Dream Sequences in Dungeons and Dragons 

@@sketchasaurrex4087 I prefer trapping my characters in their dreams

@@drivinganddragons1818 haven't had the chance yet. There's two chances for me to do so with this adventure.

@@SHONNER I don't see how they should ever lose meaningful agency to go to a dream sequence

@@drivinganddragons1818 Most of the time, the GM talks in 2nd-person. They are roleplaying the PCs for the players. GMs do this for most of the game session as well.

@@SHONNER I would disagree. 2nd person is the appropriate perspective in modern English to relay sensory information to another person, such as, "you see four figures in the darkness" or "you feel a hot wind brush across your skin". It's also appropriate when delivering results such as, "your axe bites into the creature's shoulder, crushing bone" or "as you step out on the ledge, you lose your footing and fall". The only place it would be even mildly inappropriate would be if you take active control of the character such as telling them "you walk into the room" when they did not tell you that they were entering the room.

@@drivinganddragons1818 GMs can describe things without saying "you." Without telling the players what their characters see, hear, smell, taste, feel, think, say, do. Most GMs do not though. They prefer to roleplay the PCs for the players. The players are just there to roll dice when needed. They are the RNG for the GM who is playing a solo RPG in front of his/her friends and doesn't want to roll dice. The GM's friends get to roll dice so it doesn't seem so boring for them while listening to him/her tell them a story about their characters. That is how 99% of games are run. The 99%ers in the hobby. But you know this already.

I don't see this the way you do. There's a wide gulf between the two extremes here. Speaking in 3rd person is just atypical communication that doesn't actually change anything. The sentences mean the same thing. Having players describe things for which they have insufficient information is not good RP, it's just uneccessarily cumbersome. "there are cakes on the table" "I eat a cake, savoring the sweetness and licking the honey from my fingers" "... They're Johnny Cakes for travel. Like a cornbread pancake. Not sweet at all. They're also cheaply made with limited rations, so I guess you're savoring the grainy, sandlike dryness of hard tack."

@@TheOGGMsAdventures very much so. It has to be slow fed

Yup. Just like any time they use divination or anything else want that takes them out of the normal reality of the world

@@BaseDnD certainly a good way to feed info to the party

@@JohnSmith-jv7mv that would be one is need some thought on. I've never actually used that particular device but I can see where it would be useful and somewhat how I'd use it