How many official settings have there been?

[JDJblatherings]

How about-
Living Jungle, Malatra*
Tales of the Comet- that had a new setting not Fr or greyhawk.
Night Below - wasn't thsi in it's own settign as well?

 

[T. Foster]

If you want to get really broad, many of the AD&D modules published by TSR from 1983-86 were technically in their own "worlds" since they weren't in Greyhawk -- C3, C4-5, C6, H1-2*, I2, I3-5*, I6**, I7, I8, I9, I10**, I11, I12, I13, MV1, N2, N3, N4*, UK4, UK5, UK6, UK7

*later retrofitted into Forgotten Realms
**later incorporated into Ravenloft

 

[diaglo]

Tekumel
Harn

 

[Glyfair]

Tekumel
Harn

Neither were D&D settings. People might have used D&D for them, but they were never advertised as such.

Just Kara-Tur. Maztica and Al-Qadim were always located on the same planet at the lands of the main Forgotten Realms setting.

My search indicates that Al-Qadim was intended to be a stand-alone setting. They did give it a place in FR, but it is sort of like Kara-Tur where they wanted a place for those independent settings in FR.

Seems appropriate to mention that these were not published by TSR/WotC. They were not any less official, but some might view them differently.

Indeed, as I mentioned this was a list by the most loose definitions (although others have pointed out a few options that the Wikipedia article missed).

 

[megamania]

Grey Mouser was published as a one shot I thought by TSR......

 

[diaglo]

Battlesystem modules. H1 - 4 before they got ported over and dumped into the FR were their own setting. for a few years. (1985-1989). much like Ravenloft before it became its own official setting too. although, Battlesystem became FR terrain.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Grey Mouser was published as a one shot I thought by TSR......

Correct! They did put out the Lankhmar boxed set. I have a copy of it at home.

 

[diaglo]

you could also say Boot Hill and Gamma World were possible settings for 1edADnD.

conversions for which were in the DMG (1979 revised pages 112-114 iirc)

 

[diaglo]

Grey Mouser was published as a one shot I thought by TSR......

it is on the list as Lankhmar

 

[megamania]

you could also say Boot Hill and Gamma World were possible settings for 1edADnD.

conversions for which were in the DMG (1979 revised pages 112-114 iirc)

If these count then wouldn't Alternia also count?