Campaign Settings II
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Dark Sun, Spelljammer & Planescape for me. I borrow heavily from all three of these and would love to have some more neat ideas from unusual settings like these. I shy away from the large all emcompassing settings like FR or now Eberron...it is really hard to have your own homebrew setting when none of the core ideas are your own.
I hope the new setting sells like wildfire, and while I doubt none of these settings will ever really return, I would like a book every year or so. A hardcover planescape or Dark Sun would be so friggin cool!
I hope the new setting sells like wildfire, and while I doubt none of these settings will ever really return, I would like a book every year or so. A hardcover planescape or Dark Sun would be so friggin cool!
BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
I said Eberron and Planescape, but it would depend on who was writing the Planescape book. If it was some guy off the street, I would pass. If it was a member of the original design team, I'd jump on it.
Desdichado
Hero
I wouldn't say it was "mentioned" in 3e OA, it was, in their own words, "the featured setting" of 3e OA.MerricB said:
Also, you forgot Lankhmar.
And also again, for what it's worth, I know this is beyond the scope of your poll, but I'm always interested in what newer, d20 settings would do next to the "official" ones. I'm as interested in Midnight or Iron Kingdoms as I am in anything Wizards/TSR ever did.
DragonLancer
Hero
I voted for Dragonlance/Taladas (although both are part of the same setting), and Dark Sun.
Mercule
Adventurer
I voted Greyhawk, Eberron, and Ravenloft. Greyhawk has always been my 'beer & pretzels' setting that I use when not running my homebrew -- nice setting. Eberron has my attension right now, but I'm not sure if it'll hold long. I used to buy all the Ravenloft stuff in 2E and swiped almost all the horror mechanics, but the 3E stuff from S&S hasn't caught my fancy, so there's a caveat to my choices.
Some products for other settings might interest me, but they wouldn't be regular hits. Everyone in my group really likes the concept of Dark Sun, but it never seems to make it into our rotation of games; and the suppliments are unlikely to have cross-over potential. Al-Qadim probably has some stuff worth looting, but I've never really looked at it. Ditto Counsel of Wyrms and Birthright.
Strangely, the top two picks are two of the three (Spelljammer being the third) settings I like least.
You couldn't pay me to buy Realms stuff -- okay, you could, but it wouldn't be cheap, and they'd never actually make it to my shelf. I can't tell you exactly way, but the setting just turns me off. I dislike it enough that I don't even want to loot mechanics from it.
Planescape seems like a fine setting, but most of the things that fans say "cool" about just turn me off. I just don't like plane-hopping. IMO, the Prime is the center of the multiverse and the only reason for any other planes to exist is to support it. Unlike Spelljammer and FR, though, I can see why others like Planescape. I'm just not in the target audience.
Some products for other settings might interest me, but they wouldn't be regular hits. Everyone in my group really likes the concept of Dark Sun, but it never seems to make it into our rotation of games; and the suppliments are unlikely to have cross-over potential. Al-Qadim probably has some stuff worth looting, but I've never really looked at it. Ditto Counsel of Wyrms and Birthright.
Strangely, the top two picks are two of the three (Spelljammer being the third) settings I like least.
You couldn't pay me to buy Realms stuff -- okay, you could, but it wouldn't be cheap, and they'd never actually make it to my shelf. I can't tell you exactly way, but the setting just turns me off. I dislike it enough that I don't even want to loot mechanics from it.
Planescape seems like a fine setting, but most of the things that fans say "cool" about just turn me off. I just don't like plane-hopping. IMO, the Prime is the center of the multiverse and the only reason for any other planes to exist is to support it. Unlike Spelljammer and FR, though, I can see why others like Planescape. I'm just not in the target audience.
rogueattorney
Adventurer
fanboy2000 said:
The 2e Mystara stuff, with the exception of the Mystara Monsterous Compendium, was universally awful. Just one Known World fan's opinion, but I don't think I'm in the minority among KW fans. There's a reason why TSR was able to put out dozens of KW/HW products for years prior to shifting it to 2e, and then saw the line flop immediately upon the shift to 2e. I would suggest that the (lack of) quality of the product was that reason.
R.A.
Trickstergod
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I went with Planescape, Ravenloft, Eberron and Dragonlance.
I will add, though, that I don't just buy everything and that if I think a book is of poor quality, I won't necessarily buy it. Ravenloft, for example, is currently being supported. However, based on its currently shoddy handling, I may cease to bother with it anymore until such a time as it gets better developers. Whereas the integration of some of the metaplot for Planescape or Dragonlance could also put me off to them (of note, being generally broke, I've yet to look into Dragonlance's current incarnation at the moment).
But, yeah, presuming decent writing and handling, those are the settings I'd support.
I will add, though, that I don't just buy everything and that if I think a book is of poor quality, I won't necessarily buy it. Ravenloft, for example, is currently being supported. However, based on its currently shoddy handling, I may cease to bother with it anymore until such a time as it gets better developers. Whereas the integration of some of the metaplot for Planescape or Dragonlance could also put me off to them (of note, being generally broke, I've yet to look into Dragonlance's current incarnation at the moment).
But, yeah, presuming decent writing and handling, those are the settings I'd support.
AFGNCAAP
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Ditto.
As for what's listed:
I'd be interested in Mystara as long as it wasn't the 2nd ed. AD&D iteration of materials--I had an interest in the setting back from my Red Box D&D days. And, it really seemed like a fair hodge-podge of things; heck, most of the stuff in Deities & Demigods pretty much could be dropped in as-is to the setting without any real problems.
[/snip]Joshua Dyal said:
Ditto.
As for what's listed:
I'd be interested in Mystara as long as it wasn't the 2nd ed. AD&D iteration of materials--I had an interest in the setting back from my Red Box D&D days. And, it really seemed like a fair hodge-podge of things; heck, most of the stuff in Deities & Demigods pretty much could be dropped in as-is to the setting without any real problems.
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