The 2025 ENNIE Award
Gold Winner for Best Family Game and Best Monster/Adversary Book, and
Silver Winner for Best Production Values
A vast and colorful campaign sandbox, set in a world where the Muppets meet the Lord of the Rings.
The Mucklands Sandbox Campaign Setting is an expansive hexcrawl sandbox filled with hundreds of locations, NPCs, quest hooks, and rumors for players to pursue. Set in the Land of Eem, the fantasy world of the book series
Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo and
Dungeoneer Adventures, The Mucklands Sandbox is packed with enough material to last years of gameplay. While paired perfectly with the Land of Eem Core Rulebook, GMs can easily use this 400+ page tome as inspiration for campaigns in any tabletop RPG system.
Embark on adventures that are as silly or as serious as your group prefers! All quest hooks in Land of Eem are categorized by three different tones: Hijinks (think The Muppets or Labyrinth), Derring-Do (think The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit), and Doom & Gloom (think Conan the Barbarian or Mad Max).
What’s Inside
- 6 Regions with unique biomes and conflicts
- 140+ Locations (Settlements, Sites, Zones, Points of Interest, and Lairs)
- 40+ Factions
- 450+ NPCs (all with illustrations)
- 500+ Rumors
- 400+ Quests
- 70+ Heroic Titles that characters can earn during their journeys
Why it’s Great for GMs
- Designed for sandbox-style, player-driven storytelling with minimal prep required. Let your players follow rumors and quest hooks as they explore the hex map.
- Clean layout, clear headings, and copious, clickable, crossreferencing for ease of use at the table.
- Quests are categorized by tones—Hijinks, Derring-Do, and Doom & Gloom—so you can tailor the vibe to your group
- Flexible enough to inspire compatibility with any fantasy RPG system, not just Land of Eem
The Setting
Eem is a land of color and wonder: a world with many storied regions and realms teeming with diverse cultures, characters, and creatures.
Eem is also a land in decay, for the great civilizations of the past crumbled long ago at the hands of the mysterious GLOOM KING. Ever since, the world has declined into an untamed, unchecked land filled with all manner of monsters and fiends, fearsome warlords and, most recently, greedy tycoons...ushering in an unruly industrial age called the DUNGEON ERA. A time chaotically run by rival corporations locked in a never-ending quest to outdo one another in business and expansion. All the while, average folk toil away in mines, factories, and dungeons, eking out a meager existence.
The southern realm of Eem and seat of corporate power, known as the MUCKLANDS, is broken into six distinct regions.
THE DRIPPY DOWNS
One of the few bastions of the old magical world, the Drippy Downs is a land of rolling green hills, home to trolls, faeries, dweorgs and other uncommon species— many doing their best to preserve the heritage of Eem's magical past.
FLEABAG COUNTY
The bustling region of Fleabag County is home to the Mucklands' biggest cities. Corrupt politicians and underworld criminals thrive like weeds as average folk toil away in factories and farms.
QUAGMASH
A wild region of swamps and bogs where pioneers, adventurers and big game hunters flock to either make names for themselves or succumb to the perilous wilderness full of gators, muckmen, and orches.
RIVER COUNTRY
A beautiful green country full of rushing waterways, River Country is not only home to peaceful quortles and peasant folk, but to wily rascals and obscenely wealthy river barons who endlessly duke it out for supremacy on extravagant riverboats.
SCALAWAG STRAND
The infamous coastline of the Mucklands, brimming with pirates out to rob seafarers blind—or worse. And if the pirates aren't enough to deter you from the open seas— beware! For upon the peaks of Terror Island, and in the unknowable depths of the ocean, there be monsters!
THE USED T'BE FOREST
Home to the tycoons and corporations that fuel the Dungeon Era, the Used T'Be Forest is a barren landscape of cracked earth and felled trees. A true testament to what happens when big business and small moral fiber make a mess of the natural world.
Getting Started with Land of Eem
- Join the Discord community! Ask questions or find a group to kick off a new game in the Land of Eem!
- Check out our Actual Play to watch the game in action.
- Listen to our Podcast about writing, publishing, and game design.
Praise for Land of Eem
“The Land of Eem is a remarkable book, and a true accomplishment in terms of roleplaying writing.” - Questing Beast
“If you’ve been looking for a lighter, story-focused fantasy game to play with the whole family (or even just your friend who loves Adventure Time) this is the game for you.” -
Polygon
“Land of Eem is an excellent game where kids and adults can have great adventures together or tell tall tales on their own.” -
EN World
“Whimsical fantasy RPG Land of Eem is like Lord of the Rings with Muppets, and it looks as great as that sounds.” -
Dicebreaker
“[Land of Eem’s] softer aesthetic, nostalgia, and simplified system makes it a great place to take your first steps into the world of roleplaying.” - Tabletop Gaming
