Favorite Setting of All Time?

[Desdichado]

I voted Planescape. But, if we could break the rules for write-in votes, I'd say:

• Homebrew. Which one do you want?
• Middle-earth: the reason I care about FRPGs in the first place...
• Warhammer 40K. I've never seen an RPG in this setting (although the very old original Rogue Trader was RPG-like in many ways) and I think that just SUCKS!!!
• The Real World... albeit with certain liberties. d20 Modern and/or Spycraft, here I come! I was a huge Top Secret SI fanboy.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

How could you forget Hollow World??!??!

Well, actually, it's pretty forgettable, now that I think about it....

I voted for Greyhawk, just because that's where I play/DM the most. Mood-wise, I'd go with Ravenloft, but I've never played there so it didn't seem right to pick it.

 

[The Sigil]

*Spits and chokes*

*Spitting and choking*

The "Known World" of the D&D Boxed Sets.

No, that's NOT the abortion that was Mystara. The update to 2e completely ruined that world. Mystara is a poor cousin to the beautiful world detailed in the Boxed Sets and Gazetteer series.

Speaking of the Gazetteers, I have to say they were the best supplements for any game world. Ever.

--The Sigil

 

[Nightfall]

Bronzey, well if it's just a matter of waiting until it's a classic setting, I'm down with that. As for KoK, it's not my cup of tea, BUT I will say, it's a little more organized, book wise, than the Scarred Lands at present. Doesn't mean though I think it's better, just that it's had more time to develop than the Scarred Lands.

 

[The Lemon Merchant]

Other

It works out this way:

I loved Dragonlance but only as an observer (reader). That's really the only way that setting worked for me, but I really enjoyed it and think it is one of the best settings out there. Trouble is that it is also got to be right up there with having the most stories written about it (tho' I think the Realms are easily going to be #1 in that regard if they aren't already). There isn't a whole lot of fun in playing in a campaign world where the real exciting stories are being handled by someone else and you've read all about them.

So for playing I have to say my favorite setting is Dark Sun, there's just something about watching half your party get killed fighting a plant for water.

 

[BronzeDragon]

Re: *Spits and chokes*

*Spitting and choking*

The "Known World" of the D&D Boxed Sets.

No, that's NOT the abortion that was Mystara. The update to 2e completely ruined that world. Mystara is a poor cousin to the beautiful world detailed in the Boxed Sets and Gazetteer series.

Speaking of the Gazetteers, I have to say they were the best supplements for any game world. Ever.

--The Sigil

Can you further explain this?

I read 2E Mystara and thought it was beautiful, specially when you factored in the Poor Wizard's Almanac series.

The only Mystara product I have that goes back to OD&D is the Champions of Mystara boxed set.

 

[SSS-Druid]

What? No Al-Qadim? Well, I'll just have to take my vote and go home.

Ari.

You're fired.

 

[Nightfall]

You tell him Joseph!

 

[Wraith101]

Kalamar is IMO the best thing i have seen yet. It adds a touch of realism to a fantasy world.

 

[Zappo]

count one dragonlance fanboy right here, i don't care how much you hate it, i don't care how bad the novels are. if i did, i would not be a fanboy. your opinion means nothing in the face of my incoherant enthusiasm. ha!

The novels are good, it's the setting that... uhm, lacks detail.