What settings do you love?

[Rl'Halsinor]

Greyhawk

Wilderlands

Scarred Lands

 

[Crothian]

OK, unless you can articulate WHY I should go for Scarred Lands you're really not contributing anything and just postwhoring.

You do know you just asked for good settings and didn't ask for people to say why they liked them, right?

Isn't Thieves' World the Fafrd and the Grey Mouser world?

No, it is not. It is the world of Shadowspawn and Tempus.

And what do you like about Eberron?

At first it seemed to be different just for the sake of being different. Buit after reading though most of the books and playing through many of the modules it all comes together really well. There is a single solid vision for the setting and even though there are some contridictions it mostly works well. It is also high quality rules and look.

 

[Dykstrav]

I dig Greyhawk. It's generic enough to accomodate most styles of play with ease and has just the right amount of detail for my taste. It seems grittier and alot more open to expansion than the Forgotten Realms, which seems to have gotten more and more Tolkienesque ever since the Lord of the Rings movies came out. Greyhawk also has that old-school flavor that I dig.

Unfortunately, finding good Greyhawk resources these days isn't as easy as the other big settings. I haven't seen a copy of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer on shelves in a while.

 

[Lalato]

I'm going to back up Crothian on Thieves World. I think they did a very good job of adapting that setting to d20. Plus the setting itself is just perfect for D&D. I've loved it since I read the first book oh so many years ago.

Mindshadows would be the other setting that I really love. It's not an entire campaign world, but it's an excellent mini-setting. Some of the rules needs tweaking, but the flavor is pitch perfect.

--sam

 

[Shemeska]

Planescape
FR
Ravenloft
Darksun

And not d20, but I drool over it: Shadowrun. *drools like the hellbound ghost of Pavlov is ringing the Bells of Baphomet in my ears*

 

[Desdichado]

It's a little difficult to recommend a setting without knowing a bit more about your taste. For example, my favorite settings for D&D are probably Iron Kingdoms, Dark Legacies, Midnight and Eberron, but I don't know that you would. All of them have a bit of a gritty, or at least a noir element, with fuzzy alignment. All of them are low magic, or at least low high-level magic.

 

[replicant2]

I'll recommend Greyhawk, if you can get a copy of the 1983 boxed set off ebay. Why?

Two great full-color hexagonal maps.

A good amount of detail (brief writeup of the history, politics, and geography of each kingdom), but plenty of "open spaces" and room for expansion.

Gygaxian flavor.

Easily portable to 3.5 (if that's your system of choice). Most of the NPCs are given names and levels, which are easily translated to different versions of game.

It lists where many of the old school modules are located, down to the exact hex. You can drop all sorts of cool adventures in with ease.

 

[Nightdawn]

It's a little difficult to recommend a setting without knowing a bit more about your taste. For example, my favorite settings for D&D are probably Iron Kingdoms, Dark Legacies, Midnight and Eberron, but I don't know that you would. All of them have a bit of a gritty, or at least a noir element, with fuzzy alignment. All of them are low magic, or at least low high-level magic.

Hmm, good point.

I'm trying for a kind of grand, sweeping game with elements of epic, Howard-esque stories, Clive Barker style sexualized horror, and some punk influence on it too(think Blade Runner and Neuromancer, although obviously not with that kind of technology).

Also, Chaos Magic Theory as laid down by the Church of Thanateros.

 

[Aus_Snow]

How far afield are you looking here - d20 fantasy only? d20 only? Fantasy only? None of the above?

 

[Nightdawn]

d20 fantasy. As far as a setting goes, though, I think I could probably convert it over to d20 though if it isn't.