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+ TheCity: Large urban settlements and adjascent suburbs of a metropolitan area.

* NeglectedReservation: Indigineous American and First Nation communities that were created via forced relocation by settlers and the government, whose policies have led them to fall into poverty disrepair.

* {{Area 51}}: A top secret research facility. In the desert.

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[[folder:Space / Place]]

[[folder:Perspective Types]]
* KneeHighPerspective: The characters are children, babies, small or tiny animals, small fey beings, or toys, and adults are viewed from the waist, knee, or ankle down.
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[[folder:Dimensions / Universes]]
* AlienSpaceBats
* AllMythsAreTrue
* AlternateWorldMap: When an RPG has alternate worlds.
* BizarroUniverse
* BloodyBowelsOfHell
* ConstructedWorld
* {{Cyberspace}}
* DarkWorld
* DreamLand
* {{Dreamville}}
* {{Elseworld}}
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The Common Hell
* FluffyCloudHeaven
* GiantFood
* {{Heaven}}
* {{Hell}}
* HellIsWar: Hell is dedicated to the aspects of war
* IronicHell
* LandOfFaerie
* MagicalLand
* MentalWorld
* TheMetaverse
* MirrorUniverse
* MouseWorld
* TheMultiverse
* OnlyOneAfterlife
* PhantomZone
* PlaceBeyondTime
* PlatonicCave
* PocketDimension
* RolePlayingGameVerse
* RetroUniverse
* RPGMechanicsVerse
* SpiritWorld
* TheUnderworld
* {{Wackyland}}
* WarriorHeaven: Where [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]] go when they die.
* WorldOfChaos: A world where physical laws have been thrown to the wind and nothing makes sense.
* WorldOfHam: Where a simple conversation is spoken in ALL CAPS and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis PUNCTUATED! FOR! EMPHASIS!]]
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[[folder:Other / Multiple]]
* AdventureFriendlyWorld
* {{Avalon}}
* CaliforniaDoubling
* {{Camelot}}
* CasualTimeTravel
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}
* CrapsaccharineWorld
* CrapsackOnlyByComparison
* CrapsackWorld
* CultureChopSuey
* DesolationShot
* DividedStatesOfAmerica
* DoublingForLondon
* DysonSphere
* {{Dystopia}}
* DystopiaIsHard
* EarthDrift
* {{Egopolis}}
* EmotionsVsStoicism
* EnvironmentalSymbolism
* EveryoneIsASuper
* ExoticBackdropSetting
* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica
* ExpandedUniverse
* ExpansionPackWorld
* FallenStatesOfAmerica
* FalseUtopia
* FantasyCounterpartCulture
* FilmingLocationCameo
* FisherKing
* FisherKingdom
* FlatWorld
* GaiasLament
* {{Gotterdammerung}}
* HellOnEarth
* HollowWorld
* InvadedStatesOfAmerica
* LegionOfLostSouls
* LocationSong
* LostColony
* {{Matriarchy}}
* MetroSpecificUnderworld
* MundaneDogmatic
* NeverRecycleABuilding
* OneDegreeOfSeparation
* TheOutsideWorld
* PastRightNow: When something very much like the past is found in present day, either recreated or preserved.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath
* PlanetOfHats
* {{Planetville}}
* PointsOfLightSetting
* PostSovietReunion
* RecycledInSpace: An existing story is given a new setting.
* RingWorldPlanet
* SchizoTech
* ScienceDestroysMagic
* {{Shadowland}}
* SharedUniverse
* SingleBiomePlanet: A desert planet, ice planet, ocean planet.
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty
* SmallSecludedWorld
* SomewhereSong
* SpookySilentLibrary
* StandardFantasySetting
** StandardJapaneseFantasySetting
* StandardSciFiSetting
* StandardSuperheroSetting
* SugarBowl: A bright, colorful, happy world.
* TechnoDystopia
* TelevisionGeography
* TerminallyDependentSociety
* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives
* TheUnmasquedWorld
* UrbanRuins
* {{Utopia}}
* TheVerse
* WainscotSociety: The setting may look like our world to most of its inhabitants -- but there's a whole secondary society in hiding.
* WeWillUseLasersInTheFuture: Setting where [[EnergyWeapon Energy Weapons]] are portrayed as superior to kinetic weapons.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield
* TheWonderland: A strange, fantastical place that follows rules we aren't used to.
* WorldGoneMad
* AWorldHalfFull
* WorldOfBadass: ''Everyone'' is a badass.
* WorldOfHam: ''Everyone'' is a LargeHam.
* TheWorldAsMyth
* WorldOfPun
* WorldOfSymbolism
* WorldOfWeirdness: The mundane world is mixed with the supernatural and nobody bats an eye.
* WorldShapes
* WorldTour: When the story is set across multiple different locations around the Earth.
* WretchedHive
* YouWouldNotWantToLiveInDex
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* ForWantOfANail

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Where mobsters hang out and plan crime.

* ShatteredWorld: A planet broken into pieces and floating in space / the void but still inhabited.
* TheShangriLa: A paradise high up in the mountains.

* TheRez: Reservations. Communities where Native Americans were herded by settlers and the government.

* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: The setting is so normal, it's boring.

* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere

* NonHeteronormativeSociety

* NeverLand

* InformedLocation

* NewAge

* AweInspiringDinosaurShot

* CreepyBasement: Like a regular basement, but with more [[strike: lasers]] spiders.

* AncientAfrica: Africa in its heyday, home to great empires, powerful armies, and mines rich with gold

* {{Afrofuturism}}: Africa as a place of technological wonder and modernity, rather than a [[DarkestAfrica primitive, savage land]] or a collection of [[Bulungi impoverished third-world countries.]]

* {{Afrofuturism}}: Africa as a place of technological wonder and modernity, rather than a [[DarkestAfrica primitive, savage land}} or a collection of [[Bulungi impoverished third-world countries.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Picking your place is very important for the story.]]

''The time, place and circumstances of the narrative.''

* {{Afrofuturism}}: {{Cyberpunk}} Africa, often with all the problems of today made worse by the technology of tomorrow.

* AncientAfrica: Everyone in Africa has a bone in their nose and hair, dances around a bonfire, and lives in a straw hut.

* DarkestAfrica: Tarzan and co. See also AncientAfrica above.