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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boarstorm" data-source="post: 4362551" data-attributes="member: 63913">You know, it's interesting.If I took every single aspect of what I think would make an "ideal" setting, I'd end up with such a mishmash of ideas that I don't think they'd ever really click together.Some things I'd steal from various sources:-Dragonlance:-- Towers of High Sorcery and associated world-spanning order of magic-users.-- Evil warlords riding dragons and conquering armies of goblinkin and dragon-men.-Eberron:-- The Lightning Rail-- Airships that follow some form of rules (ie -- elementals) as opposed to "it's just magic"-- The Mournland (in concept: the mysterious wasteland where nothing lives)-- Warforged.  The idea of a race that hasn't been alive long enough to form a society and is almost childlike in all ways except war has a certain appeal.-Forgotten Realms:-- The Zhents are just cool, but they don't mesh particularly well with the Towers of High Sorcery, mentioned above.-Dark Sun:-- Cannibal Halflings.  Hell yes.  But I think they should be worg-riding Hun types.-- The evil super-mages of the setting who are willing to sacrifice 100,000 people to cast one spell are also kinda neat.-Planescape:-- The City of Doors.  Yes.  Yesyesyes.  But no factions!  They just annoyed me.-Spelljammer:-- Neoghi slavers riding Umber Hulks into battle?  Nifty!-- The spelljammer itself was kind of a neat concept.  Essentially a city unto itself that floated randomly from area to area with a mysterious purpose, entire "urban" campaigns could be played without ever setting foot off the ship -- not that you could even if you wanted to.-- Potentially visiting a new world (Star Trek style) every session.- Birthright:-- Princecraft.  That was interesting, even if the way it was integrated into the game kind-of made it feel like a third nipple.-- The Highlander-esque noble blood thing created a really interesting dynamic.There wasn't much from Greyhawk, Mystara or Red Steel that really caught my interest, so no mention of those.Outside of published settings, ideas that I'd love to work into a setting include socially acceptable necromancy, a form of innate magic, and maybe a Rifts-like dichotomy with half the world relying on magic and the other half on technology.But to work all of that into a single setting?  I'd end up with space robots fighting dragon highlords on a lightning rail while Queen played the Highlander theme in the background.</blockquote>

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