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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 865747" data-attributes="member: 9061">Kalamar, while not what I'd call innovative or original in any way, is a very solid setting, and one I'd reccommend.  It's well-developed, reasonably logical and consistent, and pretty detailed.  It's also well-supported - as trancejeremy points out, the Kalamar core book is all setting, with no rules at all.  The Player's Guide is almost all setting-specific crunchy stuff, and is also well-done.  And the adventures are generally excellent.Scarred Lands, while a decent enough setting, doesn't really grab me.  I think it's a good setting, though - don't get me wrong.  It is also well-supported, but is more prone to setting-specific rules than is Kalamar.The d20 Rokugan stuff is very good, though there are more balance issues the farther you stray from the core Rokugan books (i. e. Oriental Adventures and AEG's Rokugan book.)  I much prefer the d20 mechanics to the old L5R rules system.The 7th Sea setting (in Swashbucking Adventures) is IMO utter garbage, a poorly-concieved and sloppy historical pasteup of random stuff slapped together with no regard for logic or verisimillitude.The truly great RPG settings (Harn, Tekumel, Talislanta) don't fit your criteria, since they have little currently available material, and are not easily adaptable to d20 - Harn beacuse it's a very low-magic setting, and the others because they have weird stuff that can't be simulated in d20 without developing some new material.  There is d20 material for Harn and Tekumel on the net, more than enough to use those settings.  I believe a d20 Harn guide can be found on Columbia Games' home page (or is linked from it.)</blockquote>

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