Eberron. It's D&D embracing the "dungeonpunk" theme, shamelessly and proud of it. I just love the campaign book. Is a pity that the later books threw away the elements of pulp and noir. A superb opportunity missed in mediocrity.

Coming soon from Postmortem Studios

A comedy Modern Fantasy Setting

Wizkid: The Cheapening

Yes the concept is parody WoD but there is a whole section on Fantasy Realms and Creatures. The rules provided can easily be hacked up and used for a proper Fantasy game if you want to.

But playing a Harry Potter wannabe in a world infested with Great Crested Toad Badgers trying to keep Magic(k) secret should be appealing enough.

Geez, Ian. Thanks for the spam.

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.

But it's a great read and looks like a huge amount of fun. I don't care if it's parody. Heck, people actually play HoL.

Quote from: Tetsubo;413860But it's a great read and looks like a huge amount of fun. I don't care if it's parody. Heck, people actually play HoL.

HoL is actually a lot of fun if everyone is on board for the experience.

Estar, how old are you if you think the Wilderlands is a new setting?  

Quote from: danbuter;413902Estar, how old are you if you think the Wilderlands is a new setting?  

Old enough to be its most recent publisher, IIRC.

Mazes and Minotaurs setting is awesome.

I think Midnight was pretty well done for a D&D game setting.

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.

As an author of parodies I find this attitude offensive. I love WoD new and old but I write parodies of them because there is so much waiting to be mocked. Some bits lovingly some bits sheer fustration at how broken everything is.

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.

Dude!  There is so much love for D&D in Mazes and Monsters it's unreal.  Alright it pokes a little good natured fun here and there but it's a really good D&D clone with an fun alternate rpg design history thrown in.  If anything it's a homage to D&D.

Despite the lack of a definition for "new" still, I want to chime in that I was really impressed with the first two Scarred Lands sourcebooks when those came out.  Overall, though, no new fantasy setting has really tempted me since Kingdoms of Kalamar, and even then only because it reminded me so much of Greyhawk.

~Scott C.

I'll interpret "new" to mean "in the last ten years." Given that, I'd say Midnight, with Iron Kingdoms a close second. I think I'll give an honorable mention to Oathbound just for its bizarre nature.

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.

Well, feel free to throw Mazes & Minotaurs (or anything else) into any ditch you like but frankly, you could not be more wrong about the game. It was never written as a parody - and certainly not as a joke to anybody else's expense. This should be obvious to anyone who bothers to read the game before judging it - hell, you don't even have to do that, just take a look at its original mission statement, which made things very clear right from the start in case some people didn't "get it":

http://storygame.free.fr/how.html

As you'll notice, the word "parody" is never used here - unlike "pastiche"; there is a fine line between "parody" and "pastiche"... but sometimes this difference is very important and it is on this fine line that M&M stands.

I've been gaming for more than 25 years and this game was simply written as a half-nostalgic, half-amused tribute to gaming early days... which hasn't prevented it from gaining a very enthusiastic support and fan base - people who understood what the game was aiming at.

(Besides: unless I'm mistaken, you are, as I am, French... do you really think I'd write hundreds of pages of material - the classic and Revised rulesbooks, plus the big Minotaur webzine) IN ENGLISH just for the pleasure of pulling one cheap joke ?)

That being said, M&M doesn't have to be everybody's cup of tea - that's the case of any RPG.

Quote from: olivier legrand;414298That being said, M&M doesn't have to be everybody's cup of tea - that's the case of any RPG.

But, I believe it is a VERY good one.
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Quote from:  I'll give an honorable mention to Oathbound just for its bizarre nature.[/QUOTEFuck! I forgot it!

Oathbound is totally awesome. It has not only tons of sheer imagination and sense of wonder oozing every page, moreover it is the only campaign setting in the history of D&D that makes sense of the level progresion and eventual endgame, incorporating it in the own nature of the world.

(Plus, you can nicely recreate the old trope of "normal people dragged to a fantasy world" a là Dungeons & Dragons Animated Series).