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* White Wolf's ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' games featured another set of dimensions called the Umbra, which was based very strongly on [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|human perception]], to the point where a shaman and a scientist in the same part of the deep umbra would see it as a surreal swirling nexus of spirit energy populated with arcane ghosts and a section of interstellar space populated by aliens, respectively.
** The New World of Darkness has its own /sets/ of dimensions. There's the Shadow Realm, which is like the Umbra, only it's nearly exclusively animistic. Then there's the Underworld, which is home to dead knowledge and concepts and the place where ghosts go when they've [[Unfinished Business|finished their business]] but aren't ready to pass on to their final reward. Then there's the Abyss, which is pretty much [[Cosmic Horror Story|anti-reality]]. Then there's the five Supernal Realms, dimensions of pure magic. Then there's the Astral Realms, which are where the collective unconscious is made flesh. Then there's Arcadia, which is not the ''Supernal'' Arcadia and is a [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|constantly shifting]] chaotic wasteland that plays home to [[The Fair Folk]]. Then there's the Hedge, the predatory gateway dimension between Earth and Arcadia. And on top of all that, apparently there's ''[[The Legions of Hell|Hell]]''.
** ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' has smaller Bardos—pocket worlds made of concepts [[Science Marches On|disproved by science]]. The more prominent ones include an alien-inhabited Mars, the [[
* In Atlas Games' ''[[Feng Shui]]'', players can [[Time Travel|travel through time]] by means of "The Netherworld", an alternate dimension made up of gray tunnels which lead to [[Portal Network|portals]] which allow access to and from our world at fixed points in time and space. The Netherworld is home to refugees from alternate timelines that have been erased from reality, including four siblings who ruled the earth in an [[Alternate History]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'''s [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|Warp]] is Another Dimension... [[Cosmic Horror Story|40k style.]] In essence, ''[[Hell]]''. They use it for [[FTL]] travel. It doesn't always ''work''. The ship might disappear then reappear, with everyone inside turned to dust from age. Or it might reappear hundreds to thousands of years later. Or appear at it's destination before it left. "Time" is a funny thing in the Warp. Not funny Ha-Ha.
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