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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5098759" data-attributes="member: 2205">Whatever fantasy setting I'm working with at the moment.Less tongue in cheek: favorite published game settings: 1) Eberron for the noir + Raiders of the Lost Ark feel mingled with D&amp;D.&nbsp; Great matchup.&nbsp; 2) Golarion, for taking all those old pulp influences that created D&amp;D in the first place and sprucing them up, making them feel fresh again, and 3) Iron Kingdoms for giving me more great ideas to steal than any other single setting.Favorite setting used in fiction but not gaming: 1) Middle-earth.&nbsp; I mean, I know it's also been used in gaming, but I think of this as a fictional setting, and it's naturally where a lot of what we think of as fantasy gets its start.&nbsp; 2) The Hyborean Age - REH was really onto something brilliant with his transparent use of better known &quot;real&quot; societies masked just enough that he could do what he wanted to with them, yet still get the resonance and short-hand associated with, &quot;yeah, these guys are the Vikings, these guys are the Romans, these guys are the Egyptians, etc.&quot;&nbsp; 3) Barsoom -- one of the earliest &quot;science fiction&quot; settings that nevertheless feels much more like a fantasy one today.&nbsp; I still get inspired by the thought processes of Barsoom more than most other settings out there.&nbsp; Why wouldn't other worlds have completely different and alien ecologies, after all?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 5098759, member: 2205"] Whatever fantasy setting I'm working with at the moment. Less tongue in cheek: favorite published game settings: 1) Eberron for the noir + [I]Raiders of the Lost Ark[/I] feel mingled with D&D. Great matchup. 2) Golarion, for taking all those old pulp influences that created D&D in the first place and sprucing them up, making them feel fresh again, and 3) Iron Kingdoms for giving me more great ideas to steal than any other single setting. Favorite setting used in fiction but not gaming: 1) Middle-earth. I mean, I know it's [I]also[/I] been used in gaming, but I think of this as a fictional setting, and it's naturally where a lot of what we think of as fantasy gets its start. 2) The Hyborean Age - REH was really onto something brilliant with his transparent use of better known "real" societies masked just enough that he could do what [I]he[/I] wanted to with them, yet still get the resonance and short-hand associated with, "yeah, these guys are the Vikings, these guys are the Romans, these guys are the Egyptians, etc." 3) Barsoom -- one of the earliest "science fiction" settings that nevertheless feels much more like a fantasy one today. I still get inspired by the thought processes of Barsoom more than most other settings out there. Why wouldn't other worlds have completely different and alien ecologies, after all? [/QUOTE]

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