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What world do YOU play in?

What campaign world do you play in?

  • Greyhawk

    Votes: 52 24.3%
  • Forgotten Realms

    Votes: 77 36.0%
  • Ravenloft

    Votes: 12 5.6%
  • Dark Sun

    Votes: 7 3.3%
  • Dragonlance

    Votes: 11 5.1%
  • Planescape

    Votes: 18 8.4%
  • Scarred Lands

    Votes: 17 7.9%
  • Midnight

    Votes: 14 6.5%
  • Combination of the above

    Votes: 18 8.4%
  • Your own homebrew

    Votes: 130 60.7%

F'n Realms and assorted homebrews. :)

The fact is, (for which I have no concrete proof), the majority of players fall into two categories, which I gather from both the story hours on ENWorld, and from the conventions I have attended the the people I speak with.

First, we have DM's who have little prep time, and most of these choose a Generic Fantasy pre-done world, one that has tons of support. Faerun fits this well, and its phenomenal fan base is evidence.

Second, we have DM's with LOTS of prep time, who put much TLC into their homebrew worlds. The majority of those spice it up with modules, supplements, and the like, but it's still their world that they put much loving care into.

Greyhawk and Dragonlance fit sort of into this category, but lack of direct support has eroded the dedicated fan base that originally existed, and has moved them to the popularity of any other 3rd party published world, like Darwin's World, or Midnight, or Scarred Lands, etc.

So generally speaking, while most of us have dipped into other worlds like Planescape, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Etc. but mostly fall back to the time-honored general fantasy, and either kit-bash a LOT, or we homebrew. It's just how work schedules and personal preferences seem to make this play out.
 

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Or Iron Kingdoms

Or Arcanis ( 3 minutes late after HellHound! )

Or Soverigen Stone

Or Slaine

Or Testament

Or Nayambe

Or Many Others


Me:

Running Scarred Lands

Playing FR

Slowly developing Home Brew for next Campaign -
 
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Midnight!

Love it. Never had so much fun tormenting players.
I've never played in any other setting where this can happen:

[DM] Me: You pull the old board back to find a two foot long object covered in old, dust, moth eaten, tattered cloth.

Player1: I reach in slowly, get the object, and unwrap it.

[DM] ME: Within the folds of cloth you find an old short sword. It appears to have once been of good quality but has since rusted a great deal due to neglect.

Player1: A rusty short sword? YES!

Player2
OOC: : I wonder if it's magical?

Player1
OOC: : I hope not!

Player2
OOC: : Yea... thats the last thing we need. *Gives DM threatening look.*
 
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Banewarrens' Ptolus set in postapocalyptic Greyhawk (right off the Nyr Dyv, wonder what old city it could be built on top of). Old school elder greyhawk gods, Cuthbert is Lawful Good.

The 20+ year campaign I run started in Greyhawk briefly went to an all Celtic world, and ended up in Ravenloft, with a brief dragonlance Taladas and Dark Sun runs.
 


G'day

I'm not playing anything at the moment, but back when I was living in an area where anyone aside from me had even heard of RPGs, I played D&D 3E campaigns set in Faerun, a friend's homebrewed (called 'Karaburun') and the primary world (Durham, England, in AD 1090). I also run one set in a homebrewed of my own called 'Neisiostornum'.

There didn't seem to be an option in the poll to refect the 'primary world' campaign.

Regards,


Agback
 

Kalamar, which wasn't an option. However it's heavily edited. In fact I took a small portion of the world and detailed it pretty well and the PC's have pretty much stayed within 100 miles of the start point from 1-10th level so far.
 

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