Best Setting Books?

[Morpheus]

Aww thanks......blush

What the hell are you doing here?!?!

 

[Morpheus]

It was pretty good, but my rollin' wasn't, so that put a damper on play.

I'm shocked. You roll low? No way!

 

[Li Shenron]

In another forua I was having a discussion about settings books. One of the other people noted they hate, despise, loath and revile the D20 system (my hat of teh D02 system know no limit), but has a great interest in setting material. So what settings books would you most recommend to this person. Fluff is more important than crunch, but if you think the crunch in the book would bring them around note that too.

I really like the Rokugan setting book, the only fault being that a small amount of information is excluded and is instead inside Oriental Adventures.

Otherwise I always like the Forgotten Realms CS, and the Manual of the Planes (which isn't strictly a setting book, but has some similarities).

 

[MonsterMash]

Ok....I have a preference for Wilderlands....but Monster Mash....just for you. A new greatly expanded Eamondale is one the way in late 2006

Sweet, I knew MacPhail was working on something, but obviously details were a bit scarce due to the NDA.

 

[glass]

Though I despise (any other word would be eaten by the profanity filter) the ruleset (Runequest) I did like the Glorantha campaign world. It's quite interesting and faceted.

Have you tried Glarantha's current ruleset, HeroQuest?

I only played it for one session at a con, so I can't tell you too much about it, but it seems to be about as far from RuneQuest as it is possible to get.


glass.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Campaign Settings:
d20: Irom Kingdoms - Midnight - Eberron
Non-d20: Warhammer - Earthdawn

City Settings:
Bluffside (staying power) - City State of the Invincible Overload

Others of note:
Scarred Lands - Planescape

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Midnight. I don`t like standard Dungeons and Dragons, but this setting is fascinating.