Favorite campaign setting (not a poll)

[Jewish_Joke]

Favorite campaign setting, and reason for it. GO!

[Dhavaer]

Urban Arcana for d20 Modern. Half-dragon SWAT teams and drow media moguls are fun.

[hawkwing]

Dark Sun...Tough harsh and a whole new look at the D&D game it forced you to think about your equipment and characters and team work

[JadedDM]

Spelljammer! Because c'mon! Space pirates!

[bosssmiley]

Birthright. You are king. You get a crown. And you can shout "Orf wiv their 'eds!" and get results. What more do you want?

[Shadow of the Sun]

Ravenloft! Because horror is good!

[Khantalas]

Ravenloft. Because everybody loves Ravenloft.

[Amiria]

1) The homebrew setting of my RL group
2) Forgotten Realms
3) Planescape

[Ambrogino]

Is this just D&D? Or just d20? Or am I allowed to say SLA Industries?

If not, Eberron. Because it's designed to include all of the bizzare D&D tropes in a way that make sense, and the other good D&D worlds have to exclude some of them to stay thematically consistent.

[Were-Sandwich]

Eberron. 10 characters

[Thomas]

Glorantha. It's unique and detailed, has a wealth of familiar but different cultures ("Well, Lunars are kind of like the Roman Empire... and the Greeks... and the British Empire... and China... and... except for Dara Happa, which is a bit Babylonian..."), magnificient mythology (and metaphysics), and generally an unbeatably epic, legendary feel to it.

Of D&D campaign settings, it's hard to decide. Ravenloft and Dark Sun are great, but Faerûn is the best for "by the books" D&D. (Ravenloft and Dark Sun both require a lot of work because of the huge deviation from the D&D standards, like magic items and spellcasters...)

[Lord_Kimboat]

I'd have to say Forgotten Realms but that is quickly being overtaken in my affections by Arcanis.

As for Science Fiction - I'd go with Traveller. A massively vast universe with interesting political groups to explore.

[Logos7]

Eberron for the Versimlitude,

Second Pick is Ravenloft

Never Been Able to do/run Dark Sun, but my esteem of it is almost as high of it as Ravenloft (Familurity takes preceidence )

At the Top of the Hate List is FR,

I simply cannot chokes down the Gawds and the so Called 'Politics' of the gawds in both how gawds interract and how communities interact with them (I'm talking about nations and such) I find it extremely boorish/hard to comprehend/crutch for DM/ Limiting on Players ( No not the Epic NPC's it's the gods who both me )

Ps your homebrew isn't 'a' Campeign Setting it's 'your' Campeign setting, another thing that irks me about stuff like this ;-p

Logos

[Journey]

I'm going to have to go with Dragonlance as my all-time favorite, but only in the 2nd edition incarnation (haven't played the d20 version).

[pestilenceawaits]

Dark Sun was great I love the survivalist feel to it. (I always imagine Dark sun as the future of the FR the anurauch continued to spread and constant mage battles and divine intervention finally broke the world.)

I also like FR.

[Beelzebub1111]

I kind of like three...Urban Arcana (I had so much fun as the hacker for infiltration things), Dragonlance (Gully Dwarves 4 life), and Dragon Mech (awesome concept. I loved combining the different steam powers. I had a robot suit that could shoot lightning and fire. The lunar creatures were cool too.)

[hawkwing]

I kind of like three...Urban Arcana (I had so much fun as the hacker for infiltration things), Dragonlance (Gully Dwarves 4 life), and Dragon Mech (awesome concept. I loved combining the different steam powers. I had a robot suit that could shoot lightning and fire. The lunar creatures were cool too.)

If you like the DragonMech Try or look at Privateer Press Iron Kingdoms
If nothing else they can be used to beat down rulelawers or Munchkins
They are 2 huge rule books filled with crunch and fluff in a good balance.

[Scorpina]

Forgotten Realms. It's just... great.

[clarkvalentine]

I'm a Dragonlance fan - I like the political machinations of the various orders of knights, clerics, and wizards.

[Saph]

Forgotten Realms for me. I love that map you get with the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. Every time I see a party poring over it deciding where to go, I get a warm feeling.

Dark Sun sounds kind of interesting, but I've never had a chance to play it.

- Saph

[themightybiggun]

hey alright!

Dragonlance ftw!

The dragonlance world has a lot of fun political machinations...if you play it right.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Eberron. Trying to sum it up in a trite sound-bite oversimplifies it far too much. Which is why people think it's populated by "robots" and "magic trains."

[Athenodorus]

I am too much of a newbie to have a definate opinion yet; I have heard great things about Ptolus. But darn if that expensive book doesn't turn me off.

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

personally, I'd rather play in a homebrew world than a normal setting. But, if I had to choose, I would definitely pick FR. I've played in an Eberron game and really don't care for it a whole lot.

[Viscount Einstrauss]

I've never played a non-homebrew game. Ever.

Ever.

But I'm kind of partial towards the nifty classes and races of Eberron. Warforged are pretty neat.

[Talyn]

I tried Forgotten Realms back in 2nd edition and HATED it, but I was reading through the d20 version and I'm finding I like it a lot better now. Of course, it could also be that I'm eight to ten years older now, and the high-end stuff in FR has become more appealing.

Likewise, back in the day I loved Dark Sun and Dragonlance, both of which are now sort of "meh" for me.

I'd LOVE to play some Ravenloft, but I never have. My tendency to always play hard-core Lawful Good characters would probably mean that my characters had short, frustrated lives. Still though, very, very cool concept. Urban Arcana looks very cool too, but again, never had a chance to play it.

(Edit) Oh yeah, and for a "hate list" - Arcana Unearthed. I had a DM who insisted we play it, and it was the most miserable experience in my life. Seriously. It was awful.

[Gorbad the Limb Rippa]

1st:Forgotten Realms, there is always somthing cool happening and there is a variety.
2nd:dragonlance,really like the way its done but there isn't enough variety.

[Beleriphon]

I'm going to go with Eberrron at the top of the list. A close second is Urban Arcana for D20 Modern. Nothing says love like a fireball through email.

[Fax Celestis]

I'm rather particular to my homebrewed setting, Marranarch. As for prepublished, I like Glorantha, the World of Darkness, Faerun, and the world of Etherscope.

Ooh, and the City of Everway.

[The_Pope]

Eberron, without a doubt. Pulp D&D is one of the best ideas I've heard of in a long time.