Favorite Campaign setting

[Staffan]

Have you tried athas.org?

Athas.org seem more concerned with rewriting Dark Sun to fit the novels rather than actually converting the game material. I'm not particularly fond of the way they're handling clerics and wizards, for example. I'll admit that the cleric does look a lot like what one would imagine that a 3e cleric would be like in Dark Sun.

Personally, I'd rather see clerics have a core list of spells to mimic the 2e Sphere of Cosmos (minus the spells that should be druidic and not clerical), and four element-based lists to mimic the elemental spheres. Instead, they've just made a bunch of elemental-themed domains, with the cleric being pretty much the way it works in regular 3e.

 

[theT0rmented]

Yes, we're not doing a straight conversion of 2E; we're doing a 3E version of Dark Sun. Not everyone may like it, but we decided to go that route.

 

[Banshee16]

My all-time favorite is Planescape. I'm still running a PS campaign I've had ongoing since '98 I believe.

There is some excellent conversion material out there.....

The Kriegstanz website has some excellent faction prestige classes and feats:

http://www.zachshuford.com/kriegstanz/

Other favorites are Dark Sun and Birthright, followed by Forgotten Realms.

Birthright has an excellent 3E conversion manual at www.birthright.net. It's still at the playtest copy, but they've done excellent work with it.

As to new games, I just picked up Midnight, which looks really cool, and I'm blown away by the Iron Kingdoms....I just wish they'd get the campaign sourcebook out.

I'm also really interested in Scarred Lands, Rokugan, and 7th Sea/Swashbuckling Adventures.

Banshee

 

[thundershot]

I've got several campaigns running at once.

I have my main campaign world, where I've got one group in the past doing the RttToEE, and one in the present doing Treasure Quests. Another campaign with Dragonstar, and one with Oathbound.

The best is coming soon... "Forever" or whatever I'll end up calling it.. where characters from different d20 games are forced together in a combination of Exiles, Sliders, and Quantum Leap. Yes, I've rambled on about this before...

My favorite published campaign setting would have to be.... Oathbound, hands down.


Chris

 

[Creamsteak]

Scarred Lands

Though I have intentions of trying as many as possible, I've just found that my players are easier to feed with titanspawn and 'forbidden' psionics than anything else. They also like the class specific feats and the artifacts that create such fun quests....

At least so far...

But next session they are seriously in for pain...

 

[Joker]

Doesn't anyone play Alternity anymore with settings such as Dark Matter or Stardrive? Anyone?

 

[Paka]

I just read Midnight and think it is incredible. It makes me want to run a D&D game again so badly. Nice. The background is solid and the way they fiddle with the rules is just brilliant.

Planescape is my favorite from the lost age of the Boxed Sets. I liked both Planescape and Dark Sun as they read right out of the boxed set. Cool stuff.

The Forgotten Realms book must be the prettiest worldbook ever. It didn't make me want to play in it but the book was just gorgeous. Whoever did the production and layout of that tome should be given a big gold star.

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

The Iron Kingdoms truly kick ass!

My absolute favorite! Check out the Iron Kingdoms web site for a preview!

 

[Shemeska]

Doesn't anyone play Alternity anymore with settings such as Dark Matter or Stardrive? Anyone?

I'm playing in an Alternity game right now on alternating Sundays with a Shadowrun game. I hadn't played in the system before, and the setting therein is something of a homebrew and I'm rather enjoying it as a diversion from some of the standard fantasy games I'm in as well.

Kind of a pity that nothing much ever seemed to have been done with the system in the waning days of DnD 2nd ed.

 

[Howling Coyote]

Forgotten Realms & Ravenloft