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Thread: Best-Written Campaign Setting?
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2022-01-12, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-12, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think that after 11 or 12 (and there was the spin off set of books with Roxanne and Tempus and Niko) I stopped looking for them in book stores since I moved overseas. I'd need to do some research and get back to you. Somewhere in the attic I have boxes and boxes of books that I refuse to throw away, but I think that I lost at least one box of books during a move.
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2022-01-13, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Some great mentions so far, one that needs to be added....Delta Green
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2022-01-14, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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That was always the best part of those books for me. It added a lot of world building, flavor, and adventure ideas in one place. The later editions kind of tried to continue it, but felt really scaled down by comparison.
I kinda like that WotC tried to copy some of that in their 5e books, though with a lot of hit-and-miss. I think the humor with Xanathar's guide was a fun addition.
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2022-01-14, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-14, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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He's not actually ancient - "The Xanathar" is a title, assumed by a number of beholders of varying dispositions over the centuries. Its current bearer (Zushaxx) comes off immature in that book's in-universe commentary because he is (i.e. quite young for the role.)
With that said, I agree with you that not all the jokes landed. I did like the monk one.
I found Tasha's commentary to be much funnier (as befits the witch best known for making people split their sides), and Mordenkainen did a perfect job of portraying the ultra-paranoid batman wizard in his book. I'm looking forward to more of that in MotM, and it sounds like we'll be getting more Tasha there too.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2022-01-15, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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I quite liked it, because if you think about it, the Xanathar is an unstable and trigger-happy narcissist who can instantly kill anyone who displeases him. So of course nobody is going to tell him his jokes are lame, they're going to laugh and laugh for minutes on end (because nobody wants to be noted as the one who stopped laughing first).
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2022-01-17, 07:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-17, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Cranky Gamer
*It isn't realism, it's verisimilitude; the appearance of truth within the framework of the game.
*Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.
*Mutant Dawn for Savage Worlds!
*The One Deck Engine: Gaming on a budget
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2022-01-17, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Planescape.
Werewolf the Apocalypse.
Exalted.
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2022-01-17, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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As I mentioned above, there is not just one "Xanathar." The current bearer of the title is childish because they are a young Beholder, hence the caliber of the sidebar jokes in XGtE.
Mark might have been thinking of Kirukeskai, the most famous crime boss 'Xanathar' throughout 3rd edition, or its predecessor the original Xanathar (which might have been that creature's name) who was secretly slain back in 2e.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2022-01-17, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Cranky Gamer
*It isn't realism, it's verisimilitude; the appearance of truth within the framework of the game.
*Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.
*Mutant Dawn for Savage Worlds!
*The One Deck Engine: Gaming on a budget
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2022-01-18, 01:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-21, 05:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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And it's more of a sub-setting, but I love the recent Berlin sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu. It really gets across the feel of a broken and traumatised nation reinventing itself in ways both wondrous and horrible and the lingering after-effects of a disastrous war, and I love the quirky historical details in there that would just be too weird to make up. Especially the detailing of the LGBT+ subcultures of the time, which (at least for me) feels like it approaches the subject in a respectful and rigorous way without either being exploitative or sanitising history.