D&D 5E List the Third-Party 5th Edition Campaign Settings

[Morrus]

Below is a list of existing published campaign settings. To qualify to be on this list, there are three requirements: it must be by a third party publisher, it must be published and for sale (if we listed all the fan creations, the list would be impossible), and it must be for 5th Edition D&D.

• 2099 Wasteland (Legendary Games) - post-apocalyptic setting
• Adventures in Middle Earth (Cubicle 7) - Tolkien's setting of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
• Aigyptos (Skirmisher Publishing) - Egyptian-themed adventures.
• Amethyst: Quintessence (Dias Ex Machina Games) - Science versus Magic, in a future Earth.
• Blood & Bone (Arcana Games) - dark, gritty setting with no gods or magic.
• Ebonclad - A Thieves' Guild Setting (Dan Coleman Productions).
• Esper Genesis (Alligator Alley Entertainment) - 5E sci-fi.
• Filbar(Adventures in Filbar) - standard fantasy setting, 5E and 1E/2E
• Godsfall Worldbook (ndependent, Aram Vartian)
• Hypercorps 2099 5E (Legendary Games) - superhero fantasy cyberpunk (also in Pathfinder)
• Land of Azurth (Hydra Cooperative) - American myth-inspired fantasy.
• The Lost Lands: Bard's Gate Player's Guide, The Lost Lands: Bard's Gate for Fifth Edition, The Lost Lands: The Blight, The Lost Lands: Borderland Provinces (Frog God Games) - high adventure in a declining empire.
• Midgard (Kobold Press) - Dark Eastern European Fantasy
• Mists of Akuma (Storm Bunny Studios) - Eastern fantasy noir steampunk.
• Neurospasta (Dias Ex Machine Games) - cyberpunk transhumanist setting.
• Parsantium: City at the Crossroads (Ondine Publishing) - Byzantium/Greco-Roman city setting.
• Ponyfinder Campaign Setting (Silver Games) - world of Everglow ruled by fey ponies.
• Primeval Thule (Sasquatch Game Studio) - dark setting inspired by Conan and Lovecraft.
• Scarred Lands (Nocturnal & Onyx Path) - Greek-inspired dark fantasy.
• Swords of Kos (Skirmisher Publishing) - Dark Ages fantasy Mediterranean.
• Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (Green Ronin) - Matt Mercer's Critical Role setting.
• World of Farland (S. Baker) - detailed world ruled by evil.
• ZEITGEIST: The Gears of Revolution (EN Publishing) - political/urban setting with steampunk elements colliding with magic.
• Zodiac Empires (Starcalled Studios) - early industrial setting with airships.

Coming Soon:

• Lost Citadel (Green Ronin)
• Journey to Ragnarok
• Talislanta the Savage Lands
• Arcanis
• Worlds of Empyrea (Frank Mentzer) − cancelled

 

[Egg Embry]

I probably went overboard in listing out the parts of FGG's The lost Lands setting. ;-)

Egg Embry, Wanna-lancer

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Not sure how to add things in, but you forgot Esper Genesis from Alligator Alley Entertainment. Sci-fi for 5E. Free basic rules and a free starter adventure are on Drivethrurpg now and the full rules will be coming soon.

 

[Morrus]

Not sure how to add things in, but you forgot Esper Genesis from Alligator Alley Entertainment. Sci-fi for 5E. Free basic rules and a free starter adventure are on Drivethrurpg now and the full rules will be coming soon.

You simply hit the edit button on the first post. It could go in the Coming Soon section.

 

[Delazar78]

I added Darkplane, but I'm not sure if it qualifies... it was on kickstarter

 

[darjr]

Starfrontiers from the frontiersman magazine. I'll add it when I get to a computer.

 

[Morrus]

I added Darkplane, but I'm not sure if it qualifies... it was on kickstarter

If you can buy it, it qualifies. If you can't, it doesn't.

 

[bmfrosty]

Added Pugmire.

It's really neat how 5e has exploded into a bunch of 3rd party campaign settings.

 

[Elderbrain]

Also something called Rhym: Under the Rings that I found by typing in "Campaign setting 5e" at Amazon. Looked interesting so I ordered it and Tal'Dorei the other day. Anybody have a release date for Midgard 5e?

I didn't add Rhym into Morrus's list because I don't know how to make it look nice and with links.

 

[Rellott]

Added Pugmire.

It's really neat how 5e has exploded into a bunch of 3rd party campaign settings.

Is Pugmire really 5e? It's not billed as such - in a couple places the creator mentions it's based on the older 3.5e OGL.

 

[bmfrosty]

Is Pugmire really 5e? It's not billed as such - in a couple places the creator mentions it's based on the older 3.5e OGL.

I have a friend that DMs it and says that it's 5e. I don't own it, but I'll take her word on it.

 

[Morrus]

Pugmire its own game (similar to a stripped down 5E), but it's not a D&D setting.

Darkplane, to the best of my searching, is not available for sale.

I've removed both for now, but if I'm in error, please feel free to interject!

 

[jerryrice4949]

I added Arcanis, Talislanta, Ragnarok and Lost Citadel.

 

[vegaserik01]

There's Dias Ex Machina's Amethyst. There's also Neurospasta and Apex that are both for their Ultramodern 5e rules.

 

[darjr]

I'm not sure it counts as a setting? But I've run it a couple of times.

Frontier Explorer issue 11 has D&D 5e rules to play Starfrontiers.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/143590/Frontier-Explorer--Issue-11?affiliate_id=182934

 

[akr71]

Any chance this thread can be pinned?

Edit: Nevermind, I'll just add this thread to the Miscellaneous section of the Best of the 5E Forum pin.

 

[Elderbrain]

Well, I just got my copy of the Rhym Campaign Setting (by FOE - First Ones Entertainment), and while I can't state an opinion yet on the contents, it appears to be in violation of the rules of the OLG and the SRD. To wit: It has text like "Wood Elves use the statistics from the PHB.", "Eladrin use the statistics from the DMG.", and "Serpentfolk use the Yuan-Ti Pureblood creation rules in Volo's Guide to Monsters." (!!!) Pretty sure that's not allowed, but correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[Morrus]

Well, I just got my copy of the Rhym Campaign Setting (by FOE - First Ones Entertainment), and while I can't state an opinion yet on the contents, it appears to be in violation of the rules of the OLG and the SRD. To wit: It has text like "Wood Elves use the statistics from the PHB.", "Eladrin use the statistics from the DMG.", and "Serpentfolk use the Yuan-Ti Pureblood creation rules in Volo's Guide to Monsters." (!!!) Pretty sure that's not allowed, but correct me if I'm wrong...

The OGL doesn’t let you refer to trademarks you don’t have a separate license for. I don’t k know that PHB is a trademark, but I suspect Volo’s Guide to Monsters is.

 

[Thakazum]

Land of Azurth - American fantasy, "a fantasyland called the Land of Azurth, which takes inspiration from the full span of American fantasy – from Oz to Barsoom to Masters of the Universe – while downplaying some of the traditional pulp fantasy/epic fantasy elements that more typically inform D&D."

There are two products so far in print and PDF published by Hydra Cooperative:

Mortzengersturm, The Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peak
Azurth Adventures Digest Issue 1

 

[Yaarel]

The OGL doesn’t let you refer to trademarks you don’t have a separate license for. I don’t k know that PHB is a trademark, but I suspect Volo’s Guide to Monsters is.

Legally, this seems to me to be ‘fair use’, simply quoting or citing a product.

Ethically it is fine, because it encourages sales of the cited product.