what is your preferred period for d+d games?

[Desdichado]

I voted downslide, but frontier discovery is a very close second. I like the decadent, late Roman Empire feel: a civilization that's sown the seeds of its own destruction, and at the PC level it's obvious to see. I also like the Wild West feel -- might makes right, and all kinds of crazy things going on because true law and order hasn't advanced this far yet.

 

[Tuerny]

I tend to prefer downside. I always like to have it so civilization appears to be strong and powerful but there are little gnawing pieces of chaos that are causing things to slowly disintegrate.

 

[rounser]

The categories aren't mutually exclusive either. Wilderlands seems to be primarily frontier/discovery, but also definitely downslide (for the pockets of civilisation that remain at least).

 

[pogre]

I like rediscovery of lost lands formerly civilized. That's why I am disappointed Gaslight Press has been on extended break from their setting Sun and Scale.

 

[Imperialus]

I tend to do a lot of apocalypse or downslide settings. The lack of a support structure for PC's adds a lot to the game IMHO.

 

[BluWolf]

Like most, my campaign world is largely based on a post apocalyptic scenario. It is well after the "sundering" (as it was called) but there is no real "rediscovery" to speak of as most of the world remained in touch. Its just all screwed up.

 

[Rasmus]

I voted Frontier/Discovery, but I also love the Post-apocalyptic. Which is probably why Earthdawn is my favorite game of all times!!

 

[shadow]

Downslide
The current campaign which I'm working on features a rather bittersweet undercurrent. While the heroes are powerful and heroic, things are in decline. Evil is returning. The ancient races of elves and dragons are dying. Magic begining to wane. In spite of the power of the wizards, they know that magic is slowly and inevitably being replaced by the power of science and logic. (This is a little cliched, but what homebrew isn't?)

 

[Olive]

my worlds have tended to shy away from Ages and the like. So it's kinda hard to answer the poll.

 

[Norfleet]

Period is so subjective: What might be a golden age for one area might be a downslide for another, perhaps the very thing which is driving the golden age in one area. While one part of the world might be experiencing one thing, someplace else could very well experience an entirely different thing...and if the PCs travel, they get to see all that. They get to meet new and interesting people from different and exotic cultures...and then kill them. They get to go out there and explore, as in "Discovery", see civilizations in the process of a "Downslide" or "Golden Age", and then cause the exact opposite to happen instead, or cause/prevent the apocalypse.