Favorite Non-Ravenloft Settings

[Jason of the Fraternity]

Hey, has anyone ever done a game in the outer planes like Heaven, Hell, etc?

Yep, I've done a set of adventures in both Mount Celestia and Baator (both of which were heavily influenced with religious connotations).

[Frukathka]

At the top, Forgotten Realms, but it isn't exactly Out of Print, it made into the 3.X madness. Now that I have that out of the way, I'd have to say that Spelljammer and Planescape are tied forthe top on my charts. Both are just so refreshing and original. Fortunately we have Dragonstar as a campaign setting, but IMHO its so distant to having the flavor of Spelljammer. Planescape is/was fun, because it branched out the game in an exciting new direction as well. I sincerely hope some company gets the license to make it official again. I must admit the Manual of the Planes and the Planar Handbook, does not do the setting any justice. Heres hoping.

[Kelliack]

I voted for Spelljammer, and I can't believe that only one other person did (who was it by the way?). Maybe it was the DM we had, but apart from Ravenloft, (which I DM) I've had some of the best DnD sessions of my life in Spelljammer. The problem i hear most about SJ is the difficulties in translating one established world to another (especially Dragonlance), my DM never used any of the other DnD campaign worlds and restricted himself to simply to ones he created. If you do that I think most of the major problems are gone (You can also ditch the Crystal Spheres if you don't use DL, as they were only added to explain how the gods of Krynn could become constellations and so forth).

Also, doesn't anyone else like Oriental Adventures? Except for one guy everyone ignores it. I fell it can be just as well developed as the Forgotten Realms (maybe not that detailed). What's people's beef with the Oriental Adventures?

[Dion of the Fraternity]

Here are my potential campaign worlds which I would love to play in:

Call of Cthulhu
Mirrodin (if it were to be given an RPG)

... I guess that's about it

[Reginald de Curry]

Potential campaign worlds? One based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower would be nice.

[Dr Bloodworth]

First prize goes to Magnamund, the world of the Lone Wolf gamebooks. I always wanted to play there and was busily plugging away at a conversion, and then Mongoose released the Lone Wolf RPG. Now that's memories, folks: Lone Wolf is what got me into this whole fantasy thing way back when I was but a wee tyke.

For an actual DnD world, and not merely D20, it would be Greyhawk. It's just so easy to put in whatever the heck I want.

[AdamGarou]

Lone Wolf was actually my first exposure to the fantasy role-playing genre also. Since there was no one to actually play D&D with at the time, those books got me interested in the Lord of the Rings series, which I read for the first time in sixth or seventh grade (about age 12-14).

And the rest, as they say, is history...

[Reginald de Curry]

Vote #3 for Lone Wolf.

[The Nightmare Man]

Mirrodin (if it were to be given an RPG)

Got any ideas about how you'd like to go about that? The Plane of Metal was a favorite setting of mine as well, and it was really something that I would have liked to have seen developed into more than it was.

[Le Noir Faineant]

Besides RL, I've couple of campaigns running with DL and Erde, a d20 system. Although I am not an active player anymore, the setting I liked the most after RL is still Greyhawk.

[MatthiasStormcrow]

1.) Ravenloft. 'Nuff said.

2.) Darksun (got my vote). Absolutely, dazzlingly original; a game world whose designers weren't afraid to throw all the rules out the window. Plus, it's really, really, really deadly. You can't play badly, or you'll die. Thus, you learn to play better, quickly. (The same is true of RL, of course.)

3.) Deadlands. Perfect blend of horror, humor, and other goodness. Though I haven't played a ton of the RPG, I do obsessively collect Doomtown cards (check the sig).

4.) Planescape. A huge amount of potential, in the hands of a good DM.

5.) D20 Star Wars. Why? Because I like roleplaying mentally unbalanced, fantastically destructive Ewoks.

6.) D20 Modern and Spelljammer both appeal to me greatly, but since I've never actually played either one, they can't really legitimately place any higher.

7.) Other stuff fails to interest me, mostly. Warhammer Fantasy is a fairly interesting world, as is the world in George R. R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice". Dragonlance, pardon my blasphemy, is a good world to read about but hard to do anything in. Faerun's a little high magic for my tastes, unless you want to run an epic campaign. (Oh wait, those should be run in Ravenloft. As we are proving over at MSD's board each passing day. /shameless plug).

[The Giamarga]

I voted for Al Qadim.
I started my collection from the amazing Complete Necromancer`s bits and flavour. Together with Ruined Kingdoms, the CNG and the Dragon Article Dark Arabia by Wolfgang Baur you can run a (almost cthulian)horror/1001 nights campagin. Or you can go swashbuckling sinbad style. Plus it`s the most lovingly developed campaign world with incredible production quality.

Greyhawk would be a close second, and i would almost call it unsupported in 3e.

Birthright is fascinating too. Though i don`t know if the concept works for a tabletop. Fits a computer game better probably. (Is there already a BR domain in Ravenloft?)

[Dr Bloodworth]

Birthright is fascinating too. Though i don`t know if the concept works for a tabletop. Fits a computer game better probably. (Is there already a BR domain in Ravenloft?)

I think the Darklord of Vorostokov is from Birthright.

[ScS of the Fraternity]

Yep. Originally he had the power to converse with serpents - not that it did him any good.

[The Giamarga]

Right. I knew that. Will have to reread that Wolf adventure. Vorostokov is the Russia like lands IIRC. I think BR has the same problem as putting Drow into Ravenloft. They already have a tainting/evilness thingy that`s tied to the setting with the bloodlines.

There`s no Al Qadim crossover yet, is there? (Aside from a short story in the Tales of RL Anthology i believe..)