Your favorite setting period?
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Your favorite setting period?
So not to beat a dead horse but what is you overall favorite?
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Oh, Ravenloft, easily, but my other favorites deserve special mention-
Birthright- Utterly awesome setting. Truly.
Planescape- With all due respect to Spelljammer, this was the setting that made uniting the core worlds easiest.
Birthright- Utterly awesome setting. Truly.
Planescape- With all due respect to Spelljammer, this was the setting that made uniting the core worlds easiest.
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If I had to slpit the love it would be:
Ravenloft 65%- My first love and still the best
Dragonlance 25%- I grew up with the companions and owned all the novels up to the horrid fifth age fiasco.
Planescape/FR 10%- I cut my teeth in the realms but Planescape just has the cooler villans.
Ravenloft 65%- My first love and still the best
Dragonlance 25%- I grew up with the companions and owned all the novels up to the horrid fifth age fiasco.
Planescape/FR 10%- I cut my teeth in the realms but Planescape just has the cooler villans.
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Outside Ravenloft...
Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms, followed by Dragonlance, as they're the only settings I've seriously played in. Read quite a bit about Planescape and Dark Sun, though, so they'd probably follow.
I know absolutely jack about the Birthright and Mystara settings (other than Gregor Zolnik supposedly comes from one and Meredoth comes from the other). What are the draws for these two settings, since I'm not familiar with them?
Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms, followed by Dragonlance, as they're the only settings I've seriously played in. Read quite a bit about Planescape and Dark Sun, though, so they'd probably follow.
I know absolutely jack about the Birthright and Mystara settings (other than Gregor Zolnik supposedly comes from one and Meredoth comes from the other). What are the draws for these two settings, since I'm not familiar with them?
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Mystara? No idea.AdamGarou wrote:I know absolutely jack about the Birthright and Mystara settings (other than Gregor Zolnik supposedly comes from one and Meredoth comes from the other). What are the draws for these two settings, since I'm not familiar with them?
But Birthright... ah, Birthright.
It captured the Tolkienesque feel quite nicely.
Elves were weird fey beings, who were as likely to kill a human entering their forests as look at him (with some regional tendencies).
Humans were divided into distinct ethnic and cultural subgroups.
Magic was rare and feared.
Bloodline abilities were, for the most part, something that could be ignored.
There were simple rules for massed combat.
The Awnsheglien, the Abominations of Cerilia, were comparable to Darklords in the "oh man, we don't wanna fight that guy" field. Also, there was a certain cachet to saying, "I slew the Chimaera," as opposed to, "I killed another chimera."
Just a fun setting were, even with low-levle characters,b you could have an epic feel. Also, the whole "run your own kingdom" option was pretty groovy.
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Three of the most successful campaigns I've run were in the Known World/Mystara. (well, they mostly took place to the north and west of the fully developed campaign area, but I still drew heavily on the GAZ series and the B and X-series of adventures).
The world has a large spot in my hear, so it's gotta my favorite.
The Star Wars Universe as Conceived of by Me is a tie/close second. My D6 campaign is coming up on its 10-year anniversary! (There's only one of the original players left [not counting myself, of course], and she's playing a different character because her original one died tragically, but it's the same soap-opera like, never-ending storyline with many of the same supporting NPC cast. )
(Actually, I guess I love the Known World mostly because of all the stuff I created for my campaigns....)
The world has a large spot in my hear, so it's gotta my favorite.
The Star Wars Universe as Conceived of by Me is a tie/close second. My D6 campaign is coming up on its 10-year anniversary! (There's only one of the original players left [not counting myself, of course], and she's playing a different character because her original one died tragically, but it's the same soap-opera like, never-ending storyline with many of the same supporting NPC cast. )
(Actually, I guess I love the Known World mostly because of all the stuff I created for my campaigns....)
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