Poll: Favorite Non-D&D RPG Setting

ColonelHardisson · Feb 2, 2002

Trying my hand at this poll thing. The choices, if I do this correctly, are arbitrary, and based on games that I have.

ColonelHardisson · Feb 2, 2002

Ah, good. I did it correctly.

As I said above, the choices were arbitrary; I expect "Other" to get quite a bit of use. Tell us which setting and why.

Glyfair · Feb 2, 2002

I have to go with other:

Glorantha gets my vote as the best non-D&D world. Plus, it's not even close. It's a rich world, with lots of color. It is easily the campaign world with the best thought out mythology.

Glyfair of Glamis

RangerWickett · Feb 2, 2002

Talislanta, WotC's first RPG. It was original, fresh, and full of magic, but not too full of magic. There was a limit to only 7 enchantments and/or magic items on a person at any one time, or else none would work. That really added a lot of flavor.

No Elves, and few of the common fantasy stereotypes, but everything made sense enough that it only took one read-through of the worldbook (which had great illustrations, in my opinion) to 'get' the world.

www.talislanta.com

Also, it had a fairly free-form magic system. Magic was limited in what it could do, but within those bounds, it could do a lot.

Nikchick · Feb 2, 2002

Earthdawn. I was a big fan of Earthdawn back in the day. In fact, the more I've played around with 3E, the more sentimental I feel about Earthdawn. If the mechanics didn't feel so tied to the setting, I might even go so far as to run a 3E game with the whole Earthdawn setting, blood elves and Horrors and all.

Nicole

Cullain · Feb 2, 2002

Nikchick said:
Earthdawn. I was a big fan of Earthdawn back in the day. In fact, the more I've played around with 3E, the more sentimental I feel about Earthdawn. If the mechanics didn't feel so tied to the setting, I might even go so far as to run a 3E game with the whole Earthdawn setting, blood elves and Horrors and all.

Nicole

Seconded. Until 3E came out, I couldn't imagine running a fantasy game that wasn't Earthdawn. Everything about that game was just incredibly well done, IMO.

Cullain

baseballfury · Feb 2, 2002

I have to go with the Old World for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. That setting has a great feel (well, except for the terrible puns).

Fenros · Feb 2, 2002

I had some fond memories playing in the following universes:

-Star Wars
-Castle Falkenstein
-Vampire: The Masquerade, Mage , Werewolf

Although I think there are many more interesting settings out there, its just I haven't played in them yet. So its not fair for me to truly list them here because my knowledge of them is only casual.

gubaru · Feb 2, 2002

Glorantha

Glyfair said:
I have to go with other:

Glorantha gets my vote as the best non-D&D world. Plus, it's not even close. It's a rich world, with lots of color. It is easily the campaign world with the best thought out mythology.

For the above and a big dose of nostalgia.