Experience fantascience roleplaying at the end of time. Escape the end of history.
The eternal civilization is perfect. So say the gods, the machines. Will you defy the endless circle of awakening and forgetting? Can you kick a hole through the sky?
The ancient demigod of sculpted carbon and polished crystal sighed. It submitted the greeting protocol error report and began reassembling another human.
—Voyage to the Fast Star Glitterdamning, apocryphal report, New Rain Era.
The Gold Boxincludes:
Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine — the main book. The heartwood of this campaign. Sized to match the UVG (2nd Edition) on your bookshelf. Illustrated by the author. A4 hardcover, 250 pages. Also available separately. Includes the Circle Sea Travel Map (UNLOCKED) - a folded road atlas map of the Circle Sea region inserted into the book. Perfect for the leisure tripper!
The Vastlands Guidebook — the rule book, A4 hardcover, 144 page version laid out by Guilherme Gontijo. Free digital A5 version also available.
Circle Sea Grand Map — a two-sided map. Classical postmodern map on one side, fantascience illustrated map on the other. 22” x 22”, six panel fold. Compatible with the Grand Long Map in the UVG. Sized to fit with the main book. Also available separately.
Yellow Nemesis Dice Set— an heirloom polyhedral set from Long Ago, before the fall of the Cathedral Order. Including an extra d6 for morale. Also available separately.
Tour Guide's Screen — a referee screen for the GM. Lovingly illustrated by the author with help from tiny space rats with human hands. Designed to help you improvise, pirouette, strategize, and amaze your players. Or just to hide your dice. Also available separately.
Vastlands Reference Cards (UNLOCKED) — Handy dandy cards to keep track of the loose, crumbly rules and locations.
Circle Sea Post Cards (UNLOCKED) - Show your homebody friends how cool you are because of the places you visited! Warning: may include adventure hooks.
Nemesis and Ministry Cards (UNLOCKED) - Know your enemies! Generate your friends. Bonus game included?
Both the Gold Box and the Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine book alone come with a redeemable electronic book version designed compatible with most old-time Polis Directive File format readers. That's a digital pdf version.
Get the two-book 🁢🁢quel to the Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City (UVG).
Explore and break the polychrome Rainbow Lands round the Circle Sea in Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine (OGA). A civilized setting companion to the UVG of towns, tourism, technocapitalist teratogenesis and demiurgent living machines.
Roll dice to win in The Vastlands Guide Book (VLG). An expanded, deconstructed, bolt-loosened perpetual psychedelic roleplaying engine. Formerly known as S.E.A.C.A.T. Fans of OSR and not-so-OSR d20 games welcome.
You have nothing to spend but your chains!
—fragment excavated at the Fürst Gate site (Vault of the Splitters, Onion and Skull period), Ritual Advertorials vol.II, Violet University Press
Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine (OGA)
Where the UVG was vast and empty, OGA unveils the pond of panhumanity, the Circle Sea.
The polychrome Lands in their splendor. The undead nutrient factories of the Yellow Land. The vampire wine-soaked manors of the Red Land. The cat-haunted peace of the Purple Land. The spore-god threaded desolations of the Blue Land. The cog-and-god splendor of the Green Land. The fragmented oldtech polities of the Yellow Land. The acid fantasy of the UVG ramps up to eleven with a whiff of propaganda and grapeshot.
Hundreds of places to visit, odd characters to meet, strange factions to greet.
Twenty character paths with options for players and the referee, with items and traits and NPCs to bring a teeming rainbow world alive.
Class, capital, and cultures replete with anti-canon world generators.
Estates real and imaginary. Home bases for downtime rest, relaxation, and biomodification.
Magic indistinguishable from technology. So-called gods and daemons. Noösphere and hylosphere—the world of the substrate and the shadow world of the daemons.
Three-part adventure arc that may break or remake the Rainbow Lands.
Specs: Hardcover book, A4 (8.27”x11.69”), 250 pages, full color throughout. PDF included. Two ribbons Achievement UNLOCKED!
Includes the Circle Sea Travel Map (UNLOCKED) - A folded road atlas map of the Circle Sea region inserted into the book. Perfect for the leisure tripper!
Fully illustrated and written with traditional human craft.
Compatible with heavy irony, inspired by postmetal.
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The Vastlands Guidebook (VLG)
A perfect rules-and-rulings companion to OGA and UVG.
An expanded, deconstructed, bolt-loosend perpetual roleplaying engine for the setting of the UVG. Fans of OSR and not-so-OSR d20 games welcome.
Expanded character generation options.
Expanded rules for conflicts and challenges, along with examples, explanations and suggested rulings.
Fun for all levels. Tricks, barters, trades, and banters encouraged. Simple and safe re-life options for the corporeally challenged (terms and conditions apply).
Technomagic-like powers and basic paths for heroes of this vast, strange world.
Graphic design by the inestimable Guilherme Gontijo.
Specs: Hardcover book, A4 (8.27”x11.69”), 144 pages, full color throughout. PDF included. Two ribbons Achievement UNLOCKED!
Also, fully illustrated and written with traditional human craft.
Compatible with light metal, inspired by psychedelic dairy products.
The campaign exclusive Voidwalker Edition. The main book. The heartwood of this campaign. The setting and adventure book in hardpaper and trueglue, printed into glorious polychrome existence just for you! Sized to match the UVG (2nd Edition) on your bookshelf.
Specs: Limited edition, cloth bound and gold foil stamped cover, hardcover book, A4 (8.27”x11.69”), 250 pages, full color throughout. PDF included. (Circle Sea Travel Map folded map inserted into book LOCKED)
The campaign exclusive Voidwalker Edition of The Vastlands Guidebook. Rules and options in cloth, glimmering teal, truepaper and hardglue, presents the complete synthetic dream machine roleplaying system for your OGA and UVG games.
Specs: Limited edition, cloth bound and teal foil stamped cover, hardcover book, A4 (8.27”x11.69”), 144 pages, full color throughout. PDF included.
- The Campaign Exclusive Voidwalker editions of both Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine (OGA)and The Vastlands Guidebook(VLG). These limited editions are cloth bound with stamped gold and teal foil respectively. - All items are packaged in the limited Void Box exclusive to this item, with stamped foil on the exterior. - Includes the same additional items as the standard Gold Box: the Circle Sea Grand Map, the Tour Guides Screen, and the Yellow Nemesis Dice Set. - All the electric delights are also included.
An exclusive double-sided rigid folding map board of the Rainbow Lands by the Circle Sea. Play in the world as it is and as it pretends to be!
Designed and Illustrated by Luka Rejec.
Specs: Rigid thick game board, full color printing on both sides, dry erase surface, 22"x22" (559 mm x 559 mm), folded down to 7.33"x11" (186.3mm x 279.5mm). PDF included.
Tour Guide's Screen
Rules and references to run the world, trouble the heroes, and hide the dice. Sized to fit together with the OGA book!
Designed and Illustrated by Luka Rejec.
Specs: Gatefold screen, full color on both sides, 3 landscape A4 panels, 8.25” x 35” (210mm x 891mm) when open, A4 (8.27”x11.69”) when closed. PDF included.
Yellow Nemesis Dice
Wonderful and totally not decayed dice, a full polyhedral set marked for victory and glory! Also suitable for the UVG. Includes an extra d6 for reactions.
Travel to a tourism trap and experience the terror of the early worm! Escape to win!
A simple and jolly mission to deliver some perfectly harmless documents to a missing gentleman in a well-damned valley. Nothing will go wrong. Please do not worry about the illegal lotus landlords. It’s all perfectly ok! It will definitely not turn into a tourist trap. Please perfume yourself for the journey.
Specs: A2 (16.5”x23.4”), folded down to 3.9"x8.25" (99mm wide x 210mm). PDF included. (Note, this add-on version is not signed by Luka Rejec like the Early Backer Reward version)
Circle Sea Travel Map
Issued by the Mihél Megnally Touring & Tire Company for betterfolk tourists, whether on a Grand Tour or a Small Trip. Perfect for the leisure tripper!
Specs: 22x22 (559 mm x 559 mm), paper map folded down to 5.5"x11" (139.75 mm x 399 mm) 4 panels by 2 panels. PDF included.
Vastlands Reference Cards
Handy dandy cards to keep track of the loose, crumbly rules and locations.
Specs: 30 tarot-sized cards covering core rules for the players and, yes, also for the GM.
Circle Sea Post Cards
Twelve gameable postcards of rumors, plots, and new locations. Also function as thisworldly snailmail postcards.
Specs: 12 full color, double sided post cards, 4”x6” (101.6mm x 152.4mm). PDF included.
Nemesis and Ministry Cards
60 cards of stuff™, powers, NPCs, and structures — from the fast stars of the psychopomps and the doom of the ERROR dragon, to the ancient roadmakers and the great way to the sky.
Specs: Two card decks, 30 cards each deck (60 cards total), full color, double sided cards, 2.75"x4.75” (69.85mm x 120.65mm). PDF included.
Ill-Nano and Jubilee Cards
Walk the Garden Path! Abjure the Chaos Dwarf! More story and theme cards.
Specs: Two card decks, 30 cards each deck (60 cards total), full color, double sided cards, 2.75"x4.75” (69.85mm x 120.65mm). PDF included.
SDM Codex 2: PANANTHROPY - Zine
48 pages of odd humans, from pretty lich to dire feral, betterfolk to plastifast, with which to populate your end of time. Digital PDF archival copy extracted from a dead unicorn skull.
Specs: 48 pages, full color, staple bound zine. PDF included.
Vastlands Travel Journal - Zine
A bootleg physical version of the Big Human Tourist Inc. travel journal. Voyage without DRM!
Specs: 60 pages, full color cover, black and white interior, staple bound zine. PDF included.
UVG Postcards
Ten time travelling post cards from the Ultraviolet Grasslands five years ago!
Specs: 12 full color, double sided post cards, 4”x6” (101.6mm x 152.4mm). PDF included.
"What is there that is not? All is there! Embrace the pleasures of the noösphere, leave behind the curse of limited flesh! Become one with the promise of Blue Lord Soma!" —False Promises, Book of Dead Gods — Archaeological Society Papers, 23:442
$65,000:Circle Sea Travel Map — paper map of the Circle Sea region issued by the Mihél Megnally Touring & Tire Company for betterfolk tourists, whether on a Grand Tour or a Small Trip. Physical map inserted into the Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine standard and Voidwalker editions. All backers receive digital version. *UNLOCKED!*
$80,000: Vastlands Reference Cards — 30 tarot-sized cards covering core rules for the players and, yes, also for the GM. Physical cards added to The Gold Box and The Void Box. All backers receive digital versions. *UNLOCKED!*
$95,000: Circle Sea Post Cards — 12 gameable postcards of rumors, plots, and new locations. Also function as thisworldly snailmail postcards. All backers receive physical and digital versions. *UNLOCKED!*
$110,000: SDM Codex 2: PANANTHROPY - Digital Only — 48 pages of odd humans, from pretty lich to dire feral, betterfolk to plastifast, with which to populate your end of time. Digital PDF archival copy extracted from a dead unicorn skull. All backers receive digital version. *UNLOCKED!*
$125,000: Nemesis and Ministry Cards — 60 cards of stuff™, powers, NPCs, and structures — from the fast stars of the psychopomps and the doom of the ERROR dragon, to the ancient roadmakers and the great way to the sky. Expand on the adventure arc in the Circle Book. Break the cycle. Physical cards added to The Gold Box and The Void Box. All backers receive digital versions. *UNLOCKED!*
$140,000: Vastlands Travel Journal - Digital Only— Keep track of your travel achievements with this official Big Human Tourist Inc. travel journal! All backers receive digital version. *UNLOCKED!*
$155,000: Yellow Nemesis Dice — Fool's gold plastic dice to hurl at your Nemesis! With friendly numbers. Three additional dice added to The Gold Box and The Void Box as well as the Yellow Nemesis Dice set add-on. *UNLOCKED!*
$170,000: Ill-Nano and Jubilee Cards — Walk the Garden Path! Abjure the Chaos Dwarf! 60 more story and theme cards. Physical cards added to The Gold Box and The Void Box. All backers receive digital versions. *UNLOCKED!*
$200,000:Vastlands Travel Journal - Print Edition— A bootleg physical version of the Big Human Tourist Inc. travel journal. Voyage without DRM! All backers receive physical and digital versions. *UNLOCKED!*
$225,000: Book Ribons — So you don’t get lost in your books! Ribbons made of authentic narrativium* (*not actually narrativium). One gold ribbon added to all copies of Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine, standard and Voidwalker editions. One teal ribbon added to The Vastlands Guide Book, standard and Voidwalker editions. *UNLOCKED!*
$250,000: UVG Post Cards Reprinted — Ten time travelling post cards from the Ultraviolet Grasslands five years ago! All physical backers receive physical and digital versions, all digital backers receive digital version. *UNLOCKED!*
$275,000: Second Ribbons — A second ribbon for each book, so you can mark more places! Two colors for the two faces of the world. One turquoise ribbon added to all copies of Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine, standard and Voidwalker editions. One orange ribbon added to The Vastlands Guide Book, standard and Voidwalker editions. *UNLOCKED!*
$350,000: Void Dice— A second hue of dice for the void boxes. With unfriendly numbers. Poll is ongoing to determine the colors.Limited Void Dice added to all Void Boxes in addition to standard OGA Dice. Available as an add-on for all backers.*UNLOCKED!*
$425,000: Upgraded Travel Journal— More pages, more colorful, more perfectly bound. For better travels. Pages added, upgraded from staple bound to perfect bound, and from black and white interior to color. All physical backers receive physical and digital versions, all digital backers receive digital version. *UNLOCKED!*
"It's as if Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson and Moebius had a baby, and that baby was Luka Rejec. And then Luka through parthenogenesis gave birth to his own baby called Ultraviolet Grasslands. And then Ultraviolet Grasslands laid a little spotted gold-and-purple egg. Vastlands is that precious, precious egg."
-Dave Thaumavore, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews
“I can’t think of a single other creator who has made a living focusing so much on a setting of their own entire creation like Luka. That’s really impressive.”
-Sean McCoy, Tuesday Knight Games and creator of Mothership RPG
“If Hayao Miyazaki adapted Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, it would be like visiting the Ulltraviolet Grasslands. Here is a seemingly impossible nostalgie for something so alien it shouldn’t be able to resonate with our own sense of a lost past... yet somehow it does, capturing a serene beauty filled with pulse-pounding savagery. It is unique, beautiful, and absolutely demands that you explore its endless mysteries. I can’t wait to journey once more beyond the Rainbowlands and into the Our Golden Dawn.”
-Justin Alexander, The Alexandrian
Ultraviolet Grasslands Reviews, Interviews, and Articles
OGA Book Title Page, Work In Progress (pencil, pen, and paper) —The Lair Archives, Robot Village a.3:10
Luka Rejec is the author and illustrator of award-winning old-school indie roleplaying games like The Ultraviolet Grasslands, Witchburner, Longwinter, and Holy Mountain Shaker. Our Golden Age is the culmination of a strange long creative trip made possible by the hundreds of heroes at the Stratometaship Patreon. He lives in Seoul with his wife and dog and child.
Note, these are shipping estimates based on anticipated item weights. All pledge tier ranges include total weights with all potential physical stretch goals. These rates are subject to change. All shipping will include tracking and replacements for lost or damaged pledges.
US, EU, UK, and AU/NZ Friendly Shipping
For this campaign we are happy to offer EU, UK, and Australia friendly shipping!
US and some Rest of World shipping will be handled by Exalted Funeral through their shipping partner Flying Cloud Fulfillment.
In the EU, UK, Australia, and some Rest of World shipping will be handled by ZATU in the UK and AU/NZ and James and James Fulfillment in the Netherlands.
Timeline for fulfillment
Physical: All physical components August 2025
Digital: - The Vastlands Guidebook (VLG) - Beta PDF - By the end of August/ before campaign ends - Previously released add-ons - Once Backerkit Pledge Manager closes in late October/ early November - Our Golden Age and the Mother Machine (OGA) - Beta PDF - Late Q4 - Final PDFs of all components - Early 2025
Campaign Update Schedule:
- Several times a week during the campaign. - Once a month after the campaign ends.
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