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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7998696" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Most everything falls under Kitchen sink fairly readily. It is pretty rare for something to be so specific it does not. Dark Sun culturally kept fairly not kitchen sink, but even that had stuff like the Meso-American and Mesopotamian themes that crept into characterizing certain sorcerer-kings' city states.</p><p>Ravenloft, Planescape, and Spelljammer are pretty kitchen sink as well. They each provide easy built in rationales for including anything from D&D as a player element or as a DM element.</p><p></p><p>Ravenloft has a strong gothic horror aspect but its different domains from different worlds makes it very kitchen sink. It has two ancient Egypt lands, a dark sun land, the only mythic india land I can think of in official D&D, part of Thay, a mind-flayer land, standard D&D in Darkon, lots of kitchen sink aspects. Also the mists drawing from different worlds means the party can have PCs from different worlds together so you could have a Rashemon witch from the Realms next to a Knight of Veluna from Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>Planescape is all the planes and all the game worlds, connected by a planar city of gates that can connect anywhere so you can have people from any world in concept.</p><p></p><p>Spelljammer is similar but through physically getting from one world to another through magic space.</p><p></p><p>Hyboria was definitely a kitchen sink, just not for D&D mechanics. It is made up of a lot of analogue lands (ancient Egypt land, ancient Greece land, Spain, Pict wilderness, ancient Afghanistan, Africa, East Asia, Germany, Norse scandinavia, Celtic areas, etc.)</p><p></p><p>Birthright had the European domains, the viking domains, the Arab domains, the slavic domains, the dwarf domains, and the elf domains. It added domain rules but felt like a kitchen sink setting with the added element of divine descended rulers.</p><p></p><p>Most everything falls under Kitchen sink fairly readily. It is pretty rare for something to be so specific it does not. Dark Sun culturally kept fairly not kitchen sink, but even that had stuff like the Meso-American and Mesopotamian themes that crept into characterizing certain sorcerer-kings' city states.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7998696, member: 2209"] Most everything falls under Kitchen sink fairly readily. It is pretty rare for something to be so specific it does not. Dark Sun culturally kept fairly not kitchen sink, but even that had stuff like the Meso-American and Mesopotamian themes that crept into characterizing certain sorcerer-kings' city states. Ravenloft, Planescape, and Spelljammer are pretty kitchen sink as well. They each provide easy built in rationales for including anything from D&D as a player element or as a DM element. Ravenloft has a strong gothic horror aspect but its different domains from different worlds makes it very kitchen sink. It has two ancient Egypt lands, a dark sun land, the only mythic india land I can think of in official D&D, part of Thay, a mind-flayer land, standard D&D in Darkon, lots of kitchen sink aspects. Also the mists drawing from different worlds means the party can have PCs from different worlds together so you could have a Rashemon witch from the Realms next to a Knight of Veluna from Greyhawk. Planescape is all the planes and all the game worlds, connected by a planar city of gates that can connect anywhere so you can have people from any world in concept. Spelljammer is similar but through physically getting from one world to another through magic space. Hyboria was definitely a kitchen sink, just not for D&D mechanics. It is made up of a lot of analogue lands (ancient Egypt land, ancient Greece land, Spain, Pict wilderness, ancient Afghanistan, Africa, East Asia, Germany, Norse scandinavia, Celtic areas, etc.) Birthright had the European domains, the viking domains, the Arab domains, the slavic domains, the dwarf domains, and the elf domains. It added domain rules but felt like a kitchen sink setting with the added element of divine descended rulers. Most everything falls under Kitchen sink fairly readily. It is pretty rare for something to be so specific it does not. Dark Sun culturally kept fairly not kitchen sink, but even that had stuff like the Meso-American and Mesopotamian themes that crept into characterizing certain sorcerer-kings' city states. [/QUOTE]
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