Greyhawk.
Wow! I know this is not representative, but still: more love for Dark Sun or Mystara than for Eberron??
Bocklin
Forgotten Realms, strong first and will probably be always in the lead.
Planescape, because under my expansive interpretation of the setting every other setting is included in it. I can have my cake and eat it too! Also, it had some of the coolest artwork to ever grace a D&D book.
Mystara all the way! :)
Greyhawk, or beneath it or above it, Flanaess or Isle of Dread, Amedio or Land of Black Ice...
I voted Planescape.
I like mythology, philosophy, and crazy juxtaposition.
Which is why my real favorite setting is Grimm.
WotC should reconsider it's "No-Greyhawk-Policy".
WotC should reconsider it's "No-Greyhawk-Policy".
If they did, it might not remain so popular. The main reason Greyhawk gets my vote is because WotC isn't messing with it.
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There are settings other than Greyhawk?
I remember Planescape was a Greyhawk alternate realm.
The same with Spelljammer.
Ravenloft wasn't really relevant until they highlighted the specific Greyhawk content, showing it was also an alternate setting.
Homebrew just means Greyhawk without using a TSR module.
Birthright was a bit of an alternate setting with the Greyhawk deities organized into different pantheons and combined, and with a different rules subsystem.
I'm not sure what some of those other entries are though. Was anything ever actually published for them outside of random Dungeon adventures which I don't own?
God, I just generally love campaign settings in general, the more outlandish, the better. My favorites in order: planescape, dark sun, eberron.
For me it had to be FR. GH has all the history and a good setting and is the default so something must be right with it, but Forgotten Realms came along when I was hitting my D&D stride, and it dragged me in and has kept me to this day. The characters, the magic, the setting, the variety - it covers all the bases, and has that unique touch of Ed Greenwood that made me smile as I read it (and re-read, and again, and again - before I ever DM'ed or played in the place).
Still had some pretty ropey adventures and accesories attached to it though... a more is less approach would've been better methinks. This is what they're doing with GH right now and it's all the better for it - ask me this question in 5 years time and I may well give a different answer...
Forgotten Realms- rich history, depth of the politics and ecology, level of detail, I love the mix of medieval grit and fantasy magic.
My second favorite would go to George RR Martin's world of the Song of Ice and Fire series- the Westeros. Mmmm, savory...
'hawk.
Any other selection must mean you are deluded somehow ... or deprived. Sadly, deprived.
Dark Sun, of course!!!
Off topic: Not to play to my stereotype here, but I freaking love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness under the Palladium umbrella. One of my favorite games!
I should have included a tortoise shell-back and turtle face option in my Warforged article. The diehards on the WotC Eberron boards would have loved that! ;-)
Dude! If you're up for it at GenCon and I still have a voice I'll dust off my old Road Hogs Adventure!
Great Green Dude
Road Hogs forevar!!! Loved that book!
Truckin Turtles was a blast too...Never ran the actual adventure verbatim but the cover art alone inspired many a fun action-chase scene in my games.
B Vic (co-wrote Obsidian Eye with me) is a Turtles Maniac. We used to play together every afternoon after middle school...middle kindergarten I mean (yeah, that's the ticket).
The Young Master
Gotta say Scarred Lands with a chunk of Dungeon and Greyhawk.
Pity the poor Birthright- who has played that? What was it like?
Off topic: Not to play to my stereotype here, but I freaking love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness under the Palladium umbrella. One of my favorite games!
I should have included a tortoise shell-back and turtle face option in my Warforged article. The diehards on the WotC Eberron boards would have loved that! ;-)
Dude! If you're up for it at GenCon and I still have a voice I'll dust off my old Road Hogs Adventure!
Great Green Dude
Road Hogs forevar!!! Loved that book!
Truckin Turtles was a blast too...Never ran the actual adventure verbatim but the cover art alone inspired many a fun action-chase scene in my games.
B Vic (co-wrote Obsidian Eye with me) is a Turtles Maniac. We used to play together every afternoon after middle school...middle kindergarten I mean (yeah, that's the ticket).
The Young Master
Yeah, dude Coyote Corps. forever! Take that Doc Feral! I've actually gotten to game with Erick Wujcik at GenCon once or twice (Amber and test game for something he was developing). The man's an evil genius GM, whose tricks I steal on a regular basis. Dreads: if you're reading this you can just email your unconditional surrender. No need to make it public or anything.
Hehehehe,
GGG
Greyhawk. Followed by Ravenloft as a close second.
I love the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk equally, so in my game, I use both. The two are both continents on Toril. Deities are all valid, and are often rivals or allies. I like to keep all options open. Travel between the two is mostly by portal or moonbridge. Creatures from Athas and Eberron find their way through the Plane of Shadows about as often as monks from Kara Tur do.
The best setting for horror - Ravenloft! :)
hehe got together with my gaming group; fairly large group too; and nobody uses anything other than homebrew with a couple of us supplementing with maps from other sytems and sources; what does it all mean....
I voted Greyhawk because that's the one I most often DM. Eberron is also fun and I enjoyed the Scarred Lands setting while we played it. I want to try out Dark Sun and Planescape someday, since around 2nd Edition I didn't have anyone to play with.
RAVENLOFT!!!
There can be no comparison. I mean seriously, it has Strahd. How can you not love Strahd?
Planescape would be second, but only because I love the way they talk.
As of this moment there are more 'hawkers than Realmsians and Eberronians combined .... there is balance in the universe once again ...
Having cut my gaming teeth while Greyhawk was still in development (Citystate of the Mad Overlord was the latest release!) I never got into any of the pre-fab stuff. As a result, I had to make do with homemade plot lines and world details that I just do it by reflex now. Greyhawk is good, no doubt. So is Forgotten realms. I've tinkered with Darksun under another DM, had an unfortuante one-night-stand with Ravenloft game and have heard some friends occastionally babble about Spelljammer. The rest is dross. So, I guess vote me as Homebrew, unless that's the actual name of a real game system I haven't encountered, in which case put my not to Other.
Sallah
Ravenloft! Please put more Ravenloft articles in Dragon, and please start putting some Ravenloft adventures in Dungeon!