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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 2430355" data-attributes="member: 3913">I tend to think of campaign settings in terms of how much I can mine from them for my own setting.  (the more I want to take the better.)  If I really want to play in a setting, then I think it's really good.FR: Hated it in 2E.  The 3E implementation has been pretty good so far.  True there's a LOT to sift through there, but new players that are just playing the setting blind with no prior knowledge about the setting beyond what is written in the 3E books don't really have that problem (though they are likely the minority of FR players).  I mine a few PrC's (re-written in spots to fit in with my homebrew), lots of spells, monsters, and the occasional race.  The one thing I take away more than anything from the Realms are locations and ideas for cultures/dungeons/cities.  It's a good setting, IMO, though I would never run a solely Realms game I would play in one.Dragonlance: This is very much a "meh" setting for me.  There's not much beyond a couple races and some monsters that I even want to bother with bringing over to my homebrew.  It feels boring and uninspired to me.  Don't get me wrong the new products out for the line are light years better then any of the old material, but it still doesn't grab me.Eberron: Excellent.  I love the flavor of the setting.  I mine the races, many of the PrC's and much of the tone for my homebrew.  I like settings that aren't anything more than LotR++.  Eberron is fantasy in a way that fantasy just it's shown to be beyond the Final Fantasy series of games.  Not that I like a video-gamey feel, just something different than the average world of dwarves, elves, dragons, and orcs is what I like.  I don't think I'd ever run Eberron, but every now and again I start to think that I'd like to.Iron Kingdoms: Excellent.  I like this setting so much that it's serving as the base for my homebrew.  I'm taking Western Immoren, the cultures, the contries, etc. and adding in things from other settings.  This is the only campaign setting out right now that I would run unmodified, but I'm too much of a kitbasher to do so!Arcana Evolved/Diamond Throne: The setting isn't nearly as interesting as the system.  I take everything mechanics-wise from the setting and use it in other places.  That is not to say that DT isn't a good setting, but it isn't nearly as compelling to me as IK.  Warcraft: I like the setting, though it's a little too simple for me.  There's nothing that I haven't seen before in some other setting.  I mine a few of the races and a couple of the classes for my own games. That said, the new World of Warcraft book is top notch.  It's really good.Scarred Lands: I never really got into the setting, but I use pieces of it from the books that I've bought like the city of the dead (the name escapes me ATM) and the Hornsaw Forest over to my homebrew as well as many monsters, but the setting itself never really did it for me.  Those are the major settings I mine from off the top of my head.  Most other settings really only offer me monsters and the occasional race, so they aren't really worth mentioning anyway.  Kane</blockquote>

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