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* Some ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' settings ([[Ravenloft]] and Heroes of Horror spring to mind), and it really depends on the player's [[Character Alignment]] and the DM's mood when he cooked up the campaign whether it stays [[Heroic Fantasy]] too.
** The overall theme in ''[[Planescape]]'' is its moral ambiguity, and the bizarre settings only increase grim mood.
** The ''Midnight'' setting takes place in a rather generic fantasy world where the Forces of Evil won the final war and the protagonists are [[La Résistance|guerillas]] or simple folk trying to delay the inevitable. Imagine [[The Lord of the Rings]] if Sauron had won.
** The ''[[Dark Sun]]'' setting takes place in a desert fantasy world where the Forces of Primordial (or whatever bad, bad guys the writers feel like throwing in an edition) won the war and the heroes ([[I Did What I Had to Do|if you can call them that]]) fight out of necessity, not idealism.
* ''Gemini'' is set in dying world that succumbed to [[You Fail Biology Forever|eternal twilight]] and the people are harassed by the demonic forces looking for hiding Prophet believed to be a Saviour of Man.
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