Your least favourite setting

[Majoru Oakheart]

I hate the fact that WOTC is now making core halflings into kender.

I'd like to claim that they aren't. New halflings are small, curious, agile, and cunning. In other words, they make good cunning thieves and have a reason to go out adventuring.

Kender are bumbling idiots who have immense skill in pickpocketting so that they can act like hyper 6 year old kleptomaniacs with no fear.

And previous halflings we Hobbits. They hated adventure, didn't want to leave their homes and were somehow accidently good at being thieves despite all of them having good manners and being opposed to stealing anything.


Anyways, being on topic. I think I hated Dragonlance the most as a campaign setting. The Chronicles were good stories, but the entire campaign world is set up around ONE story. Every other story that you tried to put into the world seemed out of place as it didn't seem important enough.

For instance: "There is a dungeon over there with treasure to spare"
Players: "Treasure? What about the dragons returning and Lord Soth? Doesn't he live in this area. We should defeat him."

 

[Gundark]

Hmm...good points.

look at it this way, apparently I'm the only one here who doesn't like DF

 

[MonsterMash]

I've never gone for either Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms - they just don't click with me.

 

[tetsujin28]

What is your least favorite setting and why?

Duh. Your favourite setting.

 

[tetsujin28]

Al-Qadim must have a pretty loyal following, as being that it has not yet been metioned.

Well, it did rock

 

[S'mon]

I enjoyed Hollow World a lot, anything by Aaron Allston gets my thumbs up (Dawn of the Emperors is my most used campaign setting ever); I ran the scenario in the boxed set that introduced the PC to HW, followed by the HW 'Nightstorm' scenario set in HW fantasy-India (by Allen Varney I think), and it was all good fun. There are some Mystara products that are too silly for me (the Ierendi GAZ, especially), and I agree that Wrath of the Immortals appears to have trashed the setting - I didn't buy Wrath but I bought the AC 1010 Gazetteer and the 10-year history was full of what read like a bad house campaign gone awry.

 

[hero4hire]

#1 Spelljammer...ewww, Hippos with monocles and guns, Giant space turtles as tough as Tarrasques.

#2 Planescape...just seemed to be sissy, corny courtly intrigue, mixed in with Planar beings like oil mixes with water

#3 Dragonstar...looked liked a Dune rip off crammed into D&D like a square peg in a round hole. I *hate* D&D in space.

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[Shellman]

Least Favorite Setting's:

-Spelljammer--every session I ever played just sucked!
-Kingdoms of Kalamar-- not enough fantasy for me, although I think it was more the way the DM ran that campaign than the setting itself.
-Ebberon--strikes me as a bit out there, but then again I haven't read into it much

Favorite Settings (not in any order):

-Forgotten Realms--endless possibilities, I tend to gravitate towards High Fantasy
-Scarred Lands--Only played a few sessions, I liked the Scarred Lands setting until the DM changed it and took us to Kalamar.
-Greyhawk--good mid fantasy setting with the right DM.
-Dragonlance--Haven't played the new one, but I had a great time in the old version.

 

[Turanil]

Your least favourite setting.

Forgotten Realms: a mish-mash of everything and the kitchen sink together, at odious power-gaming levels. A friend once told me about a FR novel detailing the life of Elminster, and I became even more upset at all of this nonsense.

Planescape: Slang speaking cretins of the suburbs, 2nd level bards who travel to the nine hells and come back, art straight from a children's book, etc. The mythological planes of the gods turned into a derision. Frankly I did hate that even more than anything else.

 

[Insight]

Eberron. I know absolutely nothing about this setting. Nor do I really care to.

I have to agree. Stop copying my opinions!