D&D General A Chart of D&D Campaign Worlds (v 3.0)

[Mercurius]

There was a chart in post #1 a few minutes ago but the link is broken now. Where'd it go?

There was a minute or two when I deleted the old one and added the new one. Check again and let me know - I think it is there.

 

[Cadence]

Listworthy or not, I'm now sucked in to looking up City State of the Invincible Overlord and wondering how I never new about the Wilderlands of High Fantasy Campaign. (The local comic/game/record store owner who ran a huge local game when I was in grade and middle school used the city state and I'm surprised I never saw her have a copy of the wilderlands).

 

[Mercurius]

Listworthy or not, I'm now sucked in to looking up City State of the Invincible Overlord and wondering how I never new about the Wilderlands of High Fantasy Campaign. (The local comic/game/record store owner who ran a huge local game when I was in grade and middle school used the city state and I'm surprised I never saw her have a copy of the wilderlands).

The Wilderlands box set from 2005 is an incredible product - the ultimate sandbox. It is generally very sparse, but it is a huge set of maps with a large portion of hexes filled with at least an adventure seed. Highly recommended (if you can find it for a decent price - they tend to run for $200+).

Actually the "Necromancer quartet" is all good, including Caverns of Thracia (adventure), the City State of the Invincible Overlord (city), and Players Guide to the Wilderlands (setting).

 

[Parmandur]

The Wilderlands box set from 2005 is an incredible product - the ultimate sandbox. It is generally very sparse, but it is a huge set of maps with a large portion of hexes filled with at least an adventure seed. Highly recommended (if you can find it for a decent price - they tend to run for $200+).

Actually the "Necromancer quartet" is all good, including Caverns of Thracia (adventure), the City State of the Invincible Overlord (city), and Players Guide to the Wilderlands (setting).

Too bad the property was nuked from orbit by the ownership. :/

 

[Parmandur]

It's looking better, though I'd say grouping the licensed Settings together, like Lankhmar or Rokugan, would make sense. Make it easier to see at a glance how Dianlo QD&D is a different a image than Jakandor.

 

[Mercurius]

It's looking better, though I'd say grouping the licensed Settings together, like Lankhmar or Rokugan, would make sense. Make it easier to see at a glance how Dianlo QD&D is a different a image than Jakandor.

Good idea. My only caveat is that I listed them in order of first appearance or mention (with the exception of Blackmoor, because I thought it deserved to be mentioned first because it was the basis of early D&D even more than Greyhawk, AFAIK). But I'll dabble with it.

One problem I ran into with 2.0 is that the chart is getting too big for my Macbook Air to do a screenshot without the image being too small (I did it at 100% size, and really I probably should have done it at 120%). I do have an old Pro, but the battery is shot so it needs to be plugged in at all times (spilled a beer on it, fried the battery ).

Anyhow, if it gets too unwieldy, then I'll either use the Pro or just do a separate screenshot for the Other Publishers.

 

[Mercurius]

Oh, just in case, which are the licensed settings. I'm assuming Conan/Red Sonja, Lankhmar, Rokugan, Diablo, Wheel of Time, and Exandria? What about Pelinore?

 

[Mercurius]

p.s. About the Wilderlands. It is one of the few products I can think of that could be used out of box for solo sandboxing, if you're ever bored and lonely. You could pretty much just hexcrawl on your own, look up the entry, and roll some dice. I used to do that with the old 1E DMG Random Dungeon Generator way back in the day...it was kind of fun.

 

[Mercurius]

I also originally had the Plane Shift PDFs in the Magic row, but got rid of them when I separated them. I don't want to have a single row for each of the planeshifts, but maybe I'll add one for "Misc. Magic planes."

 

[Stormonu]

One I just thought of that gets overlooked because of its mundaneness - Fantasy Historical Earth.

That would cover the green Historical books of 2E, possibly Gothic Earth, the early Deities and Demigods “real world“ religions and King Arthur stories, and I believe at least one D&D module. And while you’re not including it, there were several Dragon magazine articles that would be Fantasy Earth gazetteers, as well as the various articles about character stats for historical figures and the like.