SleepMancers - A pallanguli TTRPG

• SleepMancers

SleepMancers is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) in which players will collaboratively tell a story of dreams and nightmares. They will act as Sleepmancers, deities that intervene in the sleep of Non Playable Characters (NPCs). 

Since the age of times, Sleepmancers have helped people process and accept their emotions and memories. To represent the emotional life of an NPC, a pallanguli board is used with one side representing the positive emotions, and the other negative ones. Aditionnaly, tokens will represent how intense the emotions are. 

Players will be able to act on the pallanguli board by creating Dreams and Nightmares. However, SleepMancers do not consider positive emotions good and negative ones bad ; they are both essential parts of the emotional life and should be treated with the same consideration. 

• Pallanguli board ?

This is a traditional game that has many names and variant accross countries. This is a game with a board that has a number of holes in it, in which you can place and move tokens following certain rules. Pallanguli is the name of the Indian variant that I used to play with my father as a kid. 

• A TTRPG made for a game jam

This is a GM-less (no Gamemaster) oniric TTRPG with collaborative storytelling.  It was created for “Board game reimagined TTRPG” game jam. For more information about this jam, here is the link:

https://itch.io/jam/board-games-reimagined-ttrpg-jam

• I don't have a pallanguli board at home!

I'll try to make a collaborative companion for online sessions, but any website like Tabletop Simulator could work to represent the board and tokens. 

If you want to know more about this project or other games, feel free to join my discord server:

https://discord.gg/nS5ueNYaSp