D&D General Best D&D Setting?

[Tigris]

Nentir Vale. The points of light approach is great for playing. One can clearly feel that its specifically designed for Playing RPGs. Modern Game design applied to a setting.


It has enough interesting hooks that you dont have to make anything up yourself, bur also enough empty space that you easily can add things you like.


It has a good size and it does not expect its players to know about the lore etc.

 

[Voadam]

My top four that I integrate into my mashup homebrew setting.

Ptolus, theocratic empire civil war is a great backdrop and reason local things are up to the PCs to handle. Great setup for D&D Catholic Church alongside D&D polytheism.

Golarion, great kitchen sink of fun diverse strongly themed local areas.

Eberron, Great War era. Fantastic setting take on religions and god cosmology. Strongly themed fun actors in civil war (Karrn and Thrane in particular).

Midgard. Another strongly themed set of local areas with a really fun Baba Yaga mythology and things like the Chaos Wastes.

 

[payn]

No poll required its Birthright.

 

[Lalato]

If you want to explore the wild world of 3rd party settings, you can use my handy dandy list. Can't speak to quality, but maybe something there will resonate with your play style.

Campaign Settings – 5e D&D – Lalato.com

 

[crazy_cat]

Try the ForgottenDarkGreyDragonRavenEbe-RronLoftLanceHawkSunRealms. Covers all bases (nearly)

 

[delericho]

I don't really believe in a 'best'. My favourites are Eberron, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, and Ravenloft, probably in that order.

 

[Gorg]

Karameikos (Mystara)

The Known World was so much fun! True, there was very little campaign setting specific stuff, back then- it was just the default setting for B/X.

 

[DammitVictor]

Mexican. I love it when the Internet asks easy questions like this.

I see you and I'll raise you: Filipino. You're welcome.

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My go-to is usually Spelljammer; a lot of people are telling you Eberron. My next 3.X game is probably going to be in a kind of Eberron/Rokugan Spelljammer.

My current 5e game is more or less generic D&D plus Phantasy Star, more or less using a hybrid of Level Up and Phantasy Star Tabletop Roleplaying.

If you've got any book with Tortles in it, you can't go wrong with the Mushroom Kingdom. Just play some Paper Mario or Mario + Luigi to get the vibe, and give all your PCs the Monk's movement abilities.

 

[Shiroiken]

I'm a huge fan of Greyhawk, so I'm obviously gonna shill for that. It's just just enough information available to inspire you as a DM, without overloading you with information. Just ignore the "everything is Greyhawk" nonsense they pushed in the early 2000s.

 

[overgeeked]

I see you and I'll raise you: Filipino. You're welcome.

Yeah. Filipino food is pretty great. But Mexican is way, way better.