Dragonlance
Grimm
Forgotten Realms all the way baby!
I hate FR. It's dumb!
Way to make friends kobold...
I knew you'd say that.
Just in case you're wondering, I have an AC 900 and deal +70d8 sneak attack damage. So don't even think about it(others promptly drop their poisoned daggers and try to look innocent).
Planescape and Darksun
Greyhawk.
Although, I have the feeling that this will be replaced by Golarion.
Birthright.
birthright is cool.
Birth right has my vote for most over looked campaign setting
For me, I can't choose a favorite, so thus I must choose the Great Wheel...
All-Time: Planescape from TSR
Current WotC fave: Forgotten Realms
Non-WotC fave: Scarred Lands... They rocked.
Seriously, I loved almost all of the old settings, the only ONE I didn't really get was Birthright, but I think that one really can have fun with it. It just wasn't something my group played, and thus I don't understand it.
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Dave Arneson: Blackmoor.
i still have the my original 1980 judges guild booklet, and the two maps, the players map, and the dm's map. it is pretty cool. the evil egg of coot, blackmoor castle. i have mostly made it into a home brew. you cant do much with 80 pages.
I liked Forgotten Realms at first, but now there's too much canon and history.
There's a couple of homebrews that have been favorites.
But really? The little snippets of Golarion Paizo's been teasing us with are quickly pushing Golarion to the top of the list.
RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
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1. Greyhawk / Shackled City (although mine isn't particuarly heavy on GH cannon)
2. Eberron
3. Planescape
And I'm looking forward to running Golarion particuarly Varisia with Rise of the Runelords. I suspect that Paizo's new campaign may just jump into my number 1 slot.
Hmmm...Iron Kingdoms for a bit more high tech, but for more traditional I'd say Greyhawk and Dragonlance holds a special place for me.
Fizz
Don't say something is dumb without explaining why.
The Realms are my first love as a DM. I really felt at home when I first read FR1 Waterdeep and the North. It was were I belonged.
That having been said, DragonLance has a very special place for me as well. A lot of my mindset about D&D in general and story telling as a DM was influenced by this setting.
Ravenloft is probably third on my list of settings that I love as a DM.
Spelljammer was actually a lot of fun, especially if you used it in the spirit of the original boxed set, as a wild, high magic swashbuckling game that could take players pretty much everywhere. Spelljammer was kind of the bright, gaudy, embarrasingly fun flip side to what Planescape was (the darker, more serious, more logical, "anything goes" setting).
While I never could "get into" Greyhawk as a DM, I have a lot of fond memories of the place as a player.
Dark Sun is probably my favorite setting that I totally invested myself in that I never got much of a chance to run. Dark Sun was kind of the roleplaying equivilant of a "concept album," something that was either going to be totally brilliant because it was so different, or totally aliente people used to "standard" D&D.
Star*Drive
Star*Drive
Well if you are going to expand this into things like Alternity . . .
DarkMatter (the original version)(Like X-Files, but more fun for an ongoing campaign)
Pre-Clans Battletech/Mechwarrior universe (the universe was a simpler place when you knew Davion and Steiner hated Kurita, Liao, and Marik)
Star Frontiers (love the insidious Sathar threat, really miss this setting sometime)
Star Frontiers (love the insidious Sathar threat, really miss this setting sometime)
I had this game and loved it too. It's been given second life, by the way, in the d20 Modern - Future book. Not much of a treatment, mind you. Nothing like a full campaign setting or adventures (that I know of), but it includes rules for all the Star Frontiers races.
Greyhawk will always be my favorite, with the Realms running a close second. I'm really warming up to Eberron, but GH has my nostalgic heartstrings and always will.
Greyhawk...grew up on it.
Forgotten Realms...read plenty of books in FR.
Homebrew...Taking the best of all worlds.Thoth-Amon
Exactly the same for me.
FR is my least favorite of the 3. I'm liking my homebrew a lot, but it's not even 5% of what I eventually want it to be. Greyhawk is still my favorite. So much D&D history is wrapped up in that setting, and there is just...something...about it that appeals to me.
Greyhawk and Ravenloft, with a healthy dose of respect for Planescape, Dark Sun and Birthright. I also have a feeling that I'd really enjoy Midnight and A Game of Thrones, if I ever got to try them. Mothman's Age of Darkness PbP is also really satisfying...
Star*Drive
Oh my God (or Gods or dark lord of slime) Someone else purchased the stardrive campaign.
Who else played alternity.
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Star*DriveOh my God (or Gods or dark lord of slime) Someone else purchased the stardrive campaign.
Who else played alternity.
Yep, purchased Alternity (including Star Drive and Dark Matter campaign settings). Never got to run more than a couple of sessions of Star Drive though ... but thought it was a really great setting.
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RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
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Greyhawk will always be my favorite, with the Realms running a close second. I'm really warming up to Eberron, but GH has my nostalgic heartstrings and always will.
Greyhawk has my nostalgic heartstrings as well but I run a little cooler on the Realms.
I like parts of it (Cormyr and the Dalelands primarily) but it's so darn big and far to detailed for my taste. You can't swing a tired cliche without smacking an iconic character upside the head.
I ran it for a while once and my players having read all the books itched to meet all of these big favorite characters. It was daunting coming up with reasons why Elminster, Drizzt, or some other epic hero was too busy to save the PCs the trouble of saving the world.
The next time I ran it (3.0) I declared at the onset that the novels and cannon beyond the campaign setting book were all Bard's tales and legends. Imagine my PCs shock and horror when they met Elminster the sage: Expert level 5 and Elminster wasn't his name but a title.
The game was fun but I'm glad to be running Greyhawk again and feeding my Eberron adiction for just a little while longer until Pathfinder consumes my gaming budget.
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1. Greyhawk. The original (sort of), and still the best. Has the best gods, plots and NPCs.
2. Forgotten Realms. Fun to play in, though I wouldn't want to DM. And what is so "forgotten" about it anyway?
3. Planescape. Never got to play it much, but I love the concepts and the atmosphere.
Don't like Dragonlance - the world is tiny, the canon is both restrictive and lame (at least the FG and GH canon is somewhat cool), and the kender and gnomes are charmless and annoying. The gully dwarves are OK, though. Aubrey the Malformed is getting me more interested on Eberron, and, while I never got into Dark Sun, Ravenloft or the Mystara settings, as well as Birthright, they all look fun and absorbing.
1. Forgotten Realms
2. Marvel Universe
3. Necromunda
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1. Eberron (just feels right)
2. FR (I rather like its vastness and variety, even if it is slightly over-trod and hemmed in with canon in certain bits)
3. Al Qadim (never really got the play it properly, but loved the Arabian Nights feel)
Greyhawk - ah, you know, I just never really played in it, except for an abortive stab at RttToEE. I rather regret I can't feel the warm glow that the true veterans get over it.
1. Greyhawk (since 84 on and off)
2. Middle-Earth (playing Rolemaster)
3. Those are the only fantasy settings I've played. The next one I'll play will be Pathfinder.
4. Ok, I admit to eye-balling Eberron, but this whole cancellation debacle may see me avoiding it.
If you include all settings... ummm. My homebrew supers campaign. Or homebrew GURPS space....
... you asked.
I hate FR. It's dumb!
Cant remember wrote:
Way to make friends kobold...Kobold Assassin wrote:
I knew you'd say that.
He passed himself off as a precocious kid on another thread... or as they say in Latin, he is "cooked ahead". He has some kind of mental disorder... what it's called has slipped my mind, and from his lack of social skills I tend to believe it.
Just in case you're wondering, I have an AC 900 and deal +70d8 sneak attack damage. So don't even think about it(others promptly drop their poisoned daggers and try to look innocent).
1d6 non-lethal, punk. (Hey, he obviously needs the attention, indulge me)
Oooo, I forgot about Middle Earth and Rolemaster. Many happy hours spent biting off and swallowing my own tongue.
lol!
Aubrey, you should have played with us. My friend put all of the combat tables on computer (he wrote code for a living, and did most of it with a scanner and font recognition software). We had all the critical charts and none of the migraines--it was every bit as fast as D&D.
Ahhh. Memories. Middle-Earth Rolemaster.
It was a good system.
Being the GM must have been a chore, dude.
We deviated from the Tolkien ethos somewhat, with our character building anyway. Our GM was a helluva storyteller, and didn't have much trouble blending a squad of power-gamed freakish characters into Tolkien's setting though.
But this story has a sad ending and a warning for the kiddies: a couple of the players became crackheads almost right before our eyes and it ripped apart a really tight group of gamers. It left such a bad taste in my mouth I stopped playing for a few years.
So don't play Rolemaster, kids, it has been known to cause drug addiction.
;)
Well... didn't play much of the WotC-Settings. Eberon seemed kinda nice though.
My favorite is Midnight. (FFG)
Anything run by me. It has to be great!
Does this make me a pompous self-congratulatory twit?
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1. My Homebrew; I have invested ages of spare time on this world. I make it a point to be creative and find at least *one* place for each and every single monster from all official WOTC monster books...
2. Greyhawk; My first love...
3. Forgotten Realms; Mostly reading the novels, not so much playing...
4. Eberron; A refreshing change I play in every now and then...
5. D20 Star Wars; I grew up with these movies. How could I not play it?
1. Greyhawk
2. Eberron
3. Scarred Lands
Scarred Lands actually wound up as the longest running campaign I've done, where I learned the most about DMing. Now that I'm thinking about it, I would like to run a game there again, of material that I've written myself. I want to play Planescape and Dark Sun someday, to try something really different and distinctive. Plus, getting the old Planescape books for the Tony DiTerlizzi art would be awesome.