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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ferratus" data-source="post: 5295653" data-attributes="member: 55966">Dragonlance is the one that really holds my interest.   It has the right feel for a Tolkienesque fantasy RPG for me, with an emphasis on warfare, romance, and the struggle of good and evil.   Plus riding on dragonback as a PC is the pinnacle of epic awesome for me.  Dragonlance has serious problems though.  The comic relief races need to be toned down and reimagined, and the villains of the campaign need to wear less black hats.  There has also been a great deal of discontinuity and cataclysm after cataclysm.   So a reboot from scratch like Dark Sun would be nice.Birthright is my second favourite of the D&D settings, but only because I really like the idea of ruling realms and constructing fortresses et all in my D&D.  I don't have any particular affection for the world, so if WotC decides to publish Birthright in a Gazetteer and a book of Domain Rules, I'd pick up the latter and not the former.Dark Sun would be fun for about 10 levels, before you become too powerful and start changing the cool campaign elements.  Plus, you start getting tired of the DM screwing you over all the time.Ravenloft is simply a bad match for heroic fantasy where you gain XP by killing things and taking their stuff.   Which is probably why they are making a Ravenloft RPG (that you can use with 4e) rather than a 4e Ravenloft.Mystara, the Forgotten Realms, and Greyhawk all make the same mistake.  They use ethnic and national stereotypes of Earth and then rename them.  I hate it.  That could be the primary reason I choose DL for my vanilla fantasy.  I like Greyhawk's classic adventures, the eponymous city, and I could leave the rest.Planescape bothers me because I like my angels, demons and so forth to be abstract concepts or alien and terrifying.   I find them all chumming about in Sigil trading stuff and hanging out in the same tavern to be... mundane.  Spelljammer doesn't bother me as much as long as it looks and plays like Farscape or Star Wars.  Swashbuckling Space Opera fantasy is good, though it needs to borrow more from the "Sword and Planet" genre to be great.</blockquote>

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