I just started my AP/recap thread for my homebrew PFRPG Irrin Campaign, and I got to wondering:  how many of you use homebrew settings, and how many prefer published settings?  For me, the only two published settings I really think I use are Trav's 3rd Imperium and Rifts Earth (and I make a pretty good amount of changes to 3I).  I also occasionally use Palladium's Fantasy World, but obviously not for this campaign.  Really, more than anything, the setting books I have I use to liberally borrow from for my own campaigns.

I mean, I know there are folks out there who, say, religiously adhere to world changes and canon in Eberron or Faerun/Forgotten Realms, but I can't think of any I know.  It seems like anyone and everyone I've played with like to put their own personal touch on a setting, which is what I favor, as well.  On the other hand, I can also see the benefit of an established setting for those who don't like worldbuilding or don't have the time to do so.

We have always home brewed setting.  Since 1976.

My fantasy world is one of my own creation with healthy inspiration from many sources of course.  Got my own Cyberpunk setting also, not to mention my modern day horror 'mythology'.

The closest I run to canon is probably Sla Industries and there is still a lot of changes that I've done to it.

Homebrew out the wazzoo. Like... eight settings.

I created a homebrew world for my D&D game and really enjoyed it, I switched to the Forgotten Realms when it was released.  I don't pay any attention to canon or novel events and there was never a ToT in my realms. I use bits and pieces of the 3I in my traveller games which are mostly Terran centric.

Quote from: beejazzHomebrew out the wazzoo. Like... eight settings.

Yeah, me too. I've done so many of my own settings I can't even rememebr them all. Published/liscensed settings bore me. I can see the attraction, and sometimes I'm interested for long enough to buy a source book (midnight and freedom city, for example) but I can't get into them. In the past (10+ years) I've used Barsaive (EarthDawn setting) and Star Wars, but I just lose interet in running them after a while.

I've only ever used (extensively and as GM) one published setting, and that's Glorantha. But the only homebrews I've done were historical ones, and I'm not sure if that counts. My supers setting is all mine (if derivative in parts).

I don't think of a self-made setting as a homebrew; that's just for rules sets.

From whenever the heck it was I started playing D&D (1977?), up to 1989 or so when I finally got to play some RQ, we never used published settings. That's maybe 6 different campaigns under various rules sets (D&D/AD&D, AD&D, Rolemaster, and three different homebrews).

Currently playing in 2300 AD, and I also played a little Harn in the last year or so.

I used to think that it was weird to use a published setting; now I'm a little more inclined to use one if it has a strong vision. So give me Talislanta, Jorune, Waste World...maybe Castle Falkenstein or Zir'an. The Young Kingdoms, conceivably. Published D&Dish fantasy settings, not so much--I like fantasy/S&S, but I'd rather roll my own.

I homebrew my setting. It's the only way to go.....

I used to borrow liberally from other sources.

I've also used at least 40 game systems for play in the same setting.

Everything I use is modified, at least to some extent. I couldn't really say where the dividing line between between tweaked and homebrewed is though, so my answer is "maybe."

Yeah -- I haven't used a published setting since 1990, when I briefly ran a Shadowrun game; before that it was 1982 when I ran Traveller in the Third Imperium. I can't imagine using a published setting at this point.

I modify everything.  All the time.

I homebrew all the time.

Yep, been homebrew settings and systems for years. Though lately as time has been much shorter I have been using existing material more and more.

Of course I homebrew... I've been doing it since the beginning, some thirty years ago.

-clash