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For me there are a few that really stand out: Athas of Dark Sun, The Sixth World of Shadowrun, the Wierd West of Deadlands, Glorantha of Runequest, and finally the Old World of WFRP
My favourite settings are places like Ancient China and Rivendell. Common threads between the two are cool weapons, gorgeous outfits, and unique architecture. BTW, I believe you meant Dementors instead of Death Eaters. 😉
As a Forgotten Realms enjoyer, I can say it really brings the nostalgia in me and my players. It is a very comfortable worldspace that you can dive into without any additional preparation, and it is so newbie friendly. I absolutely love.
"Dont learn everything!" Great advice. Learn and note down what you use regularly, but one thing I tell new players to TTRPGs, or most things, is to learn where to look for the information you need. If you know where to look for your information, then you now have fast and correct knowledge to everything. I wish I could remember where I heard this one quote (think was some greek quote about the great library), but it was something like "Only a fool tries to memorize that which they can look up in a book"
I've been getting into Pathfinder 2e hardcore the last 18 months(give or take) and I LOVE Golarian a LOT! The sheer size of the Star Wars universe alone makes it another great one, especially when you select a point and say "Ok, THIS is my start, from here ANYTHING goes!" and then just write your own stories!(4:45 OOPS! Ignore this one for a week then lol)
My favorite worldspaces (fictional worlds) is Runeterra and the Star Wars Universe, i usually base myself on them when creating my own custom settings for TTRPGS
Whatever part of this video you're least confident in, just imagine I said this is why I love this channel. I just wanted to say something nice but I genuinely love this channel, the only problem I've had is me needing to turn down my Bluetooth speaker cause I just brought it out of the shower which is something that's not your fault and just part of life
I am watching this entire series of videos in preparation for my first DM experience. I am crafting a Silent Hill campaign and I am so excited. I know it will be obvious that it's my first time but I deeply want for my group to have fun in this little spooky world. Thank you for all your advice!
So glad to find your still making videos. 21 years old now, GMed multiple long and successful campaigns, and working on both my own dark fantasy / dieselpunk setting I've been dreaming of and constantly working on for about 8 years (since I was in grade 9) and much more slowly working on my own tabletop system to go with it (mostly taking the current form of a dnd 5e total rework). I had first started watching your videos as a kid of who knows what young age, when I first started dreaming of GMing my own games for my friends, and later of creating my own large and fully fleshed out world with deep lore, history, and unique atmosphere. Your videos had been a huge help and inspiration on both fronts for as long as I can remember, and now again your videos have made their way back onto my feed. I couldn't be more glad. With your indirect help I've created a huge, unique, and complex world replete with long dissertations on various modern and past kingdoms and empires by the many dozens, races of all kinds and their places within the world, and all kinds of other things. Now that I'm getting to a place I could finally foresee being able to publish various types of media in the setting, I can say Ive come a long way and am super proud of the work Ive put into all of it. And watching my friends throroughly enjoy mucking about in said setting and actually wanting to dive deeper into the lore, I can say few things if any could possibly bring me more joy. I may never have if not for dozens of your videos on worldbuilding and related topics. And looking through your stuff again many years later and finding many more videos on the topic, I'm beyond stoked. Going to watch your video on becoming your own settings hardest critic next. All rambling over with, thanks mate, keep up the great work, and thanks a ton for everything! I owe a lot to you and your videos and work. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦 🍻
They finally made a Dark Souls Tabletop RPG, which is great because Lordran, Drangliec, Lothric and such are my favourite fantasy settings. It's very internally consistent, sorceries come from Seath the Scaleless, dark sorceries from Londor, pyromancies from the Witches of Izalith etc. The setting details are deliberately vague to encourage fan speculation, making it rife for exploration. The central theme of the Dark Souls games is 'What's the point?', the main plot (such that it is) is You're a zombo, here's a broken sword, go kill God. Which, do I need to elaborate? Premium adventure stuff.
I mixed Plato's theory of forms with a modern setting and a player character who is an amnesiac dragon, that was killed by heroes in the distant past, and is trying to recover it's hoard of reality altering magic words, it's gems.
I am a simple Wyoming man, and right now my preferred setting for a campaign is fantasy western (unironically). I used to think it was Sci Fi, but I have been running a fantasy western campaign for about a year now and it has just been lovely!
I do really enjoy cyberpunk.(Although this could be more suitable for the next video) I'm creating a campaign and the real challenge is being trying to adapt the aesthetic, feeling and architecture of the neoliberalism and militarism that cyberpunk is to the country and city that I and the other players live (we live in Brazil). It is not easy, but at the same time I really enjoy to learn about sociology to enhance the experience of a believable world. The scariest thing is to discover that we are not far from a cyberpunk dystopia. So, studying the economy and sociology of your city/country really helps the players to "see" the sci-fi world you are describing, since it has 80% of what they live and see (I made that %)
I would have said its Star Wars or my own fantasy campaign setting of Nevarn (running for 19 years at this stage) BUT after watching your Ghosts of Saltmarsh series, I would have to say, they showed me THE perfect epitome of D&D played well, and on so many levels of excellence: which inspired me to incorporate a good many of your own tried and tested techniques into my own games.
My absolute favourite setting is Arcanum, partly because of the awesome Victorian England visuals, but also due to the inherent battle between magic and technology, where both parties natively interfere on the other party's efficiency. Close 2nd/3rd, is a shared spot between the original Fallout setting from 1 and 2, and Forgotten Realms, both mostly due to nostalgia from the Classic Fallout games, and for FR, Baldurs Gate and other Infinity Engine games, as well as the wealth of books written in this setting.
preaching to the choir in this vid, I love writing fan fic that reworks a world to be mine, I have reworked at least 7 universes for my uses, kids books (Warrior cats, Guardians of Gah'Huule ) to video games (WoW, Scorn) and much more ... good explanation on the topic, can't wait for the next part (14 min later lol)
For D&D I love Eberron's setting for it's wide magic system that has some decent levels of tech too. Also love FFXIV's world for a similar reason, has both magic and technology that can be used separately or together; I've seen some decently balanced homebrew FFXIV classes if wanting that complete immersion of feel for a D&D game.
I personally enjoy the reactive world space that Bioware has been building with the Dragon Age series, but Thedas isn't the only setting to steal my heart, Theros from MTG renown is another huge favorite.
Favorite settings crafted for RPGs (in no particular order): - Spelljammer - Europa (Castle Falkenstein) - Barsaive in the Fourth Age (Earthdawn) - Mythic Europe (Ars Magica) - Known Worlds (Fading Suns) - the near future of Underground - the world of Tribe 8 - the world of Ehdrigohr (I can’t remember if it has a name) Favorites not designed for RPGs: - Thra (The Dark Crystal) - the universe of Farscape - Amalgam Comics universe - the various worlds and governments of the Vorkosigan books - Earthsea - the Whoniverse (Doctor Who) - Babylon 5 universe - Renaissance Italy, with varying levels of historicity
Loremasters are invaluable because players will latch onto some aspects of lore and master it, and I had one for our previous Mass Effect (5e system) campaign. Her recent exp. made it so much soother because I hadn't played those games in almost a decade. Just one more stressor to take off our busy shoulders.
The Strange by Monte Cook Games. It's a setting that allows for easy travel into other types of setting, be them random or premade/commonly know worlds.
Def have a soft spot for Golarian as I started out in PF1! I also would love to play a trpg in the Redwall setting someday; love those books and that whole setting! -Dan
My favorites are Jaconia (Finish Praedor comics by Petri Hiltunen and RPG by Burger Games), Middle-Earth (MERP/RM) and Night City. Both Glorantha and Young Kingdoms (Elric/Stormbringer) are also great places to adventure on.
From fiction to game, Robert E. Howard's Thurian Age (Kull), because it had less written about it, more freedom to create within its themes. Charles Saunders' Nyumbani for African sword and sorcery is up there too.
Your videos have helped me immensely over the many months that I have been watching you. Thank you for the work you are doing. The way you explain these concepts in a onetake style is wonderful! I am also in love with the new way of GMing that you explained and the honesty about telling us that we can throw out the style you had been advocating for before, but letting us know that it can still be part of our arsenal. I am still waiting for videos on certain topics that I still struggle with, which I am sure willl come through out this year. You are incredible and I have improved as a GM in ways I didn't think were possible. Funnily I sometimes still had to make the mistakes, even though I had seen your videos about it, and then after rewatching the videos, it really clicked, because now I had a first hand concrete situation. It is as if I could only really understand all the little nuggets of guidance only after I had encountered that senario in my own games. Love you for everything, keep it up!
Etherscope. Its a d20 setting, so you need to get that out of the way, but this weird amalgamation of Cyberpunk, Steampunk, alternative history and all that good stuff is just the greatest!
@@CCartman69 I'm taking some inspiration for my campaign that starts later this month, but I'm running it in 5e and will just be making narrative changes to level descriptions as well as the ascension/"god" thing. I don't want to be specific because spoilers and things ;D I need the next book to fill in some later game details!
Great video! Thanks for sharing! One of my best setting is now Starfinder (actually that's the campaign I'm playing every Sunday). The possibilities are endless in this setting and I love it when I can create anything. However, I will never use the original system; I made up a system similar to the nWoD to play it and thus far it is great.
"Favorite Setting" Forgotten Realms. I love those novels and the world depicted in them across their many authors. I also appreciate the Spelljammer tie-ins. But I like it the same way people like the MCU or the Star Wars universe, for more than a single story. It's the main appeal of D&D for me. It's "The Forgotten Realms RPG". When I want to homebrew something, I probably don't want to use D&D.
Favorite non-homebrew? Night City in Cyberpunk. In the exact same vein would be Sharn in Eberron. As a launch point, either are pretty close to unbeatable.
Mine. The one of my own making. She's massive, she's beautiful and she has little pieces and influences of many different world spaces, from Faerun, Greyhawk, Mystara, Hyboria, Middle Earth, Scarn, historical geography and politics. Set up with none of the animals and human iterations undergoing an Extinction Level Event, if it ever lived on Earth, somewhere it still lives here. Cataclysmic events that cause change. Invasion from other dimensions and empires that rise; fall and are replaced and fading, just to begin the cycles again. She is dark, she is dangerous, mysterious, foreboding and ancient. I call her Antiquius Narc.
Hey Guy - great to meet you last Friday at the UKGE. Favourite world space? I love Forbidden Lands / the Ravenlands and Coriolis. Both are sort of post-apocalyptic and have a rich backcloth of setting, factions, conflicts, yet they leave oodles of space for your own ideas, hexcrawling, sandboxing... . Symbaroum is also excellent for that and I am very tempted by the world of Asunder, even though that is quite over the top. Appointing a lore master sounds interesting as well, just much harder to do when you play an "emergent campaign", that drifts away from published materials at a moment's notice.
All For One: Règime Diabolique 2nd Edition for Savage Worlds Musketeers + Supernatural 7th Sea Second Edition Pirates + Supernatural Love the court diplomacy and fantasy (homebrew I love to add Airships)
I absolutely love Golarian as a setting. Every inch is ripe for amazing storytelling, and you can use any system you want in that setting. (Not to mention Paizo’s published adventures are, IMO, the best in the biz).
The world of Runeterra is an interesting world many people know already. They have League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra and TFT games that have expanded lot to its own Lore. That would be an existing World Space that I would use.
Urban fantasy. Of a certain kind. I don't do favorites, I can never choose one, but there are some urban fantasy series that just satisfy me so deeply. Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret, because it's a DWJ novel, but it has an adult protagonist. Lev Grossman's The Magicians novels (don't let the directionless SyFy show scare you away) because they get magic so *right.* Tim Pratt's Marlaverse novels, because Marla Mason is a kickass female sorceror heroine done *right.* What do I mean? Go find out for yourself. It's only my opinion, in any case. PS: really looking forward to next week!
One Piece. It's a crazy world that perfectly incapsulates the themes and tones of the series and never goes against the story, it only pushes it further.
Creating your own world has the benefit of being able to create your own lore. The con is that, as the official lore master you must know everything. This is offset by your skill at coming up with lore on the fly or preparing lore ahead of playtime.
I can't pick just one, I love so many different world spaces: Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Star Wars, Star Trek...I love them all. Can we make a world space and just cram them all together?
The setting I've wanted to use for a DnD campaign for a while now is the Lone Wolf/Magnamund world. It would take some thought to rewrite some of the mechanics from the gamebooks into DnD but a good dm running it would be amazing.
My favorite is the gaslight fantasy world from the Victoriana RPG. 2nd and 3rd edition Victoriana have a great world and history. They're working on porting it to the 5e system and I don't like the changes they're making to the lore (not a fan of 5e either lol) but I've been thinking of porting the Vicky I do like into Savage Worlds maybe
Same! Have a friend who has played in a SW campaign for a decade and I love hearing the stories from his games! Never enough time to play all the games lol -Dan
My favorites were always 2nd ed. Planescape and Ravenloft. Planescape because of the way it was designed, it connected to everything, everywhere and anything could happen. Ravenloft because I've always been a horror fan.
Ravnica is a interesting setting tho making one from scratch like my dm did took a lot of work on his part as the ravnica book doesn’t really give much on designing your own district still having fun in that game loving it
My favorite world I've played or GMed in would probbily be Forgotten realms world or Dark Sun. I've also GMed a world that cobbled together elements of the spellslinger FFG world, Deadlands and D20 Modern wild west, all have pretty neat stuff. I'm actually working on my own world, and one of my problems right now is not knowing what the feel/core concept of my world is, both for adapting to a TTRPG or telling stories, so these are good questions to ponder. The world's a medieval desert land of lizardfolk sort of inspired by Dune (though I'm not super interested in stories of political intrigue) and STALKER (harvesting artifacts from the wild doesn't seem great for a party based story).
I've played in so many settings that it's hard to pick a single favorite. Maybe GURPS Firefly, which is a "space western". I also enjoy westerns and relatively hard sci-fi on their own. Other favorites tend to be "modern with a twist", where normal modern characters get caught up in international intrigue, or they develop superpowers, or they're abducted by aliens, or whatever.
The classic Phantasy Star games, most specifically Phantasy Star IV for the Sega Genesis. So much of my GMing is influenced conspicuously by Phantasy Star. What I wouldn't pay for a sequel to that glorious fourth installment.
Hey Guy, I'd love your opinion on Risus: The Anything RPG, it takes a truly GREAT GM and trusting players to get the most out of the system, it's so freeing and cinematic to run and to play for serious and semi serious settings! Love the videos!
Worlds of Android. A "Generic" cyberpunk setting created by Fantasy Flight Games for their products. Most noticeably used in the Android: Netrunner game and later implemented to Genesis RPG system thanks to Shadow of the Beanstalk setting suplement.
Dark Sun (for official), Primeval Thule, or pretty much any low-magic Norse/Celtic themed worlds. I'm long done with high magic, Monty Haul style worlds.
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For me there are a few that really stand out: Athas of Dark Sun, The Sixth World of Shadowrun, the Wierd West of Deadlands, Glorantha of Runequest, and finally the Old World of WFRP
My favourite settings are places like Ancient China and Rivendell. Common threads between the two are cool weapons, gorgeous outfits, and unique architecture.
BTW, I believe you meant Dementors instead of Death Eaters. 😉
Not sure if it's my favorite way to play D&D, but it's definitely my favorite existing setting in D&D 5e: Eberron, Rising from the Last War.
As a Forgotten Realms enjoyer, I can say it really brings the nostalgia in me and my players. It is a very comfortable worldspace that you can dive into without any additional preparation, and it is so newbie friendly. I absolutely love.
"Dont learn everything!" Great advice. Learn and note down what you use regularly, but one thing I tell new players to TTRPGs, or most things, is to learn where to look for the information you need.
If you know where to look for your information, then you now have fast and correct knowledge to everything.
I wish I could remember where I heard this one quote (think was some greek quote about the great library), but it was something like "Only a fool tries to memorize that which they can look up in a book"
I've been getting into Pathfinder 2e hardcore the last 18 months(give or take) and I LOVE Golarian a LOT!
The sheer size of the Star Wars universe alone makes it another great one, especially when you select a point and say "Ok, THIS is my start, from here ANYTHING goes!" and then just write your own stories!(4:45 OOPS! Ignore this one for a week then lol)
My favorite worldspaces (fictional worlds) is Runeterra and the Star Wars Universe, i usually base myself on them when creating my own custom settings for TTRPGS
Eberron is probably my favorite, lots of potential to run different types of campaigns within the setting.
My favorite RPG setting is Mutant Chronicles, basically a dieselpunk horror with some magic and megacorporations in the solar system.
Whatever part of this video you're least confident in, just imagine I said this is why I love this channel. I just wanted to say something nice but I genuinely love this channel, the only problem I've had is me needing to turn down my Bluetooth speaker cause I just brought it out of the shower which is something that's not your fault and just part of life
I am watching this entire series of videos in preparation for my first DM experience. I am crafting a Silent Hill campaign and I am so excited. I know it will be obvious that it's my first time but I deeply want for my group to have fun in this little spooky world. Thank you for all your advice!
So glad to find your still making videos. 21 years old now, GMed multiple long and successful campaigns, and working on both my own dark fantasy / dieselpunk setting I've been dreaming of and constantly working on for about 8 years (since I was in grade 9) and much more slowly working on my own tabletop system to go with it (mostly taking the current form of a dnd 5e total rework).
I had first started watching your videos as a kid of who knows what young age, when I first started dreaming of GMing my own games for my friends, and later of creating my own large and fully fleshed out world with deep lore, history, and unique atmosphere. Your videos had been a huge help and inspiration on both fronts for as long as I can remember, and now again your videos have made their way back onto my feed. I couldn't be more glad. With your indirect help I've created a huge, unique, and complex world replete with long dissertations on various modern and past kingdoms and empires by the many dozens, races of all kinds and their places within the world, and all kinds of other things. Now that I'm getting to a place I could finally foresee being able to publish various types of media in the setting, I can say Ive come a long way and am super proud of the work Ive put into all of it. And watching my friends throroughly enjoy mucking about in said setting and actually wanting to dive deeper into the lore, I can say few things if any could possibly bring me more joy. I may never have if not for dozens of your videos on worldbuilding and related topics. And looking through your stuff again many years later and finding many more videos on the topic, I'm beyond stoked. Going to watch your video on becoming your own settings hardest critic next.
All rambling over with, thanks mate, keep up the great work, and thanks a ton for everything! I owe a lot to you and your videos and work. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦 🍻
They finally made a Dark Souls Tabletop RPG, which is great because Lordran, Drangliec, Lothric and such are my favourite fantasy settings. It's very internally consistent, sorceries come from Seath the Scaleless, dark sorceries from Londor, pyromancies from the Witches of Izalith etc. The setting details are deliberately vague to encourage fan speculation, making it rife for exploration. The central theme of the Dark Souls games is 'What's the point?', the main plot (such that it is) is You're a zombo, here's a broken sword, go kill God. Which, do I need to elaborate? Premium adventure stuff.
I mixed Plato's theory of forms with a modern setting and a player character who is an amnesiac dragon, that was killed by heroes in the distant past, and is trying to recover it's hoard of reality altering magic words, it's gems.
The Sixth World of Shadowrun will always have a place in my heart, and for fantasy, Iron Kingdoms.
Hands down: „The Dark Eye“.
Honorable mention: „The City“ of the Indy RPG SLAYERS.
I love the Keyforge setting for the Genesys systen. The creative freedom it allows is so fun to mess with.
I am a simple Wyoming man, and right now my preferred setting for a campaign is fantasy western (unironically). I used to think it was Sci Fi, but I have been running a fantasy western campaign for about a year now and it has just been lovely!
Just recently got my grubby little fingers in a copy of "Call of Cthulhu" 7th Edition. Never have I loved so much a weird little theme.
I do really enjoy cyberpunk.(Although this could be more suitable for the next video) I'm creating a campaign and the real challenge is being trying to adapt the aesthetic, feeling and architecture of the neoliberalism and militarism that cyberpunk is to the country and city that I and the other players live (we live in Brazil).
It is not easy, but at the same time I really enjoy to learn about sociology to enhance the experience of a believable world.
The scariest thing is to discover that we are not far from a cyberpunk dystopia. So, studying the economy and sociology of your city/country really helps the players to "see" the sci-fi world you are describing, since it has 80% of what they live and see (I made that %)
I would have said its Star Wars or my own fantasy campaign setting of Nevarn (running for 19 years at this stage) BUT after watching your Ghosts of Saltmarsh series, I would have to say, they showed me THE perfect epitome of D&D played well, and on so many levels of excellence: which inspired me to incorporate a good many of your own tried and tested techniques into my own games.
My absolute favourite setting is Arcanum, partly because of the awesome Victorian England visuals, but also due to the inherent battle between magic and technology, where both parties natively interfere on the other party's efficiency.
Close 2nd/3rd, is a shared spot between the original Fallout setting from 1 and 2, and Forgotten Realms, both mostly due to nostalgia from the Classic Fallout games, and for FR, Baldurs Gate and other Infinity Engine games, as well as the wealth of books written in this setting.
I still have a soft spot for Lankhmar as that's where we ran our games many many manys ago.
These days we tend to base in Forgotten Realms.
preaching to the choir in this vid, I love writing fan fic that reworks a world to be mine, I have reworked at least 7 universes for my uses, kids books (Warrior cats, Guardians of Gah'Huule ) to video games (WoW, Scorn) and much more ... good explanation on the topic, can't wait for the next part (14 min later lol)
spelljammer, Star Wars, and various classic dnd settings are my favourite
I love running modern horror, with a hint of Urban Fantasy.
For D&D I love Eberron's setting for it's wide magic system that has some decent levels of tech too. Also love FFXIV's world for a similar reason, has both magic and technology that can be used separately or together; I've seen some decently balanced homebrew FFXIV classes if wanting that complete immersion of feel for a D&D game.
I personally enjoy the reactive world space that Bioware has been building with the Dragon Age series, but Thedas isn't the only setting to steal my heart, Theros from MTG renown is another huge favorite.
Favorite settings crafted for RPGs (in no particular order):
- Spelljammer
- Europa (Castle Falkenstein)
- Barsaive in the Fourth Age (Earthdawn)
- Mythic Europe (Ars Magica)
- Known Worlds (Fading Suns)
- the near future of Underground
- the world of Tribe 8
- the world of Ehdrigohr (I can’t remember if it has a name)
Favorites not designed for RPGs:
- Thra (The Dark Crystal)
- the universe of Farscape
- Amalgam Comics universe
- the various worlds and governments of the Vorkosigan books
- Earthsea
- the Whoniverse (Doctor Who)
- Babylon 5 universe
- Renaissance Italy, with varying levels of historicity
Grimm hollow is my jam, i love Dark fantasy, because when humor, and light moments happen they feel that much more real 😚
Love the idea of a rules master and a lore master
Loremasters are invaluable because players will latch onto some aspects of lore and master it, and I had one for our previous Mass Effect (5e system) campaign. Her recent exp. made it so much soother because I hadn't played those games in almost a decade. Just one more stressor to take off our busy shoulders.
The Strange by Monte Cook Games. It's a setting that allows for easy travel into other types of setting, be them random or premade/commonly know worlds.
Def have a soft spot for Golarian as I started out in PF1! I also would love to play a trpg in the Redwall setting someday; love those books and that whole setting!
-Dan
My favorites are Jaconia (Finish Praedor comics by Petri Hiltunen and RPG by Burger Games), Middle-Earth (MERP/RM) and Night City.
Both Glorantha and Young Kingdoms (Elric/Stormbringer) are also great places to adventure on.
From fiction to game, Robert E. Howard's Thurian Age (Kull), because it had less written about it, more freedom to create within its themes. Charles Saunders' Nyumbani for African sword and sorcery is up there too.
1) Ereb Altor - Drakar & Demoner
2) Ravenland - Forbidden Lands
3 Mythical Sweden - Varsen
4) Kult
Your videos have helped me immensely over the many months that I have been watching you. Thank you for the work you are doing. The way you explain these concepts in a onetake style is wonderful!
I am also in love with the new way of GMing that you explained and the honesty about telling us that we can throw out the style you had been advocating for before, but letting us know that it can still be part of our arsenal. I am still waiting for videos on certain topics that I still struggle with, which I am sure willl come through out this year.
You are incredible and I have improved as a GM in ways I didn't think were possible. Funnily I sometimes still had to make the mistakes, even though I had seen your videos about it, and then after rewatching the videos, it really clicked, because now I had a first hand concrete situation. It is as if I could only really understand all the little nuggets of guidance only after I had encountered that senario in my own games.
Love you for everything, keep it up!
I am really happy about this episode. I want to run some game in The One Ring and i am very afraid about this big and wealthy world. Thank you!
Etherscope. Its a d20 setting, so you need to get that out of the way, but this weird amalgamation of Cyberpunk, Steampunk, alternative history and all that good stuff is just the greatest!
Cradle by Will Wight. Such a different take on magic and monsters.
I can't wait until someone figures out how to run a game in that world with that magic, cause it's such a good series and I want to be in it so bad!
@@CCartman69 I'm taking some inspiration for my campaign that starts later this month, but I'm running it in 5e and will just be making narrative changes to level descriptions as well as the ascension/"god" thing. I don't want to be specific because spoilers and things ;D I need the next book to fill in some later game details!
Great video! Thanks for sharing! One of my best setting is now Starfinder (actually that's the campaign I'm playing every Sunday). The possibilities are endless in this setting and I love it when I can create anything. However, I will never use the original system; I made up a system similar to the nWoD to play it and thus far it is great.
"Favorite Setting"
Forgotten Realms. I love those novels and the world depicted in them across their many authors. I also appreciate the Spelljammer tie-ins. But I like it the same way people like the MCU or the Star Wars universe, for more than a single story. It's the main appeal of D&D for me. It's "The Forgotten Realms RPG". When I want to homebrew something, I probably don't want to use D&D.
"The Chronicles Of Amber," without question. Although I mention below, for practical purposes, Golarian is my pick.
Favorite non-homebrew? Night City in Cyberpunk. In the exact same vein would be Sharn in Eberron. As a launch point, either are pretty close to unbeatable.
Cant wait for next week's video!
Mine. The one of my own making. She's massive, she's beautiful and she has little pieces and influences of many different world spaces, from Faerun, Greyhawk, Mystara, Hyboria, Middle Earth, Scarn, historical geography and politics. Set up with none of the animals and human iterations undergoing an Extinction Level Event, if it ever lived on Earth, somewhere it still lives here. Cataclysmic events that cause change. Invasion from other dimensions and empires that rise; fall and are replaced and fading, just to begin the cycles again. She is dark, she is dangerous, mysterious, foreboding and ancient. I call her Antiquius Narc.
Published definitely greyhawk, i personally use my own game world i been creating over the years
Hey Guy - great to meet you last Friday at the UKGE. Favourite world space? I love Forbidden Lands / the Ravenlands and Coriolis. Both are sort of post-apocalyptic and have a rich backcloth of setting, factions, conflicts, yet they leave oodles of space for your own ideas, hexcrawling, sandboxing... . Symbaroum is also excellent for that and I am very tempted by the world of Asunder, even though that is quite over the top. Appointing a lore master sounds interesting as well, just much harder to do when you play an "emergent campaign", that drifts away from published materials at a moment's notice.
All For One: Règime Diabolique 2nd Edition for Savage Worlds
Musketeers + Supernatural
7th Sea Second Edition
Pirates + Supernatural
Love the court diplomacy and fantasy (homebrew I love to add Airships)
I absolutely love Golarian as a setting. Every inch is ripe for amazing storytelling, and you can use any system you want in that setting. (Not to mention Paizo’s published adventures are, IMO, the best in the biz).
Righteous, brother. I have a decent collection in my old age and this is the densest, most interesting, and chunky world I've ever known.
My favorite non-homebrewed settings for D&D are Eberron, Ravenloft and Ptolus.
The world of Runeterra is an interesting world many people know already. They have League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra and TFT games that have expanded lot to its own Lore. That would be an existing World Space that I would use.
My favorite world I did not create was a post apocalyptic Earth in an extremely early version of Gamma World.
Urban fantasy. Of a certain kind. I don't do favorites, I can never choose one, but there are some urban fantasy series that just satisfy me so deeply. Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret, because it's a DWJ novel, but it has an adult protagonist. Lev Grossman's The Magicians novels (don't let the directionless SyFy show scare you away) because they get magic so *right.* Tim Pratt's Marlaverse novels, because Marla Mason is a kickass female sorceror heroine done *right.* What do I mean? Go find out for yourself. It's only my opinion, in any case.
PS: really looking forward to next week!
One Piece. It's a crazy world that perfectly incapsulates the themes and tones of the series and never goes against the story, it only pushes it further.
I use Mystara from 1AD&D as my world. I’ve modified it to fit my campaigns but I like using the maps for it.
My favorite setting is for sure my own.
My favorites are Kingdom of Kalamar, Dragonlance, Pathfinder and Shadowrun 3 edition.
Creating your own world has the benefit of being able to create your own lore. The con is that, as the official lore master you must know everything. This is offset by your skill at coming up with lore on the fly or preparing lore ahead of playtime.
I literally just logged off guild wars 2 before watching this and that freaked me out
I can't pick just one, I love so many different world spaces: Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Star Wars, Star Trek...I love them all.
Can we make a world space and just cram them all together?
The setting I've wanted to use for a DnD campaign for a while now is the Lone Wolf/Magnamund world. It would take some thought to rewrite some of the mechanics from the gamebooks into DnD but a good dm running it would be amazing.
Pretty fond of Earthdawns Barsaive have a bit of a hard time breaking into Tekumel
My favorite is the gaslight fantasy world from the Victoriana RPG. 2nd and 3rd edition Victoriana have a great world and history.
They're working on porting it to the 5e system and I don't like the changes they're making to the lore (not a fan of 5e either lol) but I've been thinking of porting the Vicky I do like into Savage Worlds maybe
My group and I are really into Legend of the Five Rings.
Under the sea. A constant threat of drowning and pressure exposure, with an endless excuse for original monster encounters.
I’ve always wanted to run a game in the world of One Piece, it seems like such a great fit for an RPG
Mine would be Eldoria. It is the only world-space I have ever employed, or played in via AD&D.
If I weren’t playing D&D, I would definitely want to do a Star Wars campaign.
Same! Have a friend who has played in a SW campaign for a decade and I love hearing the stories from his games! Never enough time to play all the games lol
-Dan
Eberron is my favorite setting.
My favorites were always 2nd ed. Planescape and Ravenloft. Planescape because of the way it was designed, it connected to everything, everywhere and anything could happen. Ravenloft because I've always been a horror fan.
My favorite setting is the one I’m building!
There have been many over the years, but if I started a game today and got to pick it would be Exandria.
Ravnica is a interesting setting tho making one from scratch like my dm did took a lot of work on his part as the ravnica book doesn’t really give much on designing your own district still having fun in that game loving it
My favorite world I've played or GMed in would probbily be Forgotten realms world or Dark Sun. I've also GMed a world that cobbled together elements of the spellslinger FFG world, Deadlands and D20 Modern wild west, all have pretty neat stuff.
I'm actually working on my own world, and one of my problems right now is not knowing what the feel/core concept of my world is, both for adapting to a TTRPG or telling stories, so these are good questions to ponder. The world's a medieval desert land of lizardfolk sort of inspired by Dune (though I'm not super interested in stories of political intrigue) and STALKER (harvesting artifacts from the wild doesn't seem great for a party based story).
I've played in so many settings that it's hard to pick a single favorite. Maybe GURPS Firefly, which is a "space western". I also enjoy westerns and relatively hard sci-fi on their own. Other favorites tend to be "modern with a twist", where normal modern characters get caught up in international intrigue, or they develop superpowers, or they're abducted by aliens, or whatever.
the sixth world from Shadowrun really grabs me, though I'm quite taken by Grand Cross from Hard Wired Island recently
My favorite settings are Golarion from Pathfinder and Eberron and Planescape from D&D
The classic Phantasy Star games, most specifically Phantasy Star IV for the Sega Genesis. So much of my GMing is influenced conspicuously by Phantasy Star. What I wouldn't pay for a sequel to that glorious fourth installment.
Favorite would probably be Shadowrun/Rifts ie Cyberpunk +Fantasy elements.
Hey Guy, I'd love your opinion on Risus: The Anything RPG, it takes a truly GREAT GM and trusting players to get the most out of the system, it's so freeing and cinematic to run and to play for serious and semi serious settings! Love the videos!
Worlds of Android.
A "Generic" cyberpunk setting created by Fantasy Flight Games for their products. Most noticeably used in the Android: Netrunner game and later implemented to Genesis RPG system thanks to Shadow of the Beanstalk setting suplement.
It has been done before, but I will try my hand at the first Dark Souls in the future for 5e
I've always loved the dark fantasy world of Dragon Age: Origins. I based my primary campaign world on it.
My favorites are the world's that are quick to pickup like dungeon crawl classics default world setting
StarTrek, ShadowRun, and Port Blacksand ( name escapes me of the setting, will edit later if I remember).
Where in the world do you have competitively rated DM sessions? And how do I get into that, because it sounds like a lot of fun!
It doesn't matter what setting aslo it's good and fun.
Eberron. Definitely.
Dark Sun (for official), Primeval Thule, or pretty much any low-magic Norse/Celtic themed worlds. I'm long done with high magic, Monty Haul style worlds.
Eberron is my favourite
I enjoy Exalted, specifically 3rd Ed.
League of Legends’s Runeterra is my favorite. Gooooood lore.
Favorite rpg setting: original Traveller
I love Tribe 8
i totally dig babylons 5 story setting. other than that avatar last airbender setting, god of war 4 norse mythology setting.
RAVNICA!
on a side not I was always the Lore master in all the games I played in ^.^