Horror

Aetates Obscurae Verae

[p]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 l...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

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

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

Ancient Thedas

Ancient Thedas is the setting for the Dragon Age tabletop RPG campaign "Ancient Shadows" set in the years of the First Blight in the Tevinter Imperium. The story revolves around a group of travellers from all across the continent, each one following...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Historical Horror

The Legend of the MONKE God

[p] The Legend of the MONKE God is a Dark Science Fantasy Graphic Novel series.[/p] [p]In the twilight of the 21st Century, the Terrans take their first steps towards their species' goal to conquer the stars. Although absolutely...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fantasy Superheroic

Gloamwood

[p]Enter into the Gloamverse, a world almost completely overtaken by a great eldritch forest. Civilisation exists on the tops of great mountain geodes that peek out from the Gloamwood and the crystals found within these geodes power the majority of p...

Fantasy, Dark Horror

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

Duurn

Duurn is a dark fantasy world, fresh out of an industrial revolution and a worldwide military conflict, called the Last War. The world is in the throes of societal upheaval, fueled by the devastation of the Last War, economic depression, and fear of...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Surreal

Ellistown Landing Forever

“All roads lead to Rome” - Alain de Lille

Biopunk Horror Political Post Apocalyptic

Druskenvald

[p]Somewhere, lost in the shrouded realms of death, lies a land of endless night where long‑forgotten horrors are revealed to those who travel through the mist.[/p] [p][/p]

Fantasy, Dark Horror

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] @[Click Here to Learn More about Site Navigation](article:6...

Horror MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Game of Tomes

[container:text-black] [aloud]Game of Tomes[section:fa-solid fa-trademark] [/section] is a team-based event set in a modern, urban-fantasy world. Writers choose a House to be their team and turn in word counts throughou...

Comedy Fanfiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror

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

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

Remnant: The Odyssey of Destinies

A world Set in an Alternate version of My Little Pony, containing historical themes, Fantasy Technology, Fantasy monsters and tropes. Magi-Punk inspiration and a complicated geopolitical & Fantastical recreation of a roughly Inter-war to WW1 Magi Pun...

Adult 18+ Crime Dystopia Fanfiction Fantasy, Dark

The Fall

Alternative History Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Supernatural

Dawn of Others

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

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

Onigma V

Viides Onigma on maailma, jossa kiivas kehitys on koittanut pitää kasvavat kauhut poissa, mutta on epäonnistunut siinä kerta toisensa jälkeen. Rikkaat ja sivistyneet keksivät aina uusia keinoja hyödyntää voimia, joita kohti kenenkään ei tulisi katsoa...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Mystery Science Fantasy Steampunk

Songs Of Shadow

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Transhumanism

Havenguard

Havenguard is a world seen through the perspective of those that live deep underground. In a changing time, the dwellers of ancient Dwarven cities or ramshackle Goblin camps need to adapt to new emerging technologies, the ongoing scarcity of resource...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic

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

Tales From Eternal Dusk

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Sword & Sorcery

Nivestra

Nivestra is a world in three parts- three huge, vastly populated continents separated by untamed ocean and different opinions. It’s history is rich with adventure, thrills, horror, romance, intrigue, heartbreak, and many close-up examinations and ins...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Gothic

Chicago by Night

Chicago is the gleaming city of the Camarilla in North America. Pulled from the brink of chaos by Prince Kevin Jackson in the wake of a Sabbat and Lupine incursion. Now the Sabbat are long gone and the Lupines have retreated. In the wake of Anarch up...

Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror

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

Otari and Beyond

[p]Welcome to Otari, a hardworking coastal town pressed between the sea, lumber camps, and the misted reaches of the Fogfen, rumors of the old Gauntlight ruins, bold boggards, vanishing travelers, and strange rites unsettle daily life. You’ll investi...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Sword & Sorcery

Afterlight

[p]Monsters and Magic are real! They exist in the shadows of our world, all the legends of boogeymen are true.[/p] [p][/p] [p]Step into Afterlight, a realm where neon pulses against the darkness, and secrets dance in the shadows. In the year 20XX,...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Horror Mystery Supernatural

Under a Frozen Sky

[p][/p] [p]Ell Brich is the home of gods, dragons, myths, heroes, villains, servants, and slaves. The strange, shattered islands seem eerie as they seemingly orbit the larger moons, anchoring the islands in place. Everyone lives under the whims of...

Horror Literature RPG

Bryxta

Bryxta Un misterioso lugar que florece alrededor de la magia y el poder.Bryxta es una escuela para aquellos capaces de canalizar su voluntad sobre el mundo.Siendo la única en todo el c...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Horror Mystery

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

Caelum Prime

Prophecy of Caelum Prime [quote]When the Shadowsong Messenger lands and speaks the words “The Night of Lightning,” the Dust Rain sha...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Supernatural

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

The Savage Woods

Creatures from another world stalk the misty woods. They spread like a plague, driving civilization into hiding on protected islands. Among the islands, in the vast network of inter-connected lakes and rivers, the remnants of the north lands rebuilt...

Fantasy, High Magic Horror Isekai Medieval

Asyur

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Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Historical Horror

Argentii

New? Start Here! [h5]For basic information about Argentii (such as the calendar, general world history, death and ghosts, etc.)[/h5] [articleblock:961e4a95-230b-4f2c-a71d-9dcb206b2b35] [aloud][img:62...

Fantasy, Dark Horror MagiPunk

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

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

Under an Iron Sky

[quote] Mortals exists at the pleasure of the dragons and no one mortal can hope to kill a dragon. - Dragon saying[/quote] The dragons are in charge and have a live-and-let-live relationship with the mortals that they allow t...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Horror Literature RPG Religious

Tanari

Biopunk Crime Cyberpunk Horror Science Fiction

Qet

Qet was born from the viscera of a fallen god, their bones forming into the ground beneath your feet. Their tears becoming the oceans, rivers, and lakes. Their skin covered the land, giving rise to plant-life, and becoming home to the creatures...

Ancient Fantasy, Dark Horror Soft Magic Surreal

Etharis

Grim Hollow Dark Fantasy Pre-Apocalypse

Fantasy Horror Medieval

A Dark New World

In the near future, Earth is near collapse. Humanity in it's hubris has fractured into major powers and spread throughout the Solar System, and starting to colonise the closest star systems. Regions are are divided into political factions, and even t...

Adult 18+ Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Exploration

Athanya

Before the Realms of Athanya aligned and the Age of Balance began, the intelligent races wandered mindless...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Horror Medieval Oriental

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 Terrene

[p]There is the Terrene, and there is the Empyrean. They both exist within the great jewel, separate but entwined. The immortals - the Gods and Devils, Mothers and Fathers, Lords and Archons - rule the Empyrean, while the Terrene is the land of morta...

Fantasy, High Magic Horror Sword & Sorcery

Akurite Empire

Sabra lay amid the fortress' collapse, certain with every quake of the lunar surface that the ground would gape and the rubble fall, either or both to entomb her. She was spent beyond even thought of movement; the spirit of the Daishen had left her,...

Comedy Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock

Brexeamar

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

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

Inside the Bag

What if the space in a Bag of Holding was linked to a whole dimension? What happens In-Between those extradimensional spaces? What if this dimension was dominated by an ever hungering, ever growing, all consuming demigod? When the Bagman comes in...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror 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

Théorès

This world was created by a overconfident being who used the dangerous power of the Origin to create a whole planet. The result of this enormous amount of Origin magic destroyed his essence, making the planet without its creator. The Gods, or the...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Western

Valosia

[p]The Great Dance Awaits[/p] [p][/p] [p][/p]

Fantasy Gothic Horror MagiPunk Political

the Unveiled World

There is a river that runs hidden through both Finistère and Cornwall and a man made a garden on it's banks. On a peak in the Carpathians there once was a @[castle by a lake](landmark:38f23985-18ee-45...

Fantasy, Urban Horror Supernatural Young Adult (YA)

Ravenloft

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

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

Az-Atla Realm of the Lost Moon

For over 50,000 years, Az-Atla has existed. Never fallen and ever-growing under the care of the Devouring Mother. She has crafted civilization from the ruins of time. She has nurtured the discovery of wisdom, technology and magical wonders for her ci...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

Tahuum Itaqiin

[url:https://www.worldanvil.com/w/tahuum-itaqiin-eldknighterrant/a/synopsis3A-tahuum-itaqiin-enters-its-third-age-article]Full synopsis: Tahuum Itaqiin Enters its Third Age Tahuum Itaqiin is a vast continent, a world in recover...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror Sword & Sorcery Wuxia-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

Trapper

An Alternate History in which Paranormal Creatures, Cryptids, and Bedtime Horrors of our world no longer fall into the land of 'fiction'. Combining Voodoo, Paganism, and Pioneer/Indigenous American Folklore [br...

Gothic Horror Neo Noir Weird Western

Curse of Jason

[p]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 leaves about him, billo...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

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 Aurelian Empire

Past the gleaming Alabaster Peaks that bisect the continent of Seraphix lies the great and powerful Aurelian Empire. Home to volatile politics, varied terrains, and dark secrets, the Empire's major territories are governed by it's Four Great Noble Ho...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Supernatural Victorian

Vasara

Adventure had always fascinated you. Storybooks from your homeland contained tales of a once-powerful god-king from a far off, now desecrated land; an entity with a will to rival the Architects. Such power—lost and fabled as it may have...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Post Apocalyptic

Aulyre's Eberron Gazetteer

Fantasy Horror Mystery Neo Noir Steampunk

WoD Melbourne

Horror Supernatural

Semita

Semita is the wheel upon which an infinite multiverse spins. Within the framework it's own reality it is one of many life sustaining planets, but is the source of the power that created the universe as we know it. It is a land burdened by extensive h...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Steampunk 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

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

Lithfall

Long ago, before the gods could remember, the Elder Elves walked the Earth. No other being could compete with their intellect, their wisdom. It was they that discovered interplanar travel and who built the first gates to those planes. These gates (wh...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

Val’ulf’hiem

Alternative History Horror Literature RPG Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Anderswelten

Anderswelten ist eine Fantasywelt mit gleichnamige Pen&Paper System. In der sogenannten Dieswelt leben auf einem pangeanischen Kontinent verschiedene Menschenvölker, uralte Elfenvölker, verschlossene Zwerge, geschickte Gnome, beschau...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Medieval Political Sword & Sorcery

Tempus

[quote]The world is a strange place. If you think you understand anything, then you haven't understood enough. Occult forces and weird ravenings lie underneath the surface of the banal and mundane. It remains hidden, but occassionally, its black ooze...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Mystery Steampunk

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

Terra Caelum Legacy

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

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

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

Lovenoma

"Dream light dear child, for the Below awaits those who go too deep."

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror

ARKFORD — THE 189

[url:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1urGUQ7WSb24vxMP7q-8PBg8T4hduD0AtXbeAqBS8as8/edit?usp=sharing|tab]Kthanid's Welcome Urban legend states that 189 subway tunnel workers were trapped in the tunnels, after a huge collapse resu...

Exploration Horror Modern Neo Noir Urban

The Solari Expanse

Clockpunk Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror

Allyria

This continent has just begun its spiral descent to chaos and ruin. Strange creatures and horrors spring up at alarming rates from every corner and unexpected place in this world. Terrifying mists roll across the land bringing monsters and destructio...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Erden

Welcome, weary travellers, to Erden: a dark fantasy setting for a number of DnD campaigns. The skalds and soothsayers teach us that it was the hubris of elves that cursed us. For our continent is a grim and ancient place, haunted by the machinations...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

FRONTIERS OF DARKNESS

Horror Science Fiction

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

Barovia

Gothic Horror Supernatural

Discordia

A world plagued by monsters and torn asunder by the war with a fascist government.

Dieselpunk Dystopia Horror

The Nephalim's Asylum

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Supernatural

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

The Golden Frontier

We find ourselves in the world of Drakenelm, in a time of great change. What was once thought to be an unending ocean of simple islands, one discovery is going to change the course of history forever: The discovery of the golden frontier. A strange a...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Horror Sword & Sorcery

Lumina

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Post-modern Sword & Sorcery

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

Andorra

Fantasy Horror Political Sword & Sorcery

Exile13

The retro-futuristic sci-fi world used by the Black Core Ltd Campaign, and other on-off stories. Filled with corporate espionage, exploration, adventure, bureaucracy, and strange anomalies from the deepest darkest parts of space. It is loosely based...

Cyberpunk Exploration Horror Political Science Fiction

Ciphrus

12556 Ciphrus is a world of many faces. This planet encompasses the minds of a great many, while a great few were only ever recognized. It is built on the idea of the individual, set forth in grand motion to accomplished feats of...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark

Era of Bhaal

After the events in Murder in Baldur's Gate, there the dead god Bhaal returned to the land of the living, accumulating more power than ever before. Absorbing murder, his domain of old, and death, stolen from his dead compatriot Myrkul, the Dead God h...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Religious Sword & Sorcery Weird

Lorrimor’s Legacy

From the whispering shadows of haunted Ustalav an ancient evil rises to grip the world in a new age of horror! Amid the mists of this land of dark superstition and dread secrets stand both those who would defy the return of evil and those who woul...

Fantasy, Dark Horror

Neon Void

After the events of WWIII and the slow destruction of earth, only wasteland and terror remained. In their desperation, humans built giant cities from the scraps of what was left behind. Origins and borders no longer matter; only survival. One...

Cyberpunk Horror

Vampires of Bigby Fork

The world is bigger than most people imagine...and some legends are real. Vampires. Werewolves. And the hunters that pursue them, aided by their witch allies. Underneath the veil of normalcy, a war has been waged quietly between these fo...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Urban Horror Supernatural

Beckettville

Come visit us in the delightful city of Beckettville! Take a stroll through our beautiful Beckett Park and admire the new foliage brought to you by BecCo Nurseries. Pop by our riverside shopping center, The Strip,...

Dystopia Horror Surreal Weird

The Traitor's Howl

Welcome to The Traitor's Howl, a world where the occult overpowers The Faith of Light on a day to day basis, cults scheme in the background, and strange @[Alchemists](profession:f1fd37e2-91b4-4f9a...

Biopunk Fantasy Flintlock Horror