Giantitps favourite dnd setting

[Corsair14]

Spelljammer then Darksun

[D&D_Fan]

MTG Plane Shift.
Is that an option?
I will vote for that one since I don't think anyone else is.
There is some neat stuff there.

If I can't do that, then just put Homebrew.

[Anonymouswizard]

I prefer Forgotten Realms, and i (shock!) consider Planescape and Spelljammer to be effectively part of it rather than their own settings entirely.

Planescape doesn't use anything like the Forgotten Realms cosmology

[Sir_Chivalry]

I prefer Forgotten Realms, and i (shock!) consider Planescape and Spelljammer to be effectively part of it rather than their own settings entirely.

With that loose a definition (in that it uses the great wheel) it's derivative of Greyhawk, not Forgotten Realms, and all votes for FR should go to Greyhawk instead ;)

Because there's a seven year gap between their publication dates, and with Spelljammer and Planescape's worldbuilding being integrated into both, the oldest one assumes prime place then, no?

Or you can go with settings that canonically don't connect with Planescape and Spelljammer, like Eberron (my vote)

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

Planescape doesn't use anything like the Forgotten Realms cosmology

Depends on the edition, no?

[Millstone85]

I don't know what to vote for.

I prefer Forgotten Realms, and i (shock!) consider Planescape and Spelljammer to be effectively part of it rather than their own settings entirely.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

The planet Toril of Forgotten Realms, along with the planets Oerth of Greyhawk and Krynn of Dragonlance, is part of the Prime Material Plane as described by Spelljammer, which is in turn part of the Great Wheel as explored in Planescape.

Planescape doesn't use anything like the Forgotten Realms cosmology

Depends on the edition, no?

Indeed, Forgotten Realms has changed cosmologies at least three times:

2e	Great Wheel
3e	World Tree
4e	World Axis
5e	Great Wheel

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

I don't know what to vote for.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

The planet Toril of Forgotten Realms, along with the planets Oerth of Greyhawk and Krynn of Dragonlance, is part of the Prime Material Plane as described by Spelljammer, which is in turn part of the Great Wheel as explored in Planescape.

It might the other way around, but it doesn't have to be. The 5th edition adventure Out of the Abyss takes place in the Underdark under the Sword Coast and related areas. It involves several portals to the Abyss, an NPC devoted to the dark god in the Demiplane of Imprisonment, and a group of left-behind modrons from the last march. It is definitely compatible with Planescape, but it's also just as clearly set in the Forgotten Realms. Even if the small bucket of Faerun fits into the bigger bucket of Planejammer, the links to the bigger metasettings are incidental to the world the adventure is occurring in.

[el minster]

Already put this in the other thread but tippyverse with other stuff mixed in from other campaign settings

[adso]

Eberron for sure. I've read just about every other setting and none of them make D&D make sense in the world the way Eberron does. I have no plans to consider playing anything other than Eberron or a custom world.

[Sir_Chivalry]

Eberron for sure. I've read just about every other setting and none of them make D&D make sense in the world the way Eberron does. I have no plans to consider playing anything other than Eberron or a custom world.

Cuts to the heart of Eberron's greatness right there. People see surface elements, but Eberron is a world where the core races are stripped back to their base stats and the fluff FOLLOWS from what they can do, rather than the fluff existing and then the stats being pegged in.

[Tanarii]

Mystara / Known World. Also goes hand in hand with my favorite D&D rule set, BECMI.

Runners up are Dark Sun and Spelljammer.

Least favorite was Planescape. They took the wonderful mysteries of the Planes and made it boring, accessible, and annoying. Berk this berk that. Plus the art was garbage.

[Psyren]

Assuming the question is restricted to "published settings" - Golarion is my personal favorite due to all the genres and plot sizes I can run there.

[Eldan]

Planescape doesn't use anything like the Forgotten Realms cosmology

It did back when Forgotten Realms used the Great Wheel and they were officialy part of the same setting as all the other world supported at the same time.

[Eldan]

Plus the art was garbage.

You did not just say that. You can insult the setting all you want, it had plenty of problems, but di Terlizzi made the best art D&D ever had.

[Tanarii]

You did not just say that. You can insult the setting all you want, it had plenty of problems, but di Terlizzi made the best art D&D ever had.

Oh please. Hands down Elmore.

Planescape art was just a bunch of scribbling.

[Eldan]

Elmore? Really? I almost found those super weird. Terlizzi is pretty much the only D&D artist I know who actually put some character into his... characters. They don't just stand there looking vaguely grim or serious or heroic.

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

I like Elmore sometimes ("A Murder", "Avalyne the Life Giver", "Ancient Powers"), but he has a tendency towards oily muscles and TnA that I find a bit silly and offputting. DiTerlizzi's work is just filled with personality even if I don't love the color style.

[Lord Torath]

Spelljammer, then Dark Sun.

Spelljammer then Darksun

I'm going to have to agree with both of these highly-cultured gentlefolk who happen to have exquisite taste when it comes to campaign settings.

As far as Elmore vs DiTerlizzi, I like them both. But don't forget about Brom!

[Tanarii]

Elmore? Really? I almost found those super weird. Terlizzi is pretty much the only D&D artist I know who actually put some character into his... characters. They don't just stand there looking vaguely grim or serious or heroic.

Character doesn't make up for bargain basement art. They clearly went with it because it was the cheapest artist they could find.

[LudicSavant]

My own homebrew. Followed by Eberron.

[Telok]

Spelljammer and the implied setting of the AD&D 1e modules. Yes, including Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and those others.

[Anonymouswizard]

While I've only seen the original boxed set, the Planescape art is wonderfully evocative and better than some of the other bits of 2e art I've seen (I'm not going to name artists because I don't care).


I'm going to just throw in my favourite setting element that I tend to port over to homebrew worlds: Birthright dwarves tend to have neatly cropped beards. This makes so much sense to me, it stops the beard from getting in the way during work or catching on anything, and it makes long beards (and hair) a potential status symbol saying 'I don't need to work'. Plus it makes the dwarves look so much more professional. My homebrew worlds tend to have working dwarves keep their beards short, with only elders growing them out if at all. Elves just let their hair grow out, dwarves style it, and for many male dwarves this means a cropped beard and braided hair.

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

I'm going to just throw in my favourite setting element that I tend to port over to homebrew worlds: Birthright dwarves tend to have neatly cropped beards. This makes so much sense to me, it stops the beard from getting in the way during work or catching on anything, and it makes long beards (and hair) a potential status symbol saying 'I don't need to work'. Plus it makes the dwarves look so much more professional. My homebrew worlds tend to have working dwarves keep their beards short, with only elders growing them out if at all. Elves just let their hair grow out, dwarves style it, and for many male dwarves this means a cropped beard and braided hair.

I really like this. My favorite piece of portable fluff is about dwarves drinking, from a sidebar in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes:

Dwarves have a reputation for being able to consume great quantities of ale. Although drinking plays a significant role in their culture, it is a mistake to assume that intoxication has the same effect on them as it does on humans. Humans drink to forget, while dwarves drink to remember. A dwarf deep in his cups is overcome by powerful, vivid memories of his past, especially events tied to lost kin, great deeds, or monumental failures. When dwarves drink in a group, this effect spreads among them. The clan might joyfully sing of triumph as they reminisce over the defeat of a dragon, or weep as they recall the death of a beloved elder.

I tend to ignore the last section of the sidebar, about how drinking alone makes dwarves sullen because they're more likely to focus on bad memories. I use drinking for lone dwarves separated from kin as a mechanism of taking part in a shared ritual, even when physically separated. I've sort of adopted that into most of my homebrew worlds.

[Corvus]

If not homebrew then Dark Sun. It isn't even close how far head to anything else Dark Sun is. Just so unique and different to regular fantasy.

Probably why Spelljammer comes in second as well.

(Plus they are both 2ed settings.)

[Khedrac]

Spelljammer and the implied setting of the AD&D 1e modules. Yes, including Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and those others.

Half (or more) of them are explicitly set in Greyhawk, e.g. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks etc.
The rest were generic with no setting, e.g. Ravenloft etc.

You could usually tell by the module code, the I and UK series were generic, the L, T, G, D and S series were set in Greyhawk. And so forth.

[Kyutaru]

Planescape. Easily, no better system, the magic changes were also appreciated.

[Spriteless]

Eberron when I want magic to mean technology, which is most of the time.

Second is Dragonlance, where magic means induction into a conspiracy.

If I want magic to be corruption, War Hammer does it better than Dark Sun.

Look it's a big subsystem if it isn't also subtext than it's wasted time.

[Quertus]

Re: art. Plane scape art was the most… memorable. To me, it stuck out like a sore thumb. I personally hated it, but… it's art - people can have different opinions. I can see how some might really love it. Just… sacred cows, it wasn't D&D… and I wouldn't have liked it even if it wasn't in a D&D book.

Or you can go with settings that canonically don't connect with Planescape and Spelljammer, like Eberron (my vote)

Huh? How does that work? World in a bottle or something?

Eberron is a world where the core races are stripped back to their base stats and the fluff FOLLOWS from what they can do, rather than the fluff existing and then the stats being pegged in.

… so, not "Dwarves are great artisans, how do we map that into stats", but "Dwarves have these stats, what does that make them"? If so, why do you prefer this to the alternative?

[Duff]

Spelljammer.

Or Ravenloft, though when I played there I wasn't a mature enough roleplayer to fully enjoy it (and the GM also was too new to do it properly)

[Luccan]

Eberron or Dark Sun for official settings.

I won't say a flat out no to any D&D setting, though Planescape intimidates me.