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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9197083" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I do remember liking Krynn. In particular, the Taladas boxed set. Interestingly Krynn is what led me to my favorite setting.</p><p></p><p>My favorite settings is Ravenloft. I also loved Harn, Masque of the Red Death's Gothic Earth, and TORG's Orrorsh.</p><p></p><p>What drew me to Ravenloft was the novel Knight of the Black Rose, which I read because Soth was on the cover. I am not sure why Ravenloft resonated with me so much. I remember being insanely curious about the setting after reading KotBR (I had seen the boxed set on the shelf and was aware of the original module but had never explored it at that point). This was probably about a year after the Realm of Terror boxed set came out. As soon as I finished the novel I picked up the boxed set and Feast of Goblyns. As soon as I started reading the campaign setting, I couldn't put it down. Growing up on classic horror movies and on hammer films, the setting really energized me. I had never really run many campaigns and all of a sudden I was running two separate groups. </p><p></p><p>I loved the art (the Stephen Fabian art, which is why I love the Taladas boxed set so much) was so evocative. I was also reading it at the time I was joining a death metal band in high school and the Obituary album Cause of Death had come out. It used the same art as the Del Rey Lovecraft anthologies that came out that same year. I mention this because the boxed set made heavy use of his quotes, and one of the first things I did after reading it was begin buying and reading the Del Rey lovecraft books. The boxed set also spurred a deeper interest in reading classic horror and gothic horror. It quoted the section in Frankenstein where the creature says "I ought to be thy Adam..." and that piqued my curiosity because I was more familiar with the Boris Karloff interpretation of the creature. So I read Frankenstein, then Dracula, then The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Island of Doctor Moreau, Sheridan Le Fanu, etc (basically all the stuff on the suggested reading list). </p><p></p><p>It was just one of those settings that clicked with me, but also sparked an interest in a genre and made me want to learn more. The adventure Feast of Goblyns was pretty helpful too in selling me on the setting and how to run it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9197083, member: 85555"] I do remember liking Krynn. In particular, the Taladas boxed set. Interestingly Krynn is what led me to my favorite setting. My favorite settings is Ravenloft. I also loved Harn, Masque of the Red Death's Gothic Earth, and TORG's Orrorsh. What drew me to Ravenloft was the novel Knight of the Black Rose, which I read because Soth was on the cover. I am not sure why Ravenloft resonated with me so much. I remember being insanely curious about the setting after reading KotBR (I had seen the boxed set on the shelf and was aware of the original module but had never explored it at that point). This was probably about a year after the Realm of Terror boxed set came out. As soon as I finished the novel I picked up the boxed set and Feast of Goblyns. As soon as I started reading the campaign setting, I couldn't put it down. Growing up on classic horror movies and on hammer films, the setting really energized me. I had never really run many campaigns and all of a sudden I was running two separate groups. I loved the art (the Stephen Fabian art, which is why I love the Taladas boxed set so much) was so evocative. I was also reading it at the time I was joining a death metal band in high school and the Obituary album Cause of Death had come out. It used the same art as the Del Rey Lovecraft anthologies that came out that same year. I mention this because the boxed set made heavy use of his quotes, and one of the first things I did after reading it was begin buying and reading the Del Rey lovecraft books. The boxed set also spurred a deeper interest in reading classic horror and gothic horror. It quoted the section in Frankenstein where the creature says "I ought to be thy Adam..." and that piqued my curiosity because I was more familiar with the Boris Karloff interpretation of the creature. So I read Frankenstein, then Dracula, then The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Island of Doctor Moreau, Sheridan Le Fanu, etc (basically all the stuff on the suggested reading list). It was just one of those settings that clicked with me, but also sparked an interest in a genre and made me want to learn more. The adventure Feast of Goblyns was pretty helpful too in selling me on the setting and how to run it. [/QUOTE]
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