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anyone likes Spelljammer?I hate it.it didn't feel like DnD
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PenutBrittle: There was a Dark Sun game? And a Ravenloft game? I've never heard of these before. That's awesome.
Two of each actually as far as I know. "Shattered Lands" and "Wake of the Ravager" for Dark Sun, and "Strahd's Possession" and "Stone Prophet" for Ravenloft. All by SSI.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Erich_Zann
Dragonlance - my first, so epic.

But Darksun is amazing too. I love the desolation and lack of hope in that world.
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PenutBrittle: There was a Dark Sun game? And a Ravenloft game? I've never heard of these before. That's awesome.
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Erich_Zann: Two of each actually as far as I know. "Shattered Lands" and "Wake of the Ravager" for Dark Sun, and "Strahd's Possession" and "Stone Prophet" for Ravenloft. All by SSI.
Thanks. I don't have much experience with the SSI games.
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PenutBrittle: Thanks. I don't have much experience with the SSI games.
Shattered Lands is especially awesome. Didn't play Wake of the Ravager.
I liked the Ravenloft ones too - awesome atmosphere, but real-time party-based combat is a major travesty.

Edit : my bad, just looked at my boxes, the Ravenloft games were published by SSI but developed by Dreamforge. Same guys who did Sanitarium.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Erich_Zann
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tarangwydion: Strictly based on DnD videogames I have played: Dark Sun and Ravenloft.
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PenutBrittle: There was a Dark Sun game? And a Ravenloft game? I've never heard of these before. That's awesome.
I hope that also means you'll go to the wishlist and vote for them now. They need our support! ;)
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Leroux: I hope that also means you'll go to the wishlist and vote for them now. They need our support! ;)
Does the wishlist actually have any effect at all ?
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Erich_Zann: snip
Wake of the Ravager is is pure awesomeness
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Leroux: I hope that also means you'll go to the wishlist and vote for them now. They need our support! ;)
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Erich_Zann: Does the wishlist actually have any effect at all ?
In any case, you'll never know if you don't use it. ;)

And if it has an effect, low votes for a game could be misinterpreted as disinterest, so that the GOG team will set their priorities on supposedly more profitable titles.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Leroux
for people who say that only Forgotten Realms gets the cool games 4 words for ya.Champions of Krynn trilogy
I don't have any particular experience outside of video games with the various settings, but of the ones I've heard about (many) and the ones I've seen realised (Forgotten Realms and Planescape) I'd say Planescape wins hands-down. Forgotten Realms is simply too generic for my tastes, whereas Planescape is incredibly varied and imaginative.

That said, Mask of the Betrayer uses Rashemen, a country in the Forgotten Realms setting, to wonderful effect. It's not all bad.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the best settings the ones which offer a strong flavour without being overly restrictive in the sense that they're easy to adapt to whatever campaign you want to run?

EDIT: I also read the Wheel of Time rulebook once. Wheel of Time would make an awesome setting. One day I'm gonna try and run a campaign there, assuming I can ever get interested in paper-and-pen games again.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Whitecroc
Dragon Lance, Death Knights of Krynn, because Lord Soth is my favorite AD&D character.

Ravenloft , Strahd's possession and Stone Prophet ,you could transfur characters between games.

Darksun 1 and 2 sorta had an open world but in a D&D style.

Eye of The Beholder , Eye of the Beholder II The Legend of Darkmoon, Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor because i painted that skeleton on the cover on my wall in my room as a kid lol.

There was a game on Sega Genesis, called Warriors of the Eternal Sun, which im not sure if their was a PC version made.

Pretty sure most of these games were made by SSI, Strategic Simulations,INC.
RAVENLOFT #1 One of the only settings where it is almost -bad- to be the good guy.

Forgotten Realms#2 IT has a solid and almost "real" feel to it.
(sorry could not find an better way to express it.)
Krynn.
The Dragonlance novels were great fun and the Krynn Gold Box games were the best of the GB games IMO, with more options (more races, classes, abilities, and unique items and monsters) and fewer restrictions than the Forgotten Realms games.
Forgotten Realms, for the simple reason that my favorite DnD books and computer RPGs are in that setting. There's nothing particularly good/unique about the setting itself. It's rather deriative and generic IMO.

I wish they'd make a new Ravenloft CRPG.