One Hundred Worlds
Every setting across all ten D6 Storyteller books: one hundred worlds spanning high fantasy, science fiction, horror, historical fiction, and beyond. Each entry links to its parent book.
Wild elemental magic clashes with industrial alchemy in an empire powered by harvested ley lines.
Mechanic: Magic Strain & Overcharge Pool: Drawing on elemental magic risks accumulating magical strain or overcharging nearby mechanical tech.
Secret society rebellions duel automaton police forces in fog-bound, smog-choked steam metropolises.
Mechanic: Heat & Pressure Meter: Steam-powered gear builds pressure; pushing gear grants bonus dice but risks explosive blowout.
High-tech, low-life mercenaries take jobs in sprawling megacities ruled by rogue AI conglomerates.
Mechanic: Glitch & System Overclock: Cyberware mods grant extra Effect steps but generate system noise that causes hardware glitches.
Crew survival and exploration aboard derelict space stations, uncharted moons, and deep space anomaly zones.
Mechanic: Life Support & Hull Stress: Environmental hazards directly degrade life support clocks and structural integrity.
Hardboiled 1940s detectives and fatalistic dames navigate police corruption, mob wars, and rain-soaked city alleys.
Mechanic: Vice & Suspicion Clues: Investigators trade personal vices to extract clues, while high suspicion escalates opposition position.
Isolated Victorian manors, fog-shrouded villages, eldritch cults, and nightmarish entities lurking in darkness.
Mechanic: Terror & Sanity Erosion: Encounters with horror inflict psychological conditions that trigger intrusive hallucinations.
Masked vigilantes and powered heroes defend city districts while balancing fragile personal lives.
Mechanic: Collateral Damage & Public Perception: High-power actions fill a Collateral Damage clock, shifting public opinion from heroic to feared.
Scavengers battle mutants aboard rusted flotillas and submerged skyscraper peaks in a flooded world.
Mechanic: Resource Scarcity & Mutation Risk: Fresh water and ammo function as consumable dice pools, while radiation triggers mutations.
A modern neon metropolis hiding ancient supernatural factions (werewolves, vampires, fey) behind a magical illusion.
Mechanic: Masquerade Escalation: Overt magic usage fills the Masquerade Breached clock, drawing mortal authorities and hunter squads.
Victorian investigators, occult scholars, and aristocratic conspirators solve macabre crimes in 19th-century Europe.
Mechanic: Deduction Evidence Chains: Assembling physical and social clues unlocks breakthrough rolls with Great Effect during climactic accusation scenes.
The pantheon of gods died in a cosmic war, leaving their fallen divine corpses as continent-sized biomes.
Mechanic: Ichor Harvesting: Consuming divine blood grants temporary godlike approaches but risks divine Madness conditions.
Human kingdoms live on floating landmasses sailing sky-rivers on wind-ships, avoiding the toxic abyss below.
Mechanic: Thermal Drift & Altitude Pressure: Airships must manage thermal lift meters; descending into the lower mist worsens position to Desperate.
Bioluminescent aquatic civilizations wage war inside deep ocean trenches beneath miles of pitch-black water.
Mechanic: Depth Pressure & Luminescence: Light sources attract predators; deep trench pressure imposes disadvantage on physical movement.
Humanity lives across the infinite branches of a colossal cosmos-spanning tree inhabited by primordial beasts.
Mechanic: Sap-Tide & Branch Decay: Seasonal sap flows grant regeneration, while rotting branches create collapsing terrain hazards.
An empire governed by benevolent undead rulers where citizens donate their post-mortem bodies to public labor.
Mechanic: Soul Binding & Mortification: Necromancers draw on soul-bound contracts, balancing necrotic corruption against social leverage.
Dragon riders bond telepathically with massive drakes in a mountain realm locked in perpetual war.
Mechanic: Empathy Resonance: Riders share condition slots with their bound drakes; a wounded drake inflicts mental strain on the rider.
Mortals trapped in an ethereal realm governed by caprice, blood oaths, and ever-shifting seasonal courts.
Mechanic: Oaths & Court Favor: Breaking spoken promises grants immediate failure, while upholding fey etiquette awards double Momentum.
Magic is strictly chemical; alchemists combine rare metals and salts to alter physical laws in a scarred desert.
Mechanic: Reagent Degradation: Potion and bomb crafting requires burning consumable reagent dice from character inventories.
Vast underground cavern networks lit by glowing crystal pillars, home to subterranean kingdoms and shadow horrors.
Mechanic: Echo & Depressurization: Sound travels far underground; loud actions fill the Tunnel Echo clock, alerting subterranean leviathans.
Warriors channel primal animal spirits to physically alter their bodies into human-beast hybrids.
Mechanic: Feral Instinct: Channeling animal forms adds +2d6 to physical rolls but risks losing human reasoning (temporary Mind penalty).
A centuries-long journey toward a distant star system where social castes have degraded into tribal factions aboard the ship.
Mechanic: System Fatigue & Enclosure Stress: Life support systems decay over generations, creating hull stress and oxygen rationing mechanics.
Humanity survives in junkyard megastructures surrounding a dead megacity, rebuilding themselves from scavenged android parts.
Mechanic: Part Degradation & Scrap Modding: Scavenged cybernetics provide instant abilities but degrade after every three critical rolls.
Utopian solar-powered bio-cities defending their ecological harmony against corporate scavenger fleets.
Mechanic: Harmony & Clean Energy: Utilizing clean energy grants momentum bonuses, while polluting actions incur community penalties.
Human survivors wage guerrilla war against an encroaching alien bio-hive that assimilates organic life.
Mechanic: Pheromone Signal & Contagion: Exposure to swarm spores tracks assimilation risk; high signal alerts local bio-constructs.
Elite pilots operate massive walking war machines defending humanity's final fortress cities against kaiju.
Mechanic: Heat Sync & Mech Armor: Mechs absorb heavy conditions into armor slots; overheating weapons forces manual cooling rounds.
Starships navigate non-Euclidean hyperspace warp corridors where space and reality warp based on thought.
Mechanic: Warp Flux & Perceptual Drift: Navigating hyperspace requires Mind checks; failure distorts ship geometry and perception.
An industrial moon base run entirely by rival mega-corporations where every breath of oxygen is billed to employee accounts.
Mechanic: Credit Debt & Oxygen Bill: Performing actions consumes corporate credits; negative credit balances restrict access to habitats.
Explorers venture into dead precursor alien megastructures to scavenge godlike, incomprehensible technology.
Mechanic: Precursor Artifact Resonance: Activating alien relics produces unpredictable reality-warping effects on rolls of 1.
Millions of alien species live on the interior surface of a colossal star-enclosing Dyson Sphere.
Mechanic: Gravity Shift & Solar Flare: Gravity varies by sphere sector; solar flares disrupt communication and electronic systems.
Digital consciousnesses uploaded into synthetic bodies travel the cosmos while fighting digital virus corruption.
Mechanic: Mind Backup & Corruption Rate: Death triggers restoration from cloud backup, but corruption reduces maximum condition slots.
Gunslingers and occult preachers battle demonic horrors and corrupt railroad barons in 1880s Arizona.
Mechanic: Gunslinger Duel & Hellfire Ammo: Quick-draw duels use opposed initiative checks; hellfire ammo deals severe damage but burns grit.
Pirate captains sail cursed seas filled with kraken, ghost armadas, and Spanish gold laden with Aztec curses.
Mechanic: Broadside & Crew Morale: Naval battles track ship hull integrity and crew morale clocks alongside personal combat.
Airship pirates raid floating treasure convoys above an endless sea of storm clouds.
Mechanic: Wind Current & Boarding Action: Maneuvering airships into wind currents grants advantage during grapple-and-board maneuvers.
Swashbuckling duelists in 17th-century Paris trade witty banter and rapier strikes in royal courts.
Mechanic: Panache & Courtly Repartee: Incorporating witty insults into physical attacks grants free Momentum on partial successes.
Armored steam-train caravans cross an endless haunted desert trading spice and mechanical parts.
Mechanic: Boiler Pressure & Track Defense: Maintaining train speed requires managing boiler heat while defending tracks from raiders.
Submarine buccaneers explore underwater ruins and battle sea monsters using pressurized steam-harpoons.
Mechanic: Pressure Depth & Depth Charge: Submarines taking hull damage risk catastrophic implosion at extreme depths.
A Western frontier town inhabited entirely by ghosts unaware they died, defending against living settlers.
Mechanic: Ethereal Density: Ghosts can shift between incorporeal and physical states, spending Momentum to interact with objects.
Mechanical privateer fleets powered by giant spring-coils fight for control of archipelagos.
Mechanic: Spring Winding: Gearwork ships must be wound up at port; spring depletion lowers approach pools mid-voyage.
1890s Louisiana bayou investigators tracking occult loa spirits and voodoo cults in murky swamps.
Mechanic: Loa Favor & Spirit Possession: Invoking swamp spirits grants powerful magic but risks temporary spirit possession.
Whaling crews in an eternal frozen ocean hunt colossal cosmic leviathans whose blubber powers steam cities.
Mechanic: Harpoon Line Tension: Tracking harpoon tension clocks prevents leviathans from dragging ships underwater.
Private investigators in 1930s New York uncover cosmic horror cults operating out of high-society speakeasies.
Mechanic: Sanity & Occult Clues: Uncovering eldritch truths grants clues but permanently replaces standard approach dice with Insanity dice.
Teen counselors at an isolated forest camp try to survive an unstoppable masked killer.
Mechanic: Isolation Clock & Final Girl: The last surviving counselor gains +2d6 to all rolls during the final confrontation.
Explorers trapped in an infinite, non-Euclidean labyrinth of liminal spaces and hum-buzzing yellow rooms.
Mechanic: Liminal Drift & Reality Anchor: Wandering too far from reality anchors increases spatial distortion and entity encounters.
Modern vampire families rule major cities from the shadows, waging gang wars for territory and blood supply.
Mechanic: Blood Hunger & Frenzy: Suppressing blood hunger imposes stress conditions; releasing it grants superhuman rolls but risks frenzy.
An isolated 17th-century village worships an ancient earth deity demanding bizarre seasonal sacrifices.
Mechanic: Ritual Purity & Harvest Clock: Violating village taboos advances the Harvest Sacrifice clock toward player selection.
Survivors navigate a ruined urban sprawl crawling with fast-moving infected and hostile militarized bands.
Mechanic: Infection Meter & Noise Suppression: Loud actions draw horde danger clocks; bitten characters track infection progression.
A Victorian society where surgery and living tissue grafts have replaced mechanical technology entirely.
Mechanic: Graft Rejection & Organic Mutation: Living tissue mods enhance physical stats but risk graft rejection conditions.
Modern paranormal investigators armed with EMF meters and salt canisters clear haunted locations for clients.
Mechanic: EMF Frequency & Manifestation: Tracking spirit EMF activity predicts when ghost physical manifestations will occur.
A dying grimdark world where the sun has gone out and travelers carry lanterns fueled by human memories.
Mechanic: Kindle Memory & Hollow State: Burning memories refills lanterns; running out of memories turns characters Hollow.
Agents enter the shared dream realm of coma patients to battle inner demons and nightmare entities.
Mechanic: Lucidity & Reality Check: Maintaining dream lucidity allows manipulation of dream physics; losing it traps players in nightmare loops.
An alternate 1940s world locked in endless trench warfare fought with massive diesel-powered bipedal tanks.
Mechanic: Fuel Consumption & Exhaust Smoke: Running heavy diesel engines creates smoke screens but burns fuel supply dice.
DNA editing is ubiquitous; citizens modify their genomes with animal, plant, and synthetic traits on street corners.
Mechanic: Gene Instability & Viral Overwrite: Excessive genetic splices trigger unstable mutations during high-stress rolls.
Earth devoured by self-replicating nanobots; survivors live in insulated electromagnetic domes.
Mechanic: Nano-Disintegration & Shield Battery: Exposure to grey goo disintegrates equipment unless protected by EM shields.
A raygun-gothic 1950s vision of the future with flying cars, household robots, and atomic rocket ships.
Mechanic: Atomic Charge & Radiation Leak: Atomic devices grant high Effect but emit radiation conditions on rolls of 1.
Humanity lives inside a global neural virtual reality network while rogue programmers hack digital physics.
Mechanic: Bandwidth & Code Injection: Hacking virtual laws requires spending bandwidth dice; system firewalls track intrusion.
A world where nature is literally clockwork: trees have copper gears, rivers flow on conveyor belts, and animals are brass constructs.
Mechanic: Winding Key & Lubricant: Characters must wind their clockwork limbs; lack of oil causes joint lock conditions.
1930s pulp sci-fi space opera featuring bubble helmets, glass rockets, and friendly alien diplomats.
Mechanic: Pulp Heroism & Zap Gun Overload: Performing dramatic heroic tropes awards bonus Momentum; zap guns can be overloaded for massive blasts.
Rainy cyberpunk metropolis where detectives investigate digital memory theft and synthetic human assassinations.
Mechanic: Memory Extraction & Neural Burnout: Hackers scan target memories directly, risking neural burnout conditions on failures.
Victorian brass rocket ships powered by coal boilers sail through atmospheric sky-aether to colonize Mars.
Mechanic: Aether Sail Tuning & Coal Supply: Adjusting solar-aether sails controls speed; coal reserves must be managed during long voyages.
Miniaturized agents inside a human body battle viruses, rogue cells, and microscopic parasites.
Mechanic: Cellular Scale & Immune Response: The host's immune system treats agents as foreign invaders if noise levels spike.
Military officers and mech operators defend coastal cities against giant monsters rising from ocean trenches.
Mechanic: Titan Threat Level & Evacuation: Kaiju attacks track city destruction clocks; evacuating civilians grants strategic bonus dice.
High school students transform into cosmic magical guardians defending their city against emotional monsters.
Mechanic: Transformation Energy & Bond of Friendship: Transforming grants magical approaches; teamwork unlocks combined finishing attacks.
Teenage academy cadets train to pilot humanoid jet-mechs against invading alien armadas.
Mechanic: Sync Ratio & Over-Drive: High emotional sync with mechs increases approach pools but inflicts mental stress on damage.
Former superheroes have established a totalitarian global regime; unpowered rebels fight to free humanity.
Mechanic: Power Dampener & Vigilante Heat: Using illegal powers alerts superhero patrol squads; power dampeners disable approaches.
Martial artists from around the world gather for an ancient tournament using spiritual Ki energy attacks.
Mechanic: Ki Charge & Ultimate Technique: Charging Ki across rounds unlocks destructive ultimate techniques with Great Effect.
High-tech cybernetic ninjas execute stealth assassinations across a futuristic feudal Japan controlled by shogun megacorps.
Mechanic: Stealth Cloak & Katana Parry: Active optical camo grants Advantage; parrying laser strikes requires Finesse checks.
Explorers capture, train, and battle elemental pocket monsters in a competitive wild wilderness world.
Mechanic: Elemental Synergy & Capture Sphere: Matching monster elements against targets grants bonus dice; capturing requires weakening beasts first.
Intergalactic space police wield energy rings to defend star systems against world-eating cosmic entities.
Mechanic: Willpower Battery & Ring Charge: Energy powers draw from a central willpower pool that recharges through acts of conviction.
Unpowered vigilantes armed with batons, gadgets, and armor defend a gritty 1980s city from crime syndicates.
Mechanic: Street Credibility & Armor Wear: Building reputation unlocks street informant help; body armor absorbs physical conditions.
Decades after a superhero apocalypse wiped out civilization, mutant descendants fight over ruined superhero headquarters.
Mechanic: Unstable Gene Expression: Mutant powers trigger random secondary effects on rolls containing duplicate dice.
The Roman Empire expands across Europe using war beasts, divine blessings from Mars, and siege magic.
Mechanic: Legion Formation & Favor of the Gods: Fighting in formation grants physical defense; sacrificing to gods grants rerolls.
Norse warriors fight to survive Fimbulwinter as frost giants invade Midgard during the apocalypse.
Mechanic: Rune Magic & Valhalla Favor: Carving Nordic runes grants elemental weapon effects; dying heroically grants allies Momentum.
Sengoku-period Japan where warlords contract demonic Yokai spirits to turn the tide of feudal wars.
Mechanic: Bushido Code & Yokai Pact: Adhering to Bushido grants morale bonuses; summoning Yokai inflicts spiritual corruption.
Ancient Pharaohs use mummification rituals and sun-god magic to rule over an empire of immortal god-kings.
Mechanic: Sun & Shadow Balance: Solar magic excels during the day; necromantic rituals require midnight darkness.
1944 Allied forces confront Nazi occult secret societies unleashing summoned demons on the European front.
Mechanic: Relic Countermeasures & Trench Strain: Holy relics disrupt occult rituals; prolonged artillery fire inflicts shell-shock conditions.
16th-century explorers chart a newly discovered continent inhabited by living elemental spirits and sea serpents.
Mechanic: Cartography & Scurvy Strain: Mapping unknown terrain yields discovery points; long voyages require managing food supplies.
Heroic warriors of ancient Greece battle mythical monsters and seek glory to achieve immortality in song.
Mechanic: Heroic Hubris & Divine Favor: Bragging increases Effect but draws divine intervention from jealous gods.
1890s London street detectives solve macabre murders involving spring-heeled jack, jack the ripper, and monster cults.
Mechanic: Tabloid Fame & Fog Cover: Sensational newspaper coverage alters reputation; thick London fog grants stealth bonuses.
1776 Colonial revolutionaries use secret alchemical explosives and native shaman magic against British automaton redcoats.
Mechanic: Liberty Flame & Black Powder: Firearm volleys require reloading rounds; revolutionary zeal boosts morale.
Martial monks and wuxia scholars defend the Tang Dynasty against demon emperors using internal Qi gong techniques.
Mechanic: Wuxia Lightness & Qi Strike: Running across rooftops and water uses Finesse; Qi strikes bypass physical armor.
Tiny four-inch-tall people live inside the walls of a suburban home, scavenging needles and defending against cats.
Mechanic: Scale Difference & Household Hazard: Everyday household objects (vacuum cleaner, cat, ceiling fan) function as boss hazards.
Adventuring chefs hunt dangerous dungeon monsters to cook legendary magical dishes in a competitive culinary world.
Mechanic: Ingredient Rarity & Flavor Profile: Cooking monster meat grants temporary stat buffs based on dish quality and presentation.
Green plastic toy soldiers come alive in a child's bedroom to fight epic battles against yellow construction vehicles.
Mechanic: Molded Plastic Armor & Melt Threat: Plastic bodies are immune to small punctures but vulnerable to heat sources.
Sentient insects (ants, beetles, mantises) build medieval empires in a suburban backyard garden.
Mechanic: Exoskeleton Armor & Flight Wing: Beetles possess heavy armor; dragonflies gain flight maneuverability.
Teenagers get sucked inside classic 1980s arcade cabinet games and must beat high scores to escape.
Mechanic: Extra Lives & Coin Credit: Players have 3 extra life tokens; dying consumes a credit to respawn with full health.
Citizens live on a giant living board game grid where moving between tiles requires paying rent or taking chance cards.
Mechanic: Chance Roll & Rent Payment: Stepping on property tiles forces rent negotiations; landing on Chance triggers wild random events.
Librarians enter classic books to fix corrupted storylines caused by ink-eating bookworm demons.
Mechanic: Narrative Consistency: Deviating too far from the original book plot causes storyline collapse conditions.
Stuffed animals come alive at night to defend their sleeping children from closet monsters and bed-monsters.
Mechanic: Stuffing Integrity & Child's Comfort: Losing stuffing reduces physical stats; keeping the child sleeping grants bonus Momentum.
Duelists battle using magical cards that summon real monsters, traps, and spells into physical reality.
Mechanic: Deck Draw & Life Points: Drawing from a customized card deck dictates available actions; life points track match status.
Time-traveling agents fix historical paradoxes caused by rogue time terrorists trying to change the past.
Mechanic: Paradox Meter & Butterfly Effect: Altering major historical events accumulates Paradox, risking personal erasure.
A sudden global ice age has frozen the earth; survivors live in geothermal underground cities under the permafrost.
Mechanic: Hypothermia Clock & Heat Pack: Exposure to surface frost drains stamina; heat packs serve as trade currency.
Fast-growing predatory plants have reclaimed modern cities; human tribes live in canopy treehouses above the green.
Mechanic: Pollen Hallucination & Vine Travel: Spore clouds trigger psychological conditions; swinging on vines grants mobility.
Armored muscle-car gangs duel across an endless wasteland searching for the last remaining gasoline reserves.
Mechanic: Vehicle Customization & Nitrous Boost: Cars have armor and speed stats; using nitrous grants extreme speed with crash risk.
The moon exploded into orbital debris, causing unpredictable gravitational tides and asteroid showers on Earth.
Mechanic: Gravity Fluctuation & Impact Warning: Gravity shifts randomly during combat; impact warnings require immediate cover.
Nuclear war flooded lowlands into radioactive swamps inhabited by mutated wildlife and radiation cults.
Mechanic: Geiger Counter & Rad Mutation: Radiation levels track mutation risk; Geiger counters predict rad hotspots.
An apocalyptic EMP wiped out technology, leaving rogue AI programs wandering the physical world as holographic ghosts.
Mechanic: Holographic Interference & EMP Grenade: AI ghosts pass through physical attacks unless disrupted by EMP devices.
Continuous volcanic eruptions have choked the sky with ash; survivors live near active lava tubes for heat.
Mechanic: Ash Suffocation & Geothermal Energy: Breathing ash inflicts respiratory conditions; lava energy powers machinery.
Scavengers explore giant fallen floating sky-cities that crashed into the ocean centuries ago.
Mechanic: Structural Collapse & Anti-Grav Salvage: Ruined sky-cities periodically shift and collapse; anti-grav devices allow weightless salvage.
Blind alien monsters hunt by sound; humanity lives in absolute silence, using sign language and quiet gear.
Mechanic: Decibel Meter & Noise Trigger: Every action generates decibels; reaching the noise threshold triggers immediate monster attacks.
The final fortress city at the end of time, where survivors from all historical eras gather before the universe collapses.
Mechanic: Entropy Decay & Epoch Fusion: Reality decays as entropy increases; characters can combine abilities from different historical eras.