Editing Setting Aesthetics (section)

==Other==
*'''[[Science Fantasy]]''' - Science Fiction and Fantasy gleefully mashed up, so you can wind up with [[Awesome|elves with laser pistols, sword-wielding robots, and dragons flying between the stars]].

Examples: [[Dragonmech]], [[Dragonstar]], [[Spelljammer]], [[Numenera]], [[RIFTS]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Warhammer 40,000]], [[Starfinder]]. arguably [[Star Wars]].

*'''Lovecraftian''': A type of horror setting that is either directly based on or inspired by the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], especially the Cthulhu Mythos. The main concepts revolve around monsters and deities whose mere existence is so horrible that knowledge or direct perception of them drives people insane, and feature copious amounts of existential dread.

Example: [[Call of Cthulhu]], [[Delta Green]]

*'''[[Supers]]''' - AKA Superheroes, Capeshit. Superpowers and melodrama. Frequently mixed with another aesthetic (Urban Fantasy, Science Fantasy or Science Fiction, usually).

Example: DC and Marvel, [[Worm]]

*'''[[Cattlepunk]]''': Western setting with [[Steampunk]].

Example: [[The Dark Tower]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''Space Western''' -  Western elements in a science fiction or [[Space Opera]] setting.

Examples: [[Firefly]], Borderlands, The Mandalorian, [[Star Trek]] was originally pitched as such but doesn't really fit the modern definition

*'''[[Magitek]]''' -  Magic has either replaced technology or been assimilated into it. Clarkes third law turned on it's head.

Examples: [[Eberron]], [[Deadlands]], [[Rifts]], [[Iron Kingdoms]], [[Exalted]], [[Hollow World]], [[Technomancer]]

*'''[[Urban Fantasy]]''' - Our world, but with magic and/or science fiction added to it. Considered by many the "easiest" sort of setting to get into by casuals & normies. Can be further seasoned with many other aesthetics. Despite the name, it really just means that it takes place in a post-Industrial-age world<ref>Although if you're more advanced than the current technology, you're either veering into [[Supers]] or [[Science Fantasy]]</ref> and doesn't have to take place in a city.

Examples: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, [[D20 Modern]], The Dresden Files, [[Mutants & Masterminds]], [[World of Darkness]], [[Dark Matter]]

*'''[[Weird Wars]]''' -  [[Urban Fantasy]] meets war stories, when one of our world's wars gets magical and/or super-science added to it.

Examples: Pinnacle Games' lines of the same name, [[Wolfenstein]], Dust, [[Call of Cthulhu]], [[GURPS]]

*'''[[Isekai]]''' - Your dudes come from the real world, but have been sent to a fantasy (or, more rarely, sci-fi) land.

Examples: Sword Art Online, GATE, way too many anime from the 2010s

*'''[[Post-Apocalyptic]]''' - The world ended, and now it's time for adventure! Expect rusted metal, moral ambiguity, relatively high-tech, mutants and lots, ''lots'' of sand. Can effectively be divided into three sub-settings: in post-apocalypse, the apocalypse happened fairly recently and as such people are mostly just concerned with simple survival. In post-post-apocalypse, a lot of time has passed since the apocalypse and people have started to rebuild civilization, though it is definitely still a work in progress. In post-post-post-apocalypse, the apocalypse is a distant memory and the world has largely recovered from it.

Examples: [[Fallout]], Mad Max. Commonly combined with sci-fi, but also sometimes with [[Dark Souls|medieval stuff]].

*'''[[Alternate History]]''' - One event in history went differently than in our timeline and this change caused the events past that point to be wildly different from our timeline. What if Rome didn't collapse and survived to the 21st century? What if Nobunagas ambition was realized and after conquering Japan, he went on to successfuly conquer Korea and China? Germany winning WW2 is a particularly popular one. Alternate history can effectively work with anything from real world history, fantasy settings to sci-fi settings but it's usually based on real world history. Alternate history based on real world history does have a tendency to feature sci-fi elements however.

Examples: Command & Conquer: Red Alert, The Man in the High Castle, Wolfenstein The New Order 

*'''[[Retro-futuristic]]''' - Setting that tries to imitate how people in the past saw the future. Many of the punk-genres fall under this. Often features technology that would have been futuristic at the time but now are either commonplace or outright outdated. A good example of this is a mobile communication device, something quite futuristic in the time of wired phones and payphones, which often in these types of settings is portrayed as quite cumbersome or of limited functionality, paling in comparison to smart-phones or even mobile phones from the 90s since they allowed for sending of text messages in addition to calls. There is also a type of retro-futurism known as [[TVTropes|Zeerust]] which refers to stuff that was actually made in the past and felt futuristic back then but now feels retro-futuristic.

Examples: Fallout, Alien, Star Trek: The Original Series (Zeerust)

*'''Complete and Utter Clusterfuck/All of the Above''' - Definitely lying on the side of metafictional parody, nonsensical but hilarious combinations can lead to, if it understands that it is a parody that doesn't take itself seriously, hilarious fun.

Example: Warhammer 40000, natch. The entire thing is a hilariously darkly comedic piss-take on everything under the sun.