Your Favorite Campaign Setting?

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What's your favorite campain setting? I've heard of stuff like forgotten realms and dark sun and the like. I don't know all of them, though.

[ April 21, 2003, 15:57: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

Every D&D campaign setting has something unique and good, what others don't have. My favourites are Ravenloft and Forgotten realms, although I like also Dragonlance and Greyhawk. I'm not familiar with other settings.

 

I don't really know that many, but my absolute favourite is the Dark Sun setting. There's just something special about Sorcerer-kings and cannibalistic halflings.

 

For 3E, I love Forgotten Realms. But in 2E, I liked to play in the Dark Sun setting. As Frostmage said, it just oozed style. But you needed a good DM to run it properly.

 

I love FR, but our sucky DM won't let us play in it. He want's to play 1st ed. I think, so now I'm playing a Dwarf, just a Dwarf

 

My (and my friend) campaing setting! We created it back in 1999 it's a one continent world, were magic isn't as common as in FR in High level dude are VERY rare. It's much more look like an Midle age world than a Fantastic universe, it's name?

" Earth of Legend "

 

My favorite has to be Rokugan...

 

My fave had to be the continent our first-ever DM came up with, called Gnash Verde. The place had everything: swamps, hills, grasslands, *****in'-cold mountaintops. We had a lot of fun there--until he had black dragons swarm the continent and kill all our chars. Sigh.

Other than that, FR is a really good time.

 

Forgotten Realms is the best campaign setting(well, except this I know only Greyhawk).

 

Forgotten Realms of course. Love it or leave it.

 

Forgotten Realms would be a LOT nicer if not for the presence of Elminster and the Seven Sisters...

Still, it's a pretty nice campaign world, one I would not mind playing in. Only that my assassin PCs always finds himself confronted by countless avenging paladins, sent against me by a DM pissed that a rouge/fighter/assassin outshone his Wizard NPCs...he's not a very good DM, BTW. When I death-attacked the whole lot to death after a horrible battle with a lot of roleplaying: taking hostages, slaughtering innocents etc to dishearten and distract the paladins...the DM simply pulls Elminster out of his sleeve. My assassin, slayer of silver dragons, devas and paladins became a pile of ash in an instant.

Don't play FR if your DM is a huge fan of wizards/sorcerers etc. I personally despise their overpoweredness and refuse to play arcane spellcasters.

Other nice campaign worlds include the World of Darkness, the ones in which Vampire:the masquerade, Mage: the ascension and Werewolf: the apocalypse are set in. Very interesting concepts that make for awesome roleplaying potential. The only flaw I can find in the vagueness in the way the rules are presented...

Greyhawk is good too. At least Mordakainen wouldn't pop out and blast my PC just because he's evil.

 

I've only done FR, but I'd love to try Dark Sun -- everything I've seen about that world seems cool.

 

Shura, there's nothing wrong with playing a sorc/wizard in Forgotten Realms. I don't think they're any more overpowered than any other class. Each class in 3e has the capacity to become overpowered. The problem was that your DM is an ass. I'm sorry, he just is. You don't bring Elminster into your game. Ever. Except when the chars are, like, level 30, when they can HANDLE HIM. Anything short of that is moronic. Furthermore, you never everevereverevereverEVER take your spite out on your players. Your PC should have been rewarded for his accomplishments, like anyone else.

Should one have a DM that doesn't ooze "suck" all over the place, FR can be a jolly good time--especially if you do stuff with portals. I love being held in suspense, wondering where the hell a portal ends up. If you should find yourselves in a game con, see if anyone has a brief 2-part adventure set up called "Portal Hopping for Earlani." It's bloody awesome.

 

FR is high-powered. Possibly not overpowered, but certainly high-powered. I've seen the Archmage prestige class before, and it made me wince.

Since when do you get rewarded for killing Pallies and Celestials? You kill 'em, take their possessions, make fetishes from them, then have holy people on your tail. And given the amount of good people in FR, yeah, you'll get smoked.

On a final whine, why are portals neccessary in FR? Is a portal not just a teleporation circle with a permanency slapped on it? Or am I missing something here?

Okay, I do admit I like FR, if only for its big-ness.

 

Shouldn't a tiefling fighter/rouge/assassin potential Blackguard of Demogorgon kill paladins and celestials? It's like kinda his job, after all.

* Whoops in glee as smite good is combined with death/sneak attack plus a poisoned, improved critical, specialised weapon upon a paladin.*

The worst thing in FR is the fact that the good guys are so strong! Only the Shades can hope to match up against Mystra's Chosen and none of them can beat Elminster in a fair fight at all. Red Wizards=wimps. Cyricists=psycho incompetants. Banites and Zhentarim=cookie cutter villians. Twisted Rune=too few of 'em. Night Masks=only their leader is truly powerful.

Bah! Evil PCs get smoked everywhere they turn!

Greyhawk has more freedom, though the setting simply cannot compare to FR in all its elaborate glory. Truly, FR is beautifully constructed. I simply cannot abide the dominance of good in it.

As for World of Darkness campaigns...perhaps their awesomely cool concepts can be combined with D20's neatly written rules for better organised games. D20 modern comes to mind.

 

Heh, I never said that it wasn't your job to. I only said that in FR, you do that, and you can except the level 40 goody characters to be on your tail. Or at least a bunch of adventurers.

Honestly, now, I would've figured that the Cult of the Dragon would have taken over Faerun by now. Think about it. The average cultist is level six. Six. S. I. X. Average.

 

It's not D&D but my favourite setting (especially as a DM) was the Starwars D6 setting. Imagine a setting where even the newest of players already know how the place is supposed to work. I've always found it a bit frustrating that the PC has lived in an area all his life but knows nothing about the history, politics, laws, etc.

As a player I loved the main Warhammer medievil setting (can't remember the name). It just seemed grittier and more realistic than most D&D stuff. Magic was still rare enough to be, well, magical. Characters also had great freedom within their development paths.

I've yet to be taken in by a D&D world the same way but htne I guess much of the impact is down to the GM, the other players and the campaign.

 

Forgotten Realms, why?
It has a great variety of places, heroes, characters, wonders.
It's neither a hopeless world like Dark Sun nor a wonderworld.
It beats Dragonlance because of its high level creatures.

 

Not one nod to Planescape? It gets my vote as it includes all of the above and then some.

 

I'm more of a d20 Modern person myself, so my favorite is Urban Arcana. It has everything I want; the modern world inhabited by D&D races.