Station 736: Where Dreams Come From

A Solo RPG Adventure by K.J. Montgomery

Part of DriveThruRPG’s fourth-annual game jam! PocketQuest 2025 Theme is Dreams & Nightmares! PocketQuest 2025 submissions are at most 25 pages (including covers) and act as standalone games.

“Many astronomical sources of cosmic waves exist in our universe: pulsars, quasars, nebulae, spiral galaxies, and more. These are where we will build our stations. These are where Dreams come from.” – Menlo Marconi, founder of Station 736

Keep a multi-galactic somnium station running smoothly to send out dreams across the cosmos. As part of this ancient society, you make decisions every night based on the ever-changing demands, ensuring dreams are delivered to all the sleepyheads in your pocket of the universe.

Station 736: Where Dreams Come From is a solo pocket RPG adventure that offer high replayability and bonus material for when players are ready to move beyond the base game. If you like rolling dice, making decisions while facing constraints, tracking progress, and seeing randomly generated in-game elements, then this game may strike your fancy.

What’s needed to play:

• This game
• Dice: D12, D6
• Deck of cards (no jokers)
• Pencil, eraser, and paper (or a digital version to track progress)
• About a dozen tokens, pebbles, or even dry beans to represent inventory (or digital versions of these)
• 30-60 minutes (great for a lunchbreak at your desk)

This pocket module contains: 

– All the rules needed to play this solo pocket adventure

– Clean, minimalist design with plenty of margin room to take notes

– Random roll tables for Dreams and Causes For Inquiries created by Technical Difficulties

– Tech Check Chart to note Static, Dead Air, Technical Difficulties, Dreams, and more

– Tech Check Chart Guide to help with game play

– A hex map for Station 736 with key to keep you on track as you play

– An original short story behind the game

– Replayability potential: Use the Long Game goals to run the station multiple nights in a row until certain goals are met

– Bonus Material and Optional Challenges to keep things interesting

– Journaling/storytelling possibility for players who want to craft a unique story as Station 736’s manager

– Artwork

Station 736: Where Dreams Come From is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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