Commercial Settings with little popularity

[rom90125]

I too would recommend Wilderlands.
Another setting that doesn't get enough props is Echoes of Heaven from Final Redoubt Publishing. The author states he came up with the idea for the setting after watching the movie 'The Prophecy'.
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Simon: I remember the First War. The way the sky burned, the faces of the angels destroyed. I saw a third of Heaven's legion banished and the creation of Hell. I stood with my brothers and watched Lucifer's Fall, but now my brothers are not brothers, and we have come here where we are mortal to steal the Dark Soul, not yet Lucifer's, to serve our Cause. I have always obeyed, but I never thought that War would happen again.
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Gabriel: This war is mine!
Lucifer: Your war is arrogance. That makes it evil. And that's mine.
Gabriel: Lucifer. Sitting in your basement, sulking about your break up with the boss. You're nothing.
Lucifer: Time to come home, Gabriel.
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Lucifer: Humans... and how I love you talking monkeys for this... know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.
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[Imperialus]

Has Kingdoms of Kalamar been converted to 3.5 edition? Just wondering because I'm debating picking it up but I'd like 3.5 over 3.0 if it's possible.

 

[Nightfall]

Imp,

I'm pretty sure it has.

 

[The Lost Muse]

Has Kingdoms of Kalamar been converted to 3.5 edition? Just wondering because I'm debating picking it up but I'd like 3.5 over 3.0 if it's possible.

The main Kingdoms of Kalamar book has, IIRC, an appendix which lists significant NPC's by level, and that's about it for mechanics.

KenzerCo. is currently having a sale in which you can get the Campaign Setting and the Atlas for $29.99. (The atlas is excellent!)

The "Player's Guide to the Sovereign Lands" is available in print-on-demand from Lulu, or can be downloaded from KenzerCo. As for the adventures, I'd imagine that if they are available as *.pdf, then they are 3.5

 

[Grimstaff]

I'll throw in 2nds (or is it thirds?) for Wilderlands and DCC Known World, both are worthy, completely customizable, and carry no novelization baggage whatsoever!

Also fun is the Lankhmar setting, Nehwon, you can usually find stuff pretty cheap on ebay or on pdf for it.

 

[Technomancer]

Tell me more about Known Realms.

Many of these are great settings, and while they certainly aren't as popular as Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, or the like, they are still a bit too well-known for what I'm looking for. Midnight, Wilderlands, Kalamar, even Dawnforge-all great settings, but I want even more obscure. As a general rule, the fewer number of times a setting has shown up in threads here on EN World, the better.

 

[The Cardinal]

Known Realms is the perfect lovechild of all that's good & awesome about Mystara and Greyhawk - it's also the background for more than 40 published adventures (Dungeon Crawl Classics), and there's a Level 1-10 campaign box set (Saga of the Dragon Cult) on its way...
...and on GenCon there'll be the mindblowing 500-pages box set mega-adventure (Level 1-15) Sinister Secret of Whiterock, which will include a gazetteer on the northern kingdom of Morain...
http://www.goodman-games.com/forum.htm
http://www.goodman-games.com/upcomingreleases.php

oh, and there are also beautiful free battle maps for many DCCs adventures on GG's site:
http://www.goodman-games.com/presters.php

 

[Voadam]

fluff only campaign settings

 

[Ceresco]

I'd agree Kalamar is a good choice though of 3rd party settings I'd say it, Scarred Lands, and Arcanis are probably the most well known vanilla D&D settings.

I wouldn't call Arcanis vanilla, but it has a setting that feels very familiar and won't throw your players for a loop. The setting uses the Roman Empire as a base to develop the Coryani Empire.

If you want system independent then the Codex Arcanis IS for you. The Codex is the main book for the setting and has about 98% story with just a few spells, skills, feats and PrC at the end.

It does have very good support in terms of other books, but it tends to fly under many folks radar. All the books are published in hard copy and now have pdf. versions too.

One note on the non-vanillaness of Arcanis, though humans refer to them as elves, these ain't no fey-like Tolkeinesque tree huggers. They are the Elorrii, born of Elemental Lords by the Ssethragoran Empire as slaves in ages long past. They threw off the yoke of servitude and caused the down fall of the greatest empire Arcanis has ever seen. The elorrii come in five flavors, Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Life.

Good luck on the setting search.

Respectfully,

Edward Kopp: Arcaniac at Large

 

[PhantomNarrator]

Arcanis and Kingdoms of Kalamar

are both excellent choices, but for 3rd party fantasy with pedigree and old school cred, check out BLACKMOOR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmoor