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Campaign setting

A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place.[1]: 30 [2]: 12–13  Usually a campaign setting is designed for a specific game (such as the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons) or a specific genre of game (such as medieval fantasy, or outer space/science fiction adventure). There are numerous campaign settings available both in print and online. In addition to published campaign settings available for purchase, many game masters create their own settings, often referred to as "homebrew" settings or worlds.

While obviously connected to game materials, campaign settings are supported also by other media, such as novels and comic books.[1]: 171 


Examples of major campaign settings include numerous settings within Dungeons & Dragons,[1]: 30  as well as many others such as BattleTech.[1]: 171 

The first type of setting is specifically tied to a single game, such as or World of Darkness, where the game has only the one setting.

Warhammer

The second type of setting is for games that have multiple settings such as modern Dungeons & Dragons or generic roleplaying systems such as or Fudge

GURPS

The third type of setting is developed without being tied to a particular game system. Typically this last sort are developed first as stand-alone works of fiction, which are later adapted to one or more role playing systems such as the universe or Middle-earth, though there are a few exceptions of settings which were designed explicitly for role playing gaming, but without a specific system in mind, such as Hârn.

Star Wars

Fantasy world

List of campaign settings

List of fictional universes

Campaign (role-playing games)

Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings