D&D General [+] What is your favorite non-WotC D&D setting?

[Bedrockgames]

Rokugan for Legend of the Five Rings also had a 3e era, started by WotC but continued by the original creator (much like 3e Dragonlance).

I recall kind of liking this one

 

[Micah Sweet]

I recall kind of liking this one

I prefer the non-d20 version of the game (before and after the WotC era), and I don't care for what happened to the setting after AEG sold the property, but generally it's one of my favorite settings ever.

 

[Gorck]

Having always played in the Forgotten Realms with my old group back in 3e, I liked it, but I felt it was much too massive in scale. Now that I'm DMing my own group in 5e, I appreciate that Exandria is a lot smaller and cozier (and I even have 2 campaign setting books dedicated to specific continents (Wildemount and Tal'Dorei). It also doesn't hurt that I watch Critical Role, so I get to see the world in full action, and I feel I know it better than I ever knew FR.

 

[Parmandur]

Wolfgang Baur's Midgard, which began life as a TSR office lunch hour game using ideas considered too off the wall to publish, is a classic. Lots of really wild ideas that can drive gameplay in there.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Having always played in the Forgotten Realms with my old group back in 3e, I liked it, but I felt it was much too massive in scale. Now that I'm DMing my own group in 5e, I appreciate that Exandria is a lot smaller and cozier (and I even have 2 campaign setting books dedicated to specific continents (Wildemount and Tal'Dorei). It also doesn't hurt that I watch Critical Role, so I get to see the world in full action, and I feel I know it better that I ever knew FR.

I do like Exandria more than the Realms. Feels more like a real place to me. YMMV of course.

 

[cbwjm]

I loved the Hyborian age d20 setting, had some cool mechanic ideas in it but otherwise I love the portayal of the world in the stories and I felt this was a great adaptation of it.

 

[teitan]

The developer is a naughty word but I really liked Vornheim for LoFP & Dolmenwood from Necrotic Gnome, even when it was OSE and what little we knew about it.

 

[teitan]

Although not D&D, I also love the Old World Warhammer setting. Gritty and dirty, with a sprinkling of doomed humour.

The old world is amazing. I prefer it to 40k to be 1000% honest

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I am happy with my 5e version of Rokugan: Legend of Five Rings and Iron Kingdom: Requiem.

 

[AK81]

I have really come to appreciate Golarion from Pathfinder 1e. The multiple smaller settings within a larger setting is really great for making different adventures but still keeping the same lore. And I think the lore and history of Golarion tie the differen mini settings together in a way that makes it feel like the same world. Also so many of the mini settings are in genres that I am interested in. I love the pulp feel of the setting.