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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5203258" data-attributes="member: 4086">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.</blockquote>