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So not to beat a dead horse but what is you overall favorite?

Ravenloft of course, although some buddies and I are considering starting a Masque of the Red Death campaign. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

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.

I think the results of this poll may be a little bias (what with Ravenloft being an option).

Maybe the Ravenloft choice should be excluded cause the question does say: Outside Ravenloft.

Anyhow my choices are: Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Planescape, Forgotten Realms. I never played the other settings.

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's sorta unfair. OF COURSE we'll say that.

Outside of Ravenloft, I have to go with Greyhawk. I'm just an old-schooler at heart.

Its always unfair to have Ravenloft in a poll for best setting.

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?

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?

Mystara? No idea.

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.

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....)

Ravenloft is my baby, natch.

Love Dragonlance for the characters I grew to love from the novels.
Love the scope of Planescape.
Like the freedom and playroom of the Realms and the classic feel.
Enjoy the differences and unique feel of DarkSun.

But the 'Loft always takes the top spot.

I've played in so few published settings it's hard to say.

So I guess... Champions.

Ravenloft is my favorite as the setting itself is presented. However, I really like what one of my friends has done with the Realms, and my best gaming experiences have come from there.

Planescape is my second choice.
The whole scope of the setting in amazing. Not to mention the fabulous art and quality of almost every product in this line.

Excelent setting!!