Looking For A Campaign Setting

[Nightfall]

Dave,

Eh we had other things on our mind before GH came back into the mix. Blame the Eberronics.

Btw Dave if you have no personal or fan interest then why bother posting? *is semi-kidding*

 

[TerraDave]

It actually bothered me that the answer was so evident, and no one (but Grodog and eventually ruleslawyer) was bothering to provide it.

But ya, I wondered myself as I was writting the post.

 

[Nightfall]

Well not sure it's evident but I'll grant you there's a pretty strong/compelling reason Greyhawk should be considered for the OP's consideration.

Shackled City, Age of Worms and now Savage Tide, plus the whole Dragon Compendium...yeah there's plenty from just Dragon/Dungeon alone to warrent useage.

In any event good for you Dave.

 

[Rel]

No I think they are "you need to stop trying to be so uptight."

That's all.

Nightfall, what part of Plane's "no bickering" don't you understand?

Do NOT respond to any more of Mistwell's posts in this thread.

 

[SpiderMonkey]

Based on the OP, I would probably have to say Greyhawk as well. It's a wide open world that doesn't require a lot of knowledge on either the players' part or the DM's part to contextualize; it's pretty much archetypal D&D. As Nightfall and some of the rest stated, it's very easy to drop modules from other settings into it without a lot of disconnect.

That said, I'm a fan of the Scarred Lands as well, and while I haven't used it per se, I've raided far too much from it for my homebrew not to give an honorable mention. I think it's relatively easy to use, and modify the flavor of magic-prevalence (sp?) to your taste. To me, it's kinda like Greyhawk with enough flavor to make it different--to make you feel like you're gaming somewhere other than "Generic-land" while enjoying the ease-of-use that "Generic-land" entails.

Ah heck, Eberron's good too. Dang it, so's Kingdoms of Kalamar. I guess you have no choice but to raid them all for a homebrew, as I have.

 

[Desdichado]

We were kinda dissapointed inthe FR setting. Very few adventures. Seemed like you have to have really high ability scores, better than average magic, and moderately high level just to survive. And wierdly, they have allthose psionic creatures with no way to work them into the game.

The other one everyone talks about is Eberron, which seems to be like FR on PCP.

We usually try to stick to WotC products for consistency. Some of the third party stuff is just out there and unbalancing.

Well, based on those criteria, you've really only got one option: Greyhawk. Everything else by definition is either out-of-print 2e settings, FR, Eberron or third party. You're criteria are really confusing to me because of that; you've pretty completely managed to eliminate practically everything.

Greyhawk is the default setting of the Core Rules, if you get the Greyhawk Gazetteer, or whatever that book was called that they published early in 3e history, you've pretty much got the setting. That's really pretty much it, though. If you don't like that either, you're SOL.

FR on PCP?! I have no idea what you mean there, though.

EDIT: Well, now I've finally gotten to your second post, and it seems that your dismissal of both Eberron and third party settings are based on misinformation. So, if you'll accept that you might be wrong there, there might be some other advice in this thread useful to you after all. Personally, other than Eberron, I tend to prefer third party settings, and I'd still pick Iron Kingdoms over that.

 

[Mistwell]

Well, based on those criteria, you've really only got one option: Greyhawk. Everything else by definition is either out-of-print 2e settings, FR, Eberron or third party. You're criteria are really confusing to me because of that; you've pretty completely managed to eliminate practically everything.

Greyhawk is the default setting of the Core Rules, if you get the Greyhawk Gazetteer, or whatever that book was called that they published early in 3e history, you've pretty much got the setting. That's really pretty much it, though. If you don't like that either, you're SOL.

FR on PCP?! I have no idea what you mean there, though.

I am not suggesting them, but there ARE other WOTC 3e settings. Such as Dragonlance and even technically Wheel of Time I think.

 

[Desdichado]

That's true. I suppose Star Wars and Call of Cthulhu or even Urban Arcana count there too. But I assumed he meant specifically D&D settings.

Dragonlance is third party, actually, since Sovereign Press publishes it's materials now.

 

[reanjr]

It actually bothered me that the answer was so evident, and no one (but Grodog and eventually ruleslawyer) was bothering to provide it.

But ya, I wondered myself as I was writting the post.

The OP wanted to play with little or no prep. GH isn't extremely detailed, which may have been the reason most people didn't suggest it. That's the reason I didn't.

 

[reanjr]

Dragonlance is third party, actually, since Sovereign Press publishes it's materials now.

Actually the Dragonlance campaign setting was published by WotC. All the supplements are published by Sovereign Press.