How many official settings have there been?

[DreadPirateMurphy]

What about the setting of the Chainmail mini game (the post-2K one, not the original)? Wasn't that somewhere on the other side of Greyhawk?

 

[diaglo]

What about the setting of the Chainmail mini game (the post-2K one, not the original)? Wasn't that somewhere on the other side of Greyhawk?

oo... what about the D&D Movie too

and the brief World of Warcraft setting.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

Kingdoms of Kalamar (3e) had a Dungeons & Dragons logo on it, so even if it wasn't published by WotC, I think it qualifies as a D&D setting.

 

[Tarek]

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

Look up Empire of the Petal Throne. MAR Barker did indeed give TSR the rights to publish the Tekumel setting using the OD&D rules in the early days. IIRC, it was actually published before Greyhawk was.

Since then, Professor Barker has had Tekumel published under a variety of rules systems, and it was most recently published by Guardians of Order, using the Tri-Stat system.

 

[Doug McCrae]

How about Averoigne from the module X2 Castle Amber?

 

[Glyfair]

Look up Empire of the Petal Throne. MAR Barker did indeed give TSR the rights to publish the Tekumel setting using the OD&D rules in the early days. IIRC, it was actually published before Greyhawk was.

TSR published it, but it used different rules (I don't know how different, but I know it wasn't D&D).

Edit: After some quick research, stats were percentile, not 3d6. That's a key difference from the start.

 

[Glyfair]

How about Averoigne from the module X2 Castle Amber?

If we break it down that much then we'll have to list every alternate plane (like those in Q1).

A reasonable qualifier is probably that the setting must have had either a setting book, or else have appeared in more than one adventure or series of adventures exclusively.

 

[jdrakeh]

TSR published it, but it used different rules (I don't know how different, but I know it wasn't D&D).

Edit: After some quick research, stats were percentile, not 3d6. That's a key difference from the start.

Yep. Order of the Petal Throne was not a D&D setting but a standalone game published by TSR. It used a much different system than that used in Chainmail or OD&D.

[Edit: I owned the original TSR EPT game for years.]

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Maybe as much as two years ago I put together the following list. Mind you this list was ONLY settings produced by TSR or WotC, I was specifically leaving out 3rd party settings.

Greyhawk
Forgotten Realms, and subset campaign settings:
- Maztica
- The Horde
- Netheril
- Cormanthyr
- Bloodstone Lands (?)
- Al-Quadim
- Kara-Tur (a.k.a. Oriental Adventures)
Ravenloft
Planescape
Mystara (The Known World), and subset settings:
- Hollow World
- Red Steel/Savage Baronies
Birthright
Dark Sun
Dragonlance
- Time of the Dragon
- Second Edition/War of the Lance/Age of Heroes/4th Age
- SAGA/5th Age/Age of Mortals
- Taladas
Spelljammer, and subsettng:
- Astromundi Cluster
Blackmoor
Lankhmar
2E softcover sourcebook/settings:
- Glory of Rome
- Age of Heroes
- A Mighty Fortress
- Vikings
- Charlemagnes Paladins
- The Celts
- The Crusades
- Council of Wyrms
Diablo
Jakandor
Ghostwalk (3E)
Eberron
Hyperborea (Conan)
Tales of the Comet
Thunder Rift

"Honorable Mention" (not really intended as settings but can be used as such):
Dragon Mountain
Night Below
Against the Giants
Against the Slavers
Temple of Elemental Evil
Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
Undermountain
Masque of the Red Death

3rd Party D&D; Officially Licensed:
Kingdoms of Kalamar
World of Warcraft

 

[Glyfair]

Mind you this list was ONLY settings produced by TSR or WotC, I was specifically leaving out 3rd party settings.

Not too hard since so far only Judges Guild & Kenzer have been 3rd party companies ever been permitted to produce D&D settings (with Wee Warriors not producing any settings).