Your least favourite setting

[JoeGKushner]

Okay, I'm lost.

Don't be. Warcraft is a manga by Tokyo Pop. And no, it's not samuria or teen girls running aroudn in their panties or anything. It's good old fashioned sword & sorcery style stuff. Not all manga involves ninja and their ilk or teens at high school. Check out Berserk for another good all purpose medeival level fantasy style manga.

 

[shaylon]

I'll chime in with another Dark Sun. I read about the campaign and had no interest whatsoever.

-Shay

 

[Kanegrundar]

Dragonlords of Melnibone...I forgot about that one. I actually like the world, but Chaosium fouled up the rules in the D20 version so bad, that I didn't even want to strip it down for parts. Needless to say, it got sold pretty quick.

Kane

 

[Carpe DM]

It's funny how hard it is to answer this question. Anything that people have experience with enough to dislike obviously is good enough to have gotten major play.

I wouldn't ever run FR because of the DMPC problem, but I routinely permit spells, feats, and items from those books into my settings.

I don't cotton to the "death and madness" rubric of Ravenloft, but it certainly can be fun if well-DMed. A bad DM makes it unspeakable.

So, really, the question is "Which is the least useable of the major, published settings." And the answer to that I think is Eberron, no questions asked. I can't find a single thing in that setting that isn't either cribbed, useless, or just plain daft. Obviously, that's just my taste.

Mostly, it's just the trains and warforged. If you want steampunk, Iron Kingdoms does it right. Eberron is just a waste.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Don't be. Warcraft is a manga by Tokyo Pop.

Okay. Define manga. Is it anything like genre?

 

[Desdichado]

And no, it's not samuria or teen girls running aroudn in their panties or anything.

Doesn't mean that teen girls running around in their panties isn't always entertaining...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Doesn't mean that teen girls running around in their panties isn't always entertaining...

As never having been part of a college panty raid, I wouldn't mind seeing it!

 

[EricNoah]

Funny thing about FR ... I've never had the "high level NPCs" issue, and I truly don't see what the problem is. Then again I've never run any of the published adventures for FR. NPCs like Elminster etc. worked as great window dressing and patrons for the PCs in the campaigns I've run. No DM worth his salt would let NPCs ruin an adventure...

Sorry for the hijack. Now I remember why these "what is your least favorite XYZ" threads are such a downer. It's no fun to hear that someone hates what you like!

 

[Nisarg]

Nisarg's hate list:

1. The entire world of darkness
2. Nobilis
3. Exalted
4. Eberron
5. Planescape

Plus a couple of conditional ones, like everything of Deadland's after the first (main) book, later dragonlance (not counting Taladas, which is great), and Forgotten Realms (which I don't hate per se, I just strongly dislike how most people run it).

I'm sure there's some others I forget at the moment.

Nisarg

 

[fredramsey]

Manga: Japanese word for what we in the US call "comic books", but not really.

In Japan, the tradition of graphic novels, comics, what have you, is not only quite old, but cuts across genre and age categories in ways we westerners have a hard time imagining. There are manga that deal with every subject imaginable - there are romance manga, office politics manga, sports manga, and, of couse, science fiction, fantasy, etc.

And all ages read it, and there are manga targeted for all age groups, including some rather perverse adult manga.

From manga, we get Anime, or animation. Again, anime is not a genre (despite what some people think), it is a medium. There are as many different types of anime as there are Hollywood films. We don't get a lot of the more "mainstream" anime here, we mostly get the fantasy, big boobs, giant robots, etc. But this is only part of anime.

In the US, anything that is animated has a 99% chance of being oriented towards kids. Big shock for westerners when they start to see what's available in anime. I would guess a large chunk of anime is targeted at the same teenage crowd that PG-13 movies are here.

Hope this clears things up.