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What Published D&D/OSR Setting Could You Least Stand?

Started by RPGPundit, November 23, 2016, 12:43:37 AM

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Omega

#150
February 03, 2017, 11:57:02 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;944002Be careful.

I only started liking Dragonlance to be a contrarian among my group and overtime my faux-like became a genuine fondness to the point it's my favorite D&D setting now.

I think its like Forgotten Realms and to a lesser degree Karameikos when it transitioned into Mystara. The early stuff is great. Wide open and not overly cluttered. But by the 2e/Loraine era they all suffered in some manner.

Im especially not fond of Mystara as it sucked every ounce of openness and "make of it what you will" from Karameikos. I think its ok on its own if you like a really cluttered landscape. But it stopped being Karameikos. Which I guess was the point.

Voros

#151
February 04, 2017, 02:50:41 AM Last Edit: February 04, 2017, 05:24:33 PM by Voros
I think the Gazeteers are great, mostly just an outline of culture and city and lots of NPCs detailed with loads of adventure hooks. I don't see how that sucks the 'openess' out of it.

Voros

#152
February 04, 2017, 03:14:20 AM
Quote from: noman;943998Because I love Spelljammer.

I also love Spelljammer. Goofy fun. Giant Space Hamsters. Hippo men. Slaver spiders.  Mindflayers and genocidal racist Beholders. What's not to love?

HappyDaze

#153
February 04, 2017, 05:05:44 AM
Actually, I do remember that Kingdoms of Kalamar annoyed the hell out of me because it seemed to forget that magic exists in the setting. A general (or was it an emperor) falls off of his horse and dies. Nobody thinks to raise him from the dead? A general dies of something like pneumonia while on campaign because apparently cure disease is hard to cast. This was in the same book that noted NPC of levels ranging up to 17--including clerics--living all over the land.

Armchair Gamer

#154
February 04, 2017, 03:38:31 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;944002Be careful.

I only started liking Dragonlance to be a contrarian among my group and overtime my faux-like became a genuine fondness to the point it's my favorite D&D setting now.

  Ah, but which Dragonlance? Original modules, Weis & Hickman novels/DRAGONLANCE Adventures, Taladas, Tales of the Lance, Fifth Age, or War of Souls/3.5 era? :)

   My relationship with Dragonlance is a long, tempestuous and conflicted one, so I'm familiar with the differences, but broad and subtle, between the various iterations. All shared worlds have those kinds of shifts; Dragonlance and Ravenloft are just the ones I'm familiar with in the D&D context.
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