Horror

Barovia - Ravenloft

Under raging storm clouds, the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of Castle Ravenloft. Rumbling thunder pounds the castle spires. The wind’s howling increases as he turns his gaze down toward the village of...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror

Creation

The Shadow War Across Creation The Tapestry of Creation was once whole and perfect at the dawn of all tales. Now the Shattered Worlds of mortals are separated from the Realms Beyond, fallen like a wounded star from the First War. Whispers o...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

The Azure Sea

The lands encompassing The Azure Sea are a wild and dangerous place. Islands of civilisation offer some protection from the wildlands, but most of the continent remains unexplored and maps show only t...

Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Mystery Political Sword & Sorcery

Dawn of Others

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Ad Infinitum

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/embed/QDPedI4GN4s] Since time immemorial, a war has raged across the universes and realms. A cold blooded god against his noble child. Kerr against Erdarion. Ever since reality and time began, both of them have fou...

Horror Military Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

Hunt: Mystery

Dystopia Horror Modern Supernatural Weird

Curse of Strahd

Under raging stormclouds, a lone figure stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of Castle Ravenloft. The vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. A cold, bitter wind spins dead leaves about him, bil...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery

Soul Spire: NEMESIS

In the shadow of an unfeeling cosmos, where star systems teeter on the edge of annihilation, Nemesis stands as a fragile sanctuary. Here, in the waning light of hope, sentient life clings to existence amidst the slow, inexorable spread of corr...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Surreal

La Resistance

Roku 0 se narodil Ježíš Kristus jako první upír. Spolu se svými Apoštoly založil celkem 10 upírských domů, které pak svoji moc v průběhu věků rozšířily po celém světě. Píše se rok 1871 a světu vládnou upíři. Lidé žijí v jejich područí a nemají možn...

Alternative History Horror Steampunk Victorian

Day-dreamland

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Horror Subversion Weird

Toril - The Forgotten Realms

The planet of Toril is the home to magical continents, filled with magical lands, and inhabited by magical life. Gods take notice and sometimes play active roles in the world, but rarely enter the physical plane. Only recently has science begun t...

Fantasy Horror Sword & Sorcery

Curse of Strahd-Prepare To Die Edition

About This World: Curse of Strahd: Prepare to Die Edition is a world for DM's to peruse at their own leisure. Here you will find a collection of resources I have used when running my games. Think of it as a database for the...

Horror Sword & Sorcery

The City of Luyarnha

In Luyarnha, even the most terrifying nightmares pale compared to the horrors of the waking world. The moon reigns eternal over a terrified populace, and even the smallest creatures pose a deadly threat. None can escape the dangers that lurk around e...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Surreal

The Creedverse

The Creedverse is a fictional universe set in the late 19th century, specifically around the 1870s and 1880s, characterized by a blend of Wild West elements, steampunk aesthetics, and advanced technology. The setting is predominantly in the Un...

Horror Science Fiction Steampunk Western

Lost Luyarnha

You awaken to a nightmare. No memory of who you are, or why you're armed for war. The city in which you wake is besieged by twisted monstrocities, lit by the shine of a cursed moon. When darkness falls, the streets are overrun by hideous creatures, a...

Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Horror Steampunk Victorian

The Desolate Depths

[p]"Some say the more you stare into it, the more it stares back. Bullshit. The more you stare at the Abyss, the more it tries to kill you!" - Unattributed, popular Karkosi punchline.[/p] [p]Despite their best efforts, Gods, Devils, Tit...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Weird

Lustria: On Stolen Shores

[quote] The End Times. That’s what they called them. For most, it was a curse; a prophecy of deepest despair. For others, it was a promise; a change of winds that would see the low raised up and the high brought down. For the ru...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Horror

Esharra

Esharra is a fragile world where souls, dreams and magic exist in a precarious balance. An island of life in an infinite void, it is a home to many and a target for destruction to many more.

Fantasy, Dark Horror Sword & Sorcery

Karagatan: A World Of Legends

You all work for Frank Steelhawk, the bold and battle-worn founder of Steelhawk International—an elite adventuring guild expanding its influence across the wild and unpredictable world of Karagatan. In a land where the gods have gone silent, power...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Gothic

Cenargo Corporation

Cenargo was formed by the merger of Centaur Technologies and Argon Aerospace, the companies who funded the development of the Foscolo reactionless displacement drive. It is also responsible for the terraforming of Aphrodite Station off Centauri Prime...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction

The Centurion's Riddle

A Riddle is Given It has been roughly three-hundred years since the end of the Gap, a mysterious phenomenon that wiped the history of Golarion from existence, and befuddled the minds of mortals for several millennia. While researchers have...

Cyberpunk Horror Science Fantasy Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Crescent City By Night

Crescent City in the World of Darkness is a coastal metropolis built on the foundation of wealth, influence, and supernatural machinations. Unlike the sleepy real-world Crescent City, this darkened reflection is a sprawling urban labyrinth shaped by...

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Political Supernatural

Masks of Nyarlathotep

Horror

Mars 2530

Planet Earth lies barren and depleted, racked by centuries of war that erupted into a nuclear holocaust. This catastrophe stemmed from a resource war between two global powers. The Mugong Compact comprised of Eurasia and Africa. Fighting against t...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Science Fiction

Ravenloft

So, my party started in Curse of Strahd 5e, but had a metagamer so I added old lore from other editions and swapped things around some. After deciding that Strahd was actually an ok guy, they all started asking if I could extend the campaign past jus...

Gothic Horror

Dread Realms (Ravenloft)

The Dread Realms is a world of despair and fright in which the monsters of everyone's nightmares are only yards away at any given time. This is the world of the archetypical Dracula, Frankenstein, Van Helsing, and so on. In this realm you do not ente...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Medieval

Kova

An ancient world

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Sword & Sorcery

Cairne

A broken world with a broken soul, where magic is a myth and the Gods have disappeared. An age has passed since the Empire of Bechtlaruun brought down the Stygian blight upon the now lost races of the Seanachaisian Isles. Using the combined magic of...

Clockpunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Post Apocalyptic

Pelagora

[p]A distant planet made up of around 99% water, and was once colonized. Nowadays, something horrible is stirring in the depths.[/p] [p][/p] [p][/p]

Exploration Horror Science Fiction Surreal Survival

Gnix

A strange synergy between Cyberpunk, Mad Max and Lovecraft. A world with almost no morality, where the powerful ones rule and the weak rebel or obey. A ruthless wilderness, full of strange and mystical flora and fauna ready to destroy you harshly con...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Science Fantasy

Game of Tomes

The Game of Tomes is an event for writers in the Twitch community. It is a team-based game in which the players choose a house to represent and counts their word counts towards their houses over the course of the month. This game runs three ti...

Comedy Fanfiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror

Mists of Barovia

Welcome to Barovia UNDER RAGING STORM CLOUDS, A LONE figure stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of Castle Ravenloft. The vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. A cold, bitter wind spins dead lea...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Etharis

Grim Hollow Dark Fantasy Pre-Apocalypse

Fantasy Horror Medieval

Ullthwaygon

[container:Intrestbox]Welcome to the last age [p]When the Towers fell long ago, there was time enough for gods and nations. But now they fall like rain.[/p][/container]

Horror MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Cimmerian Shade

/*UserLogOut Start*/ [userstate:loggedout] This is a Divergant World of Darkness Campaign Site. This world starts its timeline during Dark Medieval era and continues into a diseal/steampunk influenced future. To be able to use this site...

Alternative History Horror Political Steampunk Supernatural

Changing Stars

A world outside it's intended place in time and space. Filled with wonders and terrors and everything in between. A place where people find themselves, or choose to become who they were always meant to be. Filled with options for all kinds of...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Horror Literature RPG Science Fantasy

Ruins of Drakkenheim

My (modified) version of Dungeons of Drakkenheim. Among other changes, I have changed the city into a hex crawl. What else have I changed? You'll have to play to find out! Wondering where to start? I suggest reading about the @[Factions...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic

VISCERIUM

VISCERIUM is a tale of eternal struggle, a grim verse under constant threat of abominable incursions. [container:intro]In the shadow-veiled realm of the Degel System, humani...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Science Fantasy

Araea

[aloud][/aloud] [quote]Mankind are not masters of this world, but children fumbling in the dark.[/quote] Araea is a weird-fantasy setting in a world where humanity has been forced to survive deep underground since time immemorial....

Biopunk Fantasy, Dark Horror Weird

koroblin

Koroblin world is an alternate version of Earth. Where things from Geography, History, Evolution and even the Laws of nature, have been changed so greatly it's now just a strange distant mirror to our own world. Koro-world is not meant to be a 1 to 1...

Fantasy, Urban Horror Post Apocalyptic Slice of Life

Thylea

Thylea is located across a great expanse of ocean, far beyond the borders of the known world. It is a land of great beauty and ancient splendor, untouched and unspoiled by civilization since the dawn of time. Thylea is sometimes called “the Lost L...

Fantasy, High Magic Horror Science Fantasy

Darkness Moon Chronicles

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror Romance Supernatural

Bellyem

[container:intro]Under the Reign of the Cieux, between Shadow and Light, the inhabitants of Bellyem tread a fragile line between devotion and survival, ever at the mercy of the nightmarish echoes of the past and the promises of the divine. [/contain...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery Political

Expedition Demeter

special thanks to Oneriwien for his awesome work on the theme! [quote] Do you know him? Old Whisper?  He dwells within all of us. You feel it, I know you do. That emptiness inside you, that's him... I wonder: Have you heard the...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror Sword & Sorcery

Ravare

[container: homepage-intro] Throughout these Realms, mortal Sophonts seek to survive against the brutal realities dictated by the cruel Divines, wildly promoted by the volatile Elementals, or simp...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror Supernatural Weird

Terra Caelum Legacy

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Gothic

The Vile of Stormcrow City

Gothic Horror Supernatural

Trilogy

[p]At first, there is nothing. Slowly you become aware of your surroundings: a vast chamber, featureless and apparently endless with the only break in the monotony a single door, slightly ajar.[/p] [p]You get the impression of incompleteness, not ju...

Fairy tale Horror Science Fantasy Superheroic Weird

Crux Umbra

[container:primer][p]Earth is no longer the world of the living.[/p] [p]Thirty years ago, the mages burned it in their fury.[/p] [p]Now, the vampires reign supreme in blood and ash.[/p] [p]As for humanity?[/p] [p]What little remains is hunted thr...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

World of Darkness

My version of White Wolf's world of Darkness used in our VTM campaign. The Players are the vampires of the city of venice in the Victorain eara.

Historical Horror Supernatural

The Walking Dead: Rewritten

[quote]Welcome, mortal. I see you have found your way to the steps of my altar. The world you now look at is reality. The dead are amongst you, hungry for your flesh. A stranger could be your demise. Or even a once-tamed dog. Survival is key. Unbe...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Hard Magic Horror Post Apocalyptic

pèryl

The multiverse was created by Annen, Goddess of Time, to answer the question: "What does it mean 'to exist?'" PÈRYL was the first world created to attem...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Post-modern Sword & Sorcery

Coriolis - der 3te Horizont

[userstate:loggedout] Coriolis ist ein Science-Fiction-Rollenspiel, das in einem abgelegenen Sternensystem namens "Der 3te Horizont" spielt. Es ist ein von Konflikten und Krieg verwüsteter Ort, aber auch die Heimat stolzer Zivilisationen, sowohl der...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

Daemonic

Fantasy, Urban Horror Religious Superheroic Supernatural

Barovia

This was a Curse of Strahd campaign that I had made for my friend, who is no longer able to play. In short I wont be updating this anymore. If you have questions about the work that has been done you can leave a comment, but dont expect a fast reply....

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Theoras

Medieval setting in which two main characters will face tragic events.

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Horror Medieval

Curiosity and Satisfaction

Welcome to Curiosity and Satisfaction. A curious but satisfying Call of Cthulhu game set in 1950's Massachusetts where feline and canine sleuths investigate and battle against the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. [/cen...

Alternative History Horror Mystery Supernatural Weird

The True Dark Ages

The world is now in the 9th Century, and the Early Middle Ages is in full swing. Adventurers are constantly in demand. Some act as mercenaries, others follow the path of magic and bolster their respective nations. Groups scattered here and there long...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

Greyhawk Cthulhu

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Asyur

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Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Historical Horror

The Rosepetal

[tooltip:This setting is aimed at a mature audience of 18 years or older. You can read more about this in the Mature Content Advisory - a link to this document is found in the footer.][section:label recol-yellow][section:fas fa-shield-exclama...

Adult 18+ Horror Science Fiction Speculative

Book of the Damned

[quote]"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you...

Adult 18+ Horror Modern Supernatural

The Golden Age

Vampire: The Masquerade, Roman Era.

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Fantasy, Dark Horror

Vaemune

Welcome to the world of Vaemune! A world riddled with eldritch abominations, monstrosities and the darkest of curses. It is a hard world to live in, were the pylons of the father are the sole beacons of hope. It is the third era after the...

Biopunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Superheroic

The Horizon

Horror Neo Noir Religious Space Opera Supernatural

Mundo das Trevas

[p]Crônicas do Mundo das Trevas é a nossa Terra no início dos anos 90, mas onde tudo é exagerado e sombrio. Instituições são mais dominadoras e influentes sobre a sociedade, com a Igreja tendo um papel muito importante em prover uma esperança,...

Adult 18+ Horror Supernatural Urban

VIGIL-Archive

Horror Supernatural

Tairos

A ruined land. The bounty that Tairos had to offer wasn't lost to disaster or destiny. It was squandered. Bought and sold, mined... depleted. Only when it was too late to reverse course did the people of Tairos fight back. All they succeeded in d...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

Survive

Here you will not find tales of perilous adventurers, the eternal war between good and evil, or bustling capital cities. Here you will find the cruel reality of man versus the wilderness. Feel the hunger pangs as starvation b...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

Aulyre's Eberron Gazetteer

Fantasy Horror Mystery Neo Noir Steampunk

The World of Darkness

Horror Modern

Tarana

The world of Tarana and the Crystal Spire campaign setting are built on D&D 5E with the goal of capturing the texture, flavor, themes, and experiences of Celtic mythology, while including aetherpunk/steampunk flavors and aesthetics on top of it all.

Adult 18+ Ancient Clockpunk Comedy Crime

Norasila

The World of Norasila is a world racked with ruins and leftover traces of the gods domain and the Shattering war fought after, much of the world died during this hundred year war the land is sparse with villages and people struggling to survive while...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

The World as it Were

The world as it were, as it would become is in the making. It is broken but as all broken things it may be reformed but in that what would it be? In this crucible many do not see the dark that will snuff out the light. Remember that it was at Dangelo...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Political

The Lockdown Crews Masks of Nyarlathotep

Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign running on the Pulp Cthulhu rules.

Historical Horror

Gottathinkaboutit

Idunno

Ancient Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Shōnen

Fallen London: What Is & Is Not

[p]Throughout history have been 4 everlasting mysteries lingering among the collective curiosities of the ivory tower of academia. The “Missing Cities:” 4 curiously absent cities from their location. Records...

Fanfiction Gothic Horror Religious Science Fantasy

Arethel

Arethel is the world, filled with many people and places. A world of possibility and wonder. The adventures that take place here, often tales told around the campfire, will henceforth be recorded in this place, so that the heroes and deeds for which...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Medieval Political Sword & Sorcery

Cosmic Horror

[quote] “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful pos...

Horror

A dance of orc's and elves

The Year is 1307 After the Conquest A dance of orc's and elves is a fantasy world that's a mix of sword and sorcery and classic fantasy. In this world orcs are the children of men and elves*. A world of magic, ruled by the blade...

Fantasy Hard Magic Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

A Tale of Blood & Shadow

Horror

Songs Of Shadow

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Transhumanism

Age Of The Imperium

IT IS A TIME OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY The Imperium spreads across all the known world, under the benevolent and long reach of the Undying Emperor. A century ago, the Emperor led humankind to victory in the Last War over t...

Gothic Horror Sword & Sorcery

Barovia

Welcome to Barovia! Once an idyllic valley nestled within the Balinok heavens, now Barovia is a monument to Strahd's failings, an endless nightmare prison shrouded by deadly fog.

Horror Supernatural

Curse of Strahd Reloaded

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural

The Severed Lands

From the windswept north of the Icewind Dale to the wild island continent of Erna Lunathros, the Manifest Lands is the name given to the world as it is. Marked by strife and magic both great and terrible, various cultures make their ways across the w...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Barovia

Under raging storm clouds, a lone figure stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of a long-standing castle. A pale figure stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. A cold, bitter wind spins dead leaves about...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery Stealth

Edda

This is Edda. A pangean landmass surrounded on all sides by wide, chaotic oceans and butted against on all sides by chaotic zones where the laws of reality are made nill. In this world, and the 10 countries that make it up, there are two undeni...

Child Safe Horror MagiPunk Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Ellistown Landing Forever

“All roads lead to Rome” - Alain de Lille

Biopunk Horror Political Post Apocalyptic

In The Red and White Mansion

A series of interlinked stories that all culminate in the events that occur in a certain red and white coloured mansion on a hillside. In The Red and White Mansion There's something not right about that mansion on the hill. I...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Urban Weird

Cenorad

Cenorad is a world of reinvention and reimagination. Gone are the days of noble elves, stout dwarfs, and average humans. The cards have been shuffled again and old tropes have been ripped apart, torn and twisted only to be stitched back toget...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Science Fantasy

Earssea

Somewhere in the outer fringes of the known universe, partially hidden in the Clasmyc shoals in the Astral Sea, is the isolated world of Earssea(pronounced Ersa). Overlooked by many of the powers and factions of the multiverse, Earssea is world brimm...

Ancient Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

Twin Earths

[p][/p] [p]Everything here is a work in progress and all info is subject to change at anytime[/p] [p][/p] [p]This is for a game world I'm making and this is a good place to have everything written down.[/p] [p]Each game I want to make will tell d...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Religious Science Fantasy

Nascindor

Nascindor acts as the stage for an original dark fantasy setting titled Eternal Hymn. Some subject matter is not suitable for younger readers. [container: box-contain box-white][soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/shaama...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Sunset Hollow

The town of Sunset Hollow is called The Gateway to Adventure. The veil between worlds is thinnest here allowing all too easy passage to or from The Feywild and The Shadowfell.

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Steampunk Supernatural

The Snakeheart Series

Series Synopsis Snakeheart is a supernatural thriller book series about the unsuspecting Dante Coranguis who is the fulfillment of an ancient @[Prophecy of The One](myth:b0c030d9-d179-4c80-8bd...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Supernatural

The Brimstone Land

Inspired by Down Darker Trails (for Call of Cthulhu), Deadlands, and tales of the Weird West, this campaign challenges a fearless band of Old West characters as they engage in tales of Pulp Strangeness. It is 1873, the memorie...

Horror Weird Western

Barovia

Er ist alt, Er ist das Land This world is a prison for many of which few have ever escaped. The Dread Lord, Count Strahd von Zarovich, is a vampiric lord who resides over an inescapable valley surrounded by a deadly fog. For hundre...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Supernatural

Aeterna, Third cycle

Something is happening, Adira has seen it, The sky splitting open... What does it mean?

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Lost Hope

Adult 18+ Historical Horror Mystery Supernatural