The old-school, new-weird PAINTED WASTELANDS campaign setting brings the psychedelic vision of comics artist Tim Molloy to a pastel-kaleidoscope hexcrawl for Old-School Essentials and other retroclones
Get the complete 361-page PAINTED WASTELANDS core setting book (plus the PLAYER'S GUIDE and REFEREE SCREEN), the STRANGE TALES OF THE PAINTED WASTELAND gazetteer and equipment guide, and the full-length adventure THE QUEST UNPRONOUNCEABLE – all as non-watermarked, DRM-free .PDF ebooks
In the PAINTED WASTELANDS you're thrust into a dreamworld of prismatic landscapes and liminal horrors. Also, you can play a cat!
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Adventurer! This all-new Painted Wastelands Bundle tours The Painted Wastelands, a prismatic pastel realm from Agamemnon Press for use with Old-School Essentials and other tabletop fantasy roleplaying game retroclones. Many paths might have sent you to this desert fever-dreamland on the Endless Plains: an eldritch misfire, perhaps, or a failed attempt to dethrone a god (it happens!), or you just made a desperate jump through a screaming archway. Now, stuck here in the Lower Ethereal Hierarchy, you must survive the Bleeding Eye Preachers, enormous Sky Jellies, the Laughing Spider, acolytes of the Void cult, and Fungal Canyons. Become an Oneiromancer, master of dreams, or a Cat, master of looking cute. Navigate warring factions, rescue a village of avian alchemists from the Floating Mausoleum of the Sky Ghouls, search for mummified demigods in the Violet Ruins of the Aeon Dwellers, get cursed and undertake the Pilgrimage of Yaldabythos to get cured, seek treasure and glory, and – if you're lucky – find a way out.
Created by artist Tim Molloy (Mr. Unpronounceable) and Chris Willett, The Painted Wastelands conjures a surreal sherbet-colored landscape filled with wonders inspired by Moebius and HP Lovecraft. With its vibrant palettes and bizarre visuals, this continually uncanny yet coherent hexcrawl world of avian alchemists, desert weirdos, ravenous ghouls, and teeth-stealing nightmares appeals to fans of The Ultraviolet Grasslands, Yoon-Suin, and Troika. And did we mention you can play a cat?
For just US$17.95 you get all five titles in our Painted Collection (retail value $71) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 361-page full-color The Painted Wastelands setting guide (along with its Player's Guide and Referee Screen); the Strange Tales of the Painted Wastelands gazetteer and equipment guide; and the full-length adventure The Quest Unpronounceable.
And this is not all the Wastelands offer. Check the new Painted Wastelands Kickstarter campaign, Empire of Bones, which plunges adventurers into the darkest parts of this realm. Visit the Unholy City of Zeb, a stinking and polluted metropolis ruled by necromancers, then skip town to explore the ghoul-ridden ash-dunes of the Lands of Dust.
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