What is your favorite non-traditional setting?

[Serendipity]

Eberon (the only d20 I'm playing right now, unfortunately)
Spelljammer
Dark Sun (which made for great reading - no one I know ever felt up to running it)
Ravenloft (in small doses)

I don't honestly know enough about Planescape to say one way or the other, but everything I *do* know suggests that it has major rock-a-tude.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

1) Planescape
2) Iron Kingdoms

a distant

3rd) Midnight
4th) Dark Sun

Ebberon may make my 5th spot, but i'd categorize it as more traditional along with my 6th spot, Scarred Lands.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

1. Spelljammer

2. Shadowrun

3. Iron Kingdoms

4. Dark Sun

5. Dragonstar


I wouldn't call Eberron non-traditional, still less Warcraft (?) or Warhammer (?!). Nor, for that matter, Midnight, which is purely a 'traditional with a twist' setting. Otherwise, Warcraft would be 4. and Eberron 5.

 

[Hawkshadow]

Though I've never played them, I really like the ShadowForce Archer and Dark Inheritance settings for Spycraft d20 (which is 3.0-based).

Though Eberron uses standard d20 rules, it's modern-era politics make it a non-standard setting. (And, I'm currently having fun running in that setting.)

Iron Kingdoms is a great non-standard setting that has a similar dawn-of-the-modern-era feel like Eberron.

Planescape was the only version 2 setting I ever bought the books for. It looked like a fun setting, but at the time I was mostly playing GURPS. (Which has tons of good non-standard settings.)

 

[yennico]

My favorites are Al Qadim, Earthdawn and Rifts.

 

[TheYeti1775]

Spelljammer - Lords of Madness has given me hope for more of it.

Darksun - pre-novels, but with the free-Tyr made things interesting. What can I say I like Muls.

Dan Mello's Rome-space (it was a home-brew 2e that I played in the early 90's), and the one that opened up Spelljammer to me.

Destan's Valus - great setting.

Slowly warming to Eberron, but the jury is still out.

Bill

 

[Belen]

1.) Planescape
2.) Midnight
3.) Dark Sun

 

[Wisdom Penalty]

Nyambe
Valus

not sure if those are "non-traditional" as the thread starter requested, but others folks have mentioned them so i will, too.

(incidentally, surprised that spelljammer seems to have an equal if not larger contingent of supporters than planescape. im not familiar with either, but i always thought planescape was the 500 lb. gorilla of those types of settings.)

smoltz is back,
W.P.

 

[Desdichado]

Thank you for the link, ST. The setting looks interesting but the site is hopelessly inconvienient to navigate. I'll have to look through the d20 system guide for a review. From what little I could glean from the Bastion Press site, I can see why Oathbound might share a fanbase with Planescape - it looks to reley heavily on the conflict between factions.

Here's the reviews.

 

[Li Shenron]

1. Rokugan
2. Planescape
3. Al-Qadim