Neo Noir

The Shrouded Galaxy

[p]The Shrouded Galaxy is a sprawling patchwork of star systems bound together by ancient Jump Gates, corporate greed, and the thin veneer of fragile al...

Cyberpunk Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction Supernatural

Eberron

4 Aryth, 999 YK The world of Eberron has a rich history built on heroic deeds, evolving magic, unspeakable evils, and the wounds of a long, devastating war. Action, adventure...

Fantasy Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Earth 2160

[youtube:https://youtu.be/ZXa4aBL_mTg] The world after the corporate wars was a desolate and dangerous place. The wars had ravaged the planet, leaving behind a wasteland of ruined cities and barren landscapes. The few survivors struggled to eke ou...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Oriental

Rimeport

Rimeport. With its glittering spires, festering slums and misty, icy streets, Rimeport is what London could have been if it had been in a terrible train accident on the Arctic Circle Line, smashed between the intercity express from Victorian 1870...

Dieselpunk Fantasy Neo Noir Steampunk

Aulyre's Eberron Gazetteer

Fantasy Horror Mystery Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron

Eberron has been built upon one basic concept: in a world where magic exists, society would develop ways to use it. Eberron has magically-powered mass transit, cities lit by lamps enchanted with continual flame, airships, elemental-driven sea ships,...

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Supernatural

Olutanri

At the epicenter of the world is The Singularity occupied by The Eternal One enjoying its idyllic vision of equilibrium - eternal stasis within the void...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Weird

The World of Darkness

The seemingly perpetually rainy city of Vancouver, a haven for the undead that reside within. Neon lights streak through the darkness of the night while the ever-present rain pounds incessantly through the streets and alleyways. A city on the verge o...

Gothic Horror Neo Noir Political Supernatural

The Spiderweb

[color:#9a00b2]BACK THEN [/color]The entire world was caught up in an extra-dimensional event, the cause and the extent of the effects of which remain largely unknown. The planet was plunged into darknes...

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Eberron

The world of Eberron has a rich history built on heroic deeds, evolving magic, and the wounds of a long, devastating war. Action, adventure, good, evil, and a thousand shades of gray paint the landscape in broad strokes. Ancient mysteries await disco...

Alternative History Clockpunk Neo Noir Political Steampunk

The Elder Odds - RPG

Eu quero acreditar! Existem vozes nas trevas. Sombras dançando entre as luzes. Coisas escondidas atrás de nós. Quer dizer, não posso ser a única a ter essa impressão... ou sou? [cente...

Adult 18+ Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction Supernatural

Dark Chicago

[quote] "Hey ya jagoff, you look good! Yah, no, get over here and show me some love!" [/quote] This is Chicago—a city with a chip on its shoulder ever since someone had the nerve to call it "The Second City." Not long after, the moniker "City o...

Alternative History Crime Modern Neo Noir Supernatural

The City

There has always been a City. It doesn't have any other name. Why would it need one? Everyone knows the City is all that matters. Sure, sometimes people leave, but they always come back. Most people don't see anything out of the ordinary in th...

Fantasy, Urban Modern Neo Noir Supernatural

The Pact Worlds of Starfinder

The Pact Worlds is a collection of independent governments and associations within the Pact Worlds system, bound together for mutual protection and trade. It was formed in 41 AG by the Absalom Pact in response to the Veskarium's aggression toward the...

Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

Dagan

The setting for... something. Sometimes Dagan is the setting for my 5th Edition DND games, sometimes it's the fantasy world I'll use in my novels. No need to freak out. Yet.

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Neo Noir Political Steampunk

EDEN Undone

[quote] Then sudden silence, as though a heavy blanket had fallen over their heads. They all stood looking up at him with their white faces. He stared back. And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the stan...

Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Weird

The Last Home

[quote]She wasn’t supposed to be here. Then again, neither was I. The Inn finds people like that—unresolved threads, walking disasters, stories that broke in the middle and refused to stay broken. Rika crashed through the door like fate owed her...

Comedy Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir 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

Iomedae's Mercenaries Campaign

Neo Noir

Nights in Bucharest

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural

Rockfall

After the world of Rockfall was decimated by powerful magic spells, after diplomacy failed, after the wizards in their hidden towers launched the onslaught of world-ending magic, the remnants of civilization hold on for dear life in the Underdark.

Adult 18+ Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic

Eberron

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

The Retconned 20s

The 20s were a dark time for many people; this world takes out the racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. But in it's place is a new darkness. Cults, seeking to resurrect dark lords. Indescribable terrors, and the people who fight them. And the con...

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural Urban

Star Wars

Neo Noir Science Fiction

Miami By Night

Miami. Magic City. Vice City. The place where dreams come true and the die - a flash in the pan. The Sabbat rule from the shadows, reveling in their dark rituals and hedonism. The Anarchs and the Camarilla watch cautiously, like a predator waiting...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Political Supernatural

Araxion

Welcome to the enchanting realm of Araxion, a world where the extraordinary merges with the every day, and where legends come to life amidst a tapestry of comic book themes and influences. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey through a planet-spa...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Superheroic

City of Mist

[youtube:https://youtube.com/watch?v=krLJarFRkJc] [p][/p] [p][url:https://startplaying.games/adventure/clfsc1z2k000a09mb9xveh6er] Sign up for the game at STARTPLAYING.GAMES[/p] [p][/p] [p][url:https...

Crime Modern Mystery Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern

A Yakuza's Tale

[p]Beneath the neon glow of Nagoya’s restless streets, the shadows tell a story of loyalty, betrayal, and survival. @[Takagi Tetsunori](person:45d6b2aa-b14f-4d41-8ecc-c328...

Crime East-Asian Modern Neo Noir Urban

Eberron

Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

The Merca Federal Union

1899 years After the Catastrophe, the Merca Federal Union has spread out over the former North American continent. Bridges is an independent domed city-state in the Merca Federal Union. The city is currently split between four crime families in an...

Crime Dystopia Neo Noir Science Fiction Steampunk

Eberron's Darkest Secrets

Campaign based shortly after the last war in Eberron where some of the pre generated world building will be inspired in this campaign but not necessarily follow all the lore completely. The world is the process of rebuilding , and during this time,...

Neo Noir Steampunk

The Nowhere Road

Gotham Nights Vol. 3

Crime Mystery Neo Noir Superheroic

The Department

Imagine a world not so different from our own. Your everyday life, mundane and boring, but once in a while something happens that doesn't fit. You saw something in the darkness with the corner of your eye? You heard a noise from your basement? Myster...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern

Cyberpunk Milan

A noir-inspired Cyberpunk 2020 universe, set in Milan in 2032.  Based mostly on the core rules, with some Cyberpunk Red and some house changes.

Alternative History Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Urban

The Phaeros Foundation

On the continent of Khorvaire on the planet Eberron, five random travelers end up hired by an organization called the Phaeros Foundation. Led by the nebbish Dr. Bartholomew Turk, the Foundation seeks out ancient anomalies as well as the enigmatic and...

Fantasy, Low Magic Neo Noir Steampunk

Azza-Jono

The Conscious City. Divided like the brain, both by the fissure of the River and the monolithic Wall. But no barrier is truly impenetrable. High-tech assassins stalk its streets, magicians commune with its strange powers, despots and revolutionaries...

Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Slice of Life Supernatural Surreal

Apraxia

The world of Praxia, held numerous races each with their own nation that fought over resources until the introduction of magic and the knowledge on how to harness it spread throughout the land. Some predicted it would just lead to more war but at the...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic

The Horizon

Horror Neo Noir Religious Space Opera Supernatural

Savaged Eberron

Savaged Eberron? Eberron is my campaign setting of choice for playing my fantasy campaigns. There is so much that I love about Eberron, and the more I learn the more I love it. This site is for my players to have lore about Eberron an...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Medieval Neo Noir

Cinder, the World of Tomorrow

The world of Cinder is one steeped in fantastic magic, shaped by epic conflicts of ages past, and is filled with incredible riches, as well as terrible dangers lurking at the edges of civilization. A world home to many different races and cultures, s...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Eberron-#MyEberron

A world of swashbuckling action and noir grit, bound together by magic. In the wake of The Last War and the tragedy that brought about its end, The Mourning, there are many questions that linger about the world and the players therein, and it is time...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Political Steampunk

Yukiverse

A hub for all canon and fan lore pertaining to the Yuki: Space Assassin series, the species, the characters, technology, and fan fiction in this perverse Galaxy known as the "Yukiverse".

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Space Opera

Star Wars

[p]A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...The events of Return of the Jedi have just begun. Jabba the Hutt is dead. Bothan spies have uncovered dangerous information. And in the Esstran Sector, the stage is set for a war in the criminal...

Crime Neo Noir Science Fantasy Soft Magic Space Opera

Mindosza, Age of Dawnbreakers

Age of Dawnbreakers is set in Mindosza , a Post Apocalyptic Fantasy World whose Denizens strive to reclaim its lost and sometimes forgotten Land, Knowledge and Treasure. Traces of long forgotten @[Civ...

Clockpunk Fantasy Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

Eberron

Fantasy, High Magic MagiPunk Neo Noir Science Fantasy Steampunk

Therra

Welcome to Therra, a world of mysticism, normalcy and madness. 12 thousand years ago, the world was shifted. When the envious Ophica desired to become the God of the Dead, he had one thing in the way: The King of the Underworld. It was deception that...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Political Steampunk Supernatural

Morosoph

A huge, neon city, teaming with the clash of people, cultures, and concepts. Split into Seven Boroughs and ruled by massive corporations, Morosoph is constantly on the edge of fighting, some of which has spilled into the street before. Whether betwee...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery Urban

Rurassia

A world of magic, monsters, and humans that slowly learned to respect each other.

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir

Faerun, 15th Century

The world of Faerun is home to ancient terrors and legendary heroes, most of which have passed into oblivion. The time of heroes is over, as warring city-states merge into warring nations and the the world gets smaller day by day. In the midst of the...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Eberron 1999

Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Science Fantasy

A crippled World

Ever since the Bloody Truce over 200 years ago, the several nations Drania, Ineria, Ossen, Corro, Serrea, Duko, and Morona lived in begrudging harmony, knowing that their truce and ally-ship was the only thing keeping them from tearing each other apa...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir

Eclipse Earth

[quote] [color:#ff851b]The eclipse isn't what the world remembers about that day. The world remembers that day because someone like us did the impossible for the first time, and since then the world has never been the same. People still use the o...

Alternative History Crime Neo Noir Political Superheroic

Frankfurt 2085

After the world was shook and reshaped by an epidemic in the first quarter of the century, several cities, called islands of technical and social stability, emerged unfazed around the world. These employed robots and drones to do their bidding, allow...

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Political

Eberron: Big Damn Heroes

Welcome to Eberron, a land where magic and technology intertwine, filled to bursting with epic adventures, larger-than-life heroes, legendary monsters, and puns. So. Many. Puns. "Guardians of the Galaxy" meets "Spinal Tap," where every encounter is b...

Fantasy Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron

Most of the happening in Eberron are on Khorvaire.

Neo Noir

Waiting for the song to end

The world was spinning along as worlds are wont to do. There wasn't anything particularly special about this world. It had land, oceans and life. People lived, loved and died, and after they died, well no one really knew, although many thinking folk,...

Decopunk Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Science Fantasy Speculative

Doskvol

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and,...

Clockpunk Gothic Neo Noir Steampunk Supernatural

Eberron (The Madness Within)

The world is changing now that the Last War is over. With eyes open and long-standing hatred dwindling, the leaders of Khorvaire are seeing a threat that is not humanoid, but something else with an unknown allegiance. They have been blind to these in...

Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Steampunk

The Cor2 Files

Projects based on The Cor2 Files: ACI.cor by Adrian Roguehunter by Vern Carson Hope by Vern Carson [url:https://www.inkitt.com/stories/scifi/1086351#]h...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Eberron

Eberron: Rising from the Last War The world of Eberron; a place of many wonders and steeped in history, myth, legend, and lore. In Khorvaire, the nations have just begun recovering from a century-long civil w...

Neo Noir Political

Nidus

Nidus is technically the Modern Tech world that NationStates is set in, but specifically it's only the portion that I control the lore for.

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post-modern Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

No Place For A Hero

July 4th 1915 7pm Eastern Time. A "Cape" known as Spectrum showed up and changed the world forever. The course of history changed that night,

Adult 18+ Crime Neo Noir Subversion Superheroic

The Outer Reaches

The newly formed crew of the ruined ship Nevander are about to find that making money and making it in the Galaxy is not quite as easy as they imagined.

Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

Zol

Zol, once plagued with calamities, is now a world if the process of self discovery. About a millennium has passed since the Great Calamities. Byterra has recovered, alas without being able to hide her wounds. Acid lakes, glass spirals, crimson water...

Mystery Neo Noir Political Religious Steampunk

Obsidian Dreams

The land is torn asunder, the kingdom of Cyre has been destroyed leaving the Mournlands and the dead gray mist in its wake. The tentative peace holding over the continent of Khorvaire balances on a precipice. The actions of the few could mean the dif...

Fantasy, Dark MagiPunk Neo Noir

NC Subnet

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Eberron

Every child knows the story of the Progenitor Dragons: Siberys, Eberron, and Khyber. In the dawn of time, these three cosmic beings created thirteen planes of existence, each embodying a concept. Their final work was the Material Plane, where all ide...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Steampunk

Parallax

Humanity has finally been able to embrace its destiny: to populate the stars - at least the nearby ones - with a combination of long-sought technologies, developed by diverse and innovative corporations of all shapes and sizes, whose diligent employe...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Space Opera

VULKRI

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Xelestar

Fantasy, Dark Mystery Neo Noir

The Silence

What if the mythological world of the ancient Greeks was transported into a 90s cyberpunk film? Let’s find out.

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Space Opera Western

Luiverse

A setting for my continuous campaigns with my friends. Consists of the scenario built for my campaigns of World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu and other systems as well

Neo Noir Supernatural

Coriander Society Adventures

Worlds among worlds, and a band of miscreants plying their way among them.

Isekai Modern Neo Noir Superheroic Weird

Earth

This is the Earth of a parallel universe where hidden amongst society all across the world there are people with special powers. They are called many things powered,demons,mutants and angels most call then Genus Elctum.They are all unique and differe...

Crime Fantasy, Urban Hard Science Neo Noir Science Fiction

Drogighar

With the technological advancement in a city named Risshaven in the UPK, the rest of the world does its best to keep pace. Meanwhile in Risshaven many things blight the city from drugs ,to murders, to chronomancy, to braving the horrors of the mist,...

Crime Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir

Sable City

A fantastical world in a Noire context

Neo Noir

London 2070

Detektive des Westend Police Department lösen Kriminalfälle in den dystopischen Schatten Londons des Jahres 2070.

Crime Cyberpunk Neo Noir

PRIME

PRIME is a low-magic, medium- to high-technology cyberpunk/science fantasy setting with a cassette futurism aesthetic primarily designed for D&D 5e with modified rules for modern/futuristic technology.

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Science Fantasy Supernatural

Exandria

Since the gods first came to Exandria, four distinct ages of the world have gone by: the Founding, the Age of Arcanum, the Calamity, and the Divergence. An Exandrian year lasts 328 days over the course of 11 months. Each day is 24 hours in length and...

Alternative History Neo Noir

Lislow

Once just a tiny planet at the edge of Everywhere and on the borders of the Taltha Regions. Home to a local race known as the Lislanders, which at the time were on the bottom end of the technological and evolutional scale, with basically no connectio...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban MagiPunk Neo Noir Science Fantasy

Greedpeaks

The date is the 10th of Hatches, Year 307. War has been raging between the 7 Houses for 7 years now, after 75 years of perfect peacetime. House Arrondon of the West, an old leader of the realm,...

Fantasy, Dark Medieval Neo Noir Science Fiction Western

Eberron Campaign Setting

Welcome to Eberron. Specifically the continent of Khorvaire, a land of skyscraper castles, lightning rail trains, flying airships and warforged automata! In this place magic is indistinguishable from science and the arcane is woven through everyd...

Mecha Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Eldraine

Fairy tale Neo Noir

Mars

Welcome to Mars. It has been 200 years since its colonisation from human settlers - Earth refugees discarded from a distant past. These collections of humans all survive holed up in great big metal shells - great biomes made of scrap metal, spare par...

Dystopia Military Neo Noir Political Science Fantasy

Cenargo Corporation

Cenargo was formed by the merger of Centaur Technologies and Argon Aerospace, the companies who funded the development of the Foscolo reactionless displacement drive. It is also responsible for the terraforming of Aphrodite Station off Centauri Prime...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction

Ulgrotha; the Homelands

Long ago, the cruel and prosperous Nerathi Imperium crushed the nations of Ulgrotha. With its military might and its command of eldritch machines and ancient sorceries, it slew the dragons who held up the pillars of the world and cast then down, proc...

Afrofuturism Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

Down and Out, A Bulletproof Blues

It is 21XX, and you are a member of the next step in humanity, the NuType. Today, you learn that your transfer to UCAA has been approved, and you may begin the process of migrating to @[Pacific...

Neo Noir Science Fiction Superheroic

Thrice-born: the Unmaking

[p]The air crackles with the weight of ambition, as if the world itself holds its breath, waiting for the next whisper, the next betrayal, the next move in a timeless game. Here, the natural laws of existence are bent to the will of Thorns—immortal a...

Horror Neo Noir Political Supernatural Weird

Bleeding Worlds

This is the world of our own, but creatures from fiction have slowly but surly have began to appear. Societies and creatures from across the realms of fiction collide you the players tasked with protecting humanity from these now non-fictional threat...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Horror Neo Noir Supernatural

Eberron

Dystopia Neo Noir Political Science Fantasy

The Cleaved Lands

It's been fifteen years since the end of the wars and the fracturing of reality, when demons ravaged the world and the land was carved into slices of habitable land divided by hell-spawned crevasses. Waters still teem with miasmic forces and...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Neo Noir Steampunk

Tiaosh

“In the years since what has been dubbed “The Age of Industrialization,” the use of the Magical Arts has expanded from the ramblings of a Mad-Man to the most every-day and conventional use, from mythos to ballroom extravagance, from stories t...

Comedy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban

Tomorrow Dawns

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Urban

Osqa

Osqa is a beautiful world, host to seven races that vary quite significantly and a slew of fantastical magical beasts. but however aesthetically pleasing it may be, it is woven with a magical fabric. Every citizen knows that they walk alongside magic...

Historical Mystery Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Lapix Delta 9

My world has a space detective who happens drink blood. After the Earth blasted itself into pieces like a death star, our vampire protagonist finds themself without a home and essentially becomes a private investigator for hire.

Neo Noir Steampunk Supernatural

Reknown-Galaxy

The Calamity changed everything. Not much is known of the history before it. The Old Spine Empire had spread from its original home world to conquer tens of thousands of planets. Their civilization flourished with unpre...

Cyberpunk Horror Neo Noir Science Fantasy Space Opera

eArth

Insert cool world stuff here.

Atompunk Dystopia Neo Noir Science Fiction Surreal

Gargoyle

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Neo Noir Political Religious

Edge of The Empire

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... It is a dark time for the galaxy. The Empire’s grip has never been stronger and many flee to the edges of civilization to escape it. A ragtag group of Rebels has forced the Empir...

Crime Neo Noir Science Fiction

Rumoring & Shalemarch

Rumoring & Shalemarch is a world that arises in the human imagination. I have begun to envision and dream this world into being, with the intention of sharing it with others. I am doing this because I want to develop a living setting for a role-playi...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Supernatural