Published Campaign Settings

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Acrohelion (Great Mastiff)
Complete setting in one book, and the author/owner of the company has been posting here recently. Interesting ideas and well thought out, but unfortunatly not the most well designed book. Worth looking at for unique ideas and a well developed world.

Dragon Lords of Melnibone (Chaosium)
Would never recommend that anyone actually buy this book, as it just may be one of the worst books ever to come out for the d20 system, but if you are trying to be complete, you might as well add it. Based on Michael Moorcocks Elric novels and Chaosiums own decent Stormbringer and Elric! game lines, it's a horrid mishmash of broken rules, and a waste of what could have been a really cool setting.

 

[Desdichado]

Surely its not as bad as the Deadlands d20 system, is it?

 

[Yair]

I've listed 7th sea along with rokugan (and mindshadows, while I'm at it) as settings requiring two books to use (a system-cap to go with the setting description).

Thinking about it, my main interest here is to create a list of books that you can pick up and use to play D&D with (perhaps with slight modifications, but still D&D). Some settings require than one book, apparently... I'll modify the first post to indicate this.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, your distinction was pretty arbitrary, and incorrect to boot. You included Scarred Lands (by White Wolf, incidentally, not White Wold, although that's probably just a typo) and I don't know how you can play that without the core books, and almost half a dozen Scarred Lands books.

 

[Yair]

Well, your distinction was pretty arbitrary, and incorrect to boot. You included Scarred Lands (by White Wolf, incidentally, not White Wold, although that's probably just a typo) and I don't know how you can play that without the core books, and almost half a dozen Scarred Lands books.

Doh! Spelling corrected.
Yes, in second thought it was fairly arbitrary. I do want primarily books that provide you enough detail to use as a setting, however. Settings requiring more than one book are listed seperately.
I do believe you can play in the scarred lands with just a setting book, such as Ghespald; is this mistaken? (It wouldn't be a fully-detailed scarred lands, of course, but it is my understanding enough detail is provided for the setting to function - just like you can play in FR without purchasing any FR product except the core setting book.)

 

[Desdichado]

I'm not a real Scarred Lands expert, but what I've heard is no, you cannot. Scarred Lands was never set up to be run out of one book with the other books being merely supplemental and optional; there are very important aspects of the setting (like gods and domains, for instance) that are not in the Ghelspad book. Ghelspad is really just about geography.

 

[JoeBlank]

Great list. Do you have a hidden motive, or just doing this as community service?

How about Twin Crowns from Living Imagination:
http://www.enworld.org/reviews/index.php?sub=yes&where=currentprod&which=TWIN

 

[Yair]

No hidden motive, just wondering what's out there.

Twin Crowns is definitely in. Thanks.

 

[The Shaman]

The Wilderlands of High Fantasy is published by Necromancer Games and distributed via White Wolf.

 

[Psion]

Second World Sourcebook