Browse Worlds

Dungeons and Randomness is a D&D actual play podcast with a bit of a twist. Several groups of adventurers make their way in the world of Theria at the same time. Actions can have dire consequences and black and white choices are rare. Some seek fame...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Aldris

Aldris is an earth-like planet that exists within the Demerterion Solar System, the third planet in a series of eight, centered the Sun, a powerful yellow star. Across the realm resides thousands of races, animals, plant-life and other creatures all...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Val'Vahan

Val'Vahan means City of God, and the world is used for a D&D 5e campaign. It is a low magic world for the denizens that live in it, but the players and their uniquely talented characters will swiftly come against more magical troubles. This is a m...

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Vindis Saga

Check out our new website to sign up for our newsletter! Vindis is the world of Vindis Saga Tactics, a PC video game in the fantasy tactical RPG genre. It's...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Ustral

Ulrik Kirnon Kane wants to restore his former power and kingdom before his death and is having difficulty getting it using his cursed undead forces because his powerful royal regalia is scattered through the land. Theme: Overcoming the odds Ge...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Medieval

Taer'kasha

A world born of dragons.

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

The Badlands

The Age of Kingdoms has come to an end. 30 years ago a demonic plague ravaged the lands. You are the descendants of the survivors that fled into the badlands. These lands were previously ignored by the civilized folk due to the savage inhabitants, nu...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Talor

The origins of Talor, a continent in the Southern Hemisphere of Herdan, are lost in the fragile mists of time. But this has not stopped a number different stories and theories being proposed such as it birthing whole from a cosmic egg, the love of...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Political Urban

New Harwick

Adult 18+ Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Treasures of Talamh

Mankind, finally springing forth from a dark age upon them, have begun to conquer the magical mortal beings of Elves and Dwarves. Seeing their full potential, men have devoted themselves to the ideas of discovery and what it means to be men. Arming t...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Craton II

Craton II is a large, continent-like landmass situated on the inner surface of a modified Dyson shell. Over half of its surface is covered in dense rainforest, with the majority of the other half being patchier or partially-cleared temperate forest....

Alternative History Biopunk Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

The Dragons of Kementari

[p]Dragons were hardly ever seen before, almost mythical beasts to the cultures of Kementari- but people have been noticing that they are now appear...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Tertyra

Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Toril

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Terralba

A world sculpted by the Gods, now lost or dead in the aftermath of a celestial war, the Twilight Cataclysm. This world has no one to look over it. No one to guide it to and from the right and wrong decisions. No one to save it from the power...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Dark Times

Beyond the oceans brews a battle, beyond the battle innocent blood shall fall. In the horizon the dead riders with dead horses speed to war, mounstros men and men-like monsters speed to war, bringing sweet destruction to everything. During one hu...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Sword & Sorcery

Orrus

"We all come from the same blood. I’m not sure why we fight as much as we do. I guess over many centuries, people start to have different ideas of what is important. Take the Jutan for example. I can see why they’re always so dour. When you live i...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Political Supernatural

Ranger's Apprentice Universe

Child Safe Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Nahele

Our gods inherited a chaotic cosmos from their own creators. They gave order to much of it, but though those elder gods were locked away in their lens realm, their disruptive influence can still be felt... We are now in the second age of mortal...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Misty Isle of Harn

[p]Hârn is a large island similar to the British Isles between the Dark Ages and the Age of Chivalry. It is magic-rare, not magic-weak with powerful mages, agents of the gods and other-world entities influencing events from the background. [/p] [p]...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Amana

Amana est un monde ou la magie est présente partout, mais toujours rare. C'est un monde avec une longue histoire et des ruines pour le montrer. C'est un monde où le climat varie du désert a la tundra en passant par une forêt de feuillu géant près de...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Ethra

[Motivational Music][1] Set loosely on framework established in the Dungeons and Dragons universe, mixing original content with inspiration from a variety of modules and D&D lore, as well as popular video games such as Legend of Zelda and Final Fa...

Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Asteria

When you were born into this world, your fate was set to have every waking day be filled with hardship. Life in Ilucin is hard. Monsters from this world and beyond fill the forests, the seas, the plains and even the cities which we call bastions o...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Oraeldin

Oraeldin is a monotheistic grimdark fantasy world created for the Pathfinder RPG system.

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Project Immortals

The World of Immortals is a fantasy world set on a flat plane within a vast multiverse of possible existences. "The Planar World", as it is known to its inhabitants, is one of a few invaded by the gods in the past, leading to the formation of a s...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Military Modern Political

Everus

[p]War, Hatred and Political Scrutiny. The land of Everus is wrought with strife and conflicting deep-rooted histories. The Lowvire Empire controls a lion's share of the world and continues to grow with unyielding power as small rebellions band toget...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Military Political

Sindovanya Andevarlon

Castles + Magic + a few near by planets + probably a lot of furry species: Two planets orbit the star Sindovanya Andevarlon, 1.3 AU away from the star. Tidally locked, each planet appears fixed in...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Science Fantasy

Shattered World

The Shattered World is a world suspended in a crumbling state, where "shards" of the planet are suspended in orbit around the burning lava core of the planet, still encased in some semblance of an atmosphere. Populated shards all adhere to different...

Cyberpunk Dieselpunk Dystopia Exploration Fantasy

Asavla

The Kingdom of Divinice, founded over 700 years ago, has long since fallen from grace. Once the international center of worship of Ylais, goddess of light, the slow degradation of its once vast empire has left its people bitter and overworked. The lo...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Modern Young Adult (YA)

Nashronth

Nashronth (nuh-SHRONTH) is a realm perpetually baked in twilight, where magic courses through the air, influencing a great many things throughout, from the people to the natural flora and fauna. Common elves are the realm's main inhabitants, literal...

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Young Adult (YA)

Kouenlia

Kouenlia is a world inspired mainly by real life history. It is a land rife with religious, cultural, and social conflict. As the Impyre of Tredenica shrinks in the midst of rebellion, the young kingdoms of Enoric and Dalmund vie for dominance. To th...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Prime

In the beginning, the sun rose. Light touched Arch and time awoke. Oceans roared. Flowers bloomed. Eyes opened. Life arose. The Arch refers to the worlds, planes, and the magical Weave that flows between them all. The Arch was built before the very g...

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Cabochon

A 5e Homebrew drawing inspirations from a number of sources and is honestly just a bit of fun for my local D&D group. HERE YE, Magic is dying. Three score a...

Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Karth

It was long ago, before the race of men, when even the kingdoms of elves and dwarves were in their infancy, that the gods walked as mortals and spent time among their followers. It was in this age that the elves and dwarves banded together to form a...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Yaglion

[img:95737] Yaglion é um vasto mundo. Possui cinco continentes conhecidos, sendo eles eles: Mardahar , no centro do hemisfério sul, sendo o centro dos conflitos políticos e histórias d...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Lharonde

Lharonde is an immense continent, the largest in the world. This plane as you know it was created 600 years ago by Angels (not your biblical angels in the sense that they serve God). These Angels are primal aspects that shaped all of existence, and f...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Weird

Elythien

A Dragons & Demons Campaign Setting

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Novinthia

Crime, exploitation, extortion, mystery, illusion

Crime Fantasy, Low Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Farahtor

Farahtor is a world of fantasy, where magic exists through dragons, their riders, seers and gods. There are five main cities surrounded by towns, villages and colonies, as well as large plains of no man's land. These cities are Ritheria, the City of...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Canela

Canela is a world inhabited by both people and dragons. It is a world of technology and magic. However, like most worlds, there is always conflict brewing. The dragons and humans might get along, but the humans rarely get along with each other. Th...

Fantasy, Low Magic

Tanelorn

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Ménicéa

[container:meniceaintro]Lost somewhere in the ocean, Menicea is the land of Gérouns. Weakened by the age of war that just ended, its inhabitants now seek their place in a world populated by races co...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Supernatural

Saradon

Saradon is an ever-evolving world of my own creation set in a time period roughly similar to that of the early European Renaissance in our own history though additionally influenced by a number of alternative forces. It is primarily a passion project...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Meridea

Meridea is a low-fantasy medieval setting.

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

The New World

The New world is a Post-apocalyptic, Native American Fantasy set in the ruins of an earth ravaged by nuclear war. Some would say that you are one of the poor wretched survivors, tainted by radiation into some new abomination. But those some are long...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Modern

Zanthia

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Aidoar

A world of legends. Armies clash upon ancient fields of battle. Fae enchant, disturb, harm, and prank laymen. Pantheons of fickle gods have peopled this world, waging war against their rivals and each other.

Fairy tale Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political Surreal

Not Forgotten Realms

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban

Svět čtvrtého věku

Zamýšleno jako svět, který budeme vytvářet společně ať už zároveň, nebo samostatně. Každý se může vyjádřit a každý může přispět svou troškou do mlýna. Ze začátku se bude jednat o svět z mé hry, která byla původně vedena v systému DrD2 a posléze v...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Gaia

A reflection of our world. Gaia is filled with magic and wonder. The people of Gaia vary between humans like us or monsters of myths and legends. The land itself is stilling recovering from a great battle that happened eons ago. But this hasn't stopp...

Fantasy, Low Magic Supernatural

Arris

"Faith has failed us. From the first civilization to the ash and dust it left behind, all that we have strived for, has only lead us to the brink, and it is at this brink, that the final chapter of our world is told. In the ancient proverbs, such a t...

Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Post Apocalyptic Steampunk

Koru

It is a dark age for the world of Koru. Following a series of calamities, many civilizations have fallen and the others are poised to follow suit. Death and migration have left ghost towns and ruins across much of the world's surface. Monsters, ba...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Tairos

A ruined land. The bounty that Tairos had to offer wasn't lost to disaster or destiny. It was squandered. Bought and sold, mined... depleted. Only when it was too late to reverse course did the people of Tairos fight back. All they succeeded in d...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

Geborgenes Land

Seit Äonen eine sichere Zuflucht für Menschen, Zwerge und Elben, umgeben von undurchdringlichen Gebirgszügen, geschützt vor den Ausgeburten der finsteren Götter, nicht immer friedlich aber allen eine Heimat. Die fünf Zugänge wurden bewacht von mächti...

Fantasy, Low Magic

The Iron Suns

It is the age of reckoning. The Iron Suns, once the most prestigious and well-known mercenary company in the Eastern Continents, has been left in ruins. Wubrg, the Suns fearless leader, has been captured and the remaining members exiled from the C...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Hijr

A young world, blossoming with growing magic and mysteries. Hijr (Hih-Jeer) is a place where lesser magic (Cantrip - 2nd level spells) are common, but greater magic (3rd level spells and above) are nearly unheard of. Some magic can be learned in loca...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

The Land of Hyrule

In the beginning, Hyrule was created by the Golden Goddess of Din, Nayru, and Farore. When they were finished, they created the Goddess Hylia and gave her dominion over the land. The Royal Family of Hyrule was blessed to rule over the land in the for...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Military Political

The Thrice Named Land

In the north, technology thrives under the treetops of the Wooden Forest, the birthplace of the Popular Species. In the cities, the forest is stacked floor to canopy with wooden walls and buildings, hence its name. This bureaucratic society h...

Ancient Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic

Apeiron

In the beginning of time, a great chaos rang out in the darkness. 6 heavenly forces began to mold into bestial shapes imbued with elemental power; Light, Shadow, Earth, Fire, Water, & Wind. These 6 Beasts, the First Six, would go on to form life as w...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Inner Light

Worlds await your adventure Welcome to the Inner Light campaign setting, a planet with three worlds that are uniquely different. A place where the history comes alive and the future calls. Where heroes create their destiny and villains steal...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Science Fantasy

A Shattered Empire - Vardania

The Empire has fallen. Its malevolent tyrant is slain. After centuries of oppression, the Feran people have reclaimed their freedom. The unremarkable farm boy Henrik who lead his people to victory now sits crowned Elder King. The prophetic dream of a...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Mýteera

One fateful night, the Emperor awoke, his mind made up. For twelve nights in a row his dreams had been haunted. For twelve nights death and the devil had grinned at him. "You will be mine." the devil had said again, now for the twelfth time. "So...

Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban Flintlock Historical Political

Valorland

Fantasy, Low Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Eyf Melar

The children of Eyf Melar are told fables of faerie beings called the Aossi, but everyone knows they are just tales told to children. How could there be creatures who spun gold from lead, enchanted men with songs, or devoured the souls of their victi...

Fairy tale Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political Supernatural

Harador

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Etephe

This is a world very similar to Earth in overall climate, distance from the sun and other planets, one moon, mostly water-covered surface, etc. However, there is one large continent, divided into smaller continents (like Eurasiafica = Europe + Asia...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political Stealth

Althea

Die Meere von Althea sind gefährlich. Nur wenige Reisende und Handelskarawanen schaffen die Routen zwischen dem Festland und den weitentfernten Inseln im Nebelmeer und nur die mutigsten Menschen wagen sich in die Küstengegenden. Dort wo das Wasse...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Eredia

Nothing here yet.

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

The Atlamb Expanse

Welcome to the Atlamb Expanse, my attempt to create a world not so different from our own, for the purpose of some day telling stories in it. The Atlamb Expanse has been a project of mine for years that was transferred over to World Anvil in ab...

Ancient Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Solar Empire

We are humans. We are descedants of The One. We made of divine essence. Save us, Sol, and help us in our fight with demons of shayem. – Military prayer What does life mean in a world of suffering, wars and lies? Even...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

Saramoth

Named due to the fact that my original idea was contained in my Sister’s math book… A medieval land of ancient magic, with modern horrors and shaky foundations, the common folk forced to rely upon themselves. Those that cannot care for themselves...

Child Safe Fairy tale Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Planetos

World I am working on which is grounded in reality but on an earth-like planet mainly focusing on a continent which is a cultural mixing pot such as Europe in our current world. The world is a very nation focused. Each ethnic group specializes in a s...

Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Medieval Political

Deset

"The 2 divine brothers, Xin, god of Emotion and Aina, goddness of Free Will, create the Earth where we are walking, the water that we drink and the air that we breathe. Someone said that the goddness of Mind, Haneul tricked and killed Aina, other t...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

Ayalyn

Most of the elves are dead after the spellplague, and a lot of knowledge about arcane magic is gone with them. Their grand Faraconian Empire suddenly ceased to exist from one day to the next. In the name of Pelor and Moradin, Humans and Dwarves have...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Military Political

Edæn

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Arbondal

My D&D campaign world. There are two major areas I have mapped out and players have interacted with only a small part. The first is the heartland of the ancient Dulmar Empire and its fabled ten c...

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban

Etymon

The Dark Souls of Worldbuilding. Not actually.

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Caerdwyn's Toll

/*[spoiler]SENTENCE: Calis wants to change the world, but is having trouble getting the throne of the HRE before the Well of Archaics is refilled, as her husband is making her house hated by everyone. THEME: The Truth is often hidden, mysterious...

Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Political

Aqua Magna

A planet with an endless ocean, broken only by six islands in one hemisphere and a small archipelago in the other. Long, long ago, visitors from another world populated these islands with biomechanical, elementally aligned beings, their purpose unkno...

Fanfiction Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy

Turncoat verse

The three nations of Koth, Ellador and Tigonne coexist on the Madara peninsula. They have intermingled culturally and economiclly for centuries. Madara is surrounded on most sides by the Pantu sea, and bordered in the northwest by the forbidding Ante...

Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Shubil

A few thousand years go magic was very plentiful and powerful. During that time, a great war between mages scorched the land. Powerful wizards made weapons out of other casters. These living weapons survived through time. Some are beasts, other men,...

Fantasy, Low Magic

Oramir

Oramir est un énorme continent, beau mais dangereux, s'étendant extrêmement loin vers l'est, si bien que les cultures locales, notamment les dragons, bêtes puissantes et intelligentes, croient que ceux qui parviennent à en trouver la fin seront accue...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Umiana

A world where a countries worth is determined by the might of their navy and the strength of their commerce. Ever since the Incident there has been no true war again, but that does not stop countries from an incessant arms race creating more and more...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Theron

Theron is the planet where this setting is based, it is a special planet in the fact that it is the epicentre of the universe, a gateway of sorts. Theories have been wrote about Theron but most pass them off as too far fetched, but how else do you th...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Kitharea

Trees that carry cities, Canyons that hold entire civilisations. That is two things that can be found in Kitharea. A world of exotic beauty and wealth, it has been ruled for generations by the Gruten bloodline. A family of extraordinary bravery, the...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Altenda

Long ago there was only the spirits. The lived in their own realm, but couldn't visit, only view the material world. One by one each chose to create a race in their image. From dwarves to elves, the spirits populated the world with their creations a...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Flightless

[img]13530[/img] An ancient world of myth and magic. Woolly mammoths roam the steppes alongside civilizations taking root in the wake of destruction. The world is trapped in a cycle of destruction and rebirth, with li...

Ancient Fantasy, Low Magic Oriental Soft Magic

The Zolrassal

Stare into the shiftless black abyss of the midnight sky. What do you see? The stars and moon, distant galaxies, perhaps strange, manufactured satellites which twinkle pale red flashes to the mother world. The future thrives in this nothingn...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Sphaírmos

A vast world of might and magic, of monsters and mortals, of nations and peoples, of gods and demons. There has been great strife on every scale imaginable, and it has left its mark on the planet, producing terribly great mountains, massive seas, gre...

Ancient Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

Aerth

Much the same as our own Universe but there is a great, infinite, energy that existed long before anything. It is in everything. The power is what everything comes from and will be and was. Then came the Big Bang. Part of the energy split and gat...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Historical

Iriel

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Earssea

Somewhere in the outer fringes of the known universe, partially hidden in the Clasmyc shoals in the Astral Sea, is the isolated world of Earssea(pronounced Ersa). Overlooked by many of the powers and factions of the multiverse, Earssea is world brimm...

Ancient Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

Inqaa

Inqaa is a new world. A young land. A man-made kingdom. It shouldn't exist. Not the way it does now. It is the creation of a greedy woman, and a compliant man, and a crew of hungry, ignorant sycophants. But it is here now, and it thrives. The m...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Soft Magic

Malcera

A mountain that touches the sky and holds rebellion in its heart. A city that was once glorious and now is a charred ruin. A castle that gleams with all the wealth of the ages but stands silent and empty. This is Malcera. Three factions divide...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Speculative Sword & Sorcery

Orrensland

Orrensland is a world shackled by the Athenome. Tall mountains, deep valleys, and rolling plains all beholden to the laws of the arcane plane from which all sorcerers and mages draw their power. Dotted with ancient dwarven ruins made from the blackes...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

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