Mervyn Peake's Ghormenghast... spelling might be off.

It's about a kingdom that completely consists out of caste.

Gene Wolves Book of the New Sun and A Canticle for Leibowitz
both novels are great post apocalyptic neo-medieval fantasy stories

the dark crystal is a beautiful and odd fantasy movie
the skeksis have to be THE most awsome unconventional fantasy race ever

regarding videogames
shadow of the colossus, ico and shadowgate 64 have a very unice and eerily beautiful atmosphere

Legend

pretty much the entirety of Roger Dean's portfolio.

Dorohedoro

Planescape

Degenesis, Dark Earth and Tribe 8
though all three settings are post apocalyptic
they have many fantasy elements and a mostly neo-medieval society

>>12948604
Engel fits in there too

>>12948509

Phyrexians.

I'm totally rooting for them to kick some shiny metal ass, create New Phyrexia, then get into interplanar wars with Ravinca, the Eldrazi, and Nicol Bolas, among others.

>>12948518
actually while the castle is massive, there is a world outisde of it, so its not like the entire world is a castle, althought that would be very very cool.

>>12948615
Many Magic settings have a good potential.

Morrowind can be pretty unconventional, although some elements borrow pretty heavily from both ancient Middle-Eastern architecture as well as The Dark Crystal.

Amber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Amber

It is, though, the only game where the words "Ancient Sumerian Death-Bot" can be used to accurately describe the scenery.

>>12948655
not to mention dune
dune was probably the major influence
and tolkien elements are mandatory

I really love the lore of morrowind
especially the dunmer, altmer and dwemer

I've been thinking a bit about a setting which influences characters feeling via landscape.

For example while visiting the mountains of invincible anger, pc are prone to uncontrolable rage. Later while drifting on the sea of tears they have to be careful not to get totally suicidal and depressed.

I don't know of other fantasy settings where people live in the remains of giant necromantically-empowered crabs, though.

More Redoran architecture.

>>12948697
Wait, shoot, that's Telvanni stuff. I uploaded the wrong file. Anyway, it's the Telvanni stuff that's most clearly inspired by The Dark Crystal, which is okay, because it's a really cool style.

Here's what I meant to upload.

>>12948679
though something like this is great when done carefully
it can get really lame and cheesy when overdone

I once send my players into a haunted forest where everyone who went off alone became the more uneasy and paranoid the farther from the group he went

you have to describe this very subtly
music is a big help too

More Telvanni stuff.

>>12948509
Well the first ever published Setting was Tekumél which was pretty frickin' weird.
As far as books go i'd heartily recommend Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea/Xothique/Averoigne settings. The former two are delightfully weird and crazy.
Jack Vance's the Dying Earth also qualifies quite well.
Ancient Kingdoms: Mesopotamia (an RPG product), Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar and REH Howard's Hyboria is a bit less so but had it's share of weird stuff as well.

There's always Space Fantasy like Vance's Planet of Adventure or Burroughs Barsoom stories (* of Mars) that are delightfully weird at times.

With games there's of course Morrowind that immediately comes to mind. There's probably more.

I'd also point you to Planet Algol, a homebrew Fantasy/Space Fantasy setting over at http://planetalgol.blogspot.com/ as well as http://hugeruinedpile.blogspot.com/ with the two settings World of Thool (removed but he's posting retoolings of it) and Darkling Sorcery both of which are fairly weird.
http://warriorsoftheredplanet.blogspot.com/ also has some Space Fantasy stuff but it's recently started so not much there yet.

I'd post more art but a lot of it's fairly risqué, some of it being Frazetta and all.

>>12948650
SLOKING?

>>12948509
Morecock's fucking Elric of Melinboner.
...
So many dick jokes.

>>12948671
This!

Anyway, I think the style of Morrowind works really well and is suitably alien. The gameplay isn't great, mind, but it does a really good job of building a convincing society and culture that are far different from our own, having different but logical standards of good and evil, different styles, and a different social structure.

"Masquerade of a Dead Sword," a short story by Thomas Ligotti.

Krull!

dunmer are my favourite elves

>>12948758
Oh yeah, there's the RPG products Carcosa as well as the early Wilderlands of High Fantasy stuff and the RPG adaptation of the Dying Earth all can get pretty weird as well. The man behind Carcosa is also publishing a setting down the road called "Isle of the Unknown" which aims to emulate Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique.
There's also the Zothique D20 fangame over here http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/30/zothique-d20-system-game-guide

And a little discussion on going full weird (which I prefer) vis a vis incorporating some weird into your campaign: http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2010/10/tekumel-and-use-of-weird-in-campaign.html

>>12948572
Looks like Baten Kaitos...

Willow

its a shame they didnt used the original concepts

did someone said beksinski ?

>>12948832
most of it didnt even appear at all

>>12948808
Same.

They're a nice relief from the typical stereotypes.

Don't get me wrong, I love me some High Elf magic and some Wood Elf archery and sneaking, but that's been done so many times.

Cadwallon

Can anyone recommend some good fantasy artists? Im looking to expand my collection.

http://burningheaven.bravehost.com/

>>12948856

that is my sexual fetish

hey, listen!
aren't you forgetting something?

>>12948879

>>12948868
Paul Bonner
Arthur Rackham
John Bauer

Three that I enjoy, older school not so serious fantasy art.

Savage Swords of Athanor is another of those somewhat weird settings: http://swordsofathanor.blogspot.com/

>>12948879
Small time on the unconventional scale.

>>12948868
Daniel Dociu !
Di Terlizzi !!
Gerald Brom !
Karl Kopinski !
Khang Lee !!
Ryan Meinerding
Walter Martishius !
Yoshitaka Amano !!!

>>12948868
http://www.johnjudepalencar.com/home.htm
http://www.morano.pl/
http://www.perkan-arts.com/

I have more links, but they're to sites with lots of artists rather than single-artist sites. Do you want those too?

>>12948868
Mark Tedin

www.keiththompsonart.com

>>12948821

I have the pdfs of this, but mediafire doesn't seem to be working.

Here's the torrent I got it from, but you need a demonoid account to download it
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2301164/25577484/

Video Game-wise, Final Fantasy Legend 1.

The entire universe is one big tower with several large 'worlds' where people live, with smaller splinter worlds.

Overall it doesn't really matter much, but I really like the concept.

>>12949099
is is the same as mystic quest?
loved it and it was my first ever rpg

>>12948879
>>12948920


OOT is to LOTR as Majora's Mask is to Discworld

>>12949239
Dude, Majora's mask was fucking dark.

How is it AT ALL like bright, quirky Discworld?

>>12949271

Acting as a knowing subversion of the original, I suppose.

>>12949271
Uhhh

>>12949198
Strange Freya is strange.

>>paddork Jacob
lol cpatcha :3

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