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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8958097" data-attributes="member: 7025997">There was also Monsterhearts and its queer-centric spinoff Advanced Lovers &amp; Lesbians.Might be easier to list the existing inspirations so we can see what's missing:Epic fantasy: DragonlanceHigh fantasy: Forgotten realmsUrban fantasy (Leiber): LankhmarArabian: Al-QadimEast Asian: OAJapan: RokuganScifi/???: Spelljammer (they seemed genuinely creative with this one)Post-apocalyptic/Dune/Barsoom: Dark SunGothic horror: RavenloftVictorian/steampunk/???<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />lanescape (focuses on the planes, again I thought they put a lot of real creativity into this one)Pulp/steampunk: EberronPirates: Red SteelTarzan?: JakandorThere's no real Lovecraftian setting, because Call of Cthulhu nabbed that (though Sandy Petersen made a nice go of it), and sci-fi tends to be underrepresented because the rules don't really work that well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8958097, member: 7025997"] There was also [I]Monsterhearts [/I]and its queer-centric spinoff [I]Advanced Lovers & Lesbians.[/I] Might be easier to list the existing inspirations so we can see what's missing: Epic fantasy: Dragonlance High fantasy: Forgotten realms Urban fantasy (Leiber): Lankhmar Arabian: Al-Qadim East Asian: OA Japan: Rokugan Scifi/???: Spelljammer (they seemed genuinely creative with this one) Post-apocalyptic/Dune/Barsoom: Dark Sun Gothic horror: Ravenloft Victorian/steampunk/???:Planescape (focuses on the planes, again I thought they put a lot of real creativity into this one) Pulp/steampunk: Eberron Pirates: Red Steel Tarzan?: Jakandor There's no real Lovecraftian setting, because [I]Call of Cthulhu [/I]nabbed that (though Sandy Petersen made a nice go of it), and sci-fi tends to be underrepresented because the rules don't really work that well. [/QUOTE]

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