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Thread: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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2020-07-27, 04:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
Mystara. Loved the gazetteers. Had a lot of fun with the Isle of Dread...
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2020-07-27, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-07-27, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
A official campaign setting? Forgotten Realms maybe even Greyhawk.
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2020-07-27, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-07-27, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2020-07-28, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-28, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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.If all rules are suggestions what happens when I pass the save?
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2020-07-28, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
Birthright, then Eberron.
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2020-07-28, 08:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-29, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-07-29, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
Originally Posted by gloryblaze
...I found 4e's lore very fun, refreshing, and inspiring.
What in particular about the lore was refreshing?
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2020-07-29, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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2020-08-12, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-08-13, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-13, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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.Avatar by linklele
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2020-08-13, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-14, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-08-14, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-08-14, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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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2020-08-17, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
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.
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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2020-08-17, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Giantitps favourite dnd setting
Trolls will be blocked. Petrification works far better than fire and acid.