What is your LEAST favorite setting?

[Stormprince]

That would certainly be fair; I'll take a look at it. To be honest there were a couple of things I did like about the setting, mainly the Orders of Knighthood and the Towers of Sorcery. I also like the idea of minotaurs as player characters. Unfortunately, these things were far outweighed by the annoying things.

I hope one of the seeds for the new Dragonlance is the "War of Slapping Some Sense Into the Three Comic Relief Races of Krynn."

One of the things we are trying to accomplish with the new Dragonlance setting is to bring together all the disparate tangents of DL and weave them into a new, cohesive whole.

Yeah, Kenders, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes are often played to the point of absolute annoyance. I, personally, have always liked Kender, but even I don't let most players play them unless I know they have the ability to play the character without being a pest. Most players that play the "Three Comic Relief Races" tend to take a single aspect of the race and play it to the extreme, and hence you end up with Kender Thugs who "steal armor off the knight's back, while the knight is walking!" or a Gully Dwarf who's only good for getting in the way, etc.

The book is being written so that games can be run in any period of Krynn's history, without forcing anyone AT ALL to play the same stories that have already been done a million times before. Heck, we're running a DL playtest while we're working on it and we're all having a blast! And nary a Hero of the Lance in sight

Oddly, though... none of us are playing a kender, gully dwarf, or gnome... *hrms*

Christopher

 

[qstor]

I happen to like the Realms, Greyhawk and Dragonlance. I voted for the Scarred Lands. As it says in the back of the FRCS you PC's are the stars and the world is yours. I would imagine that ENworld members would totally revamp Kyrnn as for the Realms if you don't like Elminster have your PC or NPC be the top wizard in Shadowdale.
I enjoy some of the novels for both settings and the detail and vision that went into Kyrnn and Faerun. That's why I like both of them.
As for the other pole I voted for Greyhawk. It's the first setting and home of all the classic modules. Secret of Saltmarsh, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and Tomb of Horrors ...Nuff Said....

Mike

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Re: oh dear...

Last I checked the Greyhawk setting is the official setting of 3e.
[snip]
And no, the designers do not see FRCS as the "way D&D is." Again I believe that would be Greyhawk.

What he said.

 

[King_Stannis]

wow? forgotten realms leading a list of the most disliked settings in d&d?

say it ain't so....say it ain't so.

 

[Tiberius]

My least favorite is Planescape. The fact that they changed so much from the 1E cosmology irked me to no end. Baatezu and Tanar'ri instead of devils and demons? The removal of the quasi-elemental planes? Different names for the planes? A city ABOVE the spire on the plane of Concordant Opposition? Please! My second choice would have been the Realms, but they've been growing on me as of late.

-Tiberius

 

[CRG]

DragonLance etc.

This is a poll about CURRENT least favorite setting.

That said, if White Wolf were to publish a Ravenloft book about how this vampire named "Lestat" now rules Ravenloft, well, it would rocket into the lead.

I'll certainly check out DL when the new setting is available. Frankly, as the other settings fall out of print / disfavor then they too will become non-competitors.

Perhaps my biggest problem with DL is age and reading interests during the developmental stages of the DL books, espescially the coming-of-age of the appropriately-named "three comic relief races". Maybe if I were younger at the time (or older and more accepting than I am now), I would have stomached the books and games dealing with those. As it happened, no. I also have vivid memories of one of the draconic races always blowing up when they die. Joy. In large part, any setting which encourages the development of "pests" (nice description Stromprince) I avoid.

We'll see how the new setting looks. Hopefully it will be a serious setting.

 

[patchmonkey]

I think that you're getting a little too tough on DL, especially the three "Comic Relief" races. We've had no trouble with players playing Kender, Gnomes, or Gully Dwarves.

I have played as a Kender, a half-kender, and a gnome, and I have to say it really depends on the player. Kender are tiring to play, even played well, and not every kender is Tasselhoff. Half-kender are interesting to play, and mine ended up opening a chain of restaurants across Krynn. The gnome died after saving a Knight with his teacup launcher.

I think the biggest issue here is to remember that how good the setting is depends on the players and the DM - once the world is in your hands, it's your world. In my Krynnish adventures, we never once met the Heroes of the Lance. Yes, there were certain things the DM wanted to keep standard, but we didn't have to deal with them - we were in entirely other parts of the world.

The DM and players make the game, not the campaign setting.

 

[Zappo]

The removal of the quasi-elemental planes?

Huh? PS has them. Are we talking about different quasi-elemental planes? I never played 1e, so I dunno.

 

[Nightfall]

I voted for the Scarred Lands.

Any reason?

 

[Garmorn]

My least favorite is Ravenloft. I just hate Gothic Horror. Second is Greyhawk because there is still a lot of left over feel from first edition where 12th level was exterme and wizards where unstoppable after 10th level.