Favorite Setting of All Time?

[Undead Pete]

One setting I am very interested in, but still haven't found the book to buy is Kingdoms of Kalamar. Everyone that has it says it's great, I want a taste of that too....

I don't see what's so special about Kingdoms of Kalamar.

Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine (what do I mean, maybe?), but the spelling convention of all the place names just irks the HECK out of me.

"OOooohh, let's make it sound exotic by adding a Q here and an H there, and a buttload of vowels!!"

Yeah, I know....it doesn't mean the setting's bad, but it distracts me to no end.

I do love KODT, though.

 

[Someone]

Homebrew forever.

Also, I´d love to see Vicente Segrelle´s "El mercenario" comics made setting. Love those comics.

 

[Kesh]

Very nice Mystara discussion, guys! Actually, I own the Karameikos boxed set, and I'm thinking of basing my next D&D campaign there.

Also, at one time, I did own the Glantri box and one other not mentioned: Night of the Vampire, the 2e adventure box tie-in to Karameikos. I did have a 3e conversion doc up on this site, but the new rules Wizards dropped down killed it, and I no longer have the box. Might buy the ESD and fix the things I changed (grumble).

I agree, the CDs were terrible. They had voices that were supposed to perform the dialogue for the characters, completely killing role-playing. Gah.

Anyway, that's not my favorite. Of all time, Ravenloft has been the most intriguing to me. I've always been a sucker for Gothic-style horror.

That said, I'm having difficulty deciding what I want to play next: Ravenloft, Karameikos, Dragonstar, a homebrew, or Call of Cthulu!

 

[RogueJK]

The 2e Mystara, in contrast, had only 6 product releases that I am aware of: The Karameikos and Glantri boxed sets, two Almanacs (PWA3 and Joshuan's), the Mystara addendum to the Monstrous Compendium, and the boxed module Mark of Amber (again, leaving out the 2e Red Steel stuff).

2e Mystara had a total of 10 products. These included two boxed sets, 2 "survival kit" accessories, 2 almanacs, 3 boxed audio CD adventures, and a Monstrous Compendium Appendix...

Boxed Sets:
2500 Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure
2511 Glantri: Kingdom of Magic

Adventures:
2502 Hail the Heroes
2509 Night of the Vampire
2513 Mark of Amber

Accessories:
2510 Player's Survival Kit
2512 Dungeon Master Survival Kit

2506 Poor Wizard's Almanac III & Book of Facts
2517 Joshuan's Almanac & Book of Facts

2501 Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

I voted for Planescape but the FR gets my vote as well (if that was possible). I miss Planescape but think FR is the greatest setting around if for nothing else than the fantastic FRCS - the epitomal design of a Campaign Setting book IMO. I started playing FR back in the grey boxed set days, though, and it had me fascinated even then (even though I modify I a lot anyway). In recent years the chance to experience Faerûn in CRPGs such as the BG series has only enhanced my enthusiasm for the setting.

-Zarrock

 

[lord irial]

I don't see what's so special about Kingdoms of Kalamar.

Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine (what do I mean, maybe?), but the spelling convention of all the place names just irks the HECK out of me.

"OOooohh, let's make it sound exotic by adding a Q here and an H there, and a buttload of vowels!!"

Yeah, I know....it doesn't mean the setting's bad, but it distracts me to no end.

I do love KODT, though.

I like the realism of the Kalamaran naming-scheme; it's consistent, and mostly easier to pronounce than, say, ancient gaelic or modern hebrew. The naming conventions in Kalamar are supposed to simulate five different human languages and a variety of non-human ones. It's not like in many settings where you have kennings for place names (i.e. Greyhawk, Silverymoon, Ravenloft, etc.).

 

[Voadam]

Re: Re: Re: *Spits and chokes*

You have primitive island kingdoms concerned with tourism (Kingdom of Ierendi).

Sigil, this was IMO the worst of the gazetteer series, it even had a disneyland type place with fake monsters IIRC.

Darokin, Glantri, and Minrothad were great and I'm tempted to get the ESDs of the northern reaches and others I don't have, but Ierendi was too cutesey for me, particularly with being based off of adventuring tourism.

The creature crucible for lycanthropes was another standout product. I'm thinking of converting the classed werecreatures to 3e prcs for appropriate creatures.

 

[teitan]

Kalamar

The Kingdoms of Kalamar is a great book. The whole thing reeked of well thought out and planned stucturing. It also reeked of "reprint" of the boxed sets from the 90s. Might explain the lack of domains in it. AT any rate my PCs weren't interested in it because it looked boring so I sold off my KOK book on Ebay. Their main complaints were that it read like a text book and seemed no different than the Realms. BAH. KOK is a superior setting. Now Scarred Lands is different. Man is the material for it awesome. Just so much information pack in it.

Jason, the next Scarred Lands whore.

 

[Benben]

Al-Qadim.

Brilliant design, flavour, and full of incredible ideas.

The main sourcebook also had a picture of a Kobold in a fez. Genius of the highest order.

 

[Wolfen Priest]

Wait a second...

you forgot... Ravenloafe.