D&D 5E This setting, without being too gonzo?

[Morlock]

I didn't want to derail the thread:
Old School Nefarium - 3 Level Isometric Map

But, I excerpted some of his encounter lists and...

Sarpashana: Deadly blob creature

Giant Heliotrope Frog: Deadly jungle predator with a hypnotic hide
Blitzkringler: Lawful warriors who fight the naughty
Bellatrixian Plague Fungus: Biological warfare at its best
Castoran Tailbiter: Rolling lizards

Shenzi Chaser: Scary carnivorous flightless bird (Swords & Wizardy and Stars Without Number stats)

The Soft Corps: Intelligent oozes led by a half-dragon svirfneblin!
Blurblex, black pudding cleric
Dolloppoli, advanced gelatinous cube barbarian
Mublor, gray ooze rogue
Xanumph, ochre jelly monk
Frelbor Yandov, half-dragon (black)/half-svirfneblin rogue/illusionist/arcane trickster

Sskaltar, troglodyte wereconstrictor

Avernal Ooze: NE Large ooze

Three Chimeras:
Chimeric advanced yrthak
Advanced chimera
Chimeric razor boar

Various Plant Monsters:
Shambling mound barbarian
Advanced paragon assassin vine
Pseudonatural violet fungus
Shrieker nomad & psicrystal
Fiendish tendriculos

Vermin-Kin:
Vermin-Kin Template
Vermin-Kin Huge Hunting Spider

The Brain in a Jar
Hfuhruhurr, advanced brain in a jar wilder
Hfuhruhurr's Crystal Guardian

Fiend Folio A:
Aarakocra, a monstrous avian humanoid
Adherer, a sticky predator
Algoid, mean algae
Assassin Bug, monstrous fly that wants to impregnate you

Monsters @ Spes Magna Games:
* (CR 10) Lumusi the Crawling Horde, awakened rat swarm blight druid
* (CR 3) Mare of Diomedes, flesh-eating horse
* (CR 8) The Swift Storm, harpy ranger

Is there a setting for this (preferably not played for laughs)?

 

[ccs]

Well, the Fiend Folio A stuff are just entries from the 1e Fiend Folio. So those are just "regular" D&D.....

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

If you're looking for a setting that plays up the Weird Fantasy and creepy elements of D&D, I'd recommend Carcosa. It's ostensibly for Lamentations of the Flame Princess/ OD&D, but would adapt pretty well to any flavor of D&D.

http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/products/carcosa

 

[Morlock]

If you're looking for a setting that plays up the Weird Fantasy and creepy elements of D&D, I'd recommend Carcosa. It's ostensibly for Lamentations of the Flame Princess/ OD&D, but would adapt pretty well to any flavor of D&D.

http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/products/carcosa

I'm designing a setting like that (the weird and creepy part). It's hard to explain what I'm actually going for without summarizing the setting, but yeah, it's very "alternative." It's a bit like Dark Sun, I guess. So, I was wondering what's already out there. I took a look at The Lost Lands, because I read a blurb somewhere that they have a major threat they call "The Blight," and that's what I was calling my major threat. Thankfully their setting doesn't look at all like mine, but I was wondering what else might show some overlap. I'd rather my setting not look too much like something already out there.

ETA: Carcosa definitely sounds like it's trying to scratch the same itch.

ETA2: After reading the free preview, Carcosa looks plenty different from my setting, though they would probably be thrown into a pretty similar niche by a neutral observer. Carcosa seems a lot more divergent from the D&D rules than my setting is, too. I'm trying to hew to 5e roughly as closely as Dark Sun and Dragonlance did to 2e.