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So, when you use established game realms to game on, which is your fave?

Greyhawk?
DL
or FR??

For me, its FR, pre-gods war. (time of troubles)

Greyhawk.

The Wilderlands of High Fantasy although Greyhawk is a close second.

Greyhawk and Hyperborea among published settings.

Can you count the Outdoor Survival map + Wayne Rossi's OD&D Setting posts as an established game setting, If yes, then that.

Otherwise it's the pre-Mentzer "Known World" of B/X.

Greyhawk

Greyhawk, of course.

Since this is in General, I'm going with Glorantha, and now more recently, Aearth.

As a kid, early-1990s BECMI Mystara followed by Forgotten Realms (Faerun) and Dark Sun (Athas).

Now...ummm...I enjoy playing with particular DMs more than particular worlds/settings. Maybe Greyhawk? I like lots of stuff about Chainsaw's take on Hyperborea's Khromarium, AustinJimm's homebrewed Planet Eris, grodog's take on Castle Greyhawk, and the pre-Frog God Mythrus Tower...but those aren't really game "worlds", per se.

I tried running Greyhawk-based games but never felt confident I had a solid handle on the politics and mythology to make it feel "real".

My home game with my kids and thier friends is on hiatus for a few months but I'm now trying pre-Mentzer Known World. I'm not really happy with that, though. It's too thin and requires too much DIY, which I don't the time, energy, or creativity to remedy.

garhkal wrote:Greyhawk?
DL
or FR??

Aren't DL & FR the same thing?

That's how much I know about those. Of what's listed, none of the above. I did use modified Greyhawk for a couple years about 30 years ago.

Today, if I had to use someone else's established world, it might be Arklyrell, Wilderlands, or Hyperborea. A core part of DMing (IMO) is creating the world your campaign is based in, but that's just me I guess. I still use Outdoor Survival from time to time. It's known as the Wild Lands of Oros in my Planet Eris game.

Nope they are not.. DL - Krynn is very different than FR...

Greyhawk.

Homebrew world is Black Sabbath. Greyhawk is Rush. Forgotten Realms is Britney Spears. Dragonlance is Tiffany.

garhkal wrote:So, when you use established game realms to game on, which is your fave?

The Wilderlands with tack-ons:

The World of Greyhawk is the only pre-made D&D world that’s at all appealing to me. I use it in conjunction with Gary Gygax’s AD&D multiverse. I like that it gives all the macro-scale detail but generally leaves all the small-scale detail to the individual DM, providing something like the best of both worlds. In the post-Gary era they did their best to undermine that freedom and to turn it into another Forgotten Realms where everything is exhaustively detailed, but I ignore all of that shit.