Popular Campaign Settings

[Wombat]

Hmmm, let's see...

First choice would be Homebrew, but that's not an option...

Then there are a couple of non-D20 settings that I would run with very little modification (Blue Planet, Al Amarja, Dragonpass, Pendragon's Britain, Star Trek universe)...

Then there's Harn, which is great because it is primarily geography and easily malleable...

But of the D20 settings, I think I'd have to pump for Skull & Bones/Spanish Main + zombies Followed by Nyambe

 

[Crothian]

Thieves World

It has a great history, its low magic and gritty, and it has mystery and conflict.

 

[The Cardinal]

Dawnforge - for D&D d20. 80-90% of my games use GURPS. In those cases I prefer:

Fantasy: my various homebrews
SF: Transhuman Space, Humanx
Post-Apocalypse: War Against The Chtorr, Reign of Steel, Reign of Fire (Pyramid article)
Horror: Cabal, Unknown Armies, Delta Green
Conspiracy: Cabal, Conspiracy X

 

[MDSnowman]

Ravenloft.

All the Raveloft fans in the House of Strahd say "ACK RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!"

 

[Nightfall]

Say it loud, say it proud, Scarred Lands!

 

[terrestrialboy]

I've always been partial to Dark Sun ever since I played the Shattered Lands computer game. I love the setting with a passion.

Ethan Parker

 

[Gundark]

Well From what I've seen of the Iron Kingdoms it would be that setting....however Forgotten Realms comes in at a VERY close 2nd

 

[Ottergame]

Planescape, baybee.

 

[d4]

like a few other people have said, my favorite setting is whatever homebrew world i'm currently working on.

 

[adembroski3]

I want to apologise to some people. I really meant to put Ravenloft in the poll, and apparently I just forgot. My bad, I'm sorry.

Thanks for all the opinions. I hope they keep coming.

Pretty much what I expected from Forgotten Realms and Planescape, but I didn't expect Greyhawk to pull so many votes. Wow.

Well, at least the underappreciated KoK got a couple votes. Dragonlance is my personal favorite, it's well behind.

I would say that the consentration on Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk is fairly justified. As long as Sovereign Press continues to put out quality products like the Bestiary, I can live with that. Besides, Dragonlance does have one of the best online communities in the business with tons of custom content.

I personally do not like Greyhawk. In my personal opinion it seems to be a mish-mash of everything with no real theme to hold the whole thing together. Forgotten Realms is similar, but far more well executed. This is, of course, opinion, so don't flame me

I like the 'focused theme' worlds like Ravenloft and Dark Sun, but I could never really bring myself to run a campaign set in one... though I'd have no problems playing in one.

Dragonlance is very special too me. I think the focus on The Epic Struggle sort of fascinates me.