The ENNIE Award-winning surreal fantasy hexcrawl returns, rebuilt from the ground up for 5.5e. Explore a world of acid-punk dreams, desert weirdos, bizarre monsters, dream magic, and genuinely strange character options.
Take courage traveler! You're lost in The Painted Wastelands.
You are stranded upon the ragged edge of the infinite worlds of dreaming. Prepare your soul to enter a lucid land of sorcerers and endless pastel colored sands.
The Painted Wastelands is an ENNIE Award-winning surreal fantasy hexcrawl, now rebuilt as two hardback books for 5.5e D&D! Dive headfirst into the strangest adventure set in a dreamworld filled with desert weirdos, ravenous ghouls, and teeth-stealing nightmares. Inspired by the works of Moebius and Lovecraft, this campaign setting will transport your players to a world like no other.
This project brings The Painted Wastelands to 5.5e D&D in two hardback books:
The Painted Wastelands Adventurer’s Guide
A book of weird character options for 5.5e D&D, including 12 new subclasses, new backgrounds, new species, new spells, vehicles, and 148+ pages of player-facing strangeness.
The Painted Wastelands Campaign Guide
A fully detailed hexcrawl through the Painted Wastelands, with 36 hexes, new monsters, new magic items, and 160+ pages of nightmare-soaked chaos for GMs.
From Agamemnon Press Publisher of The Painted Wastelands, Empire of Bones, and HELLCRAWL. Follow the project to be notified when the campaign launches in October 2026.
Have You Already Visited The Painted Wastelands? This edition rebuilds the setting for 5.5e D&D while keeping the surreal secret sauce intact: gorgeous artwork, dream logic, and acid-punk strangeness intact.
