Campaign Settings II

[Ranger REG]

Can I vote for more than one?

 

[MerricB]

Can I vote for more than one?

Yes. That should be possible.

Cheers!

 

[MonsterMash]

I voted for Al-Qadim and Blackmoor, but my real favourite is the Wilderlands of High Fantasy from Judges Guild.

 

[eryndel]

Great poll Merric,

For me, I picked the Realms, Dark Sun, Known World, Spelljammer, Planescape, Ravenloft and Blackmoor. Yep, I'm a campaign whore.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Give me Al-Qadim but more than likely I would buy a few more than I picked.

 

[reanjr]

I'd really like to see some new Known World stuff. How was the 2e materal? Was it good?

There was definitely quality material in there, but I didn't like the setting (too generic). I don't think it really had enough products to really shine.

 

[reanjr]

Thanks for the expanded poll Merric

Personally I voted for Planescape, Dark Sun, FR, and Ravenloft. I currently play PS and FR and while I've never gotten to play DS or RL I'd love to try one of these days. (Both the 2e and 3e S&S RL stuff seems interesting).

And indeed, when Planescape gets its own catagory, gee wow it's in 1st place as of the moment

Dark Sun and Ravenloft are really right up there with Planescape, IMO. (You may have noticed from some of my posts that I was a big fan of Planescape). Ravenloft is absolutely wonderful in both 2e and 3e. I think it has actually gotten better with 3e since they had the opportunity to really get things homogenized (a demiplane that sucks in lands from the Prime can get a bit... nonsensical). Every product I've see so far (Campaign Setting, Monster Book, Gazeteers) are superb. Denizens of Dread has quickly become one of my favorite monster books for D20.

Unfotunately, none of my players ever want to try Dark Sun or Ravenloft because they feel for some reason that they are PKing campaign settings. I've decided to draw from Ravenloft's feel for certain elements of my current Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign.

Anyway, I can't recommend them highly enough. Hunt for someone to play these with.

 

[reanjr]

I am gladly suprised by the 1st place of Planescape and the good ranking of Birthright!
I am really amazed how they made such a mistake to complety dumb Planescape...

I think Birthright would be even higher if it hadn't been so short lived (even if it did lead a vigorous life).

 

[reanjr]

Dark Sun, Birthright, Planescape, Ravenloft

Dragonlance and Taladas, too, but that's mostly because I know and love the world so much. I've never really played Dragonlance extensively (most of playing was actually with the SAGA system) and I've never played Taladas, even though I have the Time of the Dragons boxed set. Taladas is absolutely fascinating, though.

I also must admit, I never bought a supplement for Birthright after the campaign setting. The campaign setting was just so good and complete on its own that I never felt the need to get anymore material.

I am already in the process of attaining everything Ravenloftian from Sword and Sorcery.

Dark Sun and Planescape I would eat up in a heart beat. With Ravenloft, these are the holy trinity to me.

Planescape #1:
Maybe Wizards should wisen up and realize that there's more to life than Forgotten Realms. Planescape doesn't fit their nice little marketing mould. They can't think of how they could bring back the setting without resorting to getting rid of the Variant Class-Prestige Class-New Skill Use-Feats-Spells formula which they apply militantly to every single product whether its appropriate or not. So they instead throw up their hands in disgust and say "Planescape has too much flavor for us to handle."

 

[glass]

I voted for all of them (apart from 'None of the above', obviously). I have bought stuff for most of them when they were in print (except for Blackmoor, which was a little before my time), and I have (in theory) a lot more money now than I did last time Planescape and Taladas were around.

Good to see Birthright doing reasonably well!


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