Mythic Odysseys of Theros |
Setting | Notes |
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Avernus | Layer of Hell; no setting book, but covered in Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus adventure |
Eberron* | Eberron: Rising from the Last War; pulp and fantasy technology |
Forgotten Realms | Generic fantasy; a partial setting book (Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide); the default setting for most official D&D adventures which often contain additional setting information |
Greyhawk | No setting book, but the setting used in Ghosts of Saltmarsh |
Ravenloft* | Gothic horror; Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, also partially covered in Curse of Strahd adventure |
Ravnica* | Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica; MtG setting of a giant city |
Spelljammer* | Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, Astral spaceships |
Strixhaven* | Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, MTG setting in a wizard school |
Theros* | Mythic Odysseys of Theros; Greek-themed MtG setting |
Wildemount* | Explorer's Guide to Wildemount; the Critical Role setting |
Setting | Notes |
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Amonkhet | Egyptian-inspired |
Dominaria | Default MtG setting |
Innistrad | Gothic horror-themed, vampires, werewolves |
Ixalan | Mesoamerican-inspired; Sun Empire, dinosaurs |
Kaladesh | Clockwork, airships, artifice |
Zendikar | Adventure world of ancient ruins |
Game | Publisher | Notes |
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Advent Horizon | Promethium Books | Semi-hard science fiction, plus eldritch horrors |
Adventures in Middle Earth | Free League | Tolkien |
Affinity - Conestoga | Dias Ex Machina Games | Adventures of giant adrift alien spaceship, part of Affinity trilogy of interconnected settings (see below) |
Affinity - Paradise | Dias Ex Machina Games | Weird magitech fantasy in an orrery star system, incorporates Ultramodern5 rule changes, also see above |
Affinity - Torus | Dias Ex Machina Games | Art-Deco Weird West, also, see above |
Amazing Adventures | Troll Lord Games | Multi-genre, modern, pulp, scifi |
Anime 5e | Dyskami Publishing | Another supers in 5e. In truth it just imports large parts of M&M 2e into 5e. |
Beast World | Heartleaf Games | Furry adventure |
Beowulf: Age of Heroes | Handiwork Games | Norse fantasy, rules reworked for 1 DM + 1 player |
Black Iron | Feral Gamers Inc | Grimdark S&S |
Bloodlines & Black Magic | Storm Bunny Studios | Modern Occult |
Capes and Crooks | Crit Academy | Superheroes |
Carbon 2185 | Dragon Turtle Games | Cyberpunk |
Dark Matter | Mage Hand Press | Science fiction, plus mega-damage in 5e! |
Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game | Steamforged Games Ltd | Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game, duh |
DarkEnergy | Entanglement Interactive | Magic postapocalypse, RIFTS-ish |
Deathbringer RPG | OSR hack from Youtuber Professor Dungeon Master | |
Demiverse | Gnome Mage Games | The multiverse exploded and the dimensions smooshed back together, wrong. Lots of extra planes to add to your game |
Doctors and Daleks | Cubicle 7 | Doctor Who 5e |
Entromancy | Nightpath Publishing | Cyberpunk, Shadowrun-style fantasy |
Esper Genesis | Alligator Alley Entertainment | Sci-fi, Mass Effect-like |
Fateforge | Studio Agate | French sword & sorcery |
Five Torches Deep | Sigil Stone Publishing | OSR hack of 5e |
Gaslight Victorian Fantasy | Battlefield Press International | Victorian Fantasy |
Genefunk 2090 | CRISPR Monkey Studios | Cyberpunk, focus on biotech |
Ghost Ops Second Strike | FeralGamersInc | Tom Clancy tactical spec ops |
Hereafter | Sigil Entertainment | Bad news, you're dead! Enjoy the afterlife, but you may be able to escape back to the living world |
Hellboy | MANTIC | Comic-book |
Kisarta | Sushi Role | You're dead, and afterlife is terrible. Yep, somehow you're damned and the beings in charge are not nice. But there seems to be plenty to do though. |
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition | EN Publishing | Reworking of 5e rules from the ground up |
Lost Lights | Side Quest Press | Persian setting plus mythology |
Olde Swords Reign | Fumble Table | OSR hack of 5e |
Path of the Planebreaker | Monte Cook Games | Moon sized object plummets through dimensions collecting items, and people; bringing doom as it goes |
Pugmire / Mau / Squeaks in the Deep | Onyx Path Publishing | Uplifted dogs, cats, birds, reptiles & rodents in post-human Earth |
Ruin 5th ed, The | FeralGamersInc | Realistic postapocalypse |
S5E | Sigil Entertainment | Brings at-will powers to the fore allowing incredibly powerful characters |
Spy Game, the | Black Cats Gaming | Espionage |
Stargate | Wyvern Gaming | Sci-fi |
Tales of Arcana | Arcanomicon LLC | Hundreds of races, plus setting tied together to create a 5e Wold Newton type setting. Also really funny in places. Allows players to be puppets, transformers etc! |
The Sundering | UH Studios | Gods fell from the skies, continent sized flaming blades sheared the nations. Has Crystal Spheres and Spelljammer compatible! |
Tomb of the Colossus Gods | Lion Banner Games | Campaign plus adventure. They even invented their own language. There's verisimilitude for you. |
Ultramodern5 | Dias Ex Machina | Modern |
Whispers in the Dark | Saturday Morning Scenarios | Call of Cthulhu, 5E style, 1870s New Orleans |
Liberty: AFTER | John Dossinger Publishing | Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic |
Setting | Publisher | Notes |
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Acheron | Ulraunt's Guide to the Planes | Outer Planes, war-torn battlefields |
Infinite Staircase | Oliver Darkshire | Use the Infinite Staircase to travel the planes |
Rites of the Infinity Guard | Aripockily | Become a protector of time, and banish those that would disrupt it |
Shadowfel | Ulraunt's Guide to the Planes | Outer Planes, horror |
Traveler's Guide to the Cosmos | Aripockily | Bring the cosmos to your doorstep and travel the universe |
Setting | Publisher | Notes | |||
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2099 Wasteland | Legendary Games | Post-apocalyptic | |||
Adventurer's Guide to the Bible | Red Panda Publishing | You'll never guess it... | |||
Aetaltis | Mechanical Muse | Classic Fantasy | |||
Agents of G.A.I.A. | Battlefield Press International | Modern Urban Fantasy | |||
Aihrde | Troll Lord Games | Fantasy | |||
Alessia | Storm Bunny Studios | Wuxia science fiction fantasy | |||
Alfeimur | L&A Media | Dark sword and sorcery | |||
Aigyptos | Skirmisher Publishing | Egyptian | |||
Amethyst: Quintessence | Dias Ex Machina Games | Science vs. magic | |||
Arcana of the Ancients | 5e release of Numenera setting | ||||
Ancient Adventures | Mal & Tal Enterprises | Ancient Greece | |||
Arcanis | Paradigm Concepts | Roman | |||
Arkadia | Arcana Games | Greek | |||
Arora | Ghostfire Gaming | Post-dragon apocalypse | |||
Aquilae | Infinium Game Studio | Setting of Dark Obelisk adventures | |||
Auroborous: Coils of the Serpent | Warchief Gaming | Epic fantasy | |||
Blood & Bone | Arcana Games | Grimdark, no magic | |||
Blue Rose | Green Ronin | Romantic Fantasy | |||
Book of Exalted Darkness | Legendary Games | Decopunk good and evil | |||
Brancalonia | Acheron Books | Spaghetti Fantasy | |||
Burning Skies | EN Publishing | High fantasy, war, setting of War of the Burning Sky | |||
Cloak & Coin | Red Turban Press | Mercenary fantasy | |||
Churn Campaign Setting, The | Thomas Fuentes | TBD (typical fantasy?) | |||
Comets & Cockpits: Geographica Adelphos | Daylight Publications | Junker Space Fantasy! (Star Wars meets Mad Max) | |||
Dark Matter | Mage Hand Press | Sci-fi | |||
Dragon Heresy | Gaming Ballistic, LLC | Norse | |||
Ebonclad | Dan Coleman Productions | Thieves' guilds | |||
Eldritch Sands | Poison Potion Press | Magitech Destiny/Warframe-like | |||
Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom | Metal Weave Games | Soulslike | |||
Ethereal Expanse | Ghostfire Gaming | Astral pirates and seafaring | |||
Fading Embers | Valiant Fox Gaming | Magical Ice Age | |||
Farland, World of | S. Baker | World ruled by evil | |||
Grim Hollow | Ghostfire Gaming | grimdark fantasy | |||
Gullet Cove | Steamforged Games | Cats and dogs | |||
Hellenistika | Handiwork Games | Greek | |||
HELLSCAPES | Scrivened, LLC | Postapocalyptic Toolkit | |||
Hereva | Xacur | Witches | |||
Historia | Mana Project Studio | Dark Fantasy Renaissance Talking Animals | |||
Historica Arcanum: City of Crescent | Metis Media | 19th Century Ottoman Urban Fantasy | |||
Humblewood | Hit Point Press | Birdfolk and other animals | |||
Hypercorps 2099 | Legendary Games | Cyberpunk superheroes | |||
HYPERLANES | Scrivened, LLC | Scifi toolkit | |||
Inferno | Acheron Books | Based off of Dante's Divine Comedy | |||
Iskløft | Skald Publishing | Vikings | |||
Iron Kingdoms Requiem | Privateer Press | Steampunk Age & Magitech Mechas | |||
Journey to Ragnarok | Mana Project Studio | Norse | |||
Koryo Hall of Adventures | Red Scales Publishing | Korean fantasy | |||
Land of Myth | Seven Thebes | Greek | |||
Lasers & Liches |
| Retrowave aesthetic | |||
Legendary Planet | Legendary Games | Science Fantasy AP | |||
Legendlore | Onyx Path | Isekai D&D, based on comics | |||
The Lost Lands | Frog God Games | Collection of settings, high fantasy inspired by various cultures | |||
Lost Lights Campaign Setting | Side Quest Press | 2 continents affected by the aftermath of a celestial war | |||
Manastorm | Terran Empire Publishing | high fantasy | |||
Midgard | Kobold Press | European dark fantasy | |||
Midnight - Legacy of Darkness | EDGE Studio | Fight back in world where Not-Sauron has won in Not-Middleearth | |||
Mists of Akuma | Storm Bunny Studios | Eastern fantasy noir steampunk | |||
Monsters of Murka | Action Fiction | Political satire | |||
Neurospasta | Dias Ex Machina Games | Cyberpunk transhuman | |||
Nightfell | Mana Project Studios | Horror fantasy | |||
Odyssey of the Dragonlords | Arcanum Worlds | Greek | |||
Planegea | Atlas Press | Prehistoric D&D | |||
Ponyfinder | Silver Games LLC | Talking Animals | |||
Primeval Thule | Sasquatch Game Studio | Sword & Sorcery | |||
Ptolus | Monte Cook Games | City-based Fantasy | |||
Pure Steam | ICOSA Entertainment | Steampunk | |||
Red Opera | Apotheosis Studios | heavy metal | |||
Retroverse | Lasers & Liches | Setting for Lasers & Liches | |||
Rocket Age | Why Not Games | pulpy retro-scifi | |||
Ruins of Symbaroum | Dark fantasy | ||||
Runewild | Sneak Attack Press | Dark Fairy Tale Forest | |||
Savage Company | SHM Publishing | Goblins/Orcs/etc with guns | |||
Scarred Lands | Onyx Path Publishing | Greek-inspired | |||
Seas of Vodari | Tribality Publishing | Swashbuckling nautical | |||
Sherwood: The Legend of Robin Hood | Battlefield Press International | Swashbuckling Historical | |||
Snowhaven | High Level Games | Snowpunk | |||
Spaceships and Starwyrms | HopePunk Games | Scifi toolkit | |||
Supers & Sorcery | Daylight Publications | Superhero | |||
Svilland | Dream Realm Storytellers | Norse | |||
Tails of the City | Silver Games LLC | Talking animals | |||
Tal'Dorei | Green Ronin | Critical Role's setting | |||
Talislanta: the Savage Land | Nocturnal Media | Fantasy dark ages, 5e version of classic setting | |||
Theria | Dungeons & Randomness | low-magic shades of grey | |||
Thrones & Bones: Norrøngard | Lazy Wolf Studios | Based on novels of Lou Anders, north horror fantasy | |||
Vast Kaviya | Legendary Games | Primordial sword and sorcery | |||
Wardlings | Renegade Game Studios | Child Heroes | |||
World of Myrr | Cawood Publishing | Heroic fantasy | |||
World of Nimbus, The | Bronze age sword & sorcery | ||||
World of Xoth | Xoth.Net Publishing | Sword and sorcery | |||
Zeitgeist | EN Publishing | Renaissance |