D&D settings that you'd like to see in a CRPG

[Aeschylus]

I too would love to see a well-done Ravenloft game. I love gothic horror and all its silly trappings, so it's a bummer that the setting has been mostly ignored recently except for a couple of NWN mods.

 

[Lord Rocket]

I was going to say Birthright just to be different but I was beaten to it

I don't think Tekumel counts, Alex, but if we stretch the definition a little then hell yes Tekumel. I'd like to learn more about said setting but the profligacy of books and general density of information about it kind of puts me off, a CRPG would be a great primer

 

[lulurkinglurkerlurk]

Ravenloft works for me.

 

[mondblut]

And I would love to play a game where you get to explore the hollow world, specially if the GM is good and turn pulp influences up to eleven.

 

[Tolknaz]

Planescape, Ravenloft and Dark Sun.

 

[MaroonSkein]

Eberron. Specifically, its larger cities. More RPGs should focus on urban environments.

 

[Infinitron]

Eberron. Specifically, its larger cities. More RPGs should focus on urban environments.

Yes, like majestic DA2

 

[MaroonSkein]

Eberron. Specifically, its larger cities. More RPGs should focus on urban environments.

Yes, like majestic DA2

A fantasy setting of any kind can never work because Eragon exists.

 

[Scroo]

Dark Sun and Ravenloft. But if anyone would give me a new tactical D&D-RPG like the Goldbox-Games, Knights of the Chalice or ToEE, any setting would do.

 

[Infinitron]

Eberron. Specifically, its larger cities. More RPGs should focus on urban environments.

Yes, like majestic DA2

A fantasy setting of any kind can never work because Eragon exists.

Just trolling ya.

Truth is though, that after Skyrim and DA2, we can say bye-bye to any chance of a publisher-funded AAA "urban RPG". The masses have spoken and they want hiking.

 

[MRSA]

Dark Sun

Ravenloft

Spelljammer (for the lulz)

 

[Azalin]

Dark Sun and Ravenloft were always my favourite settings

 

[MaroonSkein]

Just trolling ya.

Truth is though, that after Skyrim and DA2, we can say bye-bye to any chance of a publisher-funded AAA "urban RPG". The masses have spoken and they want hiking.

It's not even a popular setting for smaller projects. AoD and the fabled Persona 5 must be the only city-centric RPGs on the horizon.

 

[Alex]

mondblut

Thanks man! I didn't know this game existed. And it is by Westwood too?! What the heck were they thinking when they released this only for the genesis?

 

[mondblut]

Thanks man! I didn't know this game existed. And it is by Westwood too?! What the heck were they thinking when they released this only for the genesis?

What's more important, what the heck were they thinking while combining overhead mode with tactical TB combat outdoors and EOB-like mode complete with RT blob combat in dungeons

 

[commie]

Forgotten Realms!
Given some liberty, it has pretty much everything.
Just avoid Drizzt.

I think the actual FR world is both expansive enough and familiar enough to be able to support enough interesting settings while at the same time retaining the links to the things that got enough of us interested in RPG's in the first place. I was brought up on Gold Box FR and I'll be damned if I don't want more games in this setting(for the mechanical familiarity of the inhabitants, weapons, spells). Just I'm fucking tired of the Sword Coast! The whole world consists of entire varied continents, not just one small region of one of them.

People have said that the other areas are not that well fleshed out but who's fault is that? If all that is ever made are games set in the area between the moonsea and the sword coast then there's not been any opportunity to explore or develop the other locations.

Other settings mentioned here are cool too but there's too little been made in those settings so they still appear fresh. Had they been reused over and over like FR(or rather a tiny part of it), I'd say people would be crying B S B over them as well.

As metro said, FR's detail, politics, etc. actually should work to its advantage. Places like Zhentil Keep with its Zhentarim are a byword in my mind for ruthless scheming bastards even though I've never visited the place in a game. That's how you know a setting is detailed enough to draw you in. Al-Qadim might be exotic but at the same time it is shallow.

 

[circ]

I'd take a game with any setting as long as it features proper turn-based D&D rules and no retarded real-time shit. I wouldn't even care if it was set in the Forgotten Realms again. In these dark times it pays to not be too picky.

Also, Space 1889 or other steampunk.

That's not D&D.

Dude?

 

[Kosmonaut]

 

[Alex_Steel]

Dark Sun, especially if it sticks to all the D20 rules! I want me some hardship, counting rations and your local saint being chaotic neutral. Also, halfling cannibals, non-gay elves and tyrant dragons give extra points.

 

[Alex]

But I want half giants with double hit point

 

[TripJack]

the possibilities are endless with planescape

 

[communard]

the possibilities are endless with planescape

Which is why it's such a great setting. Boy did WOTC really misunderstand that. Fuck it, I'm gonna go masturbate to scans of the 2ED Planescape books.

 

[Semper]

dark sun, ravenloft, planescape and pathfinder (the setting) with the toee engine. that would be a dream come true!

 

[PorkaMorka]

Any and all D&D settings, with the exception of Eberron. Fuck Eberron.

I do think Dark Sun would be a little bit more interesting than the others, as long as you didn't let the PC play half giants.

Planescape is IMHO one of the weaker settings for a CRPG, although I am open to being proved wrong. It's very closed off as a setting. You might think that it would be a very wide open setting, but that isn't the case. In order to leave Sigil, you usually need a portal key. And you probably have a specific destination in mind, so you probably need a specific portal key, not just any random portal key.

It's a built in excuse for lazy design. In order to progress the plot you need to go to the Demiplane of Salt. Turns out this NPC knows the portal key, but he won't tell you until you do a bunch of fetch quests for him.

 

[Shadenuat]

Ravenloft, just make it look and sound cool and sexy like Bloodlines.