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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 5044014" data-attributes="member: 5122">I've played in several since we started played 3E ...Freeport (plonked into Greyhawk) -- I really like the wide-open feel of Greyhawk (contrasted with Forgotten Realms), and I began my 3E DMing as a big fan of Freeport.  As Freeport developed, it started getting a little too silly for me, but before I could pull the plug myself, I had a TPK (in Black Sails) when the PCs were 10th or 11th level.  I still love Greyhawk, but too be honest I'm not sure how much of that love is simple nostalgia.Scarred Lands -- I just dug the riff on Greek mythology that went on in this setting, and I really liked being in from the beginning of a campaign setting with massive ongoing development.  This setting has my favorite D&D nation ever: Calastia, the realm of a beloved LE ruler.  Although Scarred Lands was 3.0, I recall the setting books being almost entirely fluff, so if you can get them cheap I highly recommend them.  I TPKed my group at about 6th level (ironically, in a module written for Forgotten Realms).Eberron -- It shocked me how much I enjoyed Eberron, because I'm sort of a fantasy purist.  For example, I very much dislike psionics and other science-fiction elements in my D&D.  (I even had a hard time with the firearms in Freeport.)  But I loved Eberron, somehow, and I would say that as of now it's my favorite setting.  The history and national identities are very interesting to me, I'm enamored of the slight shading of D&D's normal black vs. white morality, and I enjoy the new rules (like the races).  Even the setting's quirks -- e.g., the map scale is off by a factor of 10, according to Keith Baker -- are somehow charming.Golarion -- I haven't played in this one yet, so I don't feel I can make a wholehearted endorsement.  I will say, though, that judging from what I've read -- which is about a quarter of the setting material published -- Golarion might supplant Greyhawk as my favorite "generic" D&D world.Forgotten Realms -- For quite a while, I was genuinely angry at the love shown for the Forgotten Realms -- in production values (the FRCS ... are you kidding me?) and in production schedule -- but aside from that, FR just doesn't do anything for me.  Too developed, too nit-picky, too ripe for GM-NPC garbage.</blockquote>

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