What setting would grab your attention?

[Aeolius]

To be fair, something already grabbed my attention recently. Everyone knows I am obsessed with the sea and a fanatic for all things hag-related. When Pathfinder released the Advanced Players Guide, I heard about the hag-oriented witch class. "No big deal," I thought, "I already houserule that into my 3.5e game". Then Alluria Publishing released Cerulean Seas, a 300-page undersea supplement for Pathfinder. That proved to be the straw that broke the camel shrimp's back.

Now I have 3 Pathfinder books, 5 Pathfinder books in PDF form, and the Cerulean Seas PDF. My attention has been thusly grabbed.

 

[dangerous jack]

mix the flying thing with an island/pirate setting, and you could probably hook me. And it'd have to have animorphs. So,...

"Welcome to the realm of Arroxa, a once-mighty world shattered in a cataclysmic magical apocalypse...

Sounds a lot like Sundered Skies (Triple Ace - Sundered Skies) for Savage Worlds.

 

[Hungry Like The Wolf]

Anything inspired by Weird Fantasy. More specifically I really prefer pseudo-early modern to medieval with magic being something corruptible and heroes being Cryptozoologists and Cartographers rather than Knights or Wizards.

Also, if anybody starts their campaign pitch with "It's a Western cross..." I will instantly sign up.

 

[Redshirt]

I really like it when a setting challenges the standard fluff of the races. Be it elves in Ebberon, halflings in Dark Sun, etc, I love a strange twist to tie me to a setting.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Flying ships are common
Underground civilizations, or at a minimum threats from below
Fantasy post-apocalypse (whether ubiquitous or a barely-there distant influence)
Lovecraftian nasties

 

[RPG_Tweaker]

A setting that avoids the tired old tropes of the genre.

For example, the return of the evil dark lord, spreading darkness across the land is fully played out. Any pitch that included that one would have to have some seriously unexpected inversions to get anything other than a yawn.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mine involved an Undead Dark Lord whose machinations started several centuries ago, and now his plans have finally borne fruit!

Only...

Now he's a Lich...with brain damage. (He completed his ritual, but his brain was already Swiss cheese.). He hasn't stepped out if his library in at least 200 years.

So who is REALLY running things?

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Mine involved an Undead Dark Lord whose machinations started several centuries ago, and now his plans have finally borne fruit!

Only...

Now he's a Lich...with brain damage. (He completed his ritual, but his brain was already Swiss cheese.). He hasn't stepped out if his library in at least 200 years.

So who is REALLY running things?

Kind of a Harry Seldon of lichdom?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Don't know who you're talking about, I'm afraid. If you're referring Asimov's character from the Foundation series, I must admit I've got those books sitting in the "bullpen" section of my library, still as yet unread.

 

[pogre]

I'm a big fan of micro-settings that can be easily slipped into an existing fantasy campaign. Give me a village, town, or city as a base with lots and lots of adventure hooks. Necromancer did a few of these that I really enjoyed.