Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I’ve always been a homebrewer and so never really focussed on world settings except for the content of modules and stealing ideas from anything interesting. I too started with the Mentzer Red Box but didnt know that Aleena, Bargle and the Savage Coast were all part of the same Hollow World.
That said the three settings that I have used and which influenced me are Birthright, Ravenloft and Al-Qadim.
I also read a whole lot of GURPS sourcebooks and although my homebrew world initially was the ecclectic mess of cultures like Mystara, I soon changed it due to my love of Solomon Kane stories influenced by Birthright and Ravenloft to being an alternate Earth in the ‘Renaisance’ including faux Ottomans on the southern border, gothic vampires and werewolves in Eastern Europe, the Grand Inqusitor becoming Pope, Oliver Cromwells Protectorate surviving in England and Lyonnes rising from the ocean reconnecting Britain with the Continent and bringing Sidhe back into the world ...
That said the three settings that I have used and which influenced me are Birthright, Ravenloft and Al-Qadim.
I also read a whole lot of GURPS sourcebooks and although my homebrew world initially was the ecclectic mess of cultures like Mystara, I soon changed it due to my love of Solomon Kane stories influenced by Birthright and Ravenloft to being an alternate Earth in the ‘Renaisance’ including faux Ottomans on the southern border, gothic vampires and werewolves in Eastern Europe, the Grand Inqusitor becoming Pope, Oliver Cromwells Protectorate surviving in England and Lyonnes rising from the ocean reconnecting Britain with the Continent and bringing Sidhe back into the world ...