List of campaign settings
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Several of the listed settings are literary and media
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 settings for which RPG material has been produced under license
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Fantasy

  • Agone
    Agone
    Agone is an epic fantasy roleplaying game based on novels by award-winning fantasy writer Mathieu Gaborit. Agone is set in the land of Harmundia – also known as the Twilight Realms. The game was published in French starting in 1999 by the now-defunct company Multisim, which also translated five...

     (Fantasy setting)
  • Al-Qadim
    Al-Qadim
    Al-Qadim is an Arabian Nights-themed campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The setting was developed by Jeff Grubb for TSR, Inc., and was first released in 1992. Al-Qadim is set in the land of Zakhara, called the Land of Fate...

     (D&D
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

     Arabian setting, situated on Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...

    )
  • Aldea (the world of Blue Rose
    Blue Rose (role-playing game)
    Blue Rose is a fantasy role-playing game published by Green Ronin Publishing in 2005. The game is described as being in the romantic fantasy genre — it is inspired by fantasy fiction such as that of Mercedes Lackey and Diane Duane as opposed to Robert E. Howard–style of swords and sorcery...

    )
  • Arcanis
    Arcanis
    Arcanis was originally a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game, created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. It is also the name of the fictional world where the setting takes place...

     (D&D and more recently it's own system, set in the continent of Onara on the world of Arcanis
    Arcanis
    Arcanis was originally a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game, created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. It is also the name of the fictional world where the setting takes place...

    )
  • Arcana Unearthed
    Arcana Unearthed
    Arcana Unearthed is a role-playing game created by Monte Cook and first published in 2003. Described as a "variant player's handbook", the 256 page hardcover core rulebook bears many similarities to the Players Handbook of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, on which Cook worked a few years prior...

  • Aventuria (The setting of The Dark Eye
    The Dark Eye
    The Dark Eye , is a German role-playing game created by Ulrich Kiesow and launched by Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH and Droemer Knaur Verlag in 1984. The name literally means "the black eye"...

    )
  • Ave Molech - High fantasy
    Fantasy
    Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

     setting with steampunk
    Steampunk
    Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...

     influences
  • Banestorm
    GURPS Banestorm
    Banestorm, written by Phil Masters and Jonathan Woodward was released in October 2005. It is a setting sourcebook for the fourth edition of the GURPS Role-playing game. It details a fantasy setting called Yrth that has been updated from older GURPS Fantasy source books...

     (GURPS)
  • Battleaxe RPG (set in the World of Mordredica)
  • Birthright
    Birthright (campaign setting)
    Birthright is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting that was first released by TSR in 1995. The setting based on the world of Aebrynis on the continent of Cerilia, in which the players take on the role of the divinely-empowered rulers, with emphasis on the political rulership level of gameplay...

     (D&D, situated on Aebrynis)
  • Blackmoor
    Blackmoor
    Blackmoor is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting generally associated with the game Dungeons & Dragons. It originally evolved in the early 1970s as the personal setting of Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, first as a setting for Arneson's miniature wargames, then as an...

     (D&D)
  • Caliphate Nights (a True20
    True20
    True20 is an award winning universal generic role-playing game designed by Steve Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing.-Settings:...

     setting)
  • Castlemourn
    Castlemourn
    Castlemourn is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by Ed Greenwood, published by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. The world of Castlemourn lost its past during a cataclysm, and now various races try to find their history.-Setting:Castlemourn is a land searching for its...

    (D&D)
  • Council of Wyrms (AD&D, in which PCs play Dragon
    Dragon
    A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...

    s)
  • Dark Sun
    Dark Sun
    Dark Sun is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting featuring the fictional desert world of Athas. The original Dark Sun Boxed Set campaign setting was released in 1991....

     (D&D, situated on Athas)
  • Dragonlance
    Dragonlance
    Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...

     (D&D, situated on Krynn
    Krynn
    Krynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance novels, co-written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. It has also been used in many other books, set in the Dragonlance universe. It is also used as the main setting in the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing...

    )
  • DragonMech
    DragonMech
    Dragonmech is a steampunk/fantasy campaign setting for d20 fantasy developed by Goodman Games and Sword & Sorcery Studios. It centers on giant mechs, powerful war machines powered by steam, clockwork, magic, or slave labor...

     (A D&D steampunk
    Steampunk
    Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...

    -fantasy setting with mecha
    Mecha
    A mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:...

    )
  • Diablo universe (set on the World of Sanctuary)
  • Earthdawn
    Earthdawn
    Earthdawn is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993. In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the Second Edition...

     (situated on Barsaive)
  • Eberron
    Eberron
    Eberron is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, set in a period after a vast destructive war on the continent of Khorvaire...

     (D&D setting that blends metaphysics, fantasy & technology)
  • Empire of the Petal Throne (situated on Tekumel
    Tékumel
    Tékumel is a fantasy world created by Professor M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. With time Barker also created the role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne, set in the Tékumel fictional universe and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc...

    )
  • EverQuest
    EverQuest Role-Playing Game
    The EverQuest Role-Playing Game is a role-playing game based on the EverQuest fantasy MMORPG. The game line is published by White Wolf under its Sword & Sorcery imprint...

     (situated on Norrath)
  • Exodus
    NeoExodus: A House Divided
    NeoExodus: A House Divided is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, created and supported by Louis Porter Jr. Design. The name of the fictional world were the setting takes place is Exodus...

     (D&D set on the world of Exodus
    NeoExodus: A House Divided
    NeoExodus: A House Divided is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, created and supported by Louis Porter Jr. Design. The name of the fictional world were the setting takes place is Exodus...

    )
  • Forgotten Realms
    Forgotten Realms
    The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...

     (D&D, situated on Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...

    )
  • Forcelia
    Sword World RPG
    is a very popular Japanese role-playing game created by Group SNE. 10 million copies of the related books including rulebooks, novels and replays have been sold....

     (D&D (not TSR's official), Record of Lodoss War
    Record of Lodoss War
    is a franchise of fantasy novels by Ryo Mizuno based around the work he originally created for a world called Forcelia for role-playing games . There have since been multiple manga, anime and computer game adaptations, several of which have been translated into English...

    , Sword World RPG
    Sword World RPG
    is a very popular Japanese role-playing game created by Group SNE. 10 million copies of the related books including rulebooks, novels and replays have been sold....

    , Legend of Crystania
    Legend of Crystania
    is a full-length Japanese animated motion picture. The film has been officially released on VHS and DVD in North America by ADV Films. It takes place in the same fantasy world as two other series, Record of Lodoss War and Rune Soldier, albeit on a different continent...

     and Rune Soldier
    Rune Soldier
    is an anime and manga series based on the original novel series by Ryo Mizuno, which features soldier Louie as the hero. The series takes place on the continent of Alecrast on the world called Forcelia, and is related to the novel, anime, and manga series Sword World...

    )
  • Gaea (the setting of Tales of Gaea)
  • Glorantha
    Glorantha
    Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several role-playing games, including RuneQuest , Hero Wars and HeroQuest , as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game King of Dragon Pass...

  • Greyhawk
    Greyhawk
    Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

     (D&D, situated on Oerth
    Oerth
    In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as "Orth" or "oyth", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located...

    )
  • Grimm
  • Hârn
    Hârn
    Hârn is a world published by and designed for use in fantasy role-playing games . It was designed by N. Robin Crossby, and it was published by Columbia Games in 1983. In 2003, Crossby claimed that the contract between him and CGI had ended...

     (situated on Kethira)
  • Hyborian Age
    Hyborian Age
    The Hyborian Age is a fictional period within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, in which the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian are set....

     is the setting of Robert E. Howard
    Robert E. Howard
    Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....

    's Conan
    Conan the Barbarian
    Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...

    , and, naturally, is the base for the following RPG adaptations: old TSR Conan RPG, GURPS Conan and Conan d20.
  • Historia Rodentia the setting featured in Brushfire
    Brushfire (game)
    Brushfire is a tabletop anthromorphic wargame produced by On The Lamb Games.The game is played with white metal miniatures manufactured by On The Lamb Games representing military characters based on historical characters. The game is meant to be a parody of military history using mostly indigenous...

     by On The Lamb Games, features anthropomorphic animals in a steampunk
    Steampunk
    Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...

    /Napoleonic setting.
  • Iron Kingdoms is a setting created by Privateer Press
    Privateer Press
    Privateer Press is an award-winning role-playing game and miniature wargame production and publishing studio founded in 2000 by Brian Snōddy, Matt Staroscik and Matt Wilson. Mike McVey joined the partnership early on as Miniatures Director...

     where technology and magic are complementary forces, which lends it a unique character also demonstrated by the Warmachine
    Warmachine
    Warmachine is a tabletop steampunk wargame produced by Privateer Press.The game is played with white metal and plastic miniatures manufactured by Privateer Press representing military characters from the Iron Kingdoms D20 Role Playing Game setting...

     tabletop wargame set in the same world.
  • Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...

     (D&D Oriental setting, situated on Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...

     created for the 1st edition of 'Oriental Adventures
    Oriental Adventures
    Oriental Adventures is the title shared by two hardback rulebooks published for different versions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

    ' but not used for the 3rd edition product of the same name)
  • Khoras (A good example of a "home brew" fantasy world.)
  • Kingdoms of Kalamar
    Kingdoms of Kalamar
    The Kingdoms of Kalamar is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting created by Kenzer and Company and released in 1994. Shortly after Wizards of the Coast announced the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, they announced jointly with Kenzer & Company that Kenzer had acquired a license to produce...

     (D&D, situated on Tellene)
  • Known Realms (D&D setting, born out of the Dungeon Crawl Classics
    Dungeon Crawl Classics
    Dungeon Crawl Classics is a series of roleplaying adventure modules published by Goodman Games under the d20 open gaming license. It includes more than 40 adventures, and features celebrated game designers such as Michael Mearls, Dave Arneson, and Monte Cook, as well as classic TSR artists like...

     adventures, and situated in the world of Áereth)
  • Ksaren (Third Dawn)
  • Layonara
  • Magnamund (the world the Lone Wolf d20 rpg
    Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
    Lone Wolf is a series of 28 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated by Gary Chalk. The series began publishing in July 1984 and sold more than 10.2 million copies worldwide....

     takes place in)
  • Mundana (from the Swedish role-playing game Eon http://www.neogames.se)
  • Middle-earth
    Middle-earth
    Middle-earth is the fictional setting of the majority of author J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place entirely in Middle-earth, as does much of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales....

     (The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game)
  • Midgard
    Midgard (role-playing game)
    Midgard is a fantasy role-playing game from Germany. It was the first role-playing game published in German language and the first to be created in Germany....

  • Midgard
    Alshard
    is a Japanese role-playing game designed by Jun'ichi Inoue and FarEast Amusement Research. It was released in July 2002. The current, version 1.5, known as was published in July 2005. It is a fantasy role-playing game with mechanical items like as Final Fantasy...

     (Alshard
    Alshard
    is a Japanese role-playing game designed by Jun'ichi Inoue and FarEast Amusement Research. It was released in July 2002. The current, version 1.5, known as was published in July 2005. It is a fantasy role-playing game with mechanical items like as Final Fantasy...

    )
  • Midnight
    Midnight (role-playing game)
    Midnight is a campaign setting for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, released under the Open Gaming License. It was published by Fantasy Flight Games from 2003 to 2009.-History:...

     (D20)
  • Mystara
    Mystara
    Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. Although it has officially been dropped from production by its creators, many fans continue to develop and evolve this fantasy setting jointly, continuing its original theme of group development.-Development:It...

     (D&D)
  • New Europa is the name of the European continent in Castle Falkenstein
    Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game)
    Castle Falkenstein is a steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games. A GURPS version and several supplements were later published by Steve Jackson Games. The game is named for a legendary unbuilt castle in the Bavarian Alps...

    .
  • Oathbound (D20)
  • Planescape
    Planescape
    Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook. The Planescape setting was published in 1994...

     (D&D alternative dimension setting, which also allows crossover campaigns using multiple campaign settings)
  • Ptolus
    Ptolus
    Ptolus is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Monte Cook. It was published by Malhavoc Press on August 10, 2006. Ptolus is also the name of the city featured in the campaign...

  • Rokugan
    Rokugan
    Rokugan is the fictional empire which is the main power in the Legend of the Five Rings setting, the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game, Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, the board game Art of War and the now out of print Clan War Miniatures game, all from...

     (of the Legend of the Five Rings
    Legend of the Five Rings
    Legend of the Five Rings is a fictional setting created by the John Wick and published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. The setting primarily involves the fictional country of Rokugan, though some additional areas and cultures have been discussed. Rokugan is based roughly on feudal Japan...

     used for the 3rd edition of the D&D 'Oriental Adventures
    Oriental Adventures
    Oriental Adventures is the title shared by two hardback rulebooks published for different versions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

    ')
  • Scarred Lands
    Scarred Lands
    Scarred Lands is a d20 System fantasy campaign setting, by White Wolf under its Sword & Sorcery brand.Scarred Lands draws heavy inspiration from Greek mythology.-Setting:...

     (d20 setting, situated on Scarn) by Sword & Sorcery Studios (part of White Wolf)
  • Seven Moons d10 (Kaevad Games)
  • Shadow World
    Shadow World
    Shadow World is a high-fantasy campaign setting situated on the fictional planet of Kulthea. Originally produced for the Rolemaster role-playing game system, the setting is owned by Iron Crown Enterprises . It is currently maintained by the primary author of the setting, Terry K...

     (situated on Kulthea) (Rolemaster
    Rolemaster
    Rolemaster is a role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises. Rolemaster has come in four separate editions. The 3rd edition, first published in 1995, is also known as the "Rolemaster Standard System" . There are two editions currently in production...

    ) by Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises was a publisher of role playing, board, miniature battle, and collectible card games.ICE was incorporated in 1980 shortly after the principal founders graduated from the University of Virginia...

  • Shard RPG
    Shard (role-playing game)
    Shard by Shard Studios is an anthropomorphic heroic-fantasy role-playing game set in Dárdünah, the World of the False Dawn, a secondary world fantasy setting which draws its influences from oriental culture.-Geography:...

     (anthropomorphic heroic-fantasy
    Fantasy
    Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

    )
  • Spelljammer
    Spelljammer
    Spelljammer is a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, which features a fantastical outer space environment....

     (D&D fantasy-space setting, which also allows crossover campaigns using multiple campaign settings)
  • Tagmar
    Tagmar
    Tagmar is a roleplaying game launched in 1991 by GSA that claims to be the first such Brazilian offering on what was at the time a nascent market....

     (GSA Games)
  • Tékumel
    Tékumel
    Tékumel is a fantasy world created by Professor M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. With time Barker also created the role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne, set in the Tékumel fictional universe and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc...

     (The setting of Empire of the Petal Throne)
  • The Kyngdoms (d20)
  • Thunder Rift (D&D)
  • Urban Arcana
    Urban Arcana
    Urban Arcana is a campaign setting for the d20 Modern roleplaying game that builds on a small campaign model included in the original rulebook. It adds much in the way of magic and monsters to the game, and contains rules for things such as playing Shadowkind characters.In the world of Urban...

     Earth (for d20 Modern
    D20 Modern
    d20 Modern is a roleplaying game designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan. It was published by Wizards of the Coast in November 2002, and uses the d20 System...

    )
  • Uresia
    Uresia: Grave of Heaven
    Uresia: Grave of Heaven is an anime-inspired fantasy world for the Big Eyes, Small Mouth role-playing game written by S. John Ross, and includes maps drawn by the author...

     (BESM2 and d20)
  • Warcraft
    Warcraft Universe
    Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media originally created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of Four core games: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and World of Warcraft...

     (d20)
  • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a role-playing game set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Over the years, it has been through a number of phases and different publishers, most of which were related in some way to Games Workshop...

     (situated on The Old World)
  • Westeros
    Westeros
    The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents. Most of the story takes place on the continent Westeros, which consists of the Seven Kingdoms and an unmapped area to the north, separated by a massive wall of...

     (A Game of Thrones)
  • Wheel of Time
    The Wheel of Time
    The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, the length was increased by increments; at the time of Rigney's death, he expected it to be 12, but it will actually...

     (d20)

Horror

  • The Buffyverse
    Buffyverse
    The Buffyverse, also known as the Whedonverse or Slayerverse , is the shared fictional universe in which the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are set. This term, originally coined by fans of the TV series, has since been used in the titles of published works, and adopted by Joss...

     (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
    Angel (TV series)
    Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...

    )
  • Chill
    Chill (role-playing game)
    Chill is a role-playing game that captures the feel of 20th-century horror films. Players take on the role of envoys, members of a secret organization known as S.A.V.E...

  • Cthulhu Mythos
    Cthulhu Mythos
    The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

    • Cthulhu Invictus (Rome)
    • Cthulhu Dark Ages (Middle-Ages)
    • Cthulhu by Gaslight (1890s London)
    • Cthulhu Now (1990s)
    • Delta Green
      Delta Green
      Delta Green is a setting for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Tynes, aka the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing...

       (1990s/2000s)
    • Cthulhupunk (2020s. GURPS
      GURPS
      The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

      )
  • CthulhuTech
    CthulhuTech
    CthulhuTech is a science-fiction and horror roleplaying game created by Wildfire LLC and published by Sandstorm that combines elements of the Cthulhu Mythos with anime-style mecha, horror, magic and futuristic action...

     by Wildfire - H.P. Lovecraft's horror with Mecha
    Mecha
    A mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:...

     and Anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

     influences
  • Engel
    Engel (role-playing game)
    Engel is a role-playing game. The original German version uses a rule system in which the Gamemaster and players draw associative, tarot-like cards instead of rolling dice to determine the outcome of an event...

  • Fellowship of the White Star (1905-1914, Thenodrin Presents)
  • Kult
    Kult
    Kult is a contemporary fantasy horror role-playing game originally designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén, first published in Sweden by Target Games in 1991. The first English edition was published in 1993 by Metropolis Ltd., a now defunct American publisher...

     a nightmare universe parallel to our own, heavily influenced by gnosticism
    Gnosticism
    Gnosticism is a scholarly term for a set of religious beliefs and spiritual practices common to early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism , and Neoplatonism.A common characteristic of some of these groups was the teaching that the realisation of Gnosis...

  • Little Fears
    Little Fears
    Little Fears - The Roleplaying Game of Childhood Terror is a role-playing game published in 2001 by Key 20 Publishing. The book was written by Jason L Blair, featuring illustrations by Drew Baker, Dimitrios "Jim" Denaxas, Veronica V. Jones, hive, Nick Wilson, Kieran Yanner, Bradley K. McDevitt, and...

     where you play children haunted by horrors, supernatural or quite natural.
  • Ravenloft
    Ravenloft
    Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called domains brought together by a mysterious force known only as "The Dark...

     (D&D)
    • Masque of the Red Death (1890s "Gothic Earth")
      • Living Death
  • SLA Industries
    SLA Industries
    SLA Industries is a role-playing game first published in 1993 by Nightfall Games in Glasgow, Scotland. The game is set in a dystopian far-flung future in which the majority of the known universe is either owned or indirectly controlled by the eponymous corporation "SLA Industries" and incorporates...

  • The Weird West (Deadlands
    Deadlands
    Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history roleplaying game which combines the Western and horror genres, with some Steampunk elements. It was written by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group....

    )
  • The World of Darkness
    World of Darkness
    "World of Darkness" is the name given to three related but distinct fictional universes created as settings for supernatural horror themed role-playing games. It is also the name of roleplaying games in the second and third settings...

     (White Wolf
    White Wolf
    White Wolf is a publisher of role-playing games, notably the World of Darkness.White Wolf may also refer to:*White Wolf , a location in Yosemite National Park*White Wolf , a Canadian heavy metal band...

     house setting)
  • The 'new' World of Darkness
    World of Darkness
    "World of Darkness" is the name given to three related but distinct fictional universes created as settings for supernatural horror themed role-playing games. It is also the name of roleplaying games in the second and third settings...

     (White Wolf
    White Wolf
    White Wolf is a publisher of role-playing games, notably the World of Darkness.White Wolf may also refer to:*White Wolf , a location in Yosemite National Park*White Wolf , a Canadian heavy metal band...

     new house setting)
  • Unknown Armies
    Unknown Armies
    Unknown Armies is an occult-themed role playing game by John Tynes and Greg Stolze and published by Atlas Games. Subtitled "A roleplaying game of power and consequences"...

  • Witchcraft
    Witchcraft
    Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...

  • Year of the Zombie d20 Modern System campaign setting

Oriental fantasy

  • Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...

     (D&D, situated on Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril
    Abeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...

    )
  • Dragon Fist
    Dragon Fist
    Dragon Fist aka Dragon Hero is a 1979 Hong Kong action film diercted by Lo Wei. The star and stunt coordinator of the film is Jackie Chan....

  • Bushido (role-playing game)
    Bushido (role-playing game)
    Bushido is a Samurai role-playing game set in Feudal Japan, originally designed by Robert N. Charrette and Paul R. Hume and published originally by Tyr Games then Phoenix Games and subsequently by Fantasy Games Unlimited...

  • Rokugan
    Rokugan
    Rokugan is the fictional empire which is the main power in the Legend of the Five Rings setting, the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game, Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, the board game Art of War and the now out of print Clan War Miniatures game, all from...

     is the name of the land of Legend of the Five Rings
    Legend of the Five Rings
    Legend of the Five Rings is a fictional setting created by the John Wick and published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. The setting primarily involves the fictional country of Rokugan, though some additional areas and cultures have been discussed. Rokugan is based roughly on feudal Japan...

     RPG, as well the name of this game's d20 adaptation itself. It replaced Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur
    Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...

     as official D&D oriental scenario.
  • Sengoku uses a historical medieval Japan, though it has fantasy rules, according to Japanese old myths.
  • 'Creation' is the name for the Exalted
    Exalted
    Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy, but may be more accurately described as "mythic fantasy", as the developer specifically avoided drawing on J. R. R. Tolkien, but rather turned to a mixture of world mythologies for inspiration...

     series of RPGs scenario.
  • Weapons of the Gods

Science fiction

  • Alternity
    Alternity
    Alternity is a science fiction role-playing game published by TSR in 1998...

  • Babylon 5
    Babylon 5
    Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

     d20
  • BattleTech
    BattleTech
    BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps. The series began with FASA's debut of the board game BattleTech by Jordan Weisman and L...

     - setting of the MechWarrior
    MechWarrior (role-playing game)
    MechWarrior is a role-playing game set in the fictional BattleTech universe in which players can assume the roles of MechWarriors or other individuals in the 31st century. The game has had three editions and many expansions and adventures, the first of which was published in 1986 by FASA...

     role playing game
  • Bubblegum Crisis
    Bubblegum Crisis
    is a Japanese cyberpunk direct-to-video animated series. It displays strong influences from Blade Runner, also making occasional references to it.- Setting :...

  • Blue Planet (role-playing game)
    Blue Planet (role-playing game)
    Blue Planet is an environmentalist science fiction role-playing game and setting from Biohazard Games.- History :The first edition was demonstrated and released at Origins in 1997 to critical acclaim, receiving a nomination for the Game of the Year Origins award.The rulebook, weighing in at just...

  • Centauri Knights
  • CthulhuTech
    CthulhuTech
    CthulhuTech is a science-fiction and horror roleplaying game created by Wildfire LLC and published by Sandstorm that combines elements of the Cthulhu Mythos with anime-style mecha, horror, magic and futuristic action...

     by Wildfire - H.P. Lovecraft's horror with Mecha
    Mecha
    A mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:...

     and Anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

     influences
  • Cyberpunk 2020
    Cyberpunk 2020
    Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games.- Overview :This role-playing game is based on the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and other authors of the "Mirrorshades group"...

  • Cyberpunk v3.0
  • Cyberspace
    Cyberspace (role-playing game)
    Cyberspace is a cyberpunk role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises and using a somewhat modified version of their Spacemaster ruleset...

  • Dark*Matter
  • Dawning Star
    Dawning Star
    Dawning Star is a science fiction role-playing game by Blue Devil Games built on d20 Modern and powered by d20 Future by Wizards of the Coast. It is the first full-scale campaign setting using the d20 Future ruleset...

     (d20 Future
    D20 Future
    d20 Future is an accessory for the d20 Modern role-playing game written by Christopher Perkins, Rodney Thompson, and JD Wiker. It facilitates the playing of campaigns in the far future, using elements such as cybernetics, mecha, mutations, robotics, space travel, starships, and xenobiology...

    )
  • Dragonstar
    Dragonstar
    Dragonstar is a futuristic magic-meets-machine campaign setting created by Fantasy Flight Games for Wizards of the Coast's D20 role-playing game system. The setting describes a galaxy under the dominion of the Dragon Empire...

     (D&D)
  • Eclipse Phase
    Eclipse Phase (role-playing game)
    Eclipse Phase is a science fiction horror role-playing game with transhumanist themes. Futurist Anders Sandberg noted its difference from GURPS Transhuman Space was its emphasis on posthuman characters...

  • End Of Time d10 (Kaevad Games)
  • Engel
    Engel (role-playing game)
    Engel is a role-playing game. The original German version uses a rule system in which the Gamemaster and players draw associative, tarot-like cards instead of rolling dice to determine the outcome of an event...

  • Ex Machina
    Ex Machina (role-playing game)
    Ex Machina is a cyberpunk role-playing game published by Guardians of Order covering a range from classic cyberpunk to postcyberpunk. It exists under both the cinematic Tri-Stat dX and d20 RPG systems.-Setting:...

  • Fading Suns
    Fading Suns
    Fading Suns is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game , a live action role-playing game , and for a space combat miniature game .- Game setting :The action is set in a future medieval-analogue empire built on the remains...

  • Firefly
    Firefly (TV series)
    Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....

  • Fringeworthy
    Fringeworthy
    Fringeworthy is a role-playing game first published in 1982 by Tri Tac Games. In 1984, a second edition saw a print run of 4000 and new expanded version was released in 1992. Fringeworthy is famous for being the first alternate history adventure role-playing game ever published. In 2009 a d20...

  • FTL: 2448
  • Gamma World
    Gamma World
    Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. It borrowed heavily from James M. Ward's earlier product, Metamorphosis Alpha.-Setting:...

  • Gear Krieg
    Gear Krieg
    Gear Krieg is an alternate history game setting published by Dream Pod 9. It contains information suitable for role-playing and wargaming a pulp-fueled World War II, featuring walking tanks and epic tabletop battles.- Setting:...

  • Heavy Gear
    Heavy Gear
    Heavy Gear is a game universe published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9. It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game and a lesser known combat card game...

     (Silhouette)
  • Imperium
    Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)
    The Imperium of Man is a fictional galactic empire of over a million planets that contains the vast majority of humans in the forty-first millennium, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe created by Games Workshop....

     (Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch Warhammer 40K
    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science fantasy universe. Warhammer 40,000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics...

    )
  • Jovian Chronicles
    Jovian Chronicles
    Jovian Chronicles is a science fiction game setting published by Dream Pod 9 since 1992. It introduces a complete universe for role-playing and wargaming space combat, featuring mecha, giant spacecraft and epic space battles....

     (Silhouette)
  • Infinite Worlds
    GURPS Infinite Worlds
    GURPS Infinite Worlds is a supplement for the Fourth Edition of the GURPS role-playing game, published by Steve Jackson Games in 2005 and written by Kenneth Hite, Steve Jackson, and John M. Ford...

     (GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

    )
  • GURPS Lensmen is based in E. E. Doc Smith works.
  • GURPS Planet of Adventure
  • GURPS Terradyne
  • Mekton Empire (Mekton
    Mekton
    Mekton is a role-playing game which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction...

    )
  • Mekton Zeta
  • Serenity
    Serenity (role-playing game)
    Serenity Role Playing Game is a science fiction role-playing game released in 2005 and set in the universe of the movie Serenity and television series Firefly...

     based on the television series Firefly (TV series)
    Firefly (TV series)
    Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....

    and the film Serenity
    Serenity (film)
    Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of the short-lived 2002 Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2518, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of a cargo ship...

    )
  • Shadowrun
    Shadowrun
    Shadowrun is a role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy fiction, horror, and detective fiction.The original game has spawned...

     by Catalyst Games Labs
  • Spacemaster
    Spacemaster
    Space Master is a science fiction role-playing game produced by Iron Crown Enterprises, written by Kevin Barrett, developed by Kevin Barrett and Terry K. Amthor...

     by Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises was a publisher of role playing, board, miniature battle, and collectible card games.ICE was incorporated in 1980 shortly after the principal founders graduated from the University of Virginia...

  • Spacemaster: Privateers by Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises
    Iron Crown Enterprises was a publisher of role playing, board, miniature battle, and collectible card games.ICE was incorporated in 1980 shortly after the principal founders graduated from the University of Virginia...

  • Star*Drive
  • Star Frontiers
    Star Frontiers
    Star Frontiers is a science fiction role-playing game produced by TSR beginning in 1982. The game offered a space-opera action-adventure setting.- Setting :...

     (TSR
    TSR, Inc.
    Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc....

    )
  • Star Hero
    Star Hero
    Star Hero is a role-playing game, published by Hero Games, which uses its Fifth Edition Hero System rules to represent the science fiction genre. Though not nearly as popular as its Champions, Dark Champions, and Fantasy Hero lines, the genre book has been received well by fans and critics alike,...

     - futurisc scenario of multi-genre Hero System
    Hero System
    The Hero System is a generic role-playing game system that developed from the superhero RPG Champions. It is used as the underlying mechanics of other Hero Games role-playing games such as Dark Champions, Fantasy Hero, Star Hero, and Pulp Hero...

  • Star Trek
    Star Trek
    Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

  • Star Wars
    Star Wars
    Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...

  • Starblade Battalion (Mekton
    Mekton
    Mekton is a role-playing game which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction...

    )
  • StarCluster
  • Stargate SG-1
    Stargate SG-1
    Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...

     (uses the d20 system
    D20 System
    The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...

    )
  • The Babylon Project (former Babylon 5
    Babylon 5
    Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

     rpg, by extinct Chameleon Electric)
  • Transhuman Space
    Transhuman Space
    Transhuman Space is a role-playing game published by Steve Jackson Games as parts of the "Powered by GURPS" line. Set in the year 2100, humanity has begun to colonize the Solar System...

     (GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

    )
  • Traveller
    • The Third Imperium
    • The Shattered Imperium
    • Mileu 0
  • Tribe 8 (Silhouette. Post-apocalyptic world, situated in Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    )
  • The Whoniverse
    Whoniverse
    Whoniverse, a portmanteau of the words "Who" and "universe", is a word used to describe the fictional setting of the television series Doctor Who, K-9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K-9, as well as other related stories...

     (in the licenced games Doctor Who by FASA and Time Lord
    Time Lord (role-playing game)
    Time Lord — Adventures through Time and Space is a Doctor Who role-playing game, written by Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans and published in 1991 by Virgin Publishing. This game is totally unrelated to the previously released Doctor Who RPG by FASA, having different and simpler mechanics that...

    by Virgin Books
    Virgin Books
    Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.-History:...

    , both discontinued -- Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space was released in late 2009)

Superhero

  • Autumn Arbor is the setting published by Arbor Productions in RPGs (currently for M&M under the Superlink license) and novels.
  • Continuum
    Continuum (theory)
    Continuum theories or models explain variation as involving a gradual quantitative transition without abrupt changes or discontinuities. It can be contrasted with 'categorical' models which propose qualitatively different states.-In physics:...

     is the name for the scenario that spans for three games: Adventure!
    Adventure!
    Adventure! is a pulp action role-playing game originally printed by White Wolf Game Studio, the third and last book in the Trinity Universe line of games. The game, printed in black and white on pulp-like sepia paper to resemble a period piece, was conceived as a one-book game line, and was never...

     (pulp-era), Aberrant
    Aberrant
    Aberrant is a role-playing game created by White Wolf Game Studio in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater Trinity Universe timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after Adventure!, White Wolf's...

     (supers) and Trinity
    Trinity
    The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines God as three divine persons : the Father, the Son , and the Holy Spirit. The three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial . Put another way, the three persons of the Trinity are of one being...

     (science-fiction).
  • DC Universe
    DC Universe
    The DC Universe is the shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe. Note that in context, "DC Universe" is usually used to refer to the main DC continuity...

     had been licensed to the cancelled DC Heroes
    DC Heroes
    DC Heroes is an out-of-print superhero role-playing game set in the DC Universe, published by Mayfair Games. Other than sharing the same licensed setting, DC Heroes is unrelated to the West End Games DC Universe....

     and DC Universe
    DC Universe
    The DC Universe is the shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe. Note that in context, "DC Universe" is usually used to refer to the main DC continuity...

     RPGs; the new DC Adventures RPG was released in late 2010.
  • Freedom City
    Freedom City
    Freedom City is a fictional, city-based campaign setting for the roleplaying game Mutants & Masterminds. It was designed by Steve Kenson, whose design philosophy for the setting seems based-on and in honor of several classic comic book icons and concepts.-Campaign history:Set somewhere on the east...

     (M&M)
  • Godlike
    Godlike (role-playing game)
    Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 is an alternate history World War II era Superhero role-playing game, created by Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze. Godlike was originally produced by Dennis Detwiller and John Tynes of Pagan Publishing , and published by Hawthorn...

     is set in World War II, and inspired a modern-day game, Wild Talents
    Wild Talents
    Wild Talents is the fourth and final nonfiction book written by paranormal author Charles Fort, published in 1932.-Overview:Like Fort's previous works, this book deals largely with a number of anomalous phenomena, as well as his ongoing attack on scientific dogma...

    .
  • Marvel Universe
    Marvel Universe
    The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.The Marvel Universe is further...

     had been licensed to the canceled Marvel Super Heroes
    Marvel Super Heroes (role-playing game)
    Marvel Superheroes , aka "the FASERIP system," is a role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, first published by TSR under license from Marvel Comics in 1984. In 1986, TSR published an expanded edition, entitled the Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. Jeff Grubb designed both editions and Steve...

     and Marvel Adventure Game.
  • META-4
    META-4
    META-4 is a fictional campaign setting for the roleplaying game Mutants & Masterminds. It was created by Super Unicorn members Erik Mona, Kyle Hunter, and Sean Glenn, who were the contracted design studio for the M&M 1st edition line. The setting was initially created to give the character...

     (M&M)
  • Empire City (Silver Age Sentinels
    Silver Age Sentinels
    Silver Age Sentinels is a superhero role-playing game published in 2002 by Guardians of Order, creators of Big Eyes, Small Mouth, an anime-themed RPG....

    )
  • Omlevex
    Omlevex
    Omlevex is a superhero role-playing game supplement published by Z-Man Games and Spectrum Games. The game mechanics are compatible with Champions, Silver Age Sentinels, and Mutants & Masterminds....

     (Third-Party M&M)
  • Watchmen
    Watchmen
    Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...

    , by Alan Moore, was released to the DC Heroes
    DC Heroes
    DC Heroes is an out-of-print superhero role-playing game set in the DC Universe, published by Mayfair Games. Other than sharing the same licensed setting, DC Heroes is unrelated to the West End Games DC Universe....

     system.
  • Wild Cards
    Wild Cards
    Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...

     (uses GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

     or M&M)
  • International Super Teams/IST (GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

    )
  • Millennium City (Champions/Hero System)

Comedy/satire

  • Alpha Complex (Paranoia
    Paranoia
    Paranoia [] is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself...

    )
  • Discworld
    Discworld (world)
    The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. It consists of a large disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin as it slowly swims...

     (GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

    )
  • Illuminati University (GURPS
    GURPS
    The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

    )

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