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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 7899822" data-attributes="member: 4601">My first DMing experiences using a non-homebrew setting were with Planescape, which remains my favorite legacy setting to this day.Despite my handle, I'm not actually a big Realms fan. My two attempts at starting Realms campaigns in college fizzled fast, and I never really know what to do with it... and the lore just doesn't grab me. Plenty of interesting stuff to pillage in isolation for my own games.I've frequently borrowed from Ravenloft, and most of my favorite 2e modules were Ravenloft modules.Dragonlance was a fun set of modules to read... but as a setting? Eh. Like the Realms, I never really know what to do with it... though for quite different reasons. If you're not running the mods, it just feels like playing in the world of a Final Fantasy game after the big bad is defeated. Been there, done that, seen it... now what? Now, Taladas, on the other hand... that's been a temptation for a long time. You could tell a whole different epic over there... I often feel that Time of the Dragon is one of the most overlooked gems of the 2e era. What a map! What a continent! Maybe someday...Mystara, Greyhawk and Birthright... I find them all fun to read, but have never run them or played in them. Like the Realms and Ravenloft, though, I love to steal from them.Dark Sun and Eberron just aren't my jam. The former just doesn't grab me, and the latter... well, this is a small thing, but when the original books came out I was rather put off by how the dimensions and the demographics just didn't work. And the aesthetic didn't grab me - too much Wayne Reynolds.Nowdays I run Midgard... which I think of as the "official unofficial" setting. It was created by Wolfgang Baur at the TSR/WotC offices, and contributors over the years include Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood, Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Zeb Cook... so sort of a D&D "unauthorized director's cut". It's the first setting I've really gotten into running that I could see playing in for a long time to come...</blockquote>

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