What fantasy setting do you use?

johnsemlak

First Post

• Nov 1, 2002

• #1

I had been out of D&D for a while and just got back into it.

I'm wondering what D&D settings are most popular now.

Personally, I was never really into Forgotten Realms, which seems to be awfully popular. Earlier, I did mostly Greyhawk and the Basic D&D setting (Karamekos/Mystara).

3rd party publishing has obviously widened the choice, for the better I hope.

I've tried to list as many settings as I know of, It's impossible to list them all. If you use one I didn't mention, post it.

Please note I've allowed multiple choice if you have multiple campaigns in different settings.

 

Last edited: Nov 1, 2002

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Eternalknight

First Post

• Nov 1, 2002

• #2

I voted both homebrew and Ravenloft, due to the fact that, although my own world, it is heavily drawn from Ravenloft.

 

johnsemlak

First Post

• Nov 1, 2002

• #3

Eternalknight said:

I voted both homebrew and Ravenloft, due to the fact that, although my own world, it is heavily drawn from Ravenloft.

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Good move. That's actually another reason I allowed multiple choice.

 

Psion

Adventurer

• Nov 1, 2002

• #4

Homebrew, with occasional forays into Scarred Lands and Dragonstar (the latter of which you didn't list).

 

johnsemlak

First Post

• Nov 1, 2002

• #5

Psion said:

Homebrew, with occasional forays into Scarred Lands and Dragonstar (the latter of which you didn't list).

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Sorry, Like I said, couldn't possibly get 'em all, but I'm sure I missed some popular ones. I did the list off of the top of my head and by looking at the 'campaign site links' section of enworld.

Is Dragonstar sort of a Fantasy/Sci Fi setting, like Spelljammer?

 

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Garmorn

Explorer

• Nov 1, 2002

• #6

We have two campains, one home brew and the other is Dragonstar.

Dragonstar is closer to a closer to true SF mix with D&D then like Spelljammer. You have all the High tech goodies and magic. The best way to express the setting is this paraphased quote: "Science allows us to use the laws of the universe while magic allows us to break them. You have guns, swords, spaceships and dragons all side by side.

 

Psion

Adventurer

• Nov 1, 2002

• #7

johnsemlak said:

Sorry, Like I said, couldn't possibly get 'em all, but I'm sure I missed some popular ones.

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No problem. I just thought I'd mention it for the purposes of knowing what the "other" was.

Is Dragonstar sort of a Fantasy/Sci Fi setting, like Spelljammer?

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Very sorta. Its basically "a fantasy universe assuming real technological advances"; basically Dragonstar assumes that the only stuff that cannot be realized by real science must be done by magic. So, for example, faster-than-light travel is done by means of magic.

FWIW, I rued spelljammer because it pretty much stomped on my homebrew's universe assumptions... namely that it was a magical world in a galaxy very much like our own. The "crystal speheres" thing drove me nuts and I think Zeb was NUTS to supplant "alternate material planes" with "crystal spheres."

DS, OTOH, was just what I was looking for.

 

Drawmack

First Post

• Nov 1, 2002

• #8

I put homebrew on the question but that's not exactly fair. I like to design the big picture or the world but I use Freeport and Bluffside. I like city books they save me a lot of work but still allow me to define the big picture.

 

Mercule

Adventurer

• Nov 1, 2002

• #9

johnsemlak said:

Good move. That's actually another reason I allowed multiple choice.

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Doh! I should have checked Ravenloft, too, then. I've always pulled bits and pieces from Ravenloft for my homebrew, but never used the setting as a whole.

I use Greyhawk for "generic" adventures, or when I need some down-time for my world. Like now -- I'm running the core modules in Greyhawk while I convert my Aria-based world back to D&D.

 

Desdichado

Hero

• Nov 1, 2002

• #10

Planescape is probably the only official setting I'd ever want to use in a state close to "as is." I like to borrow like crazy, though. I've got a few things from Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, Wheel of Time, Greyhawk, Iron Kingdoms, and several others in most homebrews I've run. The setting I'm building on right now (right now we're playing a Shadowchasers-ish game, in which I'm a player, not DM) probably for play in a few months borrows a bit less, however, as it has a lot of customized classes and customized magic.

I guess what I'm getting it as that I almost exclusively homebrew as a DM, because I enjoy that aspect of DMing a lot. But I like a lot of campaign settings, and I like to have campaign settings as inspiration and sources of plunder.