Which settings are worth looting?

[Psion]

So, what do you think? Which settings have the best material in them to plunder for use in other settings or your homebrew.

Personally, Scarred Lands is an old standby of mine for plundering (particularly R&R and CCII), but of late, the magic items and prestige classes for Warcraft and the elementalists/6-element system from Blackmoor are particularly appealing to me.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I loot from EVERYTHING.

Forgotten Realms...Eberron...Scarred Lands...Warcraft...anything, really. If its got a good concept, and the rules are close enough or don't take too much alteration to fit in with more standard D&D, I'll find a place and port it to my homebrew.

 

[GlassJaw]

to fit in with more standard D&D

Well it obviously depends on what your homebrew is. I'm not really interested in a traditional fantasy homebrew anymore so I can't really borrow from the cookie-cutter settings. I tend to look more to movies, novels, vieo games, etc for inspiration rather than actual published settings.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Well it obviously depends on what your homebrew is. I'm not really interested in a traditional fantasy homebrew anymore so I can't really borrow from the cookie-cutter settings. I tend to look more to movies, novels, vieo games, etc for inspiration rather than actual published settings.

I meant more rules wise, actually. Since some of the other campaign settings have their own special mechanics and such that I don't use in my homebrew.

 

[Psion]

Argh! Can't beleive I left Warcraft off the poll.

 

[GlassJaw]

I meant more rules wise, actually. Since some of the other campaign settings have their own special mechanics and such that I don't use in my homebrew.

Fair enough. In that case - Star Wars d20 and Conan. I really like armor as DR systems (which both of them have). I also really like the Dodge/Parry rules from Conan and the VP/WP system from SW.

 

[Psion]

I tend to look more to movies, novels, vieo games, etc for inspiration rather than actual published settings.

Bzzzt! Out of bounds!

That's really a whole 'nuther kettle of fish, and I'd have to list a dozen more things, like Final Fantasy VI-VII, Farscape, Larry Niven books, etc.

 

[Crothian]

Scarred lands is the bigest for me. I also picked Freeport,m though I don't loot from it as much as placed itin my setting, same for Bluffside.

All of them are lootible, but not all of them can really bve lotted for the same game. So, for me it really depends on what elements I'm looking for at the time.

 

[VirgilCaine]

I grab things from anyplace I feel like it. I have a lot of the Perilous Portals FR feature that I might throw into my homebrew, and I tossed in the Savage Coast and Al-Qadim.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Midnight.