Current Campaign Settings?

[JoeGKushner]

Well, I'm back to the FR on a fairly permanent basis. I'm looking into some other campaigns right now and am thinking of just doing a 'link' style campaign incorporating Dungeon World, Planescape, Ravenloft, etc... to get more use out of my various campaign settings.

What worlds are you playing in and why? I do FR because I've used it for a long time. It's not heavily supported with frequent products, but everything that comes out for almost any fantasy d20 game fits there and the official support books have been great.

Prior to that, I was taken in by SL. Lots of interesting and evocative ideas but I've already beat this horse (poor internal consistancy, lack of direction, too many support continents, etc...) to death.

 

[diaglo]

Harn also.

a smorgasborg. i combine all of them for my campaign setting. always have always will

 

[JoeGKushner]

Harn had some great supplements. I love the Cities and Castles of Harn. Their book on religion was good too. If only they could've handled the d20 system correctly instead of some tacked on crap they did.

When I was younger, I used to add everything to one campagin world. Greyhawk over here, FR over here. Now as some of the settings have different magic systems or elements, I just keep them clear of each other for the most part.

 

[Psion]

My current campaign is set in the Sword Isles region of my homebrew, Trinalia.

However, soon the campaign will be moving into the river of worlds, which is a world/plane hopping game, which will utilize worlds/sites from/including:

- Freeport
- Mindshadows/Naranjan
- Beyond Countless Doorways
- Classic Play: Book of the Planes
- Book of Eldritch Might III

and possibly other worlds of my own creation

 

[JoeGKushner]

- Classic Play: Book of the Planes

and possibly other worlds of my own creation

Sorry to pick your brain again Psion, but we have some similiar taste in campaign styles. For the Classic Play Book of the Planes, how useful are you finding it? I stopped buying everything Mongoose after reading some of John Cooper's reviews as I found it too expensive to pay for their future editors. Still get some of the Conan stuff just to read and some of the Quint. lines just to expand my options, but I've steered a bit away from the Classic Play series.

 

[Khairn]

Currently our group is playing AU in the Lands of the Diamond Throne and loving it.

But as happens with almost every campaign which lasts over a year, the GM (me) is begining to show signs of burn-out, so we will probably take a break in the next few weeks and start up something else.

I'm thinking of picking back up the story of our original 3E FR group, that had just made it to Epic levels, or starting a new campaign set in Privateer Press's Iron Kingdom.

 

[EricNoah]

I'm running Diamond Throne here, too, plus playing in Greyhawk (RttToEE), Eberron, and a homebrew setting. My last campaign was FR, and the one before that was Planescape.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I've always run home-brew settings, borrowing crunchy bits from published settings. I ran a 10 year long campaign in my homebrew, then retired it. Now, 3 years later, I've decided to resurrect that setting, move it ahead 20 years into the future from where we left off, and take it from there. My long time players were ecstatic, as many of them helped shape that world and felt "at home" there. I have to say, it does feel like coming home after a long and unsatisfying trip.

 

[The_Universe]

Homebrew all the way, baby. To me, there's nothing more fun that building the world in which the PCs will live their lives. It affords a level of control you can't get in a setting that's not your own. Just as there are Rules Lawyers for that part, let there be no doubt that there are setting lawyers that are just as vehement. If you're interested in more detail on my particular homebrew, I can do nothing better than direct you to the story hour in my sig, below - it's intricate, it's got history, and it's a *lot* of fun.

That being said, I'm sorely tempted to run a game in Eberron - it looks like *so* much fun. I wish I had thought of it. (except for shifters - I just can't get into shifters.)

Also, Star Wars. The arrival of the DVDs have given me a hankering to run something in the first universe I ever played in - a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

 

[the Jester]

Homebrewed campaign world (Cydra).

I steal stuff liberally from other settings though- for instance, I just started using warforged. They fit perfectly into my campaign given the costs of war to a society of mages- so the leader of the magocracy came up with the idea of making the warforged in order to avoid the loss of more human life.