Gothic

Thea

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

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval

Fate-Celestial Reconciliation

The world had become "wrong", the status quo would not stand. Then the Auditors of Reality put their thumbs on the scale, and there was no thorn keystone to keep them away. This caused the strike, that killed off all the Gods and Demons, and most...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Oriental Political

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 trying to return to the past and a world so altered...

Gothic MagiPunk Science Fantasy Steampunk Victorian

Songs Of Shadow

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Science Fantasy Transhumanism

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

Aeternium

Biopunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Post Apocalyptic

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

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

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

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

Ordo Celestia

Alternative History Gothic Military Political Religious

Tales of Aresia

[p][/p] [quote]"From the mist-veiled Cradle Mountains in the thaw of spring to the blizzards over Isvamelle at midwinter’s peak, I have witnessed more than most would in a lifetime. For years, I chased my boundless wanderlust across the far corners...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Steampunk Victorian

Tengorod

Cyberpunk Gothic Neo Noir Stealth Transhumanism

Dark Horizons

A Gothic Space Opera about mankind struggling to survive in a cruelly indifferent galaxy while facing the myriad fears seared into its DNA over millions of years of evolution. It @[draws heavily](artic...

Gothic Horror Science Fiction Space Opera

Oberon (Morthow)

Be our Guest, Be our guest This campaign is about the Isle of Morthow. Morthow, once a land that belonged to the Fae, but conquered by the greed of the humans. The Human Kingdom was once a kingdom of high regard, but the cataclysm that shook all...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic

The World of Thear

This is the World of Thear, my homebrewed creation. It's a world of magic and magic infused technology where the Gods once lived along with the common folk. But when the Gods saw the people believing more in magic than in their holy power they left t...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Gothic

The Everwuld

The Everwuld is an ancient realm, born of chaos and magic, forged by gods and kings. Technology and magic lived in harmony and under the careful guidance of the gods, all life flourished and technology thrived. Then it all ended. No-one knows w...

Clockpunk Dieselpunk Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Gothic

Vampirism for Amoral Sociopaths

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

Gothic

The World of Othe

The gods and mortals alike reeled from the assault of the Kithik, an alien force that used magic unfamiliar to the universe. With all but their final remnants of the invaders driven off, they must deal with the fallout of the war. Demons conjured to...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic

The Underworld

A subterranean realm filled with mystery, magnificence, and malice, the Underworld is beholden to the whims of the Archons, demigod-like beings who each control swathes of territory and fight one another constantly for influence and resources. For ma...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Science Fantasy

Arkan

[quote]The story of Arkan and its creation, the tale of a world more dangerous than most can imagine. It’s thrice the size of your Earth, almost ten-times more populated and the beasts are normally massive, insects included. Its people can be just as...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic MagiPunk Mystery

Duros IV

The situation on Duros IV is one of great conflict and danger. The Vengeful Despoilers , a Chaos Warband led by Vaxxos the Deceiver , have launched a f...

Gothic Military Science Fiction Transhumanism

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

Lugeste

"Cosmic Gods watch over this star-cursed land."

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Gothic Post Apocalyptic Weird

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

The Old West

Well hey there. You got here at the wrong time, I'm afraid, my friend. What makes someone want to come to a hellish place like this? Especially someone so unique? Is it power, money or just the thrill of killing? It doesn't matter. There's no changin...

Flintlock Gothic Western

Tales of Corvinium

Greatest City-State of the Northern World, The Carbuncle on the Cold River, the most cosmopolitan port on the Greenrim Sea - Corvinium sprawls between the icy water and the dark forest, between the devastated Raunland and the enlightened dukedoms of...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Gothic Medieval Supernatural

The Silent King's Realm

[p]Also referred to as his Palace, the Silent King’s Realm is by all means and purposes, a physical, arcane, and eldritch planar manifestation of The Silent King's primordial knowledge. Fueled by their aberrant magics, hidden far away from th...

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

Kingdom Earth

Welcome to the queer paranormal world of Zavian Glory. The Angelic Blood Chronicles The Angelic Blood Chronicles follows Marshall and Rowan as they come of ag...

Ancient Gothic Historical Religious Supernatural

Earth- World of Darkness

All is not as it seems..... Things really do go bump in the night

Alternative History Gothic Horror Supernatural Urban

Esfiro

Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Gothic Sword & Sorcery

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

A Quiet Ghost's Chronicle of Darkness

A fog falls over the streets of London, choking the breath from bystander's lungs and tearing their souls free to wander as ghosts before their time. In the ruins of the Roman Forum a corpulent, yellow-eyed worm of a man presides over a moonli...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic 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

Undead Wrath

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Horror

Calia

Led by six primordials and their chosen mortal emperor. The world is built on balance, for every evil the is good. for every miracle there is a tragedy. As the world comes into a new age of technology the balance is beggining to waver.

Adult 18+ Dieselpunk Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror

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

Albion at Night

[p]A bunch of God-fearing vermin staking their claims on an inhospitable world. [/p] [p][/p]

Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval Post Apocalyptic

The Midrealm

A world divided between old and new, colonizer and colonized, prejudice and prejudiced. This is a world of exploration, colonization, and deep prejudices in old world society. However, crossing the vast ocean to the new world is another story. A h...

Biopunk Flintlock Gothic Political Steampunk

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

Ravenloft

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Sword & Sorcery

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

Andalusia After Dark

Nestled between the southern Spanish coast and the pine-forested foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the little town of Paloma and the local orphanage, St. Jerome’s Home for Boys. Life is peaceful, pastoral and idyllic… until the sun sets. The...

Gothic Horror

Allisod - City of Death

[h1|65cfa3e2-9a48-46eb-8901-42b03590b37f]Welcome to Allisod [p][/p] [p][/p] [h2|a096181f-5913-447f-bd61-2f67e6cd4920]The Tale of Allisod: A Whisper in the Mists [p]It began with a storm—not of wind or rain, bu...

Gothic Horror Political Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Madbury

Welcome to Madbury! A small, mid-twentieth century New England town in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire, Madbury might appear to the casual tourist as a typical college town/artists’ colony, with its quaint village center surroundin...

Gothic Horror

Doskvol

The city of Doskvol was established over 1000 years ago as a coal mining settlement on the cold north coast of Akoros. It has withstood the breaking of the world, an attack by a titanic leviathan, massive fires, a plague, a civil war, and legions of...

Gothic Stealth Steampunk Urban Victorian

Echoes of Blood

Fifty years ago the rulers of Barovia dug deep into the earth and found deep underground tombs belonging to those that came before. These tombs were filled with all kinds of dangers, and all kinds of riches. The most powerful and potent treas...

Adult 18+ Gothic Supernatural Sword & Sorcery Victorian

Aegimius

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

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Medieval

Starfell

At the center of the religious world, right beneath the Tear in the Sky, Starfell is known to all as the most divine city. Though as times change, the influence of the Church and the word of their God becomes weaker, making way for an age of knowledg...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Victorian

The Chronicles of Beathan

My dear friends, you find yourself on the great northern continent of Beathan. Named after the old elven word for white hills, it is a land of snowy mountaintops and icy valleys, of roaring steppes and ancient forests, of dreary swamps and titanic lo...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Romantic Gothic Steampunk Victorian

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

Forsaken Realms

Another adventure awaits! A new world vast and beautiful is waiting out there for people to explore! We're working slowly on a second campaign setting, and this is where that setting will take place. We're not sure what it's going to look like yet, b...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

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

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

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

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

Terra Caelum Legacy

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

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

Avalon

Sentence Lord Griswold is desperate to conquer the Kingdom of Albion by the next solar eclipse but is having difficulty doing so using Variants because Her Majesty's Order of Hunters are well-equipped, skilled and diligent. Theme Honour triumphs...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Victorian

World of Darkness

Everyone has had the sense at least once in their lives that things are not right with the world, that not everything is at it seems. We sometimes feel that sinister truths hide behind a facade of normality, veiled partially by the rational, orde...

Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror Mystery Political

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

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

Obsidian Wings

[p]There is a place where names matter more than laws. Where bloodlines shape nations, and belief can make a god—or unmake one.[/p] [p]Siegmara is such a place.[/p] [p]Once, its towers gleamed with virtue: justice, wisdom, sacrifice. Now, th...

Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic 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

Ellariah

Welcome to Ellariah. The year is 2506 PD, or Post Desolation. After the destruction from the Age of Calamity, the world has been reforged in the remains of what came before.

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic

The Blighted Shores

Step into a realm cloaked in fading daylight, where the gentle warmth and radiant glow of the sun have slipped into the realm of distant recollections. This world bears the scars of an ancient cataclysm, its once-beautiful landscapes now...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Gothic Horror

Crossroads City

Crossroads City is an industrial Southern city in the United States known for its factories, being a hub of railroad transportation, a monolith of river transportation, and a flourishing hub for the arts and Southern history within the shadow of Look...

Alternative History Fairy tale Fantasy Gothic MagiPunk

Ravenloft

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

Hive world Dathnor 40k

The Hive-world was spared the punishment that befell its last planetary governor and his administration, but only just. Now the Astra Militarum have assumed command with its iron grip, they brought the emperors might down on this world and now...

Crime Dystopia Gothic Science Fantasy Urban

Forgotten Realms

[p]The Forgotten Realms is a vast, high-fantasy world filled with ancient magic, legendary heroes, and sprawling civilizations. Set on the planet Abeir-Toril, it features diverse regions like the shining cities of the Sword Coast, the d...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

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

Auden

[color:#dfab01][p]An unassuming small town in the middle of nowhere, drowned by vast fields; not open, but overrun with fully grown corn. The spitting image of a rural, southern Midwestern village, nothing that one can see on the...

Gothic Horror Speculative Evolution 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

Grimvæl

The gods are dead, and it was our hands that brought them low. Hundreds of years ago, when the Old Church launched its holy crusade against the heathen tribes, they could not foresee the devastation that would follow. In their final, desperate h...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural Western

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

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

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

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

The Crimson City

Gothic Historical

The Silver Sea

The world has been broken by an ancient Apocalypse. It now consists of shards floating in the aether. When the world was broken it was merged with the aetherial realm and is thus highly unstable. The aether is a gateway between dimensions. The shr...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic

Curse of Strahd

Gothic

Kreworis

Evocative description The World Kreworis is a wonderous large planet full of magic and mysteries and is orbited by two and a half moons. It is place full of the history,...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Medieval

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

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

Dark Age of Dreamlands

[aloud] Welcome dear Traveler Take a rest and dive into this dark and cold universe of Dreamland. Dark Age of Dreamland tells the story of mankind's endless war against its many enemies, Traitors, beasts and other nightmarish creatures. In the y...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Medieval

Faeleronia

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Gothic Steampunk

Europa bei Nacht

[quote][p]Ihr wart zu laut![/p] | Roland Färber, Protektor[/quote]

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror

Winterwood

[p]Winterwood is a town that should not exist, a place where time slips through the cracks and the past refuses to stay buried. Pressed between a restless sea and an ancient, whispering forest, it is the kind of town where shadows stretch just a litt...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Gothic Mystery Soft Magic

Yzkonnya

Os deuses regiam Yzkonnya em paz e harmonia, até que, alguns séculos atrás, os Diabos e Demônios se uniram e se uniram à Rainha-Dragão e iniciaram uma grande guerra que resultou na morte de todos os deuses e mais centenas de milhares de divindades me...

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban

A Maldição De Strahd

O encontro de almas perdidas, em um reino amaldiçoado além do espaço e tempo...

Gothic Horror

Misthaven

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Gothic Supernatural

Barovia

The land of sadness

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror Supernatural

Ages

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

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Gothic

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

DigiDonkeyverse

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

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Horror

In the Shadow of Princes

[spotify:https://open.spotify.com/track/7MBrp1Ba8Z1N8Q9r1N4MQL] [container:picture-frame]Post-Apocalyptic Adventurein a Techno-Futile World[container:purple-frame]This campaign is set in the twilight age of a fallen wo...

Gothic Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Supernatural Surreal

Schism of Angels

When Librarian Vance Alexander came to adore the Emperor of Mankind as nothing less than a god, he knew it might lead to schism from his oldest and best friend, Captain Morgan Barik of the Blood Angels' 9th Company. But he could not have imagined it...

Gothic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Lucidiette

[p]There exists a tiny speck in the Cosmos, barely there in its immensity. The oppressive force of such vastness nearly snuffs it out time and time again. But it lingers, like a wavering flame in a strong wind. This speck is called Croft, and it is w...

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Surreal