"Favorite Fantasy Setting" Topic

I was wondering what are TMPer's choices of favorite fantasy settings? I like the 2nd & 3rd Ed. Forgotten Realms, but I also enjoy Middle Earth, Warhammer Old World, Iron Kingdoms, Hyborea & Dragonlance.

Greyhawk all the way.

I find myself partial to both Greyhawk and the WFB setting.

Earthsea
andy

I like 3-3.5 Forgotten Realms and MERP.

Earthsea is a superb setting, the original WHFRP setting was good, before they started to mess with it.

Hyboria, Middle Earth and Theives World.

Thanks,

John

Dragon Warriors' Land of Legend and WFRP 1st Edition.

For gaming, I think my favorite is still Midnight, a generic fantasy world except that the Dark Lord won and the good guys are all in hiding.

In literature, Glen Cook's The Black Company world takes the edge, I think, though there's a lot to be said for Robert E. Howard's Hyboria.

I like Greyhawk and Middle Earth. I also like homebrew settings a lot (when they are good!)

I like Lankmahr and WHFB's Old World. Middle Earth is still good.

Thieves world
Glorantha

Middle-Earth, Forgotten Realms (well, the parts I've gamed in using 2nd Ed AD&D), 1st Ed. WFRP Old World ("The Enemy Within" campaign is one of the best things ever) and the 1920s CoC setting. Harn gets a serious "Honourable Mention" as a background, even if I could nevr make head nor tail of the RPG system.

Favourtite is a homebrew setting that ripped some of my favourite elements from all of the above.

Literary source: Middle-Earth, hands down, especially for large battle scenarios… not so much for RPG.

Gaming source: 1.) The D&D Known World Gazetteers, aka Mystara, with Karameikos, Rockhome, Northern Reaches and the Thyatian/Alphatian empires topping the settings lists.
2.) Greyhawk, AD&D 1st edition version.

My house setting is my favorite. But second to that is Hyborea. But I like any well-run setting. I assume that we are talking RPG. I also very much like Greyhawk.

Novels would be a toss-up between Hyborea and Middle Earth.

The one I have not played much, that I would like to try, is Harn.

Middle earth is classic, and the most in-depth. WFB is fun and dark, and Westeros(I believe it is called)is a nice brutal alternate medieval world with a slight fantasy undertone.

Tokienesque

mjc

Judges' Guild "City State of the Invincible Overlord" & "Wilderlands of High Fantasy" continent.

Chronopia, perhaps followed by Narnia.

For gaming I would prefer Middle Earth or Cook's "The Black Company" world. The "Fire and Ice" series (can't remember the author) was pretty good too.

In order of preference:

Dragonlance, post Cataclysm and up through the War of the Lance (but not much beyond).

Forgotten Realms, pre to just beyond the Time of Troubles. Definitely NOT the new 4th edition setting.

Lord of the Rings.

Warhammer 40k universe.

Greyhawk, Forgotten Relms and Kingdoms of Kalamar.

Tekumel
Glorantha
Hyboria
Barsetshire
Harn
the Invincible Overlord stuff from Judges Guild
40K Universe
Fading Suns Universe

Greyhawk. Also 40K setting…

Damon.

Middle Earth
Hyboria
Magnumund
Mallory's Morte D'Arthur
Morigu (world of,)

Warhammer Old World.. and Minaria.

10 points if you know what game Minaria is from..:-)

Arkham, Massachusetts and environs
Hyborea
Athas (from Dark Sun)

Discworld.

SMc.

Iron Kingdoms, Scarred Lands, and Evernight (other than the adventuring groups having names).

I am in complete agreement with Parzival: Middle Earth for Literature, the old GAZ Gazetteer series for basic D&D (which was far better than anything they ever did for AD&D, 2nd Edition, 3rd edition, etc.).

Earthsea and Planescape, hands down.

Tekumel. La.

Adrian Cole wrote a "very British*" early 90's sci-fi/fantasy novel called: Blood Red Angel. It was quite vivid, had certain weird rules that made sense in context, and took you from the bottom to the top of a very strange world that had managed to survive the seemingly unsurvivable by daring the unthinkable. Of course strange crabs and tube worms have actually done similar stuff in the cold seeps of the ocean floor without the benefit of technology so maybe it isn't as weird as I think.

Anyway it'd make a fine rpg setting at least for a while.

*Dark, grotesque, 2000AD and Metal Hurlant influenced, "HGWells on an acid trip" sort of thing. I guess you could call it "dark future geno-mutant punk" or "Post apocalyptic Dystopian Meat-system punk", or maybe just " Fodda Punk" or it's a dark ecolology=economy fable about how you can adapt too much and lose your humanity. Games workshop and Alejandro Jodorowsky would have probably loved it.

Mineria is from the wargame Divine Right, and my copy has seen many, many plays over the years. :)

Mine: Middle Earth, Hyborea, and Donaldson's The Land. The Old World in WFRP 1st ed 'The Enemy Within' gets an honorable mention.

Harn.

Mystara – Hollow World and all.
Glorantha
WFB setting
Middle Earth – GW's Middle Earth, it's more fun than Tolkeins.

Faerie as well.

andy

Glorantha for a gaming world.

I quite like Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series

I've generally found home-brewed worlds are best. Otherwise a cheer for Pendragon, Middle Earth, Thieves World, Glorantha, or Iron Kingdoms.
I generally can't stand the official D&D worlds such as Greyhawk etc.

Crocodile Games' "Antediluvian World", followed closely by harles Saunders' alternate Africa setting ("Imaro").

Tolkinesque/Faerie Tale setting, although I'll sometimes get an itch to play something with knights in shining armour(since Middle-earth only has various forms of mail).

Greyhawk and Hyboria.

Harn & Glorantha

Hyboria, Faerun & Middle Earth.

Evil Gong once had lists for lesser known worlds from fantasy pulps but I can't find them online.

My own world.

Influenced by LOTR because magic is highly limited but the main groups are dwarven derived with Humans a growing but weaker race living on/in the fringes of the main empires, Elves an oppressed (in most non-"wild" areas) minority after a run at world dominance that resulted in a cataclysm, Gnomes exist in some degree, and assorted "Evil Races" are working out thier place in the world – some more successfully then others.

Gracias,

Glenn

Greyhawk and then WHFB The Olde World

I like my own creation too -The Valley of the Shrews.
It's such a nancy world it makes Narnia look hard!

Wilderlands of High Fantasy.

Chronopia, closely followed by Warhammer Old World and Dragonlance. I also really liked the Spelljammer setting from D&D 2nd edition, minus the crazy stuff added near the end of the line. Finaly I also like New Crobuzon from China Meiville's novels. Actually I'm just gonna stop now there are so many others.

I quite like Jorune… technically it's science fiction… but really it's fantasy.