Idea

[Hellcat]

Ok, I was watching Cartoon Network tonight, Toon Heads to be exact, and I ended seeing something on there that caused me to think it might make an intresting adventure idea. Tuned in to the show when it was about half over, but I'm guessing the theme for tonight's episode was daydreaming since they had one of those Ralphie cartoons playing at the time, but that's not as important as the last one of the night. It was called something like A Waggy Tail or something like that and was about this brat boy who dreamed he'd become a dog after his mother sent him to his room after telling him time and again to stop harrassing the family dog.

It got me to thinking that it might be kind of an intresting adventure plot to have the PC's be made to think they've been turned into various creatures but in reality their asleep and their dream, a mutal dream at that, are being controlled by some outside party. The GM could have like a list of eleven or more creatures and have each player role 2D or so depending on how many creatures there are, the results of the roll determining what creature the PCs will get to play (eleven creatures for 2D since technically there are only eleven numbers you can roll with a pair of dice since you can't roll a 1 on a pair of dice). Only the GM doesn't tell the players when he has them roll the dice why their rolling them, he tell's them later when the PC's "wake up" to find they've been transformed into those creatures. Then the player's have to play the entire adventure as those creatures, trying to figure out how to get their bodies back. If the PCs die in the dream, then they don't actually die, but they don't know that.
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[Akari]

I ran a setting exactly like that in a Fantasy RPG once. Was actually pretty cute, since in this system, every player has to decide on his "heart-animal" when the character is created. It usually is only used in a metaphorical sense, but sometimes, especially in dreams, they will become reality.

It was quite interesting to see how the players dealt with their situation and a rather ruthless poacher that hunted in a protected forest...

I originally got the idea from a Dragonlance novel, where the mage of the party turns them into animals to hunt down beforementioned poacher. Though I might have the details wrong... must have been like 15 years since I read the story...