Holy Bovine
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The Auld Grump, extremes aren't tongue in cheek, they are just inaccurate. As is, Birthright (Love) was the only one worth wasting a vote on.
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Campaign Settings We Hate
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Steel_Wind
Legend
Greyhawk: I enjoyed it.
Forgotten Realms: Not my fave, but ok.
DarkSun: Ok, great psionics setting
Dragonlance: I enjoyed it
Ravenloft: Blech. Ick Ptooey.
Planescape: I despise Planescape.
Spelljammer: Really didn't like this. At all.
Birthright: Easily the best setting TSR ever designed. A fantastical medieval European setting that actually worked. If you missed Birthright, you missed something worth getting. The Bloodline powers were awesome; the mythic Iconic monsters? Best. Design. Evar.
Eberron: (for completeness) Hate it.
Theory of My Settings Preferences: I like standard medieval European fantasy. The more strongly based in "reality" it is, the more I like it. The weirder it is, the more I dislike it.
Forgotten Realms: Not my fave, but ok.
DarkSun: Ok, great psionics setting
Dragonlance: I enjoyed it
Ravenloft: Blech. Ick Ptooey.
Planescape: I despise Planescape.
Spelljammer: Really didn't like this. At all.
Birthright: Easily the best setting TSR ever designed. A fantastical medieval European setting that actually worked. If you missed Birthright, you missed something worth getting. The Bloodline powers were awesome; the mythic Iconic monsters? Best. Design. Evar.
Eberron: (for completeness) Hate it.
Theory of My Settings Preferences: I like standard medieval European fantasy. The more strongly based in "reality" it is, the more I like it. The weirder it is, the more I dislike it.
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AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
AD&D Greyhawk, Gygax: Love
AD&D Greyhawk, Post-Gygax: Hate
AD&D Greyhawk, From the Ashes: Awesomeness
3e Greyhawk, Living Greyhawk Gazetteer: Awesomeness
3e Greyhawk, RPGA years: Love/Hate
FR, Gray box: Awesomeness
FR, ever after: down hill with each RSE
FR, Kara Tur: Hate
FR, Maztica: Hate
Dark Sun, Original box: Awesomeness
Dark Sun, Revised box: Love, except for the Prism Pentad inspired changes, which I hate.
Dragonlance, Weis/Hickman original stories: Love
Dragonlance, all else: Indifferent to dislike
Dragonlance, Taladas: Love
Ravonloft: Love the concepts, Bad experiences in play
Planescape: Love setting, Hate Great Wheel, Hate the cant with a passion.
Spelljammer: Love ship-based adventurers with great memories of combats in space, Hate that there was no central setting
Birthright: Love. Agree with Steel_Wind's take totally.
Bonus round:
AD&D Greyhawk, Post-Gygax: Hate
AD&D Greyhawk, From the Ashes: Awesomeness
3e Greyhawk, Living Greyhawk Gazetteer: Awesomeness
3e Greyhawk, RPGA years: Love/Hate
FR, Gray box: Awesomeness
FR, ever after: down hill with each RSE
FR, Kara Tur: Hate
FR, Maztica: Hate
Dark Sun, Original box: Awesomeness
Dark Sun, Revised box: Love, except for the Prism Pentad inspired changes, which I hate.
Dragonlance, Weis/Hickman original stories: Love
Dragonlance, all else: Indifferent to dislike
Dragonlance, Taladas: Love
Ravonloft: Love the concepts, Bad experiences in play
Planescape: Love setting, Hate Great Wheel, Hate the cant with a passion.
Spelljammer: Love ship-based adventurers with great memories of combats in space, Hate that there was no central setting
Birthright: Love. Agree with Steel_Wind's take totally.
Bonus round:
Eberron: Indifferent. Never got to play, wish I could have because I think I'd have loved it.
Al Qadim: Love. It was the example of how AD&D Kits should been used in a setting.
Mystara, Known World: Love, though I still love Mystara's Known World, the AD&Dification I hate hate hate.
Mystara, Hollow World: Love
Mystara, Red Steel: Awesomeness, 2nd example of AD&D Kits done right.
Mystara, Blackmoor: Love
Al Qadim: Love. It was the example of how AD&D Kits should been used in a setting.
Mystara, Known World: Love, though I still love Mystara's Known World, the AD&Dification I hate hate hate.
Mystara, Hollow World: Love
Mystara, Red Steel: Awesomeness, 2nd example of AD&D Kits done right.
Mystara, Blackmoor: Love
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Greyhawk: Love it /Hate it: Loved the portfolio and when Gary was writing about it in Dragon. Didn't like anything else that followed Gary's work except for Sean Reynold's Core Belief articles.
Forgotten Realms: Love it/Hate it. I liked the orignal boxed set and FR series of supplements. I liked some of the 2e supplements. However, imo, they keep screwing up and making it worse with each incarnation that follows (admittedly, the 3e Forgotten Realms core book was very pretty).
DarkSun: Love it (I blocked the 3e version from Dragon out of memory).
Ravenloft: Love it.
Birthright: Don't Love or Don't Care. It sounded interesting, but I never had a chance to check it out.
Planescape: Don't Love or Don't Care (In actuality, I dislike it. I just don't hate it.)
Spelljammer: Don't Love or Don't Care (In actuality, I dislike it. I just don't hate it)
Forgotten Realms: Love it/Hate it. I liked the orignal boxed set and FR series of supplements. I liked some of the 2e supplements. However, imo, they keep screwing up and making it worse with each incarnation that follows (admittedly, the 3e Forgotten Realms core book was very pretty).
DarkSun: Love it (I blocked the 3e version from Dragon out of memory).
Ravenloft: Love it.
Birthright: Don't Love or Don't Care. It sounded interesting, but I never had a chance to check it out.
Planescape: Don't Love or Don't Care (In actuality, I dislike it. I just don't hate it.)
Spelljammer: Don't Love or Don't Care (In actuality, I dislike it. I just don't hate it)
My favorite is Forgotten Realms, 2e & 3e.
I don't hate the others.
The least I like is the Eberron setting, mostly because of the way it's set up by playing DDO.
I don't hate the others.
The least I like is the Eberron setting, mostly because of the way it's set up by playing DDO.
cignus_pfaccari
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Hate: Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and Dragonlance
Love: Birthright
Ravenloft gets hate because IME it's something used by DMs to "punish" players. Also, I never really cared for "gothic horror."
Spelljammer and Dragonlance get hate because of the tinker gnomes and giant space hamsters. Also, I couldn't stand the Dragonlance novels, and the "here, worship Ptah so your spells work in any sphere" is stupid.
Birthright gets loved because it's very Tolkienesque and detailed, with lots of nice backstory and just lovely supplements. Also, and I am COMPLETELY AND FULLY aware that this probably has something to do with it, it's the one I played in the most.
Brad
Love: Birthright
Ravenloft gets hate because IME it's something used by DMs to "punish" players. Also, I never really cared for "gothic horror."
Spelljammer and Dragonlance get hate because of the tinker gnomes and giant space hamsters. Also, I couldn't stand the Dragonlance novels, and the "here, worship Ptah so your spells work in any sphere" is stupid.
Birthright gets loved because it's very Tolkienesque and detailed, with lots of nice backstory and just lovely supplements. Also, and I am COMPLETELY AND FULLY aware that this probably has something to do with it, it's the one I played in the most.
Brad
purplexenno
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Greyhawk = I like, but probably not enough to actually run a game in the setting
this was gary's world and i wasn't to fond of it. i would play here but wasn't thrilled.
FR = I adore FR and have run and played games in the setting, but having said that I don't consider 4e FR to even remotely be the same setting and I would not willingly play within it. But otherwise any time period, any rule set I'm game.
i am in so much agreement here. They killed FR for me. They used the death of mystra to try to push the world for 10 more years. (i wonder if ol' ed was even thinking on this one?)
DarkSun = Awesomesauce
I also like DarkSun, but not eveyone can DM this world. It takes a bit of experience to do it justice.
Ravenloft = Gothic Horror Awesomesauce
not a big horror fan, but sometimes i like to read the supplements.
Planescape = What do you think?
also a favorite of mine.
Ebberon = Little exposure, so can't really judge it much
this one i wasn't a big fan of until i ran it. I like to DM not play here.
Spelljammer = I love some parts of it and totally cannot stand other parts of it. Probably would not run or play a game in the setting.
The biggest drawback to spelljammer was the lack of tie in's.
Birthright = Don't know enough about it really.
i've never liked brithright.
Dragonlance = I like the world within the Weiss & Hickman novels, but it's far too vanilla of a setting for me to probably play within. I like the crazy, wierd non-standard fantasy stuff.
i got bored with dragonlance.
M.L. Martin
Hero
Love: Ravenloft. I like Gothic monster stories ('horror' may be somewhat of a misnomer), I like fantasy, and despite some bumps and problems, I love Ravenloft's blend of the two.
Love/Hate: Dragonlance. I used to love it, especially the underappreciated Fifth Age and the associated SAGA Rules System, but there's a lot of baggage associated with it personally and philosophically. The only thing I'd use it for now is if I'm doing a project that requires a familiar baseline for the changes to have the promper weight. (The Anti-Canon I did over the past few years, or the 'Shadowlance' project I've toyed with on ocassion.)
Mystara's not listed, but it's a setting I've always wanted to get to know better.
The rest of the settings, I tend towards a benign indifference--I wouldn't say no to a game in any of them, but I own few if any products and don't call myself a fan. This indifference becomes slightly less benign when it comes to Greyhawk and Planescape, more due to the former's association with 'old school D&D', which I really don't like, and the tendency of a vocal minority of GH and PS fans to look down their noses at other settings for being 'commercial' (GH) or 'limited' (PS), and to sometimes argue that their settings should dictate the game as a whole.
Love/Hate: Dragonlance. I used to love it, especially the underappreciated Fifth Age and the associated SAGA Rules System, but there's a lot of baggage associated with it personally and philosophically. The only thing I'd use it for now is if I'm doing a project that requires a familiar baseline for the changes to have the promper weight. (The Anti-Canon I did over the past few years, or the 'Shadowlance' project I've toyed with on ocassion.)
Mystara's not listed, but it's a setting I've always wanted to get to know better.
The rest of the settings, I tend towards a benign indifference--I wouldn't say no to a game in any of them, but I own few if any products and don't call myself a fan. This indifference becomes slightly less benign when it comes to Greyhawk and Planescape, more due to the former's association with 'old school D&D', which I really don't like, and the tendency of a vocal minority of GH and PS fans to look down their noses at other settings for being 'commercial' (GH) or 'limited' (PS), and to sometimes argue that their settings should dictate the game as a whole.
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