Your favorite 3.x published campaign setting?

[Beginning of the End]

If you're looking for a campaign setting that will literally inundate you with usable material -- i.e., the material that you can just plunk down at the table and start playing with -- then I would recommend Ptolus.

The only drawback is that Ptolus is only a city. (It's a city you could run campaigns in for the next decade without exhausting its potential, but it's still a city.) If you want wilderness stuff, I'd probably second the Wilderness of High Fantasy (although I'm biased because I supplement that with a lot of the old school supplements).

 

[Dice4Hire]

Favorite 3.x? That is hard as most of my campaign settings are 2E, except homebrews.

I suppose I would have to stick with Greyhawk, though I am not sure it is technically a 3.X campaign setting.

 

[DMH]

Oathbound because it has so much more potential to tinker with than most others (Ravenloft being the exception). It is so easy to add anything from any source.

Morningstar because it has one of the coolest backstories I have ever read and the way that magic warps the land.

The Second World needs a lot of work to make it function but it is almost as interesting as Morningstar.

 

[Voadam]

Favorite 3.x? That is hard as most of my campaign settings are 2E, except homebrews.

I suppose I would have to stick with Greyhawk, though I am not sure it is technically a 3.X campaign setting.

Living Greyhawk Gazeteer and the 32 page gazeteer were both 3.0.

Forgotten Realms had the 3.0 Campaign setting, Dragonlance had a 3.5 setting book, Ravenloft had a 3.0 and 3.5 setting book (done by Arthaus [white wolf] under license), Diablo had a 3.0 one, and I believe there was a spelljammer and dark sun issue in Dragon/Polyhedron.

Birthright, Planescape, Al Quadim, and Jakandor are the only 2e ones I don't think made it fully into 3e, unless you count the historical ones.

 

[Voadam]

I'll exclude Golarion because in my mind if it post-3.x. Some will debate me on that and probably make valid points, and if you want the truth, it is top on my list of current campaign settings.

It predates the Pathfinder system and the mechanical parts are all designed for 3.5, correct?

I just got it for Christmas and its on my to read soon list. Garund, Linnorm Kings, and Cheliax are real cool world aspects.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I'd have to say Wilderlands of High Fantasy (although I prefer the less-detailed originals over the NG version).

However, if I was going to run a 3.x game, I think I'd embrace its 3e-ness and use Ptolus. I think it's the setting with the most natural fit for the 3.x rules.

 

[JediSoth]

I was sure Eberron was silly nonsense before it came out, but when I saw it and read it, I really, really liked it. I would put it as my #3 favorite of 3.X campaign settings.

My second favorite would be Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved (unless you don't consider that to be part of D&D 3.X, in which case bump Eberron up to #2).

My absolute favorite setting would be Ptolus. Love it, love it, love it. I usually stick the city in a different world though and handwave the fact that the world is supposed to be a prison for outsiders and thus, no summoned outsiders can actually leave once they enter Ptolus's world.

 

[Voadam]

There are so many great 3e settings.

Freeport from the Trilogy and Pirates Guide has a fantastic pirates meets Cthulhu vibe.

Ptolus has the high fantasy D&D city built over a megadungeon aspect with both poly and monotheism aspects.

Ravenloft has a fantastic CS book for gothic horror D&D which is almost entirely appropriate for players to read the whole thing.

Oathbound is high fantasy high powered D&D with reasons for a hundred different monsters and races to be jammed together with tons of dungeons to explore.

Forgotten Realms has a monster setting book providing a hundred useful details and tons of support.

Golarion has great cliche real world D&D fantasy analogues (Vikings, Egypt, Africa, Arabia) plus a devil worshipping empire.

Argyle Lorebook has a cool points of light background.

Arcanis has ambiguous removed gods and a sort of conan world dark sword and sorcery feel.

Nyambe D&D Africa

Twin Crowns, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Eberron, Iron Kingdoms, Sovereign Stone, Kyngdoms, Valus, Erde, Hamunaptra, Rokugan, Hunt Rise of Evil, Bluffside, Diamond Throne.

And many more.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Deepfire]

Ptolus
best ever

Midnight
Sauron won, nuff said (in play right now with Rolemaster Rules)

Kalamar
taste like D&D, looks like D&D, is D&D as we all know it, Just better. (In play right now with 3.5)

Wilderlands/Citystate
Weirdo cool and the next in the list to play

Scarred Lands
is very interesting, just read it, never played it

Golarian
It's the future