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Your Favorite OSR Setting?

Started by RPGPundit, October 23, 2016, 02:26:19 AM

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danbuter

#30
October 27, 2016, 03:38:39 PM
Gray box Forgotten Realms is my favorite, bar none.
I also really like the Greyhawk setting published in late 2e, after the Wars but before 3e.
Ravenloft is awesome, though I usually use it mixed in with a regular campaign, as a bit of a break.
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#31
October 28, 2016, 03:15:46 PM
How come no one mentioned Melan's Fomalhaut?!!?

Krimson

#32
October 28, 2016, 04:51:31 PM
Quote from: danbuter;927299Ravenloft is awesome, though I usually use it mixed in with a regular campaign, as a bit of a break.

That's why I pretty much drop the Dread Domains into Gothic Earth, so that I can break up the horror with Gaslight Fantasy and Steampunk Western goodness.
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#33
October 28, 2016, 05:03:47 PM
Quote from: Zulgyan;927495How come no one mentioned Melan's Fomalhaut?!!?

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Krimson

#34
October 28, 2016, 05:13:29 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;927526Bless you?

Fomalhaut was the first star that we found with a visible exoplanet. I had no idea it was an OSR setting.
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Madprofessor

#35
October 28, 2016, 05:22:35 PM
Quote from: Chainsaw;927018If we're including old stuff, then Greyhawk folio/box. Love it!

+1.  I really like "From the Ashes" for Greyhawk as well.  I also like Birthright as a setting, as long as you squint your eyes to get past some of the setting details.

Even though I own a lot of OSR rules and adventures, I don't have any OSR settings.  I guess I haven't felt the need to search for a new setting. Dark Albion is the only OSR setting that has really caught my interest.

Itachi

#36
October 28, 2016, 07:02:11 PM
Quote from: Chainsaw;926615Hyperborea, from Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, which should surprise no one here. I've posted about it in other threads and promote their Kickstarters in the News and Adverts forum.

Presentation-wise, I like that the author has not over-detailed the setting. There's plenty of room for me to expand while still having good information about the most notable physical, culture and historical features, but that information does not require tons of time to learn. Most features get just a few sentences, yet they all integrate together well to create an evocative picture and have great adventure hooks built into them that really inspire me to develop them my way.

Content-wise, I like that it's a pulpy vision of humans (no fantasy elfs, dwarves, hobbits, etc) surviving in a dying world against alien, elder, demonic, twisted, mutated or dead things (no dozens of colored dragons etc). The world exists as a flat slice of icey, mountainous land spinning through the void, hacked away from an ancient earth, with its surrounding ocean spilling into infinity. The bloated, dying red sun skirts the horizon, never fully setting or rising. A great plague wiped out almost everything 1,000 years ago and the surviving Amazons, Atlanteans, Esquimaux, Hyperboreans, Ixians, Kelts, Kimmerians, Picts and Vikings, among others, never really recovered, leaving plenty of creature-filled ruins to explore. The gods, drawn largely from Lovecraft, Howard and Smith, all seem vengeful or at best uncaring. Overall, it feels designed to be more episodic than epic, which I love, because I don't like epic high fantasy stuff. Go raid that lost tomb and raise enough money for one last great feast!

Honestly, I think the Gazetteer is worth the price of admission alone here. You could easily jettison the rules and use the world as a lost continent or pocket dimension anywhere. Plus, the new hardback book comes with an awesome, hand-drawn world map.
Fantastic description sir. You just sold me on this game.

Spinachcat

#37
October 28, 2016, 08:47:55 PM
Quote from: Zulgyan;927495How come no one mentioned Melan's Fomalhaut?!!?

Melan's work is indeed excellent.

Did Melan ever create a book for Fomalhaut?


Quote from: Itachi;927564Fantastic description sir. You just sold me on this game.

Agreed. Awesome breakdown Chainsaw!!

Chainsaw

#38
October 28, 2016, 10:13:23 PM
Quote from: Itachi;927564Fantastic description sir. You just sold me on this game.
Quote from: Spinachcat;927595Agreed. Awesome breakdown Chainsaw!!
Glad you found it helpful! I enjoy my Greyhawk too, but Hyperborea offers a nice contrast. :)

Also on the OSR front and even farther from Greyhawk, I should definitely mention Patrick Wetmore's Anomalous Subsurface Environment, a kind of Thundarr the Barbarian-inspired gonzo science-fantasy setting organized around a megadungeon. I haven't run it yet, but it's just awesome and oozes with flavor and pure fun. It's on my bucket list. A couple good reviews:

Grognardia on ASE Level 1
bryce0lynch on ASE Level 1
bryce0lynch on ASE Levels 2-3

RPGPundit

#39
November 02, 2016, 05:16:32 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;926592The only OSR-anything I have is Dark Albion: The Rose War! So that is my favorite setting.

Well, thanks for that!
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November 02, 2016, 05:24:34 AM
Quote from: Madprofessor;927533+1.  I really like "From the Ashes" for Greyhawk as well.  I also like Birthright as a setting, as long as you squint your eyes to get past some of the setting details.

Even though I own a lot of OSR rules and adventures, I don't have any OSR settings.  I guess I haven't felt the need to search for a new setting. Dark Albion is the only OSR setting that has really caught my interest.

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#41
March 01, 2017, 06:48:48 PM
Quote from: AsenRG;926915Old: Tekumel, Planescape, Dragon Warriors' Legend.
New: Red Tide setting, Zongor and Lankhmar if we don't consider the latter cheating, and if Goodman Games finish the work on the boxed set soon.

Only Tekumel is on the shortlist of my all-time favourites, while Zongor, Red Tide, Lankhmar and Planescape are on the expanded list.

I hadn't heard of Zongor before.  I couldn't find an English language version.  Do you know if there is one?

Voros

#42
March 01, 2017, 07:11:56 PM
Quote from: Madprofessor;927533+1.  I really like "From the Ashes" for Greyhawk as well.  I also like Birthright as a setting, as long as you squint your eyes to get past some of the setting details.

Even though I own a lot of OSR rules and adventures, I don't have any OSR settings.  I guess I haven't felt the need to search for a new setting. Dark Albion is the only OSR setting that has really caught my interest.

I like From the Ashes and Birthright as well. For OSR settings I recommend Yoon-Suin and Beyond the Wall's Further Afield. Deep Carbon Observatory isn't a complete setting but it is nicely detailed and evocative.

Matt

#43
March 01, 2017, 09:13:22 PM Last Edit: March 01, 2017, 09:14:00 PM by Matt
Quote from: RPGPundit;926433Be it old or new, what is (at present) your preferred D&D/OSR-game setting?

Is this different than your all-time favorite?

If you mean published settings, not many I care for but Dark Albion minus magic and frogs is quite useful.  The kingdoms from Arrows of Indra are nice, too. Can't think of any others I'd use. Never cared for The Known World or Greyhawk or any of those TSR magic-heavy ones. Not sure what counts as "OSR" for this. Promise City from Boot Hill? Lake City from Gangbusters?

san dee jota

#44
March 03, 2017, 02:49:46 PM Last Edit: March 03, 2017, 02:52:25 PM by san dee jota
Quote from: Matt;948398Not sure what counts as "OSR" for this.

From my observation, OSR is a short-hand for "a new game, designed to emulate the incomplete and hand-wavey experience of BECMI D&D in such a way that we'd call it a fantasy heartbreaker if it were made 10+ years ago".  

So Boot Hill and Gangbusters don't count, because while they aren't BECMI D&D knock offs, they're also -actually- old.  :)

EDIT: To answer the OP, I'm liking the Sine Nomine stuff and -some- of the Lamentations of the Flame Princess offerings, but that has nothing to do with the game mechanics involved.
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