Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

to survive the death of one believer, they
actually use slaughter to fuel their legend.
Either way, Nightmares are strictly
solitary, and may even fight each other for a
meal (that meal being the fear of a Dreamer).
Though these two types of beings are
quite different in motivation, their
composition is practically identical.
Nightmares are significantly foreign when
compared to the Daylight world, and thus
they use a tweaked version of the Ghost
Rules as found in the World of Darkness
Rulebook, page 208.
Power
Power
Instead of Intelligence, Strength, or
Presence, a Nightmare has only Power. An
imposing person in the Daylight produces an
Anima that is likewise domineering. As said
Anima evolves into a full-blown Nightmare
its imposing nature bleeds into other
extremities. Suddenly the imposing man is
more mentally acute, and his meager
muscles unfurl as mountain movers. As this
Anima becomes a Nightmare, its Presence
(the highest Power attribute) simply
becomes Power.
Finesse
Finesse
Wits, Dexterity, and Manipulation
compress into simply Finesse where a
Nightmare is concerned. Something that
was initially clever likewise becomes hard to
pin down, and quite skilled at the art of
twisting others. Nightmares do not have to
distinguish between Mental, Physical, and
Social, because subconsciously their
prowess in one translates to all three.
Resistance
Resistance
Resolve, Stamina, and Composure
for a Nightmare is all summed up in
Resistance. Again this is because the
preconception of talent bleeds over into the
other categories, rendering them more potent.
Resistance controls how difficult a
Nightmare is to harm.
Skills Skills and and Merits Merits
Merits
A break from the rules of traditional
Ghosts, Nightmares do need skills to act
without penalty. This is a weakness of the
Nightmare, who need not fret an anchor in
the dreamscape or some restriction to act.
When a Nightmare performs a task that
requires a skill, it uses the most appropriate
of its three attributes with that skill.
Attempting to act unskilled causes the
expected penalties.
Nightmares have no use for Merits.
Dread Dread
Dread
Unlike Deep Ones (which will be
covered later in this appendix) Nightmares
do not have an independent well-being stat.
Instead they both maintain their corporeal
form and fuel their wicked Numina with the
same energy: Dread.
Dread is spent to activate Numina.
Dread is lost when a Nightmare suffers
damage. Whenever the emotion of fear is
directed towards a Nightmare, an
appropriate amount of Dread is replenished.
A Nightmare gains one Dread each night it
is included in the plot of a dream. When
one Nightmare devours another, it gains an
amount of Dread equal to the devoured
Nightmare’s Resistance. A Nightmare can
garner Dread no other way.
There is a limit to how much Dread a
Nightmare can keep, and that limit is the
sum total of its three attributes. Since
Nightmares have no limits on how high each
of those attributes can climb, this creates the
potential of a massive pool of Dread.
Acceptable, since it fluctuates so much.
Everything in the Dreamtide is
comprised of Astra. That means objects
interact in the same way they do in the
Material world (as they are made of the
same creation components). Any damage a
Nightmare suffers subtracts from its Dread,
so in this case the type of damage does not
matter. The amount a Nightmare can inflict,
however, is dependent on how much Dread