Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Character Sheets Unlocked, One Stretch Goal Left!
11 months ago
– Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 09:23:31 AM
And there’s another stretch goal down. Having those character sheets from Alderdoodle is going to be amazing. I’m certain we’ll be using them in our home games :)
That leaves us with just one goal remaining: conversion kits for Mythic Bastionland and Shadowdark. For this we’re turning to two excellent writers who have already dived deep into the cross-currents of these systems and the Wildendrem setting.
Mythic Bastionland
We're longtime fans of Chris McDowall's work, and ever since we first heard of Mythic Bastionland, we've hoped these two worlds could hang together. The Wildendrem books being statted for Cairn means there’s already some compatibility, and of course both works are steeped in the strangeness and wonder of Arthurian legend.
Will Jobst of Good Luck Press is currently running a Mythic Bastionland / Valley of Flowers campaign, and from what we’ve heard, that matchup is going very well indeed. We'd love to bring Will in to show us how it's done!
Shadowdark
And how cool would this be?
Michael Putlack of Night Noon Games ran a campaign spanning thirty-one sessions (CORRECTION: FORTY-ONE SESSIONS!) of The Valley of Flowers using Shadowdark, and it sounds like it was an amazing time. We’d love to welcome Shadowdark players into Wildendrem, so naturally we thought of Michael as the perfect guide.
Help Us Spread the Word?
If we reach 60k before the end of this campaign, we can hire Will and Michael to create these conversion kits (PDFs will be distributed to all backers). We really are going to have to stretch for this, and we’re grateful for any help spreading the word. Know folks who are playing Mythic Bastionland or Shadowdark, and who might enjoy the mythic weirdness of Wildendrem? Please let them know!
Wildendrem co-creator Jedediah Berry will soon be on tour in Italy for his latest novel, The Naming Song (La Canzone dei nomi). Any European backers planning to be at the Lucca Comics & Games Festival? If so, please say hello!
He also has appearances scheduled for Bologna (November 3rd) and Rome (November 4th). Full details on the Fazi Editore publisher site.
Quick Update for EU & UK Backers
11 months ago
– Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 06:12:31 AM
We're happy to report that we're partnering with GamesQuest for fulfillment overseas, so we can now offer EU- and UK-friendly shipping. This means we'll be collecting VAT through our pledge manager to reduce the chances of unwelcome surprises upon delivery. We've also been able to lower our estimated shipping costs as follows:
Please note that Kickstarter does not allow us to change the estimated shipping costs shown when selecting reward tiers, so the old, higher prices still appear there. Those in the table above (and on our campaign page) are a more accurate reflection of what we expect.
Thank you for your patience as we've sorted out this piece of the puzzle!
Free Zine for You
11 months ago
– Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 07:07:54 AM
We'll also have some free print copies at ArcaneCon in Northampton, MA, on November 7th and 8th. If you're planning to be there, be sure to stop by the Phantom Mill table and say hello!
Phantom Mill Games on Between Two Cairns
12 months ago
– Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 12:22:28 PM
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Map Poster Unlocked!
12 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.
Two examples of character sheet designs by Alderdoodle.
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."
