Which was your favorite setting from TSR/WotC?

[Marius Delphus]

Ravenloft came in a close second... the new incarnation doesn't do it for me in the least.

I sort of like the Ravenloft 3E stuff I've seen (and I don't even have any of the Gazetteers) but as another poster said it's the lack of adventures that kills it for me. Sometimes it feels like the authors are *telling me* instead of *showing me* and that does kind of turn me off. "This is scary. That is scary." I see all kinds of fun possibilities, but I simply don't have the time to follow through on them.

I still voted for Ravenloft, but I based my vote on all the wonderful 2E memories rather than the 3(.5)E materials. ("So, you touch it?")

 

[LeifVignirsson]

Birthright for me...

I have ALMOST everything published for it, printed out the 3E conversion, nearly had a hearattack when the 3E edition of it was announced and the when through bitter disaapointment that it is STILL not out. You know, the usual stuff...

Granted, there is a lot older material out there, some with a lot more history and character (FR, DL and Ravenloft having THE icons of the business... *sigh*... Lord Soth...)

A close second for me DL, but that is because I still think highly of Lord Soth as a villian... Maybe I am a chump. GREAT questions though!

 

[Arnwyn]

Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms got my vote.

Honorable mentions:
1) Al-Qadim
2) Planescape
3) Spelljammer

I use all those in my big "FR multiverse" campaign to this day.

 

[JesterPoet]

I think I'd really like Ravenloft if I got into it, but my only experience with it was through a really BAD DM, so I can't make a fair judgement on it yet.

 

[Navior]

From my understanding, but I could be wrong, the Blackmoor humans of Mystara came from their own plane of existance. Is this true?

I *think* that's how the DA adventures are presented. Blackmoor isn't a part of the Mystara world; it's another world attached to the Mystara cosmology.

Actually, you're thinking of the d'Ambreville family in Glantri (originally from adventure X2: Castle Amber). They came from another dimension.

The DA modules, however, definitely did present Blackmoor as the prehistory of Mystara. This was then picked up in the Gazetteer series to form the basis of the history of the Known World.

Just a final note: The Known World setting did get the name Mystara well before it became a AD&D 2nd Edition setting. Several earlier products used the name, most notably Champions of Mystara.

 

[Faerl'Elghinn]

I'm saying the Realms, with a strong tendency toward Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and Planescape, but honestly, I love them all so much it's hard to say. I've definitely had the most fun as a player in Toril, however, so that has to be my final answer.

 

[Keldryn]

My vote goes to Mystara, or as I still think of it "The Known World." I started playing D&D in that setting back in '86, using the red box Basic Set series with the Elmore cover art. I definitely have the fondest memories from that era of play. The old Gazetteer series, before the whole Hollow World and Wrath of the Immortals stuff, still had a flavour that most D&D settings don't have. Even if some of it was a tad silly (GAZ4 Ierendi, for example).

We eventually adopted AD&D (1e, obviously) rules a year or two later, but stayed in that game world. Some of my favorite modules were set in that world. The "classic" 1e AD&D modules (GDQ series, Slavelords, S series, etc) never really did it for me. When I think back to the "classics," I think of B7 Rahasia, B10 Night's Dark Terror, X1 Isle of Dread, X4-5 Desert Nomads, X10 Red Arrow Black Shield (I love that adventure), CM1 Test of the Warlords...

Greyhawk never really captured my attention. It always seems a little bland to me. I have fond memories of the old "grey box" Forgotten Realms set, before the setting was over-developed, over-populated with powerful NPCs, and before hordes of trashy fantasy novels were written and incorporated into the game setting.

Planescape was really cool, but I never really played in it. And I love the setting for Birthright (from what I've seen of it), but haven't ever played in it.

Somehow, for me, the quintessential D&D experience is playing in the Known World with the old Red- and Blue- Box Basic and Expert Sets. And when I think of the look of D&D, I think of the Elmore art from the old B and X series.

If they're going to do a 3.5e "basic set," I hope it harkens back to the old 1983 Basic Set that brought me on board.

 

[Samothdm]

I voted Mystara (aka "Known World") also. My first exposure to a "campaign setting" came from reading the little paragraphs of description that were thrown into the Expert Boxed Set around 1983 or so.

I think they're all fun to look at and read for ideas, though.

 

[MDSnowman]

I voted for Ravenloft, I've loved the setting since I first bought the black box. But a close second would be either Dark Sun or Planescape.

 

[Treebore]

My vote goes to Mystara, or as I still think of it "The Known World." I started playing D&D in that setting back in '86, using the red box Basic Set series with the Elmore cover art. I definitely have the fondest memories from that era of play. The old Gazetteer series, before the whole Hollow World and Wrath of the Immortals stuff, still had a flavour that most D&D settings don't have. Even if some of it was a tad silly (GAZ4 Ierendi, for example).

We eventually adopted AD&D (1e, obviously) rules a year or two later, but stayed in that game world. Some of my favorite modules were set in that world. The "classic" 1e AD&D modules (GDQ series, Slavelords, S series, etc) never really did it for me. When I think back to the "classics," I think of B7 Rahasia, B10 Night's Dark Terror, X1 Isle of Dread, X4-5 Desert Nomads, X10 Red Arrow Black Shield (I love that adventure), CM1 Test of the Warlords...

Greyhawk never really captured my attention. It always seems a little bland to me. I have fond memories of the old "grey box" Forgotten Realms set, before the setting was over-developed, over-populated with powerful NPCs, and before hordes of trashy fantasy novels were written and incorporated into the game setting.

Planescape was really cool, but I never really played in it. And I love the setting for Birthright (from what I've seen of it), but haven't ever played in it.

Somehow, for me, the quintessential D&D experience is playing in the Known World with the old Red- and Blue- Box Basic and Expert Sets. And when I think of the look of D&D, I think of the Elmore art from the old B and X series.

If they're going to do a 3.5e "basic set," I hope it harkens back to the old 1983 Basic Set that brought me on board.

I hope you got to go on to Sabre River and Death's Ride.