What are your favorite settings?

kanegrundar · March 21, 2006, 01:59:29 PM

Iron Kingdoms. I love the look and feel of the setting. It grabs me like old Planescape used to, but for totally different reasons.

Megamieuwsel · March 21, 2006, 02:27:38 PM

I'm going with good 'ole Greyhawk and a Low-magic touch.
Toss in a batch of honest-to-goodness actual (European) history and folklore and...Whammo! My setting.
Some call it "Grim&Gritty" , I call it "Realistic".
(And I don't make the mistake of making the NPCs more powerfull than the PCs , like so many losers , claiming the G&G-trend do....)

Zachary The First · March 22, 2006, 01:29:08 PM

I'm really dedicated to my homebrew, which is influenced by George R.R. Martin and how I wish the High Middle Ages/Early Renaissance in Europe would have actually gone down.

I love the craziness of Arduin, the amazingly well-written and engaging Iron Kingdoms, and Epic's Atlas of Eslin, which is one of the more unique and superbly-done settings I've read in a long while, though it seems to be off the beaten path for many gamers thus far.

Maddman · March 22, 2006, 01:32:17 PM

I love the setting for Buffy. With the overriding principle of 'if it's cool, it's in', the Buffyverse is perfect for an RPG. Exalted's Creation is pretty interesting too, though I prefer the fantasy parts over the magitech parts. But it was designed to be pretty easy to focus on whatever parts you prefer. And Armageddon has a really cool setting too, with all kinds of asskicking military gear fighting an enemy so mean that the angels, the Norse gods, and Lucifer team up to fight it.

Nicephorus · March 22, 2006, 01:47:11 PM

The Traveller talk over at Websnark has gotten me all hot and bothered to pull out my old stuff and start something new. Maybe pick of some of the Marc Miller's Traveller/T4 stuff on when the Imperium was new.

Zachary The First · March 22, 2006, 01:53:46 PM

Quote from: NicephorusThe Traveller talk over at Websnark has gotten me all hot and bothered to pull out my old stuff and start something new. Maybe pick of some of the Marc Miller's Traveller/T4 stuff on when the Imperium was new.

Interstellar Wars may be worth a look, though you'd have to port it over if GURPS wasn't your thing. The Terrans taking on the First Imperium and the Vilani?!? Woo hoo!

Silverlion · March 22, 2006, 02:00:51 PM

Providence setting. Interior of a world used as a prison maintained by magic of something which may or may not be failing and tied to a godlike thing of evil. Sun is a magical orb that dims at night and too distant for the winged pc races to reach, quite different and fun.

Birthright. Divine Right of Kings made real, as some gods died and imbued their followers with their nature, leaving their mark on the world and tying the rulers to the land. Very traditional fantasy world with an excellant and well done twist making it more evocative than most.

Analog Prime-My superhero world used extensivily over many campaigns, but also written up for my super rpg. Based heavily on comic book ages and following similar ups and downs.

Nicephorus · March 22, 2006, 02:01:37 PM

Quote from: Zachary The FirstInterstellar Wars may be worth a look, though you'd have to port it over if GURPS wasn't your thing. The Terrans taking on the First Imperium and the Vilani?!? Woo hoo!

Thanks for the tip!

Man, I might have to get that, the translation to another Traveller system probably wouldn't be hard. I still have the GDW board game covering that era (Imperium? forget the exact name)

Knightsky · March 28, 2006, 05:31:20 PM

Settings I like, Licensed
Lankhmar
Angel/Buffy
Thieves' World
Hyboria (Conan)

Settings I like, Non-licensed
Third Imperium (Traveller)
Witchcraft
Greyhawk
Gamma World

CleanCutRogue · March 30, 2006, 09:16:44 AM

Dark Sun was my favorite setting to date. I first played in it and loved the uniqueness to it. Later I ran the campaign and we got really into it. We even - god this is geeky - made a tape using a 4-track professional recorder and some soundtrack CDs - that was an introduction to the game. We would play it at the beginning of each sitting like a TV show plays its introduction. My voice - with some deepening effects - read the intro - the uber-cool blurb from the back of the box:

"I live in a world of fire... and sand..."

sunfear · March 30, 2006, 09:09:42 PM

Dark Sun is by far my favorite published setting. Eberron and AE come in as close seconds. I am currently working on a homebrew setting that I hope combines the best of the three.

francisca · March 31, 2006, 11:06:45 AM

Quote from: BonesWhat he said but just add Conan to it.

Yeah. What I said, plus what Bones said, plus Lankhmar (The two core Lankhmar books TSR put out are pretty good, as well as the 1e modules. Almost all of the other 2e Lankhmar stuff is utter shit and shameful waste of woodpulp.)

kryyst · March 31, 2006, 11:16:03 AM

My favorite setting is the Warhammer Fantasy setting. The world just seems so much more flushed out and alive then any of the D&D world setting books that I've read. People, places, things and events all exist in Warhammer and feel like they belong.

Forgotten Realms is so generic that it's hardly even a setting anymore. Darksun had good ideas but their reasons for them made no sense at all. Underdark is just fanboy masturbatory material and is probably my most hated setting of D&D.

Eberron is pretty entertaining actually if you can keep it feeling like an Indiana Jones style of setting an not fall into the classic D&D traps.

Emryys · March 31, 2006, 11:48:49 PM

Darksun was good. Still have a soft spot for Greyhawk though...
I prepared the whole Vesve forest in CC, then found out it wasn't compatable with CC2...:mad:

Eli the Vile · April 01, 2006, 02:43:46 AM

I will always have a soft spot for Mystra. But I also like the Gurps Fanatsy setting too.