Gothic

Songs Of Shadow

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Transhumanism

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

Vampirism for Amoral Sociopaths

Useful References: Frenzy, Wassail, and Rötschreck Healing @[Humanity](article:623a6fdf-7...

Gothic

Velrune

Welcome to Velrune! And more specifically, the Isle of Norland, an island with a dark past and an even darker future!

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Medieval Victorian

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

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

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

Harmwah

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Political

Midrial

The world of Midrial is a vast an diverse expanse of cultures and peoples. The discovered world consists of several large landmasses, each with separate societies and ways of life. In Midrial, there is still much to discover. Deities watch over the p...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic 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

Lakeside Warhammer: Crusade

[p]Welcome to Lakeside Warhammer: Crusade where we document the terrible wars raged by the members of the Lakeside Warhammer Discord Server.[/p] Current Campaign [p]4th Tyrannic War[/p] Current System [p]Warhammer 40k 10th E...

Gothic Military Science Fantasy

Aloth

Aloth is a world of magic and awe, going through a phase of recovery and rediscovery after Dürthang which was an event that took place at the end of the third age 670 years ago. The event shook most of the world, but hit the continent of Tyrania the...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Supernatural

Aotra

A barren, starless sky; a dense ring with forty moons; ancient twin suns: Aotra is a world in isolation, a lone planet floating in a dark sea. For ages, Aotrans found security and prosperity in the My...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Post Apocalyptic Surreal Weird

Litosvide Old

[url:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GpvSui37XZP3TIt-0IxXHbzE8Wa9BPeON6ESB5LOK0U/edit?usp=sharing]Official Litosvide Class Wiki [quote] The end of the world... The apocalypse... it has never be...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Horror Supernatural

Cathedris

Three-thousand-year-old dead gods roam the planet as husks of their former selves, wandering broken loops of their past lives; they bring danger and ruin, magic and myth. Humanity ha...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Speculative Weird

The World of Othlorias

“You can feel the change in the wind, in your bones. You can feel a weight, a feeling of despair creeping over the mountains. Look east lad, do you feel it? Some darkness rises over those peaks, and not for the first time. Are we ready? Our warrio...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Sword & Sorcery

Warhammer 40,000

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible a...

Adult 18+ Gothic Science Fiction

Beourjen

Beourjen was built on desperation as much as ambition. In theory, it was a grand idea. Its founders were intelligent and cunning people. They destroyed a tyranny, and ended the reign of their archaic gods. They molded a new dominion on th...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Victorian

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

The Valley of Fallen Leaves

"An enchanting and mysterious land, but also dark, mean, and cursed. A place full of dreams and nightmares, of hopes and resignation, of possibilities and insurmountable barriers. Someone has defined it as a 'fascinating and terribl...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Mystery

Warhammer 40k

Seit mehr als hundert Jahrhunderten sitzt der Kaiser regungslos auf dem Goldener Thron der Erde. Er ist der Herr der Menschheit durch den Willen der Götter, und Herr über millionen Welten durch die Macht seiner unerschöpflichen Armeen. Er ist ein ver...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fiction

The Realm of Etias

[p]Before Etias fell into chaos, it was a land of unparalleled beauty and harmony, where magic thrummed through every living thing. Rolling meadows bloomed with colors beyond mortal comprehension, and forests stood as ancient sentinels, their roots p...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Gothic Medieval

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

Ardrim

[p]No one knows how the world was made, simply that it has been there for as long as the memories of even the gods can recall. Before the gods took control of the cosmos, the world was ruled by primordials and great elementals. In the tens of thousan...

Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Political Steampunk Victorian

Glarynnidel

Thousands of years have passed since the war in the other planes ripped across the prime material world. The people of Glarynnidel struggle between living in lands ravaged by war and ancient evils hidden in ruins of this da...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval

The Matter of Larch

[p]A series of stories focused on a bunch of God-fearing vermin, staking their claim on an inhospitable world.[/p] [p][/p]

Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval Post Apocalyptic

Skies of Himinil

This is a world of strange clockwork technology, airship exploration, and magic of a mystical nature. The ocean is a portal to the underworld from which the titanic Nerre rest when they do not roam the world. Witches create covens that strain the roo...

Clockpunk Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Soft Magic

Ifiron

A Darkening World The Great Tree Ifiron is dying. The world has become a much more dangerous place ever since the Illuna, an ancient civilization, vanished and with them the knowledge. With the darkness come monsters, monsters eager to prey...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

After The End

[quote] Совершить пожертвование для продолжения развития проекта:[/quote] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7W1gCz0JFM&t=1s] After The End...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Hard Magic Mecha Post Apocalyptic

Dragon Hammer

Welcome to the world of Dragon Hammer, a dark fantasy realm born from the chaos of a great war between powerful deities. It is a world of magic and mystery, where the delicate power between light and darkness hangs in the balance. Filled with fantast...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Medieval

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

Atterlandus

Atterlandus is a sprawling, lush realm teeming with fantastical creatures born from the wildest reaches of imagination and nightmarish monstrosities that haunt the darkest recesses of human fears. As vast as it is, this ancient world exudes an aura o...

Ancient Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural

Antipodean Moon

[p]Antipodean Moon is a historic Australian colonial setting for Victorian-era fiction and role-playing campaigns. The Colony of South Australia is where most events occur. A bright southern land on the other side of the world from dank and f...

Alternative History Gothic Horror Supernatural Victorian

Thea

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval

DigiDonkeyverse

The chronicles of a persistent D&D Universe. Currently running a Ravenloft Strahd campaign, now in its second year.

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Misthaven

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Supernatural

The Unbecause

Welcome to the Unbecause! A lot goin on here!

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Sword & Sorcery

Liturgy of Steel

Jordfold is a world clawing its way out of a past rife with conflict, plagues and technological and spiritual stagnation. It is but one of untold billions of worlds in the Iudere, our Universe. It was created in the fires of gods who feared death...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval

Terra Caelum Legacy

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

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

Allisod - City of Death

Welcome to Allisod Allisod, also known as the City of Death, was a forgotten city after the turmoil caused by the Necroquake. The death magic of Nagash caused much upheaval, and when it swept through Allisod, it found a f...

Gothic Horror Political Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

The Annals Of Ordu

It is a time of majesty and decay. When great kings and heroes in their mighty golden halls grow bloated in their hubris. When the once dormant gods of the ancients awaken and take back that which rightfully belongs to them. T...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Weird

Echoes of the Mist

Welcome to the "Lands of the Mist," a demiplane buried and lost within the Shadowfell; willed into existence by "Dark Powers" to punish and imprison souls so vile, they have been condemned to rule a hellscape of their own making for all of eternity....

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural

Thræsh's Hold

For all who enter the Hold, a world of terrifying fae impersonators and rigid defenders of the faith, be warned. Do not trust your eyes alone, for much you may find extends far beyond the visible space itself. Entire beings of strange matter and...

Fairy tale Gothic Supernatural Weird

World Catalyst

This world is the descendent of many before, a constant battleground between beings of unknown power where their victory only ensures the world's end. This world is devoid of innate magical beings or magically gifted, where only the true horrors to b...

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

Solspire Chronicles

[p]The World is flooded, most of the people living in it are gone. What survives is a victorian steampunk society of airships, brass automata, mystical societies, a struggle for equality in a world tryign to return to the past and a world so altered...

Gothic MagiPunk Science Fantasy Steampunk Victorian

Sanguine Society

Äußerlich gleicht sie unserer Welt. Das Büro in dem du arbeitest, die Schule in die du als Kind gegangen bist und das Altersheim in dem du deinen Großvater besuchen gehst sind alle gleich, in unserer Welt und der Welt der Dunkelheit. Aber in der W...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror Modern

Certál

Certal is the name of the DnD world that my homegames take place in. It is a custom setting made for the enjoyment of myself and the groups that play in my games. It started when I had to separate my world that I write in from the world I game in. Th...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Medieval Military

Nainoxia

The world of Nainoxia is a world I have created as a practice of creative writing and a setting for my own DnD games. The world is based off of the Forgotten Realms with some inspiration from Warhammer and World of Darkness. Additional inspi...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval Political

Eidamir

It is a world that has long since lost hope, a world of cold hearts and hollow souls. Years after the great mage war the dust had cleared and and the light mages, the masters, had prevailed. But they did not know the consequences of their deeds. The...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Gothic Weird

Helimire

In the world here, magic isn't known well and has been kept a secret for many millennia. We're set in a larger city where one part is nothing but raw, beautiful magic users and the other, greater part, of non magic users. Both sides have the same cla...

Fantasy Gothic Science Fantasy Steampunk Supernatural

The Shattered Isles

The Shattered Isles are the broken remnants of the world following the cataclysm a thousand years ago. The cataclysm cracked the sun and cast the world into perpetual darkness. It also broke the Gates of Death, unleashing vengeful spirits and demons...

Crime Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Gothic Victorian

Utania

[p]Utania was a world forged in war. The most ancient legends and myths are filled to the brim with tales of the unending, bloody chaos of the world's prehistory. But the stories also tell of the coming of the gods, and how they interceded to support...

Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Supernatural Sword & Sorcery Victorian

Vaskeer

Vaskeer is the land within the great Ivory Wall, a towering construct of pristine white marble towering over 3000 feet tall, which circles around all of Vaskeer in a perfect circle. The sky is blocked by a gargantuan river of light, the Burn, made up...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Historical Political Sword & Sorcery

Ravenloft

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

KTN: Armageddon

Welcome to Kill Team Narrative (KTN) Armageddon! In the midst of the cataclysmic 2nd Ork invasion, your team of elite operatives stands as a beacon of hope amidst the chaos. As seasoned veterans of covert operations, you're tasked with executing miss...

Gothic Military Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

Aegimius

Current Date Milleadh (MC): 61 Cyna, 703 Current Date For Storia (FSC): 2 Vromisk, 914

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval

Dark Heresy

Dark Heresy Welt wie sie von unserer Runde geformt wurde.

Gothic Science Fantasy

Ages

The foundation of a new and prosperous age can only be the corpse of another.

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic

Sungo Mundo

A World Ready to be Claimed by the Goliaths

Fantasy, Dark Gothic

Razgoth

[quote]'... They all came crawling back from the brink. Of what, none could even say. The entire world had been on a fast path to wrack and ruin, the Unknown Age leaving nothing untouched by the chaos it had wrought. Even now, 500 years later, we wer...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Sword & Sorcery Weird

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

Aephiara

Beginning through ash, blood, and fire; Aephiara has had a stored history that could take a millenia to track it's entirety down. This world consists of those who cultivate and those who harvest. Cultivation of ones self, their skills, their family,...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Outremer

Established in a holocaust of bolter fire and plasma flame during the Damocles Crusade, the realm of Outremer has been abandoned by the wider Imperium but endures under the wise leadership of Melisende, the spiritual guidance of Ghibbelin, and the mi...

Fanfiction Gothic Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Nethdria

Here lies Nethdria, a strange world of swords and sorcery, political intrigue and cosmic struggle, conflict and community. This is the setting of multiple TTRPG campaigns set on the continent of Sol, the homeland of the elves. This continent is inhab...

Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Medieval Political Religious

Folk Rock Horror

[quote] Inspired by: Fleetwood Mac. The X-Files. The Eagles. Supernatural. Daisy Jones & the Six. American Gothic. Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated. Urban legends, gothic fiction & folk horror of the 1970s. Early Stephen King novels like Carrie [...

Gothic Historical Horror Modern Mystery

Naphus

Naphus is a world in where magic is seen as a dangerous reminder of darker times, monsters and ravanous beasts threaten the folk of every kingdom, and ideologies battle for supremacy on the world stage. This world is harsh and difficult to prosper in...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Mondi Infranti

[p]Mondi Infranti è un'abientazione che si adatta un grande numero di Sistemi di Gioco in quanto include un vastissimo numero di mondi e realtà parallele.[/p] [p]Mondi Infranti è ambientato nel @[Megaverso](location:cb1bd...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Hard Magic Post Apocalyptic

Kósmos

[quote] "In an old world, there was once a great calamity dubbed by scholars of the modern day as "The Collision". Theory decrees the continents of Tellus were conjoined in their origin. And though many superstitions claim understanding of the mo...

Clockpunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Curse of Strahd

Gothic

ORPHAN

It started with a death. Nobody is quite sure how it happened. The few surviving accounts of the event are fragmented, third- or fourth-hand, and rife with baseless speculation. After all, what can kill a god? What injury, what i...

Fantasy Gothic Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Elena Hunt and the Heart of Souls

The world of 7th Sea: a world not unlike 17th century Europe, but with a distinctly fantasy bent. Magic exists across the land in various forms, and the people who live in the world are larger than life. Swashbuckling adventurers, brave explorers, wi...

Exploration Fanfiction Fantasy Gothic

Elddevand

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Sword & Sorcery

Aeia

Welcome to the world of Aeia. A high fantasy D&D universe with some light Gothic horror elements and a lot of homebrew.

Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Horror

The Luna Hollows

Gothic

Hidden in London

Set in London, the city remains divided after the death of Mithras in 2012. The Second Inquisition have risen in strength to burn London's Kindred to ashes as [url:https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Oper...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural

Azis

Chaos swirled and clashed forming the canvas that became know as Azis. It also gave rise to the first artists, The Divine. They experimented and played with the paints of reality until their creations usurped them. Those gods are forgotten but faith...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Political Sword & Sorcery

World of Darkness

Behind curtains, underneath beds, in the shadowy corners, there are monsters. Beastly things of the night and darkness loom about, feasting and preying on those who are weaker. The food chain of this world is not crowned by mankind, but rather, the...

Gothic Horror Neo Noir Political Supernatural

Azzaron

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic MagiPunk

Forgotten Realms

Set in the world of Faerun, this homebrewed take on the legacy world is twisted. The world is constantly at war. Racism is a never-ending issue. The 12 Prime deities have all but disappeared, taking the Betrayer Gods with them, only appearing in the...

Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval Religious Sword & Sorcery

Illoria

The world of Illoria, looking at this small planet in a small solar system, orbiting a small yellow star, and as we approach this celestial body, we see four continents, three large, one smaller. The rest of the world, speckled with hundreds of tiny...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Horror

Chicago by Night

The blurbs for tourists coming to Chicago tell them to "Expect a Lively Mix of Food, Fun Times, Vibrant Arts, Rich History & a Midwest Welcome." It doesn't talk about the things that lurk in the shadows, the vampires in the real halls of power, or th...

Fantasy, Urban Gothic Political Supernatural

The Chronicles of Drakkenheim

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Political Supernatural

Lothien

☙ The Lothien Empire ❧ Lothien is the largest consolidated empire on the world of Eru. The individual kingdoms that make up Lothien were some of the first to develop a written language and...

Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Ultirhall

Fifteen years ago, the Calamity began on this world we call Ultirhall. And for fifteen years, kingdoms and empires have tried and failed to stop it. Now, the Calamity has nearly won. It has claimed three of the four continents of Ultirhall, forcin...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Post Apocalyptic

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

Quaker City Values

Quaker City Values is a chronicle for a World of Darkness roleplaying game called Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition. In it, you will play the Kithain, modern-day fae trying to survive in a world that doesn’t b...

Fairy tale Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror Modern

Andrawyn

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

Ethos

In the beginning, there was The Architect who created the Celestials and tasked them with the job of creating new worlds in the hopes of completing his unknowable plan. The Celestials started doing as such, creating numerous worlds. Somewhere...

Ancient Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic

Aeramis

[quote] [p]Only a few warriors remain. Defenders of humanity against the horrors of the dark. Their numbers dwindle with every new moon. You see, this world belongs to the darkness, and darkness will not give it up easily.[/p]|Unknown[/quote] [p]...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Agesra

Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Steampunk Victorian

Surviving Midnight

In The Moonlit Depths Of Mississippi Lies A Forgotten Hamlet, Where The Shadows Dance To An Eerie Symphony And The Whispers Of Ancient Secrets Permeate The Stagnant Air. Welcome To Midnight, A Town Steeped In The Tapestry Of Southern Goth...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Modern Supernatural

Valtaria Sector

In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only war... On the important worlds at least. Lost in the vast void of the Eastern Fringe lies a sea of treacherous space, cruel to navigate from the vile xenos and warp storms shrouding the ba...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Gothic Science Fantasy

Historitor 40,000

[aloud]It is the 42nd Millenium. Though badly mauled, the Imperium of Mankind has endured the events that transpired in the wake of Abbadon's 13th Black Crusade... but now a new threat looms. The fourth tyrannic war begins in ea...

Dystopia Gothic Science Fiction

Galair

The city of Galair is a ruin. After a two decade conflict with the sister-city of Veredier, Galair was finally felled by the detonation of a mysterious magical bomb that devastated most of the city. The remnants of that attack still linger in the slu...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Orasrupt

[quote] "Orasrupt is a bloated machine, caked with blood, running on flesh."[/quote] The universe has ended. Though the cataclysm that caused the First Sun to turn to black has been wiped from the record...

Dystopia Gothic Religious Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Mel'Sa

The continent of Mel'Sa has been in turmoil for the last 200 years, the high elves and elite humans have turned their backs on their subjects, leaving the villages and colonies stranded or at wat. Representatives contract adventurers on their own bud...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fiction Supernatural

Eonnorn

Eonnorn is a fantasy world that is a surreal mix of a fairytale and the Victorian era.

Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Surreal Victorian

Sleipner sector

The ultimate compendium for everything that is linked to this little area of the Imperium. For three centuries, the Sleipner Sector has been dominated by the mighty Ork warlord @[Grimskul](person:7...

Gothic Military Science Fiction

Ivranai

Ivranai is a lush and magical world, filled with wistful landscapes and dangerous monsters.

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Historical Steampunk Sword & Sorcery