Neo Noir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nosgoth

This is not a fairytale nor is it a fable of hope, rather it is a story of desperation in survival and the extents mankind will go through in order to assure such. There are no happy endings here and the only silver linings in the shadows emerge when...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Gothic Neo Noir

The Cor2 Files

[p]This project is super work-in-progress. Comments and feedback are welcome.[/p] [h3|b2d76e58-b0ce-4610-a608-bb267f3bed85]Works based on The Cor2 Files: [p][/p] ACI.cor by AdrianRoguehunter by Vern Carson[/b...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

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

NC Subnet

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Eberron

14 Vult, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xelestar

Fantasy, Dark Mystery Neo Noir

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

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 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

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

Space Jazz

[p]This is Space Jazz... The idea is to create a space punk/noir/pulp/western genre to run vignettes in a open table, living world type TTRPG. This genre is heavily based on the animated series. Cowboy Bebop mixed with some flavors of shows...

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Political Science Fiction Solarpunk

Eberron

***A work in progress***

MagiPunk Neo Noir Political Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

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

Eberron

Eberon, a world of technology and magic. The years since Bijin took the throne after a struggle with the Yuan-ti menace have seen rapid and unparaleled inovation and progress, spured on by the discovery of many Eldritch machienes of unrivaled power....

Fantasy MagiPunk Neo Noir

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

Eberron

Fantasy, High Magic MagiPunk Neo Noir Science Fantasy Steampunk

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

Eberron is a world in which magic and science are one. Magic pervades the life of every civilization, but truly exceptional magic is rare and valuable. The Last War, and especially the cataclysmic Mourning, have left their mark on the continent of Kh...

Clockpunk MagiPunk Neo Noir

Aulyre's Eberron Gazetteer

Fantasy Horror Mystery Neo Noir Steampunk

Eberron

In an ancient ruin beneath the Demon Wastes, a band of heroes races to claim the Reaper’s Heart. If the agents of the Emerald Claw reach it first, they’ll reignite the Last War and unleash an army of undead. In the city of Sharn, a team of spies p...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Steampunk

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angel Core

Angel Core is a science fictional dystopian world set in the megalopolis of Angelica City, primarily telling the tales of the inhabitants of the world and their daily struggle for survival.

Adult 18+ Crime Cyberpunk Decopunk Dystopia

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

Blade Runner Maze of Death

Adventures in world of Blade Runner.

Neo Noir

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

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

R'lyethia

[quote]In the vast tapestry of cosmos lies R’lyethia, a world where ancient wonders coalesce with the familiar touch of nature. It's a Pangea-like realm, shaped by both magic and might, where lands bristle with radiant Quasarium veins and the charged...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir

Earth

In a Futuristic Post Apocalyptic world, where 1% of the worlds population has social abilities and are now forced into hiding. The fate of human kind now rests in the hands of seven demigods. These newfound demigods must face off against Oscuro, the...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic Urban

Mantle

This world is old. Epochs and eras, dynasties and Ages. many have come and gone since the stars first lit the nights sky Heres what you need to know. there was a time long ago where the world was inhabited by simple people, livin...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Horror Neo Noir Steampunk

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

Night City Nights

[color:#0e87bc][p]Night City, City of Dreams....[/p][/color] [color:#0e87bc][p]City of Nightmares, more like. [/p][/color] [p][/p] [p]An urban hell on the California coast, trapped in pollution under the weight of it...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Neo Noir Transhumanism Urban

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

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

Coriander Society Adventures

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

Isekai Modern Neo Noir Superheroic Weird

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

Eldraine

Fairy tale Neo Noir

Fissura

Long before the age of man, a great meteor struck Fissura's surface spreading its sickly, horrific influence and corrupting the continent of Shimal forever. Shielded from its haze, mankind prospered on the continent of Mantel. They built great cities...

Fantasy, Dark Horror Modern Neo Noir Western

Ironfall

Rainfall ist eine zwiegespaltene Stadt in einer zerklüfteten Welt. Wenn man auf den grauen Straßen Rainfalls umherwandert und sich den Regenströmen aussetzt, ist man umgeben von einem Wald aus stählernen Wolkenkratzern. Deren Rohre bzw. Schor...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Steampunk

Damah

It is the end of the '50th year of the Current Century in the world of Damah, where various "insula" are seperated by the "Fugue". Insula, is a term for the isolated areas of matter or "real-space" including land, water, and life; connected only by t...

Crime Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban

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

Sinners: A Good Day to Die

The world anvil for my novel/video game im working on. Takes inspiration from Noir and Cyberpunk, it is set in a dystopian future ala Night City.

Cyberpunk Neo Noir

Stranger than Fiction

Imagine a world where not everyone stays dead when they die. Those who return, come back blessed with superhuman abilities. This is the world of Stranger than Fiction, a Mutants and Masterminds campaign that I have been developing for some friends of...

Comedy Modern Neo Noir Subversion Supernatural

Nights in Bucharest

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural

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

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

Erebos

What if monsters were real? Not as abominations lurking in the shadows… but cunning predators hiding in plain sight? Influencing every aspect of our world in ways we would never dare to imagine? What if you became one of them?

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Horror 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

Xpartako Interpretations

My homebrew stuff

Adult 18+ Biopunk Cyberpunk Neo Noir Post-modern

Tomorrow Dawns

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Urban

Nefósterra

Horror Mystery Neo Noir Religious Steampunk

Eberron

Eberron's two best genres are pulp and noir. Pulp involves swashbuckling heroes engaged in dramatic conflicts with dastardly villains in larger than life adventures. Noir is the shades of gray, where heroes make difficult choices, it's unclear who th...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir

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

Trova

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy, Urban Neo Noir Steampunk

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

Urbs in Horto

[spotify:spotify:track:2NHTMKZ6JDXUcJxkYv7FW7] [quote] It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.|Mark Twain, 1883[/quote] Known variously as "the Win...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Modern Neo Noir Political

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

Xelia

Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Horror Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

Alpha Centauri Eox (ACE)

A lone sector separated by a vast expanse of emptiness known as "The Gap". This relatively low-tech sector relies heavily on the hyper-advanced Biotech that has a role in almost every aspect of day to day life. The more humanoid races stay near the t...

Biopunk Neo Noir Space Opera

Myths of New Pax

The year is 2520, 5 years ago, the Rebellion destroyed Mars, in turn ending the Empire of New Mars. For three hundred years, the Old Empire reigned supreme as the sole galactic superpower after destroying Earth, erasing its cultural and history from...

Crime Neo Noir Political Space Opera

Samael's Chosen

Horror Neo Noir Science Fiction Space Opera

Morgantown by Night

Students stumble arm in arm down high street. Locals pack into a concert venue to hear a local favorite. A keg of craft beer is tapped. Morgantown is weird, and that’s just the way we like it.

Horror Neo Noir Supernatural Weird

Dome Space

[p]The Year: 2080.[/p] [p]The Place: Chicago-42.[/p] Mega Corporations have ruined the environment. Any city that had a population with less than fifty thousand people has been seized under eminent domain. These seizures have been bulldozed to make...

Cyberpunk Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic

Loredon

THIS LIFE IS NIGHT AND DAY ITS BLACK AND WHITE AN INTERFACE IN TIME BETWEEN THE TWO ITS KNOWING WHO YOU ARE AND BEING WRONG BECOMING SOMETHING[br...

Fantasy Neo Noir Religious Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Unspeakable Fellowships

Avernus has opened a portal into Faerun and is attacking near Baldur's Gate. This war has been waging for years.  We join our heroes north of that war in the town of WaterDeep.  Where some have been stationed, some are hiding, some have been hired, a...

Fantasy, Urban Horror Neo Noir Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Sable City

A fantastical world in a Noire context

Neo Noir

Paper Stars

Paper Stars follows detective Graham Galloway and his boyfriend, doctor Ryan Finch, as they try to navigate a severely corrupt system while still holding onto their own morals. (they DO NOT age with reality- their birth years will be inaccurate a...

Dystopia Modern Neo Noir Political

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

So Below

Our world As Above, Beyond the veil, Betwixt the cracks, Beneath the waves, Behind the doors, Between the lines. The places we go to see Thou and They And Them and Thee Our world S...

Adult 18+ Modern Neo Noir Science Fantasy Supernatural

Ea-F7

The variant of Earth known as Ea-F7 exists in a dimension that just barely overlaps our own, in a time that could be described as our future. On Ea-F7, the mundane and the magical have always been intrinsically connected, as naturallly and irrev...

Cyberpunk Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

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

Kosmos

Biopunk Neo Noir Space Opera Weird

Gene Bearer World

There's a few people with a special gene that allows them to transform into one animal, usually their spirit animal. Clifford City is a hot spot for the people with the gene. There's gangs and Organisations. But there´s also the King of Nothing, who...

Fantasy, Dark Neo Noir Science Fantasy Supernatural

Neon Gods

It's the year 2051. The world runs on computer intelligence; from phones to cars to the lights in your house. In this new, automated age, Japan has emerged as the world's technological forerunner. A country once renowned for i...

East-Asian Fantasy, Dark Horror Neo Noir Supernatural

Asaluk

Magic permeates every inch of this world. It is in the soil, the roots, the rain, the wind—it is the very core of the planet and the very essence of the atmosphere. For the most part, magic and the world throughout it was in balance. But for the past...

Fantasy, High Magic Neo Noir Steampunk

VULKRI

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

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

Ymir

A world full of danger, intrigue and adventure. However, beware what is beneath your feet, it may become treacherous

Neo Noir Sword & Sorcery

The Second Empire

Like a phoenix from the ashes of destruction, the Empire of the Autarch Throne rises once more. The slumbering city of Ultulla now walks the earth as it did some half a millennia ago, carving a bloody swathe through all those who stand in defiance. M...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Horror MagiPunk Neo Noir