What is your favourite new FRP setting and why?

by fantasy i mean (pretty much) traditional fantasy - ie not urban fantasy, or 40k or star wars or whatever some people might cleverly seek to interpret.

The Wilderlands of High Fantasy. Packed with details but wide open enough to make it your own. (see Majestic Wilderlands)

Following are others I like

Harn the original realistic setting.
Greyhawk - first commercial setting most of us saw and it wide ranging enough to do a lot of different style of fantasy gaming.

The first Forgotten Realm Boxed Set, which I felt epitomized the default fantasy behind AD&D 1st. Mostly due how it felt that adventuring parties were a integral part of the setting.

I like the setting stuff I did for Points of Light. It is the first completely new Fantasy Setting I did in years and I got to apply all the things I learned into it.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;413701by fantasy i mean (pretty much) traditional fantasy

If it is Traditional, how can it be New?

Did you mean New to the Players? or New to the GM? or Newly Published?

After all Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz are all "traditional" and "fantasy" but not widely played. So, if one of these were just started being played by me, would that count?

Would "Sick of Elves" count as an approved reason?
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Ptolus. Ptolus is not a city. It's not "urban fantasy". It is D&D 3rd ed in a microcosm.

New, how new? Anyway, for post-1999, I will go with the Scarred Lands, which is a smart take on D&D that plays well with the D&Disms while also giving them new meaning. The Gazetteer is a cool world guide, and you could run a campaign just using that. Granted, for some people, it may not fit the 'traditional' label.

I'm quite fond of the Dark Legacies setting for 3.5. It's dark and gritty, not unlike Warhammer (does that make untraditional!?!) and there's a lot of interesting takes on many classic fantasy ideas. Also, the art in the books were amazing and actually depicted the classes, weapons, places and races described in the book.

Unfortunately only two books were published and they drowned in the maelstroem of second party material that came out in the mid-00s. But the the setting is still awesome.

Normally I hate published fantasy settings.  But for the ones not based on a novel's IP, that would leave me with....

Midnight and Iron Kingdoms.  Yes the D20. Of all the fantasy setting that originated in the last decade or so, these are the only two that grabbed me.  There are others I like a bit more, Tekumel, Glorantha, that have had a resurgence.  However, for raw new fantasy settings, they are it.

Like others, need to have "new" defined before I vote.

~Scott C.

If New = 21st century, I vote...  

Gold = MAZES & MINOTAURS
I love the faux-Greek myth concept and adventuring isle to isle on ships through the mystical Aegean.   Its been the most nautical fantasy I've played.  I think we've gone to Hades more than we've gone inland.

Silver = IRON KINGDOMS
Easily the best steampunk RPG I've encountered.  Great conflicts in their setting with tremendous depth.   Just like Warhammer, I find that minis games have really wonderful RPG worlds.  

Bronze = SCARRED LANDS
Their Creature Collection is easily the best monster tome since the original Fiend Folio and their post-Godwar world was nicely done.

Quote from: Spinachcat;413797Gold = MAZES & MINOTAURS

I can't believe people go for a game intended as a parody, unless they hate D&D to begin with. It's a joke made at D&D's expense. That alone makes me want to throw the game into a ditch.

Mazes is actually a very well done game. If it was presented seriously, I think a lot of gamers would love it.

And for new settings, I really like Denerim, from Dragon Age. I just wish that Bioware would start approving Green Ronin's stuff, so that it could get published.

Quote from: Benoist;413798I can't believe people go for a game intended as a parody, unless they hate D&D to begin with. It's a joke made at D&D's expense. That alone makes me want to throw the game into a ditch.

I don't see the joke at the expense of D&D. There's tongue in cheek in it, sure. But it's mostly an exercise in "what if rpg history" as in "what if the first gamers were inspired by greek mythology rather than anglo-saxon fantasy". I can't see what's irritating you.

Quote from: Benoist;413798I can't believe people go for a game intended as a parody, unless they hate D&D to begin with. It's a joke made at D&D's expense. That alone makes me want to throw the game into a ditch.

I may be missing statements by the designer that would support this, but from reading the game itself it didn't seem like a parody; it seemed like an homage.

Still, I've used D&D with relatively minimal modification to play in a comparably quasi-heroic age setting, so I didn't feel I NEEDED M&M.

I won't get into it. I already gave too much air time to that game. I'm just going to move on.

Not much new for me lately... I'm still hobbling my way through the French of the Cadwallon Secrets books... hoping for another run at the Aarklash setting eventually (I see it as a higher magic relative of WFRP). I like the setting for mixing fairy tale highs and lows... the elegantly strange Cynwall elves down to the disgusting Mid Nor dwarves (creepy little Frankenstein monsters)... vs. WFRP where everyone has shit on them. It also tosses in a good bit of steamtech and weird science.
The setting is fairly sketchy in a LOT of areas, and unlikely to ever see further development, so I won't feel constricted by 'canon' when adding in my own elements. I especially want to explore what the Akkyshian 'forest of spiders' might be all about (besides mutant elves and lots of spiders).

Also not new but new to me, I'm slowly reading my way through Agone... which I think I like but I'm not sure it counts as 'traditional'. At the moment it feels like The Three Musketeers mixed with Nephilim... kinda.