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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1609689" data-attributes="member: 13654">I voted "Other, 3rd party" mostly because I'm feeling ornery.  A published setting is not necessarily the best option - homebrew was not really presented as an option but it was not stated that the poll was intended only to cover published settings.  Was that intended or an omission?My opinion on the many published settings is quite fractured.  If all else were equal I'd go to FR first, but I've run FR for danged near a couple of decades now and I'm BORED with it.  IMO an all-new setting like Eberron should have been one of the first products released under 3.0 and the core rules should have been based on IT, not Greyhawk.  Ravenloft never worked for me as a stand-alone setting, but ever since it came out I've incorporated certain aspects of it into just about every game I've run.  Spelljammer was, and is, a great concept that was flawed in the execution but it was the first campaign where players seemed to make a point of telling me they enjoyed it and would later ask when/if I would run it again.  I have not yet got my hands on Eberron and haven't ever read or played some of the others so can't give my opinion on them.  Of the others that I have read/played/run few measure up.  Dark Sun was nice to "visit" (play a few games/short campaign) but I wouldn't want to live there (playing an extended campaign.)  Planescape was simply not my cup of tea at all, and part of that may well have had to do with my distaste for much of the cosmology of 1E/2E D&D.  Dragonlance also held no interest for me.  Greyhawk... well it might have been great again if I'd ever seen a REAL treatment of Greyhawk for 3E along the lines of the FRCS but it was banished to the nether regions of RPGA's control and for my part has not been seen again, nor much missed.  It was missing in action for 10 or 15 years before 3E came out.Currently I'm using 1st Edition Judges Guild material as my campaign world.  I had been planning to use Arcana Unearthed rules as well but dropped them.  I MIGHT incorporate some elements of Eberron but it's unlikely I'll actually run it as a setting in it's own right anytime in the forseeable future.</blockquote>

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