• Award-winning hexcrawl for OSR games.
• Surreal world with bizarre creatures.
• Unmistakable visual style by Tim Molloy.

The Painted Wastelands is an award-winning RPG setting that pulls you into a mind-shattering world of psychedelic science fantasy. Get ready for a hexcrawl campaign through bizarre post-apocalyptic wastelands where dreams collide with reality. It is primarily designed for Old-School Essentials and other retroclones, perfect for those who value exploration, discovery, and player-driven adventure.

A campaign full of discovery

Explore a bizarre land filled with desert weirdos, ravenous ghouls, and dream-stealing monsters. The Painted Wastelands features detailed hex locations with mysterious ruins, dangerous encounters, and rival factions. You will find new character classes, such as the Cat or the Oneiromancer, and a bestiary with over a hundred new monsters to challenge even the most experienced adventurers.

Exceptional visual style

The book stands out thanks to Tim Molloy's distinctive art style, which gives the world of The Painted Wastelands an unmistakable, almost dreamlike atmosphere. His vibrant color palettes and bizarre visuals are a key element that sets The Painted Wastelands apart from other fantasy worlds. This is handcrafted content that Agamemnon Press proudly stands behind as an alternative to generative AI.

The Painted Wastelands has won several awards, including an ENnie Award for Best Interior Art, and has been nominated for Best Setting. This work by Christopher Willett and Tim Molloy is a testament to originality and craftsmanship.

The rulebook is in English.

Prepare your trembling synapses to enter the Painted Wastelands, a mind-melting tabletop roleplaying game designed for Old School Essentials. Dive headfirst into a strange hexcrawl set in a bizarre world teeming with desert weirdos, ravenous ghouls, and teeth-stealing dream-beasts. The land is a vibrant kaleidoscope of rainbow-colored sand and crumbling ruins. Wander from place to place, skipping across reality like a stone tossed along the surface of a pool of ectoplasm. You'll encounter the unspeakable entities of the desert, sweaty pilgrims desperate for absolution, and strange sorcerers meditating in a haze of ectoplasmic smoke. You'll plumb the depths of ruins forgotten by untold millennia and hopefully survive the wrath of vengeful nightmares given life.

The Painted Wastelands adventure comes with 35 detailed hexes! Explore a grotesque land!

• 4 deadly dungeons! Visit the Temple of the Whale God, the Painted Wasteland's most popular escape room! Rescue a village of avian alchemists from the Floating Mausoleum of the Sky Ghouls! Commune with the past at the Violet Ruins of the Aeon Dwellers! Find treasure and glory in the Tower of the Diseased One!
• 2 new classes! Become the Oneiromancer, the master of dreams, or the Cat, the master of looking cute.
• 55 new spells! Master the new spells of the Oneiromancer, the dream sorcerer!
• 50+ new monsters! Your players will beg for mercy and find none at the hands of fungaloids, the Laughing Spider, and the acolytes of the Void cult.
• 100+ new art pieces by Tim Molloy! The creator of Mr. Unpronounceable has drawn completely new images for this book.