what is your preferred period for d+d games?

[Kilmore]

Overall, I'd have to say that my campaign setting is "Golden Age", though all is not hunky-dory. There's a few big established powers and players that the PC's have to deal with, and a broad plethora of spells, weapons, magic, allies, and manpower to deal with them with.

I'm currently cooking up a campaign that's going to be more "political" in nature than my earlier ones, and having established powers in place makes it more interesting.

 

[S'mon]

My world is currently in a downslide era following a golden age, which I find makes a good time to DM as the 'Time of Chaos' gives the PCs the chance to determine the course of future history for centuries to come.

I voted post-apocalypse though. I'd like to run a post-apocalypse PBEM some day.

Traditionally I'd expect many American players to favour the frontier setting, and British ones to go for downslide. Japanese might favour apoc/post apoc; not sure about Europeans though.

 

[Hackenslash]

"Confused"

....Traditionally I'd expect many American players to favour the frontier setting, and British ones to go for downslide. Japanese might favour apoc/post apoc; not sure about Europeans though.

Hmmm....How about an American who has lived most of his life in the UK and likes Japanese Anime ??? DOH !!!

 

[babomb]

I prefer exclamation points for my games.

 

[S'mon]

Re: "Confused"

Hmmm....How about an American who has lived most of his life in the UK and likes Japanese Anime ??? DOH !!!

Depends whose cultural norms you adhere to. If you like anime, maybe apoc/post apoc. If you like American genre fiction (sf, Westerns etc), maybe Frontier.

 

[Melan]

Frontier for me. A young and terrible age, when there is little civilization to hinder heroes. There are still remnants of ancient empires (some fallen long ago, others in their final days of decadence), but the whole wide world is there for you to explore, conquer and (if you are strong enough) bend to your will.

That is, I use the Wilderlands setting, although I always played these kinds of campaigns, even before I knew the WL existed.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Alsih2o, I would have to say where you stranded on a tropical island after a shipwreck...

No to be honest I'm pretty much an after “it’s hit the fan” type of player. Where heroes are needed and everything is epic.

Which would make me in the lowest type... I knew I was screwed up.

Hey Alsih2o I edited this post!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

The downslide, preferably with the doom and gloom end not being inevitable. My favorite homebrew is set in a reformation/counter reformation period, but if the PCs handle things right they can help bring back some measure of peace and sanity.

The Auld Grump

 

[Zaruthustran]

Frontier. I like that "Keep on the Borderlands" / "In Search of the Unknown" feeling. The feeling of "If I stop fighting for even one minute, civilization will be overwhelmed."

Good times!

-z

 

[Altalazar]

I think these things go in cycles, and there can be several previous "golden ages" and so forth that you can discover and learn about - my current gameworld is essentially just past its golden age, and is sort of waning, but there was a previous golden age that was FAR more, well, golden, that is now almost forgotten.

I think it can be interesting to try any period.

I've often wondered what a campaign would be like in a very early period - in the original 1E there are all of these ancient artifacts, old ruins, etc - I always wondered what the world was like when there were not ANY ancient artifiacts - when the only artifiacts were, in fact, made last tuesday, and that (in other games ruined) castle was just finished last thursday - so that the characters literally exist in THE first civilization, a world where all swords are new, and it is a savage frontier.