Favorite D&D Campaign Setting?

[Storminator]

Eberron by a country mile. There are so many fantastic campaigns you can do, each of which makes perfect sense.

Dragonmarked houses - with most houses able to support a campaign by themselves
Nations - you can easily make a nationalistic campaign
Noir/crime - you can make so many noir adventures, with PCs on the criminal, investigative or 'caught in the mix' angle
Religious wars - Dark Six vs Sovereigns vs Blood of Vol vs Silver Flame vs Khyber cults vs . . .
Indiana Jones - archaeology in fantasy land!
Sharn - best fantasy city ever, I could run a dozen campaigns just in the city

So many good choices! I could think up well supported Eberron campaigns all day long.

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[DEFCON 1]

My favorite campaign setting book to read has been Eberron.

However, the setting for my favorite campaigns I've DMd has been Nentir Vale. Small, simple and focused.

 

[SkidAce]

Greyhawk....Mystara....Birthright.

Eberron could be a contender.

 

[eondesigner]

We live in Greyhawk, but holiday in Planescape. They work well together, although most other settings would work in tandem with Planescape it has to be Greyhawk for me.

 

[Weather Report]

I am very disappointed in how Eberron is so popular.

 

[Baron Greystone]

Wilderlands of High Fantasy. Close runners-up are the Principalities of Glantri, and Spelljammer.

Generally, I'm an old-schooler, and Wilderlands is what I started with. But Glantri was so awesome, Bruce Heard set up an amazing place for wizard characters in a microcosm of pseudo-European cultures. (C'mon, Belcadiz Elves are amazing!) And Spelljammer -- I still don't understand how anyone could not​ love sailing ships in space!

 

[TwoSix]

1) Eberron. A perfect alchemy of everything I like in a campaign world. Scales well enough to do an E6 campaign or a 30-level epic game.
2) Al'Qadim. Cultural flavor out the ears.
3) Darksun (4e specifically). A ton of information packed into 2 books.

 

[Storminator]

I am very disappointed in how Eberron is so popular.

Why is that? What about it isn't for you?

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[TerraDave]

I am old school: home brew. Definitely home brew.

But being old school, I like to make heavy use of "common D&D", so bits of Planescape and Greyhawk, a little Ravenloft, and whatever else works.

 

[WhatGravitas]

But being old school, I like to make heavy use of "common D&D", so bits of Planescape and Greyhawk, a little Ravenloft, and whatever else works.

Yeah, while the 2E settings suffered from glut and too much stuff, I really like the *vibe* Planescape, Greyhawk, FR and Ravenloft together evoke. I'd really love a Planescape "Lite" that captures the feel, but is nicely adaptable to multiple worlds and settings (you could say it already does that and that's very true of Sigil, but a bit less of the "surroundings").