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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 901796" data-attributes="member: 10825">Being a big fan of the Scarred Lands, and considering it to be my most favorite of settings, I still have to say that it's fairly mainstream as settings go. It's about as different from the Forgotten Realms as Dragonlance is, and is less different from Greyhawk than Ravenloft is. It's unique, to be sure, but even other mainstream settings have it beat in the "out there" department, such as Dark Sun, Planescape, and, loath though I am to include it, Spelljammer. Iron Kingdoms is certainly different, though I don't believe it has its own campaign setting book out yet (correct me if I'm mistaken). A few other standard settings have their own, unique places detailed - the Nightmare Lands of Ravenloft, for example, which, to my recollection, is like one big dreamscape. 2nd edition, unfortunately, but sometimes the fluff is all that's necessary. While admittedly not owning the books (in two cases, being broke, in the other, it not being out yet), while Midnight, Oriental Adventures and Arcana Unearthed certainly seem different, they also have their own subset of classes and magic going on for them which may not strike ones fancy, if you're only looking for fluff, and not new rules. All depends on just what you want out of a setting; even established ones can work, if you pick up just the right books and adventures that fit the feel of what you're looking for.</blockquote>