What are the most fricked up worlds in tabletop? Obviously Black Sun Deathcrawl, Nechronica, and Xas Irkalla take the cake for published settings, but then you have /tg/'s own rape-centric Violated Earth setting. I think there was another one too but I have only the vaguest memories of it. Something about dark lords ruling the world in their own territories but the planet was dying, not Dark Sun but even bleaker and more wizard-y.
>dark lords ruling the world in their own territories but the planet was dying, not Dark Sun but even bleaker and more wizard-y.
Was that the one with the giant living God tree?
I am frequently delighted with LotFP even if the idea is "The real world, from a specific time, with intensely awful and dumb magic" rather than a coherently awful world.
Veins of the Earth is not a great place.
Warpland is also a bad time. Cool setting, not great game.
40k in general is a lot of bad.
Carcosa.
Kult.
That one about a spaceship prison that is a hell dimension I forget what its called.
Kingdom Death.
Probably some WoD variant.
>That one about a spaceship prison that is a hell dimension I forget what its called.
Abandon All Hope.
There we go. Thanks anon.
> Something about dark lords ruling the world in their own territories but the planet was dying, not Dark Sun but even bleaker and more wizard-y.
Nechronica?
I like Don't Rest Your Head's world.
Nightmares are real, if you become aware of them you'll be constantly hunted by them, you gain superpowers to fight them but overusing them turns you into a Nightmare as well, and if you ever fall asleep, you're a beacon for any nearby Nightmare while helpless to fight back.
And if you ever manage to successfully rid yourself of your powers and stop the Nightmares from coming(which almost nobody does), the world will feel so empty that you'll never really experience joy again.
I remember the red age, some anon postet stuff about it on a /tg/ related compass thread.
Something about an AI becoming the god of blood, sacrificing 99% of earth's biosphere in a giant ass blood Ritual to turn humans into blood drinking abominations with latent magical power and still sending mechanical and magical body Horrors to hunt everyone.
All of this is possibly the best possible outcome if you get deeper into the lore.
All in all, pretty good shit
French Kult, basically the old testament god won and it become hell on earth and when you die you get trapped in hell 2.0, if your one of the very few people who contains a spark of knowledge you have a chance to escape to... hell 4.0 because the demiurge won REALLY REALLY hard.
Oh and everything is slowly getting worse because they're trying to stave off the heat death of metaverse by powering everything with suffering.
Seriously, frick the demiurge.
/tg/'s very own Endless Hells.
Nechronica is brutal but actually pretty hopeful. Most people haven't read the part of the book that talks about hope and free will and how humanity is actually still existent and can be saved.
Came in here to say this
Nechronica isn't that fricked up it's a game about cute girls doing power of friendship stuff. The beginning state of an episode is bleak but most outcomes are hopeful or at least wholesomely bittersweet. All the cyberzombie e-girl guro is an aesthetic, but it's mostly just there to contrast with the rest of the game basically being a roundabout mahou shoujo game
>All the cyberzombie e-girl guro is an aesthetic, but it's mostly just there to contrast with the rest of the game basically being a roundabout mahou shoujo game
I wouldn't go that far, though games certainly can go that direction. The way I'd put it is the grimdark elements are there to contrast and highlight the purity and kindness of the main characters. It's very "the brightest stars shine in the darkest night" type affair.
What the hell is Violated Earth and why is /tg/ responsible for a rape game?
Why are you surprised at the deviancy of neckbeards?
Not a game, a setting, and it was a good one.
Dogscape.
OP's thread reminds me, anyone know a place to get Wayne Barlowe's Inferno? I cannot pay 200 dollars for an art book.
As a pdf?
Like 99% of his art is free online somewhere. I doubt you'd need a collection. You'll actually probably be better off, since you can potentially get higher res images than the pdf will offer.
If you're interested in Barlowe, pick up his novel, God's Demon. Its the setting the Inferno book is based on, and is actually well written and a nice story. Very interesting take on Hell and Absolution. I've even seen some copies with inset pieces of his art.
>If you're interested in Barlowe, pick up his novel, God's Demon. Its the setting the Inferno book is based on, and is actually well written and a nice story. Very interesting take on Hell and Absolution. I've even seen some copies with inset pieces of his art.
I'm reading God's Demon right now, but what I was hoping from the PDF is more insight into the basics of hell and such. If every picture has an explanation attached to it that'd be a lot of lore to sift through.
Unfortunately I can't help with finding the pdf. On the other hand, Barlowe's own site has this section here, which adds a tad bit of lore to some of the images from Inferno.
https://waynebarlowe.com/artwork/hell/
I've read the web page as it happens, figured there was more to the book itself. I'm sure I'll find it somewhere eventually though.
Still not convinced the whole thing doesn't actually take place in Hell (or some dark fantasy equivalent).
Minarchy
To expand on OP because I'm curious, what are some more fricked up settings in general, not just from /tg/ specific stuff? I like myself a good hellish, depressing universe.