Campaign Settings II

[Staffan]

I voted FR, Eberron, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Planescape and Spelljammer. I considered Mystara as well, but decided that FR and Eberron pretty much does what Mystara does.

 

[Krypter]

Planescape, Dark Sun and Greyhawk. Those were all great worlds.

It's amusing to see that Planescape is ahead of both WotC flagship products: Eberron and Forgotten Realms. Maybe that should tell the marketing folks something, if ENWorld is representative of the gaming community.

Go, Cagers!

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Realistically

I have only very limited funds. I can't get the books now that I would like to. Settings are neat and all but I get so little use out of the various setting material I already buy, that most of these, though fun and interesting, wouldn't make it to my shelf before a winning lottery ticket came my way.

-Planescape

I would sell my children to night hags for their soup if it was the only way I could afford Planescape material.

As it is now, I buy FR to mine for my own fairly high-magic homebrew, and I own a couple other settings, OA, RL and Ghostwalk, and I'm sure that after next year's tax returns, if there's enough money, I'll pick up Eberron, or maybe just races of Eberron, I don't know. Planescape is the only one for which cost is no issue. I will buy Beyond Countless Doorways from Malhavoc as soon as I can, but I really want this team to have the rights to continue Planescape, the one true setting of granduer.

 

[atra2]

In no particular order:

Greyhawk (I play Living Greyhawk, and would like a bit more than the gazetteer)

Forgotten Realms (My "standard fantasy" favorite. IE, whether high or low fantasy,
it's #1 within that group.), especially with FR Underdark.

Dark Sun (It's my preferred "harsh world" though I only got to play it once.)

And I didn't vote for it, but if you gave me a chance to read a 3.5 rendition of
Hollow World so I could compare it to the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, you
would gain my attention.

Heck, if Eberron had a "hollow world" sourcebook, I'd reconsider it. As is, Eberron is
just more Player Reward points (RPGA program) for me when they get the D&D
Campaign for it started.

 

[Ranger REG]

Wow.

It goes to show how fractured our D&D community is. The "too many products, too few audience" rings true. Granted, this is a nonscientific poll which does not account for others who don't vote nor visit this MB, some "dead" settings should stay dead, while others like FR should flourish, as it is healthy for a game company to earn their livings.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Breaking from the pack, I voted "none of the above". I run exclusively in my own home brew, so unless I can mine neat stuff from it, I'm not going to bother.

In fact, since I tend to run long-term (and moderately slow at 1/2 weeks) campaigns, I fairly quickly stop buying new material - there's only so much "cool" stuff I can use anyway.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I voted for:

Planescape: I loved it when it came out, though at the time I was too young to have the money to buy many of their products.

Spelljammer: Pretty much ditto. I think it's very cool.

Eberron: I like it, though I'm not running a game set there, so I'm not buying the adventures. I'm planning to look seriously at Races of Eberron and the like, though, because products like that are good idea-mines.

Ravenloft: I have the unrevised corebook, and would like to own the rest of the Third Edition line, but (like Eberron) I don't plan to run in the setting any time soon and so I'm not sure it's worth my money right now. I like the way the Sword & Sorcery team handle it - though this might be a consequence of my late (Domains of Dread hardback) introduction to the setting.

Al-Qadim: I've never owned anything for this setting but I'm interested in Arabian settings these days.

 

[Sado]

I voted none, although some of them I have never heard of. If you put a gun to my head, I'd go with Dark Sun because of the wasteland feel. I just haven't been thrilled enough with any of them to buy the products, except when it was necessary for a game I was playing in. I'm kind of picky though-I will turn down a setting over one or two things I don't like about it. It's not to say I hate all of these. I have enjoyed the more typical fantasy settings like Greyhawk, FR, DragonLance, etc, and have enjoyed playing in them.

 

[Pants]

Planescape, Dark Sun and Greyhawk. Those were all great worlds.

It's amusing to see that Planescape is ahead of both WotC flagship products: Eberron and Forgotten Realms. Maybe that should tell the marketing folks something, if ENWorld is representative of the gaming community.

Go, Cagers!

Yeah, PS is guaranteed about 240 sales if it comes out. I'm sure that'll make the bigwigs rethink their position.

 

[Galethorn]

I hate to be snarky, but I voted for 'None'.

Why? Because the only setting I like enough to pay money for is my own homebrew, which isn't costing me a cent. That said, I have bought a couple of FR books, back in the days before I knew enough to run my own setting.

Now, that isn't to say I don't like any of the settings mentioned. In fact, there's at least one thing about each one (at least those that I've heard of) that I particularly like. However, I wouldn't buy books relating to any of them because 1.) I'm cheap, 2.) I (and the players) really like my homebrew, 3.) People other than me in my group do the DMing of other D&D games (and therefore buy the books themselves), 4.) The few books I do buy are non-D&D d20.

So, as far as D&D goes, I'm either a cheap player (not that you can get much with a total disposable income of <$60 a month) or else run my own setting.