D&D 5E (2014) Setting Playoffs Finals (round 5)

[Tallifer]

I was voting for Eberron and Dark Sun, so I would rather see Planescape than Greyhawk/Mystara/Forgotten Realms/Golarion.

 

[Radaceus]

I voted Dark Sun as my second vote up until the finals

 

[Mercule]

Wow. This started out as a landslide, but there's currently only a handful of votes separating the two.

 

[n0nym]

I'm pretty sad the final vote isn't Dark Sun vs Planescape. It would have been way harder to choose...

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

I'm pretty sad the final vote isn't Dark Sun vs Planescape. It would have been way harder to choose...

I'm still bummed that Scarred Lands didn't even make the initial list (not that I expect it would have survived even the first round, seems a fairly polarizing setting that didn't manage to be realized as a setting by many folks despite it being the first setting published under the OGL).

 

[DeanP]

Hey the votes from Arizona aren't registering.

 

[DeanP]

Hey the votes from Arizona aren't registering.

 

[Mercule]

I'm still bummed that Scarred Lands didn't even make the initial list (not that I expect it would have survived even the first round, seems a fairly polarizing setting that didn't manage to be realized as a setting by many folks despite it being the first setting published under the OGL).

Only official settings were included. I was actually stunned at how many there were. I can't imagine how big the list would have been, otherwise.

 

[pming]

Hiya!

Greyhawk for me. Between it and Planescape, Greyhawk is infinitly more "make it your own". GH, I can run a campaign based on commoners rising up to fight off a hoard of orcs. Or I can run a political intrege campaign around Iuz, the Shield Lands and Furyondy. I can keep it wide-open and just have the goings on of the world...just go on...so the PC's can dungeon-hop all over the place. The problem we had with PS was that it was pretty much hard-coded what you could and couldn't do. For example, in GH I could say "The Circle of Eight disappeared right before the Greyhawk Wars, never to be seen again"...but I can't say "There are no Factions anymore" for PS. The Factions are hard-coded into the setting. Same with the whole Blood War thing (which we all hated...). In GH, new PC's can go explore the world....in PS new PC's can hang out in small little 'safe areas' for them...no wandering the planes of Hell at 2nd level.

Anyway, i was actually just looking at my Planescape stuff last night. Now that I've had just over 20 years to get used to it's ideas, I can see why so many folk like it. I was thinking of doing a small PS mini-campaign...to see if I and my group could "get into it". But I can only see it as a mini-campaign because it is so dang...specific and, as I said, "hard coded" into.

Love Greyhawk...know it pretty dang well, having DM'ed in it for 36 years now. I can appreciate Planescape much more now than I did 20+ years ago when it came out. I think I'm ready to give PS another shot now, but for "best D&D campaign world"? No contest. Greyhawk. Period.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

Only official settings were included. I was actually stunned at how many there were. I can't imagine how big the list would have been, otherwise.

That makes sense, I just didn't realize it was official settings only (I probably wasn't paying attention beyond scanning for my preferred settings and not seeing my #1, and finding my #2 through #5 despite one of them being the often overlooked Birthright).