Popular Campaign Settings

[Krypter]

Planescape definitely rocks. It also has the added bonus of allowing play in *any* other published or imagined world, built right into the setting. You're expected to travel to weird planes all the time, so you can visit Mystara or Dark Sun if you like.

Some of the best features of planescape are:

* The Cant. It's a built-in roleplaying guide right there.
* So many exotic locations, you'll never visit them all.
* Philosophical battles actually alter the landscape.
* Mingle and argue with demons and angels all day long.
* Lady of Pain is hot. (oops, I'm mazed)

 

[Sunglar]

I cannot believe it is NOT in the list, Mystara, i.e. the Known World, not so much the 2nd Ed material but the original Gazetteer.

 

[VirgilCaine]

I prefer to play in my homebrew world, Kurania.

 

[Kai Lord]

Is there any information on Taladas in DL? (am I getting it right?)

There's the 2nd Edition "Time of the Dragon" boxed set. The 3.5e version will come out in the form of a hardcover sometime next year.

 

[James Heard]

Al-Qadim and Ravenloft, depending on the phases of the moon. Fortunately my homebrews usually feel like a delicious mixture of the two - with ninjas and pirates and dinosaurs.

That whole recent Dragon issue was pretty spooky for me actually.

 

[blindrage]

Scarred Lands. Nothing like a world that is still messed up from the gods' war and the one of the safest place to live is a city of nercos. Now how messed up is that?

 

[cats_claw]

Pre 3E -- we really only played homebrew games, and my world has been around since I started playing and DMing some 25 years ago. Free City of Hoard, the Empire of Ottozar, Polarticus and Erid Paxis in the Great Legions... The Twin Gods Resa and Ramasan. (Though we would steal from Arduin, old Judges Guild, and the early 1E modules for ideas.)

Then there was the atypical "Other Games" stage -- I.C.E.'s RoleMaster, GURPS (which still has a warm place in my heart), Paladium, Dangerous Journeys.

But since 3E... My favorites are Scarred Lands, Midnight, Freeport (though not actually a setting, I used it as one).

I am gonna look through Eberron, I've heard good stuff about Iron Kingdoms, and Diamond Throne looks good, but it kinda requires a total shift in the game mechanics.

I used to really like FR, but damn it if I felt like I could never keep up with the whole meta-plot that was crammed down my throat by all the novels. And it spoiled some of my players because now they think low magic gritty gaming is boring.

catsclaw

 

[Psion]

Of published settings...

Planescape. It has the unique combination of lots of elbow room yet lots of define material.

That is all. Thank you.

 

[Spatula]

Dark Sun, definitely, partly because my first long-term DMing experience was a 2E Dark Sun campaign. I also like the idea of (and the products for) Planescape, but I've never played in a PS game.

Greyhawk gets respect for being the first campaign world I ever gamed in. I remember pouring over the old GH poster map as a kid, tracking our party's travels as we went through the various tournament modules (the A series, the S series, etc.).

 

[barsoomcore]

I think I screwed up (insert noise of shocked spectators at the mere possibility).

But it worked out okay. I voted "Third-Party" because far and away my favourite campaign setting is MINE. But it's not a PUBLISHED campaign setting, is it?

But my favourites would definitely be Iron Kingdoms, Scarred Lands and Skull & Bones. Oh, and Iron Lords of Jupiter. So that's pretty much "Third-Party", I guess.

These things always surprise me (and I think I say this every time these polls appear) because until, say, four years ago, I didn't know ANYBODY who played with a published setting. Everyone I knew homebrewed -- that for me is the default method of playing Dungeons and Dragons. Frankly, it's the larger portion of the fun of the game in the first place. But evidently I am in a minority.

A proud minority with a long and noble tradition, of course...

Oh, and of course the salient feature of gundarks is their more-or-less detachable ears. Depending on what you think Solo was trying to say.