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Your Favourate Prime?
Toril (Forgotten Realms) 10 (27%)
Oerth (Greyhawk) 2 (5.4%)
Athas (Darksun) 2 (5.4%)
Ebberon (Ebberon) 0 (0%)
Krynn (Dragonlance) 3 (8.1%)
Mystara (Mystara) 0 (0%)
The Underdark (Forgotten Realms) 2 (5.4%)
Khyber (Ebberon) 1 (2.7%)
Demi-Plane of Dread (Ravenloft) 1 (2.7%)
Sigil (Planescape) 11 (29.7%)
Other (Please Specify) 5 (13.5%)
Total Votes: 37
Choose your Prime; Vote your favourate!
Topic Started: Sep 21 2011, 12:02 AM (437 Views)
Captain Vanguard
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So, I have a few muses in my mind for something planned but id really like to know particularly a world people are favourate to, or at least a prime setting that one can consider.

So feel free to vote and more so, if you can, try to explain to us why 'you' feel it is the best.

I dont really want any drama from this either I just want to know what people voted and why.
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Toxic Honey
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I'll be honest and say I don't have much background in D&D settings. I'm a total n00b, you might say. The only ones I'm familiar with are Forgotten Realms and Planescape. And of the two, I definitely prefer Planescape. I really love its culture, most of all. I'm sure if I got into some of the others, I might like one of them more. But it's Planescape for now.
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I would have to say that the Forgotten Realms setting seems to have had the most written about it. This would include sourcebooks, modules, and novels.

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The Drizzt Do'Urden books are popular with fantasy fans,and the Drizzt character is author R.A. Salvatore's best known creation. All 18 novels featuring Drizzt by Salvatore have made the New York Times Best Seller list, starting with The Crystal Shard.The Orc King, which marked the 20th anniversary of the character, made it to #7 on the list, as well as #9 on the Wall Street Journal list, #6 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, and #36 on the USA Today list of top sellers.

The Two Swords peaked at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 2004. It reached the top of the Wall Street Journal's hardcover bestseller list after only two weeks, a record for its publisher Wizards of the Coast. It also debuted at #4 on The New York Times's bestseller list and #2 on Publisher's Weekly bestseller list.

The Lone Drow debuted at #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list in October 2003. Publishers Weekly felt that The Lone Drow was clichéd, but that some of the characters did achieve "some complexity". They singled out two characters for praise: Innovindel, an elf who talks "pensively" of her long life in contrast to the short lived humans, and Obould the orc king.

A special Icewind Dale adventure was featured as the centerpiece at the November 3, 2007, Worldwide Dungeons and Dragons Game Day event, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the creation of Drizzt. According to PopMatters' Andrew Welsh, Drizzt is Salvatore's attempt to create a multifaceted character who faces internal struggles, in hopes of standing out from the drow, and fantasy fiction in general. Welsh feels that Salvatore fails in this regard, saying "any blood Drizzt finds on his hands is quickly justified and most “internal” conflict is superficial at best."


Released in 1987, it has not once waned in its popularity. Greyhawk has existed (in published form) since 1976, but it has nowhere near the number of articles, books, modules, etc written about it.

In my opinion, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been the biggest and best thing to ever happen to Dungeons & Dragons.
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Ceremorph
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Bet that most of you didn't even know this existed...

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Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser ftw!!!
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I have a soft spot for Ravenloft...
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This was a good one, and I've always been torn.

For novels, story and engaging history, Dragonlance has always been my love.

For DM friendly world, easy to run, and fit into, Forgotten Realms all the way.

Ravenloft is just great, good adventures, especially the classic ones.

I found Dragonlance with my first fantasy novel ever, before I even started DnD, talking The Legend of Huma, so that's always going to be with me. Had to go Dragonlance all the way.
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If we're talking published worlds, honestly my vote has and always will go to Forgotten Realms. Overall, I just like most of their stuff the best, and that's about as simple as it gets with me.

However, if we're talking "primes" that have been done in non-published games (that are not my own) I will be going with a world called Allura, which, honestly is the best world I've played in to date. The DM who made this world, essentially, made a world that was reactive, huge, had tons of quests, and was never once NOT fun. In fact I wish said DM would host another game on that world but alas... :P. :beatdeadhorse:
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Aye the forgotten realms, its the realm i was born into with roleplaying, its the realm ive grown up roleplaying in and ths probably the realm ill die playing in.

ITs that simple *shrug*

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Toril all the waaaaaaaaaaay
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Its just the most fitting setting for what I like. Since I really like those old adventours where you really didn't have that much magic stuff with you and still walked through forests and mountains ,camped when you were tired and it just seemed like a normal old time adventurers day. Like in all the movies.
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You misspelled Eberron.

Demiplane of Dread isn't a prime, it's a demiplane in the deep ethereal.

You forgot Aebrynis (Birthright), and alot of primes that are only detailed in Spelljammer (I suppose those are less important, although Astromundi is pretty cool).
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Ceremorph,Sep 21 2011
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Bet that most of you didn't even know this existed...

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser ftw!!!

*Considered adding Lankhmar deities since it has a chapter in the 2nd edition mythology book I used when making SCoD deities*
"One of the most curious statements I've seen on this list is that PlaneScape is a logical world. I must have erred. I was trying to create a world that defied logic." - David 'Zeb' Cook
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If you did that, I'd also insist you add Cthulhu, as he was in the original AD&D Deities and Demigods....
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Hehe, afraid I'm not old enough that I have that book ::troll::
"One of the most curious statements I've seen on this list is that PlaneScape is a logical world. I must have erred. I was trying to create a world that defied logic." - David 'Zeb' Cook
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Other: Lankhmar {Edited in for clairity}

I have it. Bought it when it came out. Loved the patron that the grey mouser had, sort of a witch with baba yaga's hut. Also, they had a system of white, grey and black mages that gave flavor and yes, honestly nerfed characters. If you were a white mage, you healed... not like clerics could or did heal either, that was "magic". grey mages could use the tricky fireball and dangerous magic, but some of it bordered on evil... and could lead to you using black magic, stuff like necromancy... a slippery slope that was cool.

Ugh, and the wererats. Let me tell you, reading Fritz Lieber traumatized me a bit with those books, but I loved the Lankmar modules and sourcebook.

Also, of course I have my own lovingly crafted and hand mapped world I've been running since 1991, with dozens of players over the time, so I am partial to it, but that's rather MY world, than a "setting". Even have a secondary steampunk world I created about five years ago. Again, mine so I'm partial. :)

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I'm still only one who voted Greyhawk/Oerth :P I just like the deities a lot more than FR settings. I'm generally heavily against Forgotten Realms because it's overused when it comes to DnD for my preference <,<

Besides all the cool mages comes from Oerth :P
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