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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carpe DM" data-source="post: 2105098" data-attributes="member: 677">Midnight is a lot of good fluff.  Ravenloft, as redone, is also very good.  And Planescape would be my third pick.But let's be clear: Both of the first two settings share an "impenetrable darkness" rubric that is very hard to play in an actual game.  Players hate constantly losing and the "descent into darkness and madness" is just not fun in the long term. So you're stuck.  Either your campaign is "setting-destructive," meaning you tell the story of redemption of the setting, or your campaign is "setting-reinforcing," meaning the players suffer, die, and eventually lose, perhaps (at best) heroically sacrificing themselves for an unattainable ideal.The problem is the first option means the setting is a single-campaign deal, and, further, doesn't take advantage of the setting (what's the point of a darkness-based setting if light can win?); the problem with the second option is obvious.So I think there's a reason a lot of people like the fluff -- myself emphatically included -- but don't run the campaigns.cheers,Carpe</blockquote>