What is your LEAST favorite setting?

[Pickering]

Dragonlance

I say that because I find it to be a very restrictive world if the DM, who happens to be a Dragonlance fanatic, plays it to the letter of the law. No portals, loss of all named spells in the players handbook.

On top of that, I don't find the stories to be all that inspiring. The Dragonlance world never captured my imagination.

 

[ForceUser]

It was a tough call, because I'm not a fan of most of the published settings, but I went with Dragonlance too. Great book series, bad campaign setting.

I loved Planescape, I thought it was very imaginative, but damned if I could find people who actually wanted to play it. Explaining Planescape to the average gamer yielded blank stares of incomprehension, and it took a long time just to cover the basics. Nobody "got it."

I never played Spelljammer, Dark Sun, or Birthright more than one session, so I never got a feel for those games, but then again I wasn't dying to play them either. They seemed cool though. Forgotten Realms annoyed me because of its inherent munchkinism, and Greyhawk seemed boring, not to mention the names of half the places were stupid. The Duchy of Geoff? Jeff? Hello? Was this invented by a DM in junior high?

Kalamar looked great, but some of the names look like they came out of a random name generator, and a bad one at that. Other than that, the setting looks great.

Ultimately, I'll stick to homebrew settings, thanks.

Mystara what?

 

[alsih2o]

Everything about it just conjures up images of smelly bearded 40 year old RPGA players

There, now that I've insulted half the board, that ought to start a nice big ol' flame war.

meepo, i am not offended at all that you don't like greyhawk, but as a player approaching 40, with a smelly beard...

 

[cildarith]

Planescape is my least favorite setting of all time.

Never liked anything about it. Not a single thing. Blah.

 

[Kweezil]

I can't say I really dislike any of them. At a push I'll vote for Mystara, purely because of a player I know who keeps trying to push some of the Mystara rules into my own world, like immortals and shadow elf radiance magic (Discharge ...shudder...)

 

[Golem Joe]

Forgotten Realms...

The reasons:

1) Information overload for one! The backlog of information is simply staggering. I'm glad to see, with 3e, they aren't pumping out a ton of materials on a weekly basis.

2) NPCs overshadow the PCs. So much of the core setting was built around things that happened in the novels, the PCs rarely had the opportunity to make changes. They just puttered around cleaning up after the big dogs.

3) Drow are so kewl. You can find these guys under every rock in Faerun.

4) Uninspiring. I owned the main boxed set and a few of the suppliments back in the 1st edition days, before FR Adventures came out. And as much as I tried, ideas for adventures went no where. None of the hooks seemed to work for me.

I eventually traded all my FR stuff to a friend for his Dangerous Journeys collection.

 

[Krug]

I wonder if you had a poll which asked which setting people have played in how it would turn out...

 

[Deedlit]

Rokugan. I like the clans, and I use OA heavily for my games, but it also contains the two things I least like about any setting
1. No elves
2. Association of law with good(And Chaos with evil) with the honor system, so much that you CG characters seem illogical. I've fought the association of law with good and chaos with evil, trying to convince people they aren't inherently connected, that I don't like campaign settings acting like that with the honor stuff.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

2. Association of law with good(And Chaos with evil) with the honor system, so much that you CG characters seem illogical. I've fought the association of law with good and chaos with evil, trying to convince people they aren't inherently connected, that I don't like campaign settings acting like that with the honor stuff.

That is because Rokugan values Lawful more then they value Good.

IMO, Rokugan does best without alignment at all, heh.

FD

 

[Mouseferatu]

Well, I can't seem to vote in the poll for some reason. I'm getting an error message every time I try.

It's just as well, though. I'm absolutely torn between voting for Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. At least now I can take a bit longer to decide...