Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows

Map Poster Unlocked!
5 months ago – Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 06:03:27 AM

Wow, we are moving pretty quickly through these stretch goals. Less than a week in and we've already unlocked the second of four. Thanks to your support, we can now include a poster map with every hardcover copy of The Saintly Hollows. Thank you!

Truth be told, we weren't always sure we wanted to do stretch goals. Shouldn't we make exactly the books we want, in exactly the way we want to make them? Well, yes! So when we came up with these extras, we really dug into dream scenarios (What could we do if...?). In other words, stretch goals in the original spirit of the things: something that really wouldn't be possible if the campaign didn't exceed our expectations.

Well, here we are, with the campaign exceeding our expectations. Nothing we can do but thank you again for getting us here. And look ahead, of course!

If we reach 50k, we can hire the amazing Ramona of Alderdoodle to make character sheets just for Wildendrem, including versions for both Old-School Essentials and Cairn. Ramona is already creating the page borders for this volume, so it would be great to have her take on the character sheets as well.

Of course you can play in the Wildendrem setting using any of the very fine character sheets that already exist for OSE and Cairn. But having these custom sheets will come with two great benefits: 1) They'll be thematically in tune with the books themselves, and 2) They'll include a dedicated space to track Oaths, Quests, and Renown. 

Fingers crossed we can make this happen.

Meanwhile, here's another project we have our eyes on! We love what the folks at Copy/Paste are up to with their ECO MOFOS!! game, and Islands of Weirdhope looks like a trip. Here's how they describe it:

"Players set sail as Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules-light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Explore a near-future hazardous but hopeful world, smashing Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells. Explore an optimistic new world, weirdhope not grimdark."

It's coming soon to Backerkit.

Codex Expansion Unlocked!
5 months ago – Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:46:57 PM

We are not at all sad about how quickly we've reached that first stretch goal! Thanks to your support, The Wildendrem Codex will now see a big expansion in the form of generative tables. Putting these alongside the character backgrounds, starting adventure, gazetteer, and rules for oaths and quests will turn this into a full-fledged tome, one that will support play in dynamic and exciting ways.

Our next goal is a big one! We are so excited to be working with artist Ripley Matthews on the province map for The Saintly Hollows. We will reveal the map at a later date, but for now you can get a sense of what to expect from other cartography works on Ripley's website.

The map will appear in the book and will be included among the digital downloads, but we really want everyone running a Wildendrem campaign to have a big, beautiful map to set down at the table. If we can reach $40k, the folded map poster will be included with every copy of The Saintly Hollows.

Thanks again for your support!

While we're here, we also want to draw your attention to another project we're excited about. Duginthroat Divided by Daniel Harila Carlsen is a darkly whimsical "dungeon on your doorstep" adventure. We're fans of Daniel's work—he's creating illustrations for The Saintly Hollows, and we have a limited number of copies of his previous adventure module, The Curious Creeps in Crimson Creek, available as an add-on.

Duginthroat Divided looks like it's going to be a blast. We hope you'll check it out!