OSE: Enter the Weird World of ‘The Painted Wastelands’ – LIVE on Kickstarter Now
Dive into the weird world of The Painted Wastelands, a mind-melting RPG adventure module designed for Old School Essentials.
Tiger-striped along the ragged edge of the infinite worlds of dreaming lies The Painted Wastelands, a mind-melting tabletop role-playing game adventure module designed for Old School Essentials.
Set in a lavishly detailed and uncompromisingly weird world drawn from the pages of Tim Molloy’s Mr. Unpronounceable. And inspired by the art of Mœbius and words of H. P. Lovecraft, The Painted Wastelands blends the wondrous, the whimsical, and the other-worldly into a campaign setting like no other.
- Explore over 30 hexes with only your wits and a disembodied skull buddy to guide you.
- Embrace the total weirdness with over a hundred different ways to become permanently changed, both inside and out.
- Embark across the merciless sands on the Pilgrimage of Yaldabythos to gain the favor of a lost goddess.
- Torment your players with over 50 new monsters, 4 deadly dungeons, 55 new spells. Did you not see how many horrible transformations are in this book?
- Torment your players with over 50 new monsters, 4 deadly dungeons, 55 new spells. Did you not see how many horrible transformations are in this book?
- And if you’re lucky, escape this strange reality with your life, your soul, and your ectoplasm intact!
The Kickstarter
You can pick up a PDF or a physical hardback copy, which contains everything you need to adventure in the wastelands and are filled with fantastic art by Tim Molloy.
Want more? The All In Pledge includes a limited edition faux leather, gold foil hardback copy of The Painted Wastelands, plus the chaos-manifesting legally distinct artifact, The Deck of Strange Things, and a referee’s screen featuring some rad art of some desert weirdos hanging out on their jet bikes, filled to the brim with charts and tables and weird stuff on the referee-facing side. Plus, fake cash to use as hand-outs! And dice! Creepy green dice! Everyone likes dice!!
If you’re looking for something unique to add to your adventure that will also help support an artist in the RPG space, check out the Support the Artist Pledge. You get everything in the All-In Pledge, plus you’ll be able to commission Tim Molloy to draw your Painted Wastelands character. It will be digitally colored, full-body, and with background details. It’s the sort of design you could easily turn into a sticker or shirt.
The campaign is fully funded, and stretch goals are still being unlocked – including original music to use during your games, comics, plus translation of the adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics and MORK BORG. Make sure you get your pledge in before it ends on August 31st!
