Quote from: VarajIn general what setting do you tend to gravitate to.

D&D has always been home-brewed settings.

I have always liked the Star Wars universe.

I always really enjoyed the Rifts setting, but hated the ruleset.  I wonder how it would work with Spycraft 2.0...

Quote from: CyclotronI always really enjoyed the Rifts setting, but hated the ruleset.  I wonder how it would work with Spycraft 2.0...

I'm with you on that.  I got into it when it first came out in the late 80's.  But after nearly getting into a fist fight several times over vague or nonexistent rules we stopped playing.

Quote from: KnightcrawlerIt is the most published and most developed setting that is out there, barring White Wolf's WoD.

Truth.  It's nearly impossible for me to avoid FR, despite my best efforts.
 
One of the most irritating responses I've seen lately was on ENWorld, in a "future Frostburn-like book" thread.  I said that I'd love to see a forest/jungle/swamp (seconded the idea, actually) book.  Someone (hopefully no one here, but I don't remember) said, basicly, "They did that.  It's called 'Serpent Kingdoms'."  
 
Grrr....
 
You just can't escape the thing.

Quote from: SobekTruth.  It's nearly impossible for me to avoid FR, despite my best efforts.
 
One of the most irritating responses I've seen lately was on ENWorld, in a "future Frostburn-like book" thread.  I said that I'd love to see a forest/jungle/swamp (seconded the idea, actually) book.  Someone (hopefully no one here, but I don't remember) said, basicly, "They did that.  It's called 'Serpent Kingdoms'."  
 
Grrr....
 
You just can't escape the thing.

Whoever said that was an idiot.  Serpent Kingdoms is a monster book.  While books like Sandstorm and Frostburn are terrain books.  I know their supposed to come out with another terrain book sometime this year and I think it might deal with swamps.

That said, Serpent Kingdoms and Underdark are both valuable resources even outside of the FR context.

Quote from: Ottomsoh the ElderlyThat said, Serpent Kingdoms and Underdark are both valuable resources even outside of the FR context.

This is very true.  But a lot of people would say that anything underdark/drow has been done to death.  But I like underdark/drow stuff so they can suck it up and deal.

Quote from: KnightcrawlerBut a lot of people would say that anything underdark/drow has been done to death.

*Raises hand*
 
I actually don't much like the concept of the Underdark.  Sure, you need it in a "kitchen sink" world, but it seems contrived.
 
Khyber is the most interesting variant on the theme, and I can accept that.

I hate the Underdark, but man does it have some super-cool critters.

Quote from: ZalmoxisI hate the Underdark, but man does it have some super-cool critters.

QFT.
 
Now, if I could just figure out what to do with them.

Exalted has hands down my favorite setting. I also like a historical 1890s very much, as well as Pendragon's Arthurian setting.

Quote from: ZalmoxisI hate the Underdark, but man does it have some super-cool critters.

Any particular reason or just the standard drow hate.

I don't have an underdark. I have the Plutonic Realms.

Anyway, I'm a homebrewer and can't imagine ever running anything outside of a one-shot that was not in something I cooked up.

But back in the day in my first campaign world, "Ourphe" I stole a great deal from "The Known World" (aka Mystara), which was the first setting I really knew anything about.  I had some Greyhawk stuff, too, but the Known World had fired my imagination a lot more.

Quote from: LimperI always write my own so those are my favorites.

Ditto. Not Limper's but my GM's. He's written almost every setting we've ever played in, so I'm actually pretty unfamiliar with the published settings.

I'll skip the licensed settings like Call of Cthulhu and Star Wars 'cause I think that's cheating. Here's a big-ass list of original RPG worlds that turned me on:

Warhammer / Warhammer 40K, Judges Guild's Wilderlands, Uresia: Grave of Heaven, BESM Dungeon, TSR's Gamma World, octaNe, Grimm, Spellslinger, Pumpkin Town, Little Fears, NightLife, Stalking the Night Fantastic, Kult, Changeling: The Dreaming, In Nomine, Starchildren: Velvet Generation, BTRC's Macho Women with Guns, Fringeworthy, FTL:2448, GDW's Traveller, and various All Flesh Must Be Eaten deadworlds.

I liked enough of Birthright, Ravenloft, and the Arduin Grimoires to borrow material from them for an AD&D 2E campaign so they deserve a mention. Same goes for a few Savage Worlds like Necessary Evil, Rippers, and Deadlands.

D&D's Known World (a.k.a. AD&D's Mystara) is a personal favorite too and the first setting I ever ran, but I'm afraid the HackMaster version is vaporware.

Exalted's world is the shizznit, though it is so *hard* to get a handle on.  Especially when you're playing a Sidereal and you get to actually see most of the many, many layers.

I love the Shadowrun world, warts and all, but the rules set has always sucked.  (I haven't played 4e, but up through 3e the rules sucked.)

In D&D, I started with Greyhawk, so I know it well.  I've also played a lot of the Known World and the setting books for it kicked ass.  Forgotten Realms has always seemed like a cheap knockoff to me.  The only part of it that I actually dislike is the drow, however.  Drow in the GDQ module: cool.  Drow in the FR: suck ass.

I like homebrew D&D settings, but I'm never really satisfied with any of mine.  Too much of a perfectionist.  

2300 AD is my number one favourite setting I never got to play.  Cool, but nobody played it.