List of campaign settings
This is a list of campaign settings published for role-playing games. Since role-playing games originally developed from wargames, there are many historical and alternate-history RPGs based on Earth. The settings for such games are excluded from this list, unless they include significant fictional elements.
Many RPG campaign settings are based on fictional universes from books, comics, video games, or films. Campaigns have been created for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and James Bond, for example.
Fantasy campaigns
- Amber
- Alfeimur - Dark fantasy, d20 System, L&A Media
- Avernos - Medieval fantasy, The continent of Avernos, Rising Phoenix Games
- Diablo universe
- Dying Earth
- NeoExodus: [A House Divided|Exodus]
- Grimm
- Magnamund
- Midgard
- Midgard
- Dragon Fist
- Bushido (role-playing game)
- Creation is the name for the Exalted series of RPGs scenario.
- Weapons of [the Gods (role-playing game)|Weapons of the Gods]
Horror
- The Buffyverse
- Chill
- The Chronicles of Darkness
- Cthulhu Mythos
- * Delta Green
- * CthulhuTech by Wildfire - H.P. Lovecraft's horror with Mecha and Anime influences
- Engel
- The Esoterrorists
- The GURPS Cabal setting
- Kult a nightmare universe parallel to our own, heavily influenced by gnosticism
- Little Fears where you play children haunted by horrors, supernatural or quite natural.
- Newfaire, setting for Critical Role horror game Candela Obscura, based on the late 1800s/early 1900s
- Night's Black Agents contemporary horror/espionage, using the Gumshoe System
- Ravenloft
- *Masque of the [Red Death (Ravenloft)|Masque of the Red Death]
- ** Living Death
- SLA Industries
- The Weird West
- The World of Darkness
- Unknown Armies
- Witchcraft
- Witch Hunter: [The Invisible World]
- The Yellow King
Science fiction
Superhero
- Champions Universe uses Champions (role-playing game) rules.
- Continuum is the name for a setting that spans three games: Adventure!, Aberrant and Trinity.
- DC Universe had been licensed to the cancelled DC Heroes and DC Universe RPGs; the new DC Adventures RPG was released in late 2010.
- Freedom City
- Godlike is set in World War II, and inspired a modern-day game in the same setting, Wild Talents.
- GURPS International Super Teams is the house setting for GURPS Supers
- Heroes Unlimited, Villains Unlimited and Aliens Unlimited use Palladium's Rule System.
- Marvel Universe had been licensed to the canceled Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game and Marvel Adventure Game.
- META-4
- Mutant City Blues, a near-future superhero setting using the Gumshoe System
- Omlevex
- Watchmen, by Alan Moore, was released to the DC Heroes system.
- Wild Cards
Multi-genre
- Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game): New Europa
- Deadlands
- Feng Shui (role-playing game)
- Over the Edge (role-playing game)
- Shadowrun
- Tails of Equestria
- TORG