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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7205592" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p><span style="color: #FF0000">Birthright 18</span> I'm not sure it's the worst setting but it's definitely not the best</p><p>Blackmoor 21</p><p>Council of Wyrms 18</p><p>Dark Sun 22</p><p>Dragon Fist 12</p><p>Dragonlance 18</p><p><span style="color: #008000">Eberron 22</span> This however, is the definitely the best setting on the list. Certainly the best thought out, if nothing else.</p><p>Forgotten Realms 5 </p><p>Ghostwalk 20</p><p>Greyhawk 24</p><p>Jakandor 21</p><p>Kingdoms of Kalamar 20</p><p>Lankhmar 22</p><p>Mahasarpa 18</p><p>Mystara 20</p><p>Points of Light (Nentir Vale) 12</p><p>Pelinore 20</p><p>Planescape 22</p><p>Ravenloft 20</p><p>Spelljammer 21</p><p>Thunder Rift 20</p><p>Wilderlands of High Fantasy 20 </p><p></p><p>I was tempted to throw an upvote to FR or NV because neither deserve the hate they're getting. Sure FR is over-exposed at this point and has a lot of major issues relating to that, but it became the iconic setting for a reason. Maybe I'm just at the age group where I was too young to really get into Greyhawk and was introduced to D&D via FR through novels (Icewind Dale) and games (Eye of Beholder, Baldur's Gate) that I've still got a bit of nostalgia for it.</p><p></p><p>And Nentir Vale might not be very fleshed out, but... have you <em>seen</em> what else is on this list? I mean, there are a significant subset of grognards who insist Greyhawk or Mystara were <em>ruined</em> when they finally got fleshed out. At least NV was doing new and interesting things with its cosmology, even if a lot of it was hampered by the system it was attached to, and then more of it got shoehorned into settings where it had no right being.</p><p></p><p>But I mean... we all already know how this ends, right? A decisive victory for Thunder Rift, a setting I'm not convinced wasn't solely the fever dream of the Wikipedia editor who put this list together, because absolutely nobody is going to bother downvoting it ever until it's too late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7205592, member: 57112"] [COLOR="#FF0000"]Birthright 18[/COLOR] I'm not sure it's the worst setting but it's definitely not the best Blackmoor 21 Council of Wyrms 18 Dark Sun 22 Dragon Fist 12 Dragonlance 18 [COLOR="#008000"]Eberron 22[/COLOR] This however, is the definitely the best setting on the list. Certainly the best thought out, if nothing else. Forgotten Realms 5 Ghostwalk 20 Greyhawk 24 Jakandor 21 Kingdoms of Kalamar 20 Lankhmar 22 Mahasarpa 18 Mystara 20 Points of Light (Nentir Vale) 12 Pelinore 20 Planescape 22 Ravenloft 20 Spelljammer 21 Thunder Rift 20 Wilderlands of High Fantasy 20 I was tempted to throw an upvote to FR or NV because neither deserve the hate they're getting. Sure FR is over-exposed at this point and has a lot of major issues relating to that, but it became the iconic setting for a reason. Maybe I'm just at the age group where I was too young to really get into Greyhawk and was introduced to D&D via FR through novels (Icewind Dale) and games (Eye of Beholder, Baldur's Gate) that I've still got a bit of nostalgia for it. And Nentir Vale might not be very fleshed out, but... have you [I]seen[/I] what else is on this list? I mean, there are a significant subset of grognards who insist Greyhawk or Mystara were [I]ruined[/I] when they finally got fleshed out. At least NV was doing new and interesting things with its cosmology, even if a lot of it was hampered by the system it was attached to, and then more of it got shoehorned into settings where it had no right being. But I mean... we all already know how this ends, right? A decisive victory for Thunder Rift, a setting I'm not convinced wasn't solely the fever dream of the Wikipedia editor who put this list together, because absolutely nobody is going to bother downvoting it ever until it's too late. [/QUOTE]
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