Post dark settings that aren't 40k

I dont get this pic and filename combo. 40k is very heavily inspired by 2000ad, which has a very heavily satirical, anti-authoratarian bent.

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Eberron is more what you make of it. It's got dark elements, but even Keith Baker stated that the setting works best when the DM uses the parts they need and gloss over or remove what they don't want.

monstergirlencyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Monsterization

Chronicles of Hate is a pretty metal setting by Adrian Smith.

Haven't started on the second volume, but Shakara is pretty dark.

The galaxy is ruled by slavers and the worst of the worst, Humanity is casually massacred and Earth destroyed for profit in the first few pages and the hero's sole purpose in life is revenge genocide.

Though all 2000ad settings are pretty dark.

Maybe at first, but too many cooks spoil the broth and nobody now at GW gets that it's supposed to be satirical

>too many cooks

Too many cocks spoil your mom's cunt.

I'd assume that pushing user out did far worse than putting anything into it.

The Night Land is pretty dark, but it does it in a "the power of human goodness and determination" way.

rude

>too many cooks spoil the broth
Sometimes a duck is just a duck. The original group of folks at GW had their own record label and signed on a bunch death metal bands to write songs about space marines blowing shit up. Because (as a bunch of grimy metal heads) that's what they liked.

They were definitely inspired by 2000AD, but satire or social commentary was never the intention of 40k. It was always just a pastiche of stuff the various people making it found cool.

Rifts rpg by palladium can get pretty metal.

Their Chaos Earth series is the most dark and desperate.

>greentexting because you are somehow unaware of an extremely common phrase

>Being unaware of shit internet memes
Damn dude ¤Φ¤

Blame

Watchmen.

Lovecraft + everything that it inspired.

Worm.

Dark souls.

>Individual megacorps have almost as much influence as the entire government
>almost all of them put material resources above human life
>every wackjob with a science degree seems obsessed with "taming" the xenos
>it always fails
>there's a hyper addictive drug strained from the xenomorphs
>prolonged use mutates the user into an alien/human hybrid who can "hear" the voice of the queen
>there are literal ninja mercenaries running around
>Xenos land on Earth
>que the apocalypse
>Earth is now a giant alien hiveworld
The expanded Aliens franchise would suck to live in. They also continue from Aliens and pretty much ignore 3 and 4.

Monster Girl Encylopedia is pretty damn fucked up

Even though the Warhammer settings were never intended to be anything more than pulp silliness, they were still created by guys with a strong background in history and literature. Modern GW is staffed by guys with a strong background in... Warhammer.

Metro

No love for Mutant Chronicles? 40k with the satire still in place? Shit's lovely.

How the fuck could Earth fall to a bunch of cockroaches? They don't even have guns.

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Xenomorph worshiping cultists, megacorps reluctance to kill the greatest bioweapon of all time and Xenomorphs are good at taking ground.

Scotland 40K

Neither most fans.

Cwcville.

I regret everything in general.

The third and fourth instances sound great to me. The second one doesn't sound bad either.

Kingdom Death. The world where you are VERY lucky if you just get eaten by a lion made out of gold with human hands for paws.

>450+ year old phrase
>"internet meme"

Careful bro, you'll attract the autism defence force.

But that is a horrifying setting.

Anima Beyond Fantasy.

If you're playing a campaign in Moth.

Angela Merkel's Germany

get back to /pol/ nigger

A lot of threads just had /pol/ shit posted on them in more or less five minutes apart.

I think this fucker might be carpet bombing bait for his daily (you) quota.

Reminder too not feed the /pol/acks.

I've always been super curious about that game, but I can never find the miniatures anywhere and they cost mad money. Shame too, because I adore the miniatures.

Real life

Criminally underrated setting, desu.

This. So much this.

Pretty nightmarish if you ask me

It's a nice place if you stay away from the black parts

It's a pretty good game, and has some great lore and worldbuilding. Such a same that the miniatures cost so much. But hey, we still have Satan.

This setting makes the Imperium look like pussies and lucky bastards.

World of darkness, as the name would imply

There is some messed up stuff in modern day Germany though.

youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Just fucking watch it.

you say it's dark, but if you ask me it's pretty tweet

>How the fuck could Earth fall to a bunch of cockroaches

This has got to be bait.

In his defense, the alien and by extension engineer tech in general as it is in the old comic continuity isn't as completely bullshit as it is with the rebooted prometheus continuity. While I do agree his statement is a little baitish in presentation, I imagine it would be much harder for the aliens as they were then, more based on their Aliens iteration, to be as much a threat as they could be interpreted now. I think the only times the old continuity has come close is with that lady-synth who became a pseudo-queen, and that one alien that made people explode.

>Ctrl + F
>No Requiem Chevalier Vampire
When people die in the 40k universe, they don't go to heaven, hell or the warp...they go here.

it's too rad to be truly dark

>dark setting
>full of lights
Well, I bet you feel pretty dumb now.

How the fuck did they cut the power, man? They're animals!

The setting of The First Law trilogy is pretty dark once you reach the end of the 3rd book and find out how fucked up a conflict being fought by one of the main characters is.

>Druuna: "I came for the porn, I stayed for the lore"

Mankind lives in some kind of fucked up decadent future city where a plague that turns you into cronenberg chaos spawns who enjoy to rape and kill can only be barely stopped by vaccines controlled by techpriests. If they think you are infected, they send you to the underworld where most of the chaos spawns live.
Also the world is actually just a spaceship and the plague was created by an AI that hates you all

People always watch Aliens then extrapolate the way the xenos act in that movie to be the exact way they must act in every situation ever, not realizing that all the ones that died in the movie were just warrior drones being sacrificed by the Queen like pawns in a chess game.

The reason they were able to take over Earth is this: Look at New York City, even in the modern day it's got upwards of 40,000 homeless, thousands of miles of sewers/maintenance tunnels/subway lines and who knows how many seldom-used building sublevels. There's even a fucking population of mole people that live in the tunnels and basically only interact with the surface to beg for money or steal shit. How many of those people would have to go missing before anyone with the means to do something about notice and give a shit? A thousand? Two thousand?

>what is positive freedom

Fuck you.

>40k
>dark

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Facism apparently?

anyone up for grimdark storytime

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Oh, absolutely. That's why the earlier stuff is so full of references. I just hate people misusing the word satire.

Mutant chronicles is underappreciated as fuck, but I'd say that's more due to horrible mismanagement than anything else. I think the license has traded hands three or four times now?

Can't really blame people for forgetting about it, or maybe even never hearing about it in the first place.

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No one fucking cares about some random videos, you sperg.

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anyone here?

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Yeah, just reading.

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