This is a place which is not a place, and is effectively a part of the Astral Plane which is co-terminous with most of Melanesia (Australia). Melanesia is considered a wilderness by most non-aboriginals, but it has a complex history and culture reaching back maybe 50,000 years. The native Aboriginals see themselves as re-creating the land by their actions, as they walk about it, and see themselves as part of it.
Various sacred sites allow easy access to the part of the Astral which is the Dreamtime, in which gods and great heroes walk, as well as strange and terrible monsters. The native Aboriginals do not clearly distinuish between this place and the Prime Material, considering them both to be part of the same thing. Time is very confused here, and it may be before the creation of Melanesia, some time in its past, the present, or some possible future. It is quite possible for a man to meet, fight, and kill his grandfather before his father was conceived, here, without deleting himself and causing a time paradox - time merely took a slightly different path.
Ayers Rock, called "Uluru", is a gateway to the rest of Maj Space, and if you take a wrong turning, Sigil, as well as other GM-defined Planescape locations. People coming through the gate to Melanesia will automatically find themselves in the Dreamtime, which may be very confusing for them. This gate is as freely usable as the GM chooses, but should not normally be one-way, or impossible to return through with enough effort.
Those already in the Dreamtime on Melanesia can use Uluru to reach the dream spaces of other worlds in Maj Space, stepping from dream to dream of the local inhabitants, and maybe even into the dream world of the Goddess Anaput on Anubis, which is woven from the dreams and experiences of many across Maj Space. These dream spaces, and the dream world, are all effectively part of the Astral, but are far more firmly tied to the present than the Dreamtime.
(c) Dreamer Publications, 1980 - July 2006
Permission granted to use for non-profit making purposes