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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 5300109" data-attributes="member: 8858">For me, I think the PoL setting (and to a similar extent, the undefined Greyhawk of 3rd ed) is my favorite setting to play in.  It's just a generic world that builds on a sort of background understand we share from having read one (or a dozen) too many trashy fantasy novels in our youths.  There's a place for everything (just over the horizon, a distant continent, across that mountain range, wherever) without the muddled sensation I get from settings trying to cram everything in.  Unless a player or an adventure calls for an element, there's no need for it to exist yet.Of the published settings, Dark Sun in my favorite because it has a different feeling while still being the kind of fantasy I like.  The whole world cataclysm that drives the differences stops it from being dropped into a more generic setting, so it needs its own world.Of the other settings, generic fantasy worlds that have been fleshed out by others are nice, but uneccesary.  I don't particularly care who the king's chancellor is when my character is a simple peasant.  So, nothing against Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Birthright, Mystara, whatever, I just don't feel the need for them.Ravenloft and Eberron are interesting enough worlds, but just don't really mesh well with what I want from my gaming or my worlds.Planescape, Spell Jammer and Al-Qadim I've never really been exposed to.  Perhaps I'd like them for being something unique, but none of their concepts have ever drawn me enough to look into them deeply.</blockquote>

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