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    Mystara. Loved the gazetteers. Had a lot of fun with the Isle of Dread...
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    Here’s the updated running total, with homebrew moving into a very narrow lead on Eberron, plus some more love for Spelljammer.

    homebrew - 10
    Eberron - 9
    Spelljammer - 6
    Planescape - 4
    Mystara - 4
    Forgotten Realms - 3
    Dragonlance - 2
    Greyhawk - 2
    Nentir Vale - 2
    Dark Sun - 1
    Golarion - 1

    This is my best guess based on the comments presented thus far, so there may be some fuzzy-wuzzy, timey-wimey variance in there.

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    Default Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting

    A official campaign setting? Forgotten Realms maybe even Greyhawk.

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    I vote homebrew. While I've enjoyed every setting I've ever played or run, my favourite is homebrew. I'm so excited to be running a game in a homebrew setting, as I am right now.
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    I agree! I feel that Nentir Vale is a dangerous, ruin-filled wilderness with marginal pockets of civilization, while Forgotten Realms seems to be a collection of civilizations with dangerous wildernesses on the margins.
    I really enjoyed the game I ran, many years ago now, in the Shannara world for this reason. There are like three actually safe cities, and every short path between x and y has to pass through Mordenhei, the Swamp of Murdercrocs, under Mount Firepoison through the Caves of Glittery Deceaseage and up the dread Staircase of Ill Health, where the Dark Lord Shadowwhatever has camped his evil nasty mean army. You can get away with anything.
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    Planescape.
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    homebrew - mostly what I’ve ended up running the past ten years, however this feels like a cop out answer.
    Eberron - I’ll spare my 39 1/2 foot pole
    Spelljammer/Planescape - while I like the concepts they just don’t present enough to engage with by default, I view them more as a framework than a setting.
    Mystara - haven’t encountered it, haven’t a clue.
    Forgotten Realms - (pre 3e lore blender) nice kitchen sink that does low level stuff well. As is true with most settings it asks for suspension of disbelief on its thumb twiddling demigods. While I can’t say it’s my favorite this is the one I’d be most willing to accept a pitch of “do you want to play X setting?”
    Dragonlance - far too rigidly defined for my tastes, it’s fan service and I’d honestly rather pick a more dynamic setting if opting for one backed by popular literature
    Greyhawk - in all my wanderings I’m just not sure what Greyhawk really is. Surely I must have read a bunch about it indirectly but nothing ever came out and said ‘here be Greyhawk’
    Nentir Vale - haven’t a clue
    Dark Sun - Wonderful themes that I respect the implementation of but will not engage with.
    Golarion - haven’t touched PF lore yet, planning on a deep dive into PF1 content for some time later this year.
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    Birthright, then Eberron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xervous View Post
    Spelljammer/Planescape - while I like the concepts they just don’t present enough to engage with by default, I view them more as a framework than a setting.
    I dont know that a lack of engagement is a problem, but calling them a framework is pretty accurate.

    At least until Planescape went critical mass with all its boxed sets.

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    Thirding Nentir Vale/Points of Light. While I DM almost exclusively in my own homebrew world, its cosmology, pantheon, and history draw extensively from 4e lore as I found 4e's lore very fun, refreshing, and inspiring.

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    Originally Posted by gloryblaze
    ...I found 4e's lore very fun, refreshing, and inspiring.
    Interesting. Could you elaborate?

    What in particular about the lore was refreshing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palanan View Post
    Interesting. Could you elaborate?

    What in particular about the lore was refreshing?
    The Great Wheel feels very overbloated with a lot of needless symmetry (especially alignment-based box-ticking) to me. The 4e lore feels a lot more natural and like a real myth system that might evolve over time. Also, the Dawn War is a way cool, unifying creation myth.

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    This thread seems to have attracted all the votes it’s likely to, so here’s the final tally:

    homebrew - 11
    Eberron - 9
    Spelljammer - 6
    Planescape - 5
    Mystara - 4
    Forgotten Realms - 4
    Nentir Vale - 3
    Dragonlance - 2
    Greyhawk - 2
    Dark Sun - 1
    Golarion - 1
    Shanarra - 1
    Birthright - 1

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    Sorry for not really updating the tally, I've just done that now.
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    I shouldn't be surprised Eberron came out on top* I suppose (it's quite popular), but I am surprised how far down the more general settings are. Especially with how many got fewer votes than Mystara, which hasn't been updated in far longer if I understand.

    *Homebrew covers way too much and of course most people like the stuff they built themselves, so I don't think that's a fair comparison to any official setting.
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    I think Eberron got a lot of votes because of it's unique take on a lot of things, kind of why spelljammer got a lot too.
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    Speaking of homebrew.

    Gygax was initially surprised that anyone wanted a published setting.

    He figured everyone would want to build and run their own world.

    Glad to see that a large segment of the gaming community is going through all the work of creating their own magic.

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    Homebrew gets my vote, but

    If I had to pick a second, I'd say FR, because it is so drilled to my brain after countless hours of BG and NWN. It's not a favorite, but I'd rather play FR than something I like more but have less experience with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Democratus View Post
    Speaking of homebrew.

    Gygax was initially surprised that anyone wanted a published setting.

    He figured everyone would want to build and run their own world.

    Glad to see that a large segment of the gaming community is going through all the work of creating their own magic.
    Settings? I’ll do you one better, make my own system!

    Noting my inclination towards numbers and systems from early number crunching to my current job I wonder if the homebrew/not homebrew splits along lines other than spare time. Though I have strong suspicions the personalities that gravitate towards the gm seat are at least mildly biased towards homebrew.
    If all rules are suggestions what happens when I pass the save?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xervous View Post
    I wonder if the homebrew/not homebrew splits along lines other than spare time.
    I don't care whether the GM has had the spare time to learn a whole official setting well or not; I prefer for them to run custom settings to give me something unknown to Explore.

    Quote Originally Posted by Xervous View Post
    Though I have strong suspicions the personalities that gravitate towards the gm seat are at least mildly biased towards homebrew.
    Hmmm… there definitely seems a strong correlation between "controlling personality" and "wants to be GM". I'm not so sure that GMs who want to control published settings are any less common than GMs who want to control homebrew settings.

    Heck, from an alignment PoV, wouldn't it be:

    Controlling: Lawful

    Published settings: Lawful

    Homebrew: Chaotic

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quertus View Post
    Heck, from an alignment PoV, wouldn't it be:

    Controlling: Lawful

    Published settings: Lawful

    Homebrew: Chaotic
    Yeah, and from the DM's perspective it's also...

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    The Players themselves: Evil

    Some of things players come up with should require a mandatory psych evaluation.
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