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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 157767" data-attributes="member: 546">I liked pieces of each of those settings, just not taken as a whole...The ships/deckplans from Spelljammer were really pretty.The Templars from Dark Sun made cool villains, but the setting was too weird. I was able to yoink the templar idea and put it to good use in a more "normal" setting. My group still tends to refer to clerics as "templars" regardless of deity, LOL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I loved the original Ravenloft module for 1e but the 2e setting was too restrictive and unbelievable for me. I wanted more of a realistic guide to life in medieval Transylvania/Eastern Europe but with the supernatural elements added in. Avalanche is supposed to be coming out with Vlad the Impaler, which will (finally) do just that (perhaps minus the supernatural elements, but at least I will have a historically accurate setting I can add such things to).Birthright was a neat idea, but implemented so badly in my eyes that it was useless--the whole bloodlines thing was dumb, IMO, and we should have instead gotten "normal" rules for running realms with "normal" aristocrats and armies--we didn't need a whole new setting for that.</blockquote>