Rêve de Dragon

Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros

Cover of the English edition of Rêve.
Designer(s)	Denis Gerfaud
Publisher(s)	Nouvelles Éditions Fantastiques Malcontent Games
Publication date	1985 (1st edition) (French only) 1993 (2nd edition)
Genre(s)	Fantasy
System(s)	Custom

Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros is a French fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Denis Gerfaud and re-published in English by Malcontent Games. It is the translation of Rêve de Dragon (English: "Dragon Dream"), a best-selling game in France.

The first French edition was published by NEF (Nouvelles Éditions Fantastiques) in 1985. It was illustrated by Bernard Verlhac and Roger Ronsin.

The second edition was published by Multisim in 1993, and illustrated by Florence Magnin. It was reprinted by UbIK (now Edge Entertainment), the French editor for Fading Suns, in 2004.

There was also a simplified version for beginners called Oniros (1994).

At the end of 2014, Denis Gerfaud and several illustrators agreed to give a free access to the rules on the web forum Rêves d'Ailleurs.

In January 2015, the French editor Scriptarium () plans to publish a new official campaign, with the agreement of Denis Gerfaud. This publication will dedicated to the memory of Bernard Verlhac aka Tignous, victim of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. The crowdfunding campaign was started on June 5, 2015 on Ulule (). The success of the crowdfunding showed there was still a huge interest for this RPG, so the editor announced on June 8, 2015 that the rulebooks will be reprinted in the future.

The world of Rêve is a dragons' dream. The dragons, fabulous creatures, are asleep and each of them dreams a creature ; but at the same time, all of them dream the world. When a creature dies, his dragon awakes, but as the creature is also dreamt by the other dragons, its body remains.

This is a metaphor of the role-playing game itself : when players gather to play, they imagine — dream — together an adventure, and each player imagines his own character.