Take courage, traveler! You're lost in The Painted Wastelands!
The Painted Wastelands returns, rebuilt from the ground up for 5.5e D&D.
ENNIE Award Winner: Best Interior Art- The Painted Wastelands OSE ENNIE Award Nominee: Best Setting- The Painted Wastelands OSE ENNIE Award Winner: Best Supplement- The Painted Wastelands Player's Guide The Painted Wastelands is a fantasy hexcrawl set on the ragged edge of a world of acid punk dreams. It is a wilderness of pastel dunes, crumbling ruins, strange sorcerers, ravenous ghouls, desert weirdos and fresh new nightmares.
Never been to the Painted Wastelands? This is where you start. Been here before? Welcome back, Lost Dreamer. Things have changed.
Everything the Game Master needs to crack open a bizarre dreamworld and let the players run wild.
Run a sprawling fantasy hexcrawl built around exploration, discovery, and player-driven adventure. The Painted Wastelands is packed with strange places, dangerous encounters, competing factions, and discoveries that reward players for wandering off the road.
Inside you'll find:
The complete Painted Wastelands hexcrawl
Strange locations, The Pastel House settlement, ruins, and encounters
Monsters rebuilt for 5.5e D&D
Magic items, artifacts, drugs, diseases, and other strange discoveries
NPCs and factions to fight, bargain with, rob, rescue, or deeply regret meeting
Rules and setting material for running adventures in the Painted Wastelands
The Painted Wastelands has been rebuilt from the ground up for 5.5e while preserving the exploration, danger, freedom, and dream logic of the original.
The Painted Wastelands Adventurer's Handbook
The Outer Dreamlands have new ways to make your character strange.
The Adventurer's Handbook gives players everything they need to create characters who belong in the Painted Wastelands without revealing the Game Master's secrets.
Inside you'll find:
8 New species, including the Desert Weirdo and Cat
12 New subclasses, including the Liminalist and the Forgotten God Domain
Painted Wastelands classes reimagined as subclasses, including Oneiromancer and Nightmare Slayer
New Factions including the Gutter Wizards and The Cult of the Bleeding Eye
New backgrounds, including the Drug Peddler and Bleeding Eye Convert
32 New spells and feats
New equipment including guns and vehicles
Player facing lore and rules for surviving the Painted Wastelands
And yes, the Cat is an actual cat. Choose a pet human. Allow them to accompany you on adventures. Try not to get them killed.
The Painted Wastelands has been out in the wild for a while now. People have reviewed it, played it, and said some very nice things about it. Here are a few of them. The strange world, Tim Molloy's artwork, dream logic, desert weirdos, and general sense that something has gone terribly wrong are very much the same.
Want Everything? The All-In Pledge is the complete Painted Wastelands experience, combining both Limited Edition books with exclusive cover art, dice, gaming accessories and enough ectos to make morally questionable purchases.
Get the complete Painted Wastelands collection and save $90 compared instead of purchasing everything separately.
featured in ROLL FOR ORDER: SORT EVERY SET, coming soon to Steam!
Own the real-world version of the Dreamstuff Dice appearing in the indie darling video game Roll For Order: Sort Every Set by Frost Luna Studio.
A 7-piece polyhedral dice set cast from brilliant resin with razor-sharp edges. Each die is filled with iridescent holographic film. Forged from crystallized dreamstuff harvested along the edge of the Liminality, these dice contain fragments of impossible futures suspended within flawless resin and can be added to any pledge.
Jatoba Dice Vault
Included in All-In Your faithful dice deserve something better than a Crown Royal bag.
Handcrafted in America by Ravenwood, each Painted Wastelands Dice Vault is carved from Jatoba wood and engraved with an original design by Tim Molloy. This wooden box is built to safely carry your dice or a favorite miniature through the waking world, the Painted Wastelands, and whatever lies between. The Jatoba Dice Vault is a part of every all-in pledge.
Rosewood Dice Vault
Premium Add-On Upgrade to a premium Dice Vault, beautifully carved from rich Rosewood for an elevated display and storage experience. This exclusive version is available only as an add-on.
After years of trying to bring The Painted Wastelands to the tabletop in miniature form, Agamemnon Press is thrilled to partner with the incredibly talented teams at Crippled God Foundry and MyMiniFactory.
Together, they’ve created three character miniatures and one deeply unpleasant Laughing Spider, ready to stalk, menace, and torment your table.
The full STL collection is included with every All-In Pledge and is also available separately as an add-on.
The tea masters at Many Worlds Tavern have joined forces with Agamemnon Press to design premium tea. Voidblossom Tea is a heady mix of hibiscus, raspberry, and green tea. It is the perfect drink for an Oneiromancer in their sorcerer's tower.
This tea is made with Direct-Trade (and mostly organic) ingredients, meaning they are sourced directly from producers and not bought off the commodity market. This ensures we know exactly where our ingredients come from, and it makes us confident we are sourcing some of the best quality product while ensuring equitable treatment of producers at origin. We recognize the shortcomings of single-use packaging. Our new packaging not only includes a zipper for preserving freshness, but the majority of its construction is made up of biodegradable materials.
In the Painted Wastelands, T-shirts and merch are the most valuable treasure coveted by desert weirdos and strung out sorcerers. We've curated a treasure trove of our own featuring Tim Molloy's iconic artwork. This collection includes brand-new shirts created for this campaign alongside returning designs.
Whether you missed an old favorite or want one of the new designs, you’ll have a selection to choose from.
All designs are available in sizes XS–5XL. Choose your shirt now and select your size later in the pledge manager. All in backers receive the brand new Painted Wastelands shirt with the girl with the sword (bottom right)
The Painted Wastelands began life as a setting for Old School Essentials, a great game that brings together rules for Basic and Expert D&D from the 80s. The original books are still here. If you want to explore the earlier adventures, expand your collection, or see where the Painted Wastelands began, you can add any of these books to your pledge.
You can add these books to any pledge.
The Painted Wastelands. The original Painted Wastelands hexcrawl, written for Old School Essentials.
The Painted Wastelands Player's Guide. The original OSE player book, packed with character options.
Strange Tales of the Painted Wastelands. OSE zine adventure that takes place in a gas station.
The Quest Unpronounceable. An OSE adventure tied to Tim Molloy's Mr. Unpronounceable comics, bringing even more of his strange cosmology to the gaming table.
Mr Unpronounceable Omnibus. SUPERTOON Festival Selection. Collects 20 years of Tim's comics set in the world of The Painted Wastelands. Mandatory reading.
Empire of Bones. Double Stuffed Painted Wastelands Hexcrawl adventure written for OSE.
The Painted Wastelands is not starting from a blank page. Both books are written, and we are currently working through editing, layout, and final artwork. We expect fulfillment to begin in Summer 2027. Fulfillment will be handled by the handsome geniuses at Agamemnon Press, with Mudknight Games handling fulfillment for our European backers.
Estimated Shipping Costs
Shipping will be charged after the campaign through the pledge manager. Current estimates are:
USPS Ground Advantage United States: $11
ePost Global Priority Parcel Australia: $32 ePost Global Priority Parcel United Kingdom: $18 ePost Global Priority Parcel Canada: $23 ePost Global Priority Parcel Rest of the World: $32
EU and Norway Backers
We partnered with Mudknight Games who will handle fulfillment for European backers! Books will be shipped from Sweden, with Mudknight Games handling packages through the Norwegian postal system to keep shipping costs down.
DHL European Union: $14.90 DHL Norway: $14.90
Pay Over Time
If you choose BackerKit's Pay Over Time option, your pledge will be divided into four equal payments.
Your rewards will ship after the final payment has been collected.
Digital Rewards
PDFs will be shared via BackerKit and DriveThruRPG
The Painted Wastelands and all of its products are human made. We are employing artists and creators not toasters.
Art is drawn digitally by Tim Molloy. Words are written by Christopher Willett. Layout completed by Mina McJanda. The STLs were sculpted by Crippled God Foundry. The Dice Boxes are hand made in the US by Ravenwood.
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