Horror

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

Etharis

Grim Hollow Dark Fantasy Pre-Apocalypse

Fantasy Horror Medieval

Colonial Marines: Frosted Assets - an Alien RPG Game

The players are members of the 7982nd Defense Squadron dedicated to the safety and security of this star system and support to any larger divisions that may need their assistance. The game was pl...

Horror Military Science Fantasy

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] [p][/p]

Fantasy, Dark Horror

FRONTIERS OF DARKNESS

Horror Science Fiction

Last Hope Foundation

Loading... Loading... Loading... Systems Online. Activating A.R.I... Hello, Dr. Faraday-.Hold on. Who are you? You're not Dr. Faraday. Identify yoursel...

Dystopia Exploration Horror Literature RPG Science Fantasy

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

Shadowfell

The Shadowfell, also known as the Plane of Shadow, was one of the planes of existence in various cosmological models. Its purpose and characteristics evolved as new cosmologies were formulated. Other names for this plane included Shadowland, the Demi...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Shadows of Eschaton

Darkness in the State of Despair

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Mystery Supernatural

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

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

Tales From Eternal Dusk

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Sword & Sorcery

Tacoma by Night

The nights have run red for years beneath the watchful gaze of ordinary people in Tacoma. First came the conflicts between Camarilla and Anarch. Then came the Sabbat in a surprise ambush. Then came the Inquisition. And lastly, came those Anarchs who...

Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror Mystery Supernatural

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

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

The Nephalim's Asylum

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Supernatural

Ávra

CRAFT YOUR STORY IN THE REALM OF ÁVRA There is only darkness...Suddenly, a small light! A candle has been lit, by what hands, unknown... As the shock of the flickering flames sudden light fades from your eyes, you can now see what lays...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

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

The End

Generations ago, a mysterious infection spread across the world and brought the dead back from the grave, plunging the world as we knew it into an apocalypse. Humanity fought for well over a century before being wiped out. With a combination of the i...

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic 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

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

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

Kova

An ancient world

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

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

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

Divinitia

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic 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

Hollowlight

Stories begin in many places. Worlds spun from the dreams of children, meadows cast from the hopes of young lovers, or a room drawn from the nightmares of a mad man. And sometimes, the distinction is only obvious once you are trapped in their weave....

Fantasy Horror

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

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

Shattered Earth LARP

Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

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

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

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

A Banner Black and Terrible

Fantasy, Dark Historical Horror Political Supernatural

Dawn of Others

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

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

Chicago after Dark

[p]An unofficial homebrew adaptation of the Vampire the Masquerade (5e) Chronicle setting: "Chicago By Night"[/p] [p][/p] [p][currentdate:3378c86f-ec8f-46ba-8959-f5887...

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Political Urban

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

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

Chasdia

Chasdia is the setting for my WIP novel, "Dawn of Fury" and "The Heartless Moons" series. 

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror

The Rip

The Rip is a place of unending war. Hordes of demons ravage the borders of all civilized places, burning villages and people alike, slaughtering all who stand before them. The nations of people wage war against each other, whether the people stitched...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror

Terra Caelum Legacy

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

Ravenloft

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

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

Dark Diaspora

The Dark Diaspora is a grimdark, post-Earth, space opera science fiction universe set approximately six centuries in the future. The Dark Diaspora is the first official worldbuilding project of "Journey in World-Building (JiWB)" Youtube Chan...

Gothic Hard Science Horror Science Fiction Space Opera

Camarilla du Nouveau-Monde

Horror Modern Political

The Seven Realms

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Exploration Horror Mystery Surreal Victorian

Eraneth

Fantasy, High Magic Horror Medieval Romance Sword & Sorcery

The Rochester Society

[p]The year is [url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900]1900 and the location is [url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York]Rochester, New York. The [url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution]Second Indust...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Victorian

A'arde

[quote] A’arde is a world like many others in the infinite unknowns of the overlapping cosmos, but it is also different; a place where some rules are rewritten, and others are broken completely. It is a world where Material and Magic meet; a plac...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Horror Sword & Sorcery

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

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

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

Numenera North West

A billion years in the future, humanity lives in the Ninth World. There have been eight wondrous worlds before, but all have fallen and left behind only inscrutable mysteries and powerful relics. The area we focus on is the north-west part of the...

Exploration Horror Science Fantasy Weird Western

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

Points of Radiance

_________________________________________________________________________________ A Short Introduction This introductory series features three short articles that will allow you to explore the different parts of this sunle...

Fantasy, Dark Horror

The Rune-Lands of Tellurica

[container:sidebit] Call it a love-letter to a 20th century that never was; an intrepid, impossible future as envisioned by an imaginary past. Designed as a companion to the Runelanders podcast, it’s a continuous story universe which pa...

Horror MagiPunk Steampunk

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

The Old World

A place of blood, wars tear every nation, martyrs are named every day, and every second a nameless footman is stopped dead. Violence is the only constant here. Blood is everything, the crown, the purpose, and the weapon.A pla...

Fantasy, Dark Horror 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

The World of H.P. Lovecraft

Horror Mystery Weird

La Valle delle Foglie Cadute

Una terra affascinante e misteriosa ma anche oscura, meschina e maledetta. Un luogo pieno di sogni e di incubi, di speranze e di rassegnazione, di possibilità e di barriere invalicabili. Un' "affasci...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery

Mytharia

Mytharia is a vast expanse of different places in a large multiverse of planes and galaxies filled with their own planets, cities, and inhabitants. Delving deep into this world will someday claim the sanity of it's writer, but that is what she wishe...

Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Supernatural

VTM: Stuck in a Dark Place

Fantasy, Dark Horror

Thera

Fantasy, Urban Horror

VTM Chronicle: 1.0

Custom city for a game of Vampire the Masquerade v5. Set in the present day (2023).

Fantasy, Dark Horror Political Supernatural Urban

Suicide Strahd

[quote]I went into the Strahd campaign thinking Sylvain would be this suave, cool-headed, semi-jerk and then Barovia happened and now he's the neurotic, volatile, empath he was always meant to be. —Schwa[/quote] It has been 0 days sinc...

Horror

New Orleans - Under the Mask

Coming Soon [quote] “You can live in any city in America, but New Orleans is the only city that lives in you.” – Chris Rose[/quote] New Orleans is known worldwide for its culture, its food, its music, and arch...

Fantasy, Dark Horror

Lovenoma

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

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror

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

Novarkan

Fantasy, Dark Horror Medieval Mystery Surreal

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

Songs Of Shadow

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Transhumanism

Hunt

The Legends are real. Most live comfortably behind the veil. Others aren't so lucky. For some the veil is pierced, and the truth of this world is discovered. Usually that discovery is swiftly followed by a painful death.[/b...

Gothic Horror Modern Neo Noir Supernatural

Baeleris

Baeleris, a realm cloaked in gothic allure, emerges from shadows with an air of mystery. Amidst mist-shrouded landscapes and ancient woods, power and desire entwine. From Duskwood's courts to the Scarlet Veil's seductive enclaves, intrigue meets...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

The Alchemist's Sanctum

In the center of London, one shop has its curtains closed all day long. The storefront says "The Alchemist Sanctum" and shelves filled with bottles and plants can be seen in the grim interior. No one has ever been seen entering, yet the shop seems to...

Fantasy, Urban Horror Steampunk Supernatural Victorian

The Northern Isles

Large, obscure islands above the main land masses hold a dark secret. An infection spreads across the land. Borders and politics are shifting, and those in power struggle to keep what's theirs, both from neighboring territories and a great force emer...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic 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

Nyelmeur

All Nyelmeur knows anymore is insanity and plague. Its major landmasses are split down the center of the planet, one epicenter being the flood of darkness, oozing out death and destruction, while the other epicenter a lone purified city, Slin, that h...

Horror Post Apocalyptic Religious Space Opera Supernatural

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

Zepharog

[aloud]Rakasha is a dark fantasy world torn by politics, war, and inter-racial dispute. Once, the land used to be peaceful. This was before the Godlings wanted to experience more than their divine intentions. Sadly, this became the event know...

Gothic Horror Supernatural

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

Kounia

A world I am creating after I got obsessed with the prompt: "What if the world stopped spinning?"

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Post Apocalyptic

Blood Rain

Adult 18+ Alternative History Horror Political

Bas-Lag

The world of Bas-Lag is a vastly unexplored mass of continents which is only just beginning to stitch itself together with trade and industrial progress. The three "known" continents are Rohagi, Shoteka and the newly discovered Bered Kai Nev, both Ro...

Fanfiction Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Steampunk

Supernatural´s Requiem

The outlook for life is bleak. Economy hasnt been up in any country for years. People try to stay employed as much as possible. Murder rates through the roof every year. More and more Vandalism reports each month. It seems every week someone gets sho...

Alternative History Crime Horror Modern Supernatural

World of Darkness

The world has changed since the supernatural returned with great power in the year 2000. And humanity is adapting, as it always has. But the dangers that have forced the supernatural into the light are real. On these nights, it's a win and surviv...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Gothic Horror Modern

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

Trynnalta

The world of Trynnalta, the name of which translates strangely across all its myriad tongues as "Third Attempt", is a place of seemingly endless struggles, wars and yet also a place of eternal mystery and majesty. Of its various countries and...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Nova Secundus

Welcome to the city of Nova Secundus. A fictional city on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Nova Secundus is the home of a sandbox-style Chronicles of Darkness contagion hosted here and on...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Modern Urban

Ebilar

Nearly 500 years ago, the boundaries between the earthly plane and the Seven Hells were broken by the mage Dakronias. For nearly a century, monstrous entities poured forth from the great void tear, sweeping across every kingdom on the Continent. Afte...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Religious Supernatural

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

Terminal Abyss

The Terminal Abyss universe is a dark and expansive realm, where the light of human civilization flickers amidst the vast darkness of space. The catalyst for humanity's leap into the stars was the arrival of the @[Observers](species:c4472c39-c8cc-43b...

Cyberpunk Horror Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

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

For the NCCP Roleplay

[p]"Ever find yourself doing something as mundane as reading a book with a cup of chamomile tea to relax before bed and the next moment, you fall on your ass onto a carpeted floor in the middle of a room you've never seen before in your entire life?...

Crime Horror Mystery

Duskmire

BIG WORK IN PROGRESS spooky town built around swampland

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery Supernatural

The Witch of Kriemhild Manor

Before his death, Sigmund Kriemhild shocks his old money family with a last-minute change to his will: His entire estate of $20 million would go to his estranged twin sister's next descendant to come of age. This is how low-class high school graduate...

Fantasy, Urban Horror Modern

Tense River Basin

Nearly a thousand years have passed since the last great war of the Tense River Basin. Now stuff isn't so bad. The undead still rise and roam the hills. But thats just life in the Basin. As long as you listen for the screamers, you should be able to...

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