What settings have you played or run?

[Voadam]

I'm considering what setting to use for a new solo player campaign and it got me thinking about the various ones I have and have played in for D&D/d20.

I have played in:

Greyhawk
Forgotten Realms
Dragonlance
Spelljammer
Ravenloft
Scarred Lands
Oathbound
World of Warcraft

I have DMd:

Greyhawk
Ravenloft
Dragonlance
Dark Sun
Planescape

I have but have not played or run:
Nyambe
Twin Crowns
Dragonlords of Melnibone
Hollow World/Mystara
Wheel of Time
Valus
Testament
A bunch of Avalanche Press historical/mythical settings
A bunch of TSR historical settings
Conan 1e stuff
Lankhmar
Birthright
Kara Tur
Al Quadim
Everquest RPG
Diamond Throne

I'm thinking I will use an old module (Cloudlands from grenadier miniatures) update it to 3.5 and place it in the Twin Crowns setting as the setting has elves and dwarves, Chaos and exploration theme that fit the module and PC's character concept well. I just have to decide if I will adopt their resurrection rules or go with straight D&D.

So what have you played in, what have you run, and what would you like to run that you haven't?

 

[JoeGKushner]

Played:
Iron Kingdoms
Oathbound
Scarred Lands
Greyhawk
Forgotten Realms
Dark Sun
Dragonlance
Planescape
Ravenloft
Conan
Freeport

DMed
Forgotten Realms/Maztica/Kara-Tur/Al-Qadim/Hordelands
Greyhawk
Mystara/Red Steel/Hollow World
Planescape
Spelljammer (some great memories there!)
Ravenloft
Lankhmar/Nehwon (some great old adventurers in that series)
Aeshiba (Greek Africa, generic system)
Black Company/Grim Tales combo
Freeport
City State of the Invicible Overlord (old judges guild stuff, Portals series, etc...)
Free City of Haven (Thieves Guild products)
Rogukan

Like to Play
Oathbound with a good GM
Wilderlands as presented in the new boxed set
Rogukan with new 3rd ed

 

[Psion]

I have played in
Greyhawk
Forgotten Realms
Planescape
Homebrews
Dark Sun
Ravenloft
Scarred Lands
Spelljammer
Dragonlance

Run:
Homebrews... and lots of them
Planescape
Second World
Greyhawk
Realms
Spelljammer

Included or remixed:
Freeport
Bluffside
Beyond Countless Doorways
Mahasarpa
Kara-tur
Silver Streets (city from Twin Crowns)
Nyambe

 

[sniffles]

Looking at those lists, I feel puny in my D&D might.

Played:
Forgotten Realms
Greyhawk

Run:
A one-shot with no specific setting.

But I've played a lot of non-D&D stuff, mainly in Glorantha or homebrew settings.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Run:

Homebrew
Forgotten Realms
Dark Sun
Ravenloft
Spelljammer
Kara-Tur
Vikings (2e historical green book)
Midnight (very briefly)
Mystara

Played:

Dragonlance
Kara-Tur
Homebrew
Dark Sun
Mystara

Would like to play/run:

Kingdoms of Kalamar
Scarred Lands
Al-Qadim
Conan
Lone Wolf

 

[The Shaman]

GM'd
Wilderlands of High Fantasy

Everything else played or GM'd has been homebrew.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Played in:
Greyhawk
FR
DL

DM'ed:
IK
Planescape
Dark Sun
Greyhawk
FR
Rifts D20 homebrew
tons of homebrews
Urban Arcana
Mystara
Birthright
Spellhammer
Raveloft
Masque of the Red Death

I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Kane

 

[Steel_Wind]

Ohhh man. 26 years+. Long time...

Played

• City State of the Invincble Overlord/ World Emperor
• Greyhawk
• Blackmoor
• Empire of the Petal Throne
• Shadow World
• DragonLance
• Dark Sun
• A host more I've forgotten. Interestingly, never played in the Forgotten Realms as near as I can recall
  

DM'd

• City State of the Invincble Overlord/ World Emperor
• Greyhawk
• Shadow World
• DragonLance
• ICE's Middle Earth TA 1640
• Cerilia (Birthright)
• A host of Homebrews

 

[Galethorn]

GMed...

Two incarnations of my 'big' homebrew (both very divergent from, say FR, GH, or DL)

Two 'just made stuff up on the fly' homebrews (fairly generic D&D)

Played...

Three FR campaigns

Would like to play...

Kalamar

Something with lots of airships and flint-lock pistols and swashbuckling (which I actually will, come fall)

In my experience, FR is great for the 'killing [Bad Guys] and taking their stuff' and dungeon crawl type stuff, but the high level of magic sort of destroys verisimilitude when you have murder mysteries, court cases, etc., since simple 3rd-4th level spells could answer and questions involved relatively easily. But, that's just me.

 

[ShrooMofDooM]

I'm pretty new to the whole tabletop thing, but I have DMd a homebrew D&D campaign and both DMd and played the Urban Arcana setting.