sleep there to enter a dream. I was wondering, however, how this domain would interact with the Kalashtar race from eberron.
One of the Kalashtar’s features (that I have almost never seen come up) is it’s immune to effects that would force it to dream. In the text for this domain it makes provisions for characters that do not sleep (such as elves and warforged, along with other characters that would get such benefit from class features) by allowing them to enter this dream domain via meditation but it makes no provision for a character that cannot be forced to dream like the Kalashtar. Does this mean that, by the games mechanics, a Kalashtar could not join the other adventurers into this dream world by any means?
The only other provision the supplement gives is that a player can physically enter the dream by ringing this bell but that’s a dangerous alternative for a player to be able to join up with everyone else.
(This stuff is on pg. 122 of Van Richten’s guide to ravenloft)
This is one of those things that would be up to DM's discretion because Ravenloft and Eberron are different world settings and are generally not written with each other in mind other than theme. I would probably disallow a kalashtar to be played in that setting because of the complications of something like this.
I will remind you that the Kalashtar are NOT immune to effects that force them to sleep, so in the interpretation that people are forced into a dream a Kalashtar would be forced into sleep and be in total perpetual isolation in their own memories via the forced sleep.
There is also the interpretation that because it specifically states that they are unable to connect to the plane of dreams, but the domains of dread are not necessarily a part of the plane of dreams and could much more be a demiplane that requires one to sleep to enter it completely disconnected from the plane of dreams (As a physical place, which it is in DND)
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