Editing Campaign Setting

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In [[role-playing games]], a '''Campaign Setting''' is the setting in which a campaign takes place.  Shocking.

Frankly, a good Campaign Setting is key to a good role-playing game, because it [[fluff|fluffs]] out the game, lending meaning to the dice rolls.

Often, a role-playing game system will come with one or more settings pre-made for gaming groups to use, to take some cognitive load off of prospective [[GM|GMs]], and thereby make it easier for people to jump in (and thus make it easier for people to justify buying more books).

A campaign setting can have many scales, from galaxies, down to a single neighborhood.  A well-crafted setting immerses the players, making them care about fabricated places and [[NPC|people]] that only exist on paper.

== Examples ==

* [[The Unified Setting for /tg/]]

* [[Warhammer 40,000 | The Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium]]; [[Fantasy Flight Games]]' RPGs focus on specific zones in particular.

* [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle | The Warhammer World]]

* The [[World of Darkness]]

===[[Dungeons and Dragons]]===

Seriously, there's a ton of these guys, in each and every flavor imaginable:

* [[Greyhawk]] (generic High Fantasy default setting, originally conceived by [[Gary Gygax]] himself)

* [[Forgotten Realms]] (another generic High Fantasy default setting)

* [[Eberron]] (pulp/noir)

* [[Dark Sun]] (post-apocalyptic Fantasy)

* [[Planescape]] ([[plane]]s, planes everywhere -- and we don't mean the flying kind)

* [[Ravenloft]] (gothic horror)

* [[Spelljammer]] (Dungeons and Dragons IIIINNN SPAAAAACE!)

* [[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Golarion]] (pulp, with some Renaissance-verging-on-steampunk and a dash of science fiction)

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