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<blockquote data-quote="FriendlyFiend" data-source="post: 638361" data-attributes="member: 7368">Favourite setting: PlanescapeSurely this was TSR's labour of love?&nbsp; While FR2e and Ravenloft 2e were seeing (IMHO) a substantial quality drop, TSR was producing some of their best looking, best written, best quality work in Planescape.&nbsp; I love it for the enormous scope, I love it for the fabulous city of Sigil (especially that Dickensian London feel that no-one else has ever got quite right), I love it for the Bleak Cabal (what other game has given players the opportunity to be existentialists), I love it for all those big boxed sets, I love it for adventures like Dead Gods.Honourable mentions:&nbsp; Dark Sun, Al QadimMost disappointing setting: Ravenloft.I loved I6 Ravenloft.&nbsp; It's probably the best adventure I've ever DM'ed - and certainly the one that's most memorable some fifteen-odd years later.&nbsp; I just think the attempt to use it (and its less-successful sequel) to launch a whole D&amp;D setting was always going to have problems, especially when you get the mix and match &quot;this is from Bram Stoker, this is from Mary Shelley, this is from &quot;The Mummy&quot; approach that was eventually adopted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Give me nineteenth century Mittel Europa on its own, don't give me Louisiana and the desert wastes of Egypt as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FriendlyFiend, post: 638361, member: 7368"] Favourite setting: Planescape Surely this was TSR's labour of love? While FR2e and Ravenloft 2e were seeing (IMHO) a substantial quality drop, TSR was producing some of their best looking, best written, best quality work in Planescape. I love it for the enormous scope, I love it for the fabulous city of Sigil (especially that Dickensian London feel that no-one else has ever got quite right), I love it for the Bleak Cabal (what other game has given players the opportunity to be existentialists), I love it for all those big boxed sets, I love it for adventures like Dead Gods. Honourable mentions: Dark Sun, Al Qadim Most disappointing setting: Ravenloft. I loved I6 Ravenloft. It's probably the best adventure I've ever DM'ed - and certainly the one that's most memorable some fifteen-odd years later. I just think the attempt to use it (and its less-successful sequel) to launch a whole D&D setting was always going to have problems, especially when you get the mix and match "this is from Bram Stoker, this is from Mary Shelley, this is from "The Mummy" approach that was eventually adopted. Give me nineteenth century Mittel Europa on its own, don't give me Louisiana and the desert wastes of Egypt as well. [/QUOTE]

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