Campaign Settings III

[Dark Psion]

On one hand I would love to see Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Ravenloft and Planescape supported, but on the other,would it be the game I loved?

The current Ravenloft, just isn't scary, the Planar Handbook has aspects of Planescape but not the edge, and the Dragon & Dungeon magazines versions of Dark Sun and Spelljammer were just to PC and lacked the exotic aspects. They just were not the games I used to play.


Considering that, I voted Eberron.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

OK, Who voted for Jakandor? Fess up!

 

[Kitsunekaboom]

Spelljammer all the way here. I love swashbuckling, and you add a cold emotionless vacuum instead of an ocean and it becomes, weirder, more exciting. I loved the Illithid armies, the giff were good comic relief, and the fact that there could be a kender in any ship port made me happy.

Second place would be Darksun, another very strange setting. Third is Planescape, again, very weird.

The first and last favorites represent my want to include practically everything in a setting (and legitimately get away with it .

It really is hard to choose though when you get down to it. Almost every setting has some merit to me (except Greyhawk, I just never liked it for some reason, Forgotten Realms is slightly better off, but not by much). Al-Quadim and Ravenloft were also favorites.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Planescape. And since TD is usually busy doing other jobs these days I'll suggest Vinod Rams as the exclusive interior artist. I think he is the only current D&D artist that could capture the Planescape feel.* Covers and cartography can be done by someone else.
The only other setting I personally own books from is 3E Forgotten Realms. Guess why? Planetouched stats and feats.

*Although the thought of an all Lockwood book makes me drool.

 

[D+1]

I kinda feel like I threw away my vote on this one - Spelljammer. Yeah, I hear you all out there laughing. I probably would have voted for Eberron (it certainly is my number 2 choice on the list) but I haven't yet run an Eberron campaign and despite all it's fine qualities I don't have plans to in the forseeable future. Spelljammer on the other hand, even more than Eberron is the ONE "setting" in the list that really grabbed my imagination. I LIKED the idea of it in general.

But the execution was less than I'd hoped for - in large part because it never DID get a real, genuine, proper setting of its own. It was sadly geared to being an add-on set of rules to existing settings, and especially for linking the major settings.

It was also the one setting on the list that when I stopped running it my players actually wanted to go BACK to it, stating how much fun they'd had.

Edit: After reading through the responses I am quite pleasantly surprised to see the high percentage of those who voted Spelljammer and then posted to say so, or at least noted that it was very high on their list. I would take that to mean that of those who liked Spelljammer they REALLY liked it. Interesting.