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Last Week's Poll Results

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Aug 11, 2001.

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    (Originally posted by Sorcerer)

    What we asked:

    Q: If you could live in a D&D fantasy world, which would it be?
    (766 votes total)

    Forgotten Realms (432) 56%
    Planescape (123) 16%
    Dragonlance (120) 16%
    Greyhawk (37) 5%
    Ravenloft (28) 4%
    Other (26) 3%

    As I expected, the Forgotten Realms won the poll outright with 56% of people pronouncing it the D&D fantasy world they would like to live in the most. Most likely because a wide majority of our visitors are not as familiar with the other worlds they could choose...

    Planescape is in second place with 16% of votes, closely followed by Dragonlance, also with 16% of votes.
    Many people who voted for Planescape were probably inspired by the excellent game Planescape: Torment from Black Isle Studios which familiarized them with a world now more or less abandoned by WOTC, but still fondly remembered by everyone who is not turned off by fantasy a bit different than most people are used to.

    Dragonlance's popularity however cannot be attributed to any of the games since there haven't been any good ones set there in at least a decade, if ever. So I suppose that most people who voted for it must have read the Dragonlance books and got to know the world from there.

    Greyhawk is in fourth place with 5% of votes, and it seems that since WOTC made it their official setting for the manuals, it didn't get any more popular than it used to be.

    The last major D&D fantasy world people would want to live in is Ravenloft with 4% of votes.

    Other D&D worlds got about 3% of votes. In the poll comments people mentioned Dark Sun, Al-Quadim and SpellJammer as fantasy worlds they would like to live in, and also a couple non-D&D worlds like Discworld and Middle-Earth, but they don't count since this poll was only about D&D worlds.

    There were numerous comments about how the Forgotten Realms rule (obviously, judging by the number of votes the settings received), but also a few about the other worlds so I'll list these here:

    - How could someone not be in Planescape? Sure, Forgotten Realms is a big area. But Planescape is EVERYTHING. Wouldn't you love learning life's secrets from a mimir rather than courting a lowly tavern maid? Feh, I thought not!

    - Those people who would live in Ravenloft are NUTS!

    - Planescape, of course. Technically, with the help of a helpful portal, you could visit just about any other world as well! Plus, who wouldn't want to catch a glimpse of the Lady of Pain? Well... unless you were in her shadow, of course...

    - Why settle for any city less grand than Sigil?

    - I can't think of raising a family in Planescape or Ravenloft. However, if I get to ride a dragon, it's all good!

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    NewsPro, Aug 11, 2001
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