Which D&D Settings Do You Play In?

Dark Sun, I DM a campaign there.

My campaign has multiple settings, similar to what [MENTION=10132]Ashran[/MENTION] said above.

My campaign has five foundation worlds...Toril, Oerth, Athas, Golarion, and Arta (homebrew). I use the city of Sigil and other Planescape ideas to connect all the worlds. So I really use 6 settings.

I voted for Planescape, Forgotten Realms, and Homebrew. The reason I chose FR is because that is currently where much of the action is taking place; running a modified Princes of the Apocalypse.

The World of Greyhawk, since 1981 for our 1st Edition campaign.

The World of Greyhawk for our 3.5 games. We haven’t played 3.5 since the release of 5e.

The World of Greyhawk for our 5th Edition campaign.

Eberron, of course!

Corpsetaker said:

The problem I see here is you can't really compare settings like Forgotten Realms/Greyhawk/Mystara to settings like Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and even Dragonlance to a degree because there is a difference in the settings.

If you want hardcore survival then you wouldn't choose FR over Dark Sun. Some of those settings offer something specific and shouldn't be put in the position to where people can only choose one or the other. I could see this done with FR, GH, and Mystara because they all share a common setting type.

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What's that have to do with what setting(s) your currently playing in?

And I most certainly can run a hardcore survival game in FR, etc. So I have no reason NOT to choose it.

Forgotten Realms, because Adventurer's League.

Yeah I'm playing in the realms cos my DM and when I DM, it is easier to run with published adventures. And they're all FR, sadly

However next game is going to be FGG Lost Lands, not on the list!

We should also remember that the Realms also have the largest and strongest popularity from the novel line and the video game lines. So all the people outside of places like EN World-- those people who are arriving at D&D from their interest in the books and video games-- are going with the Realms because that's the setting they fell in love with from the novels or games.

The Dragonlance books probably brought a good number of people to D&D, and they probably played in the Dragonlance setting. But if those Dragonlance books being released didn't do great numbers... then there's an inlet into D&D that is getting restricted. Same thing with Eberron books-- I don't know if any of those novel lines ever gained much traction (compared to Realms novels especially.) Not nearly enough to be a pool of new D&D players that funnel them towards the Eberron setting.

But Pool of Radiance, Balder's Gate, Neverwinter Nights? All those classic and extremely popular video games that might bring people to the tabletop game all direct them towards the Realms. And unfortunately, the one game that could have directed people to a different setting-- the D&D MMO-- was never considered a big enough success to probably help drive people to Eberron when they chose to try out the tabletop game.

As a result... all of those "casual" people out there are all leaning towards the Realms with their opinions and pocketbooks because the books and games were so beloved. All WotC can do is shrug their shoulders and say "The people are speaking with their wallets. What else are we supposed to do?"

Lhorgrim said:

Forgotten Realms, because Adventurer's League.

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I don't doubt that FR being the organized play setting for all but 3e doesn't factor in somehow.

Ravenloft just all of a sudden shot up, that seems a little suspicious.