The Painted Wastelands for OSE Passes 700% Kickstarter Funding Mark

A very unique looking roleplaying game sourcebook is entering its final Kickstarter week for Sharktopus Games. In The Painted Wasteland, player characters will embark on journeys across a weird and dangerous dreamscape designed for Old School Essentials. The project is past the 700% funding mark and you can score a copy of the physical book (plus digital and physical stretch goals) for a $55.00 pledge or grab just the PDF (plus digital stretch goals) for a $35.00 through August 31st. Expected delivery for digital releases is this December with the physical releases to follow next March.

About the project:

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 a mind melting tabletop role-playing game adventure module designed for Old School Essentials and closely with other classic retro clones. Dive headfirst into the strangest Hexcrawl 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. 

35 detailed hexes! Explore a grotesque land! Undertake the Pilgrimage of Yaldabythos to wash away any curse! Help carry a Mummified Demigod on a sacred Desert pilgrimage while wearing a bootleg Legends of The Golden Child t-shirt! 

• 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.
• Plus The Deck of Strange Things! There is a new magical artifact in the world inspired by the deck of many things, with new results. Backers can add a physical deck of divination cards. 

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