i always DM on Greyhawk and sometimes flit onto my own world/setting, when the mood takes me, but once i got the players to a point i was happy with (roleplay/experience etc), and i figured that they were finding their feet with the campaign they were in, i "manouvered" them into I6 Ravenloft, which pretty much entailed them going up into a mountain range. once they got there, they were hit by a widescale blizzard and they really had no option other than to rest in a cave that they found (after killing its inhabitant - frost giant)....once there...the blizzard got worse and then there was an avalanche which sadly ( ) sealed them in the cave. they had no choice other than to go further into the cave and explore, which led into a smaller sub-system of caves. in one of them, they found this swirling portal, which was at the back of one un-used cave, which almost wasnt visible to the naked eye. needless to say, they took the bait and found themselves in the ravenloft world and going down the mountain into the village, which was in the valley below the castle. from there, they played I6 - not quite completing it cos the count escaped (to fight another day) and then they began to explore part of the world. they played that constantly for 6 months (real time) and played quite a few adventures (modules as well as my own adventures), which i felt personally, were great and well constructed. the monsters worked well and when you role-play in a gloomy room with some melancholy-type music in the background, sets the scene great....every player absolutely loved it and in the end (in one of my own adventures), upon defeating an evil mage, who was causing allsorts of chaos to a town, the characters found a scroll with a modified-teleport spell which enabled them to get back to the mountain range on the other side of the landslide in the greyhawk world (i am a nice DM after all)....HOWEVER....when they got back, for the 2 years they were in the ravenloft world, 20 had passed in the greyhawk world (i decided that)....so for me as DM and them as players, it opened up further opportunities just from there!

personally, i had a great time DMing it, and if you aint given it a chance before, i totally recommend the Ravenloft world - give it a blast, cos its great fun!!!

Al

ps. the best fun was where they helped a village fend off a zombie-horde. had a right blast with that one!!

pps. FWIW, i always play 1st Edition AD&D, but use smatterings of other things as and when i feel like it. role-play is far more important than rules. i just decide what i want and role the dice to get the players worried  :twisted:

I've DM'd and adventured in the campaign settings of Dark Sun and Forgotten Realms with a lengthy intermission on Ravenloft and a short-lived Dragonlance campaign. I'm DM'ing a generic AD&D campaign for nearly three years now. I'm unhappy having never played Planescape and Spelljammer and therefore will introduce adventures in these settings in my campaign in the near future. I was very sceptical about Spelljammer in the beginning, but after reading the novels and the boxed settings, I think this is an often underestimated setting. In fact, it is worth a try. A trip to the stars can easily be introduced in any ongoing campaign, and if it is not welcomed by players or DM, then it's back to the regular setting afterwards. I'm planning on leading the players via a spelljamming trip to Oerth, because I haven't seen anything like the City of Greyhawk before (except the city of Lankhmar maybe). I find the concept of Birthright intriguing and would gladly play in such a campaign. I will soon get a taste of Kalamar (with 2E rules) as a player, but I don't know anything about this new setting yet.

Of all official campaign settings, I like Dragonlance the least (well, I liked the first three novels, but that's about it) and I'm not an overly big fan of the Realms, too.

KingOfPain wrote:.....I no longer play but if was able to would definitely start right back where I began in Greyhawk and then work a jaunt to the Realms into the campaign and then probably finish off with some Planescape adventures.

Alas, I no longer play either. And have not dome so for several years now.
If it were doable, I would be ready, anytime, anywhere....

If only we could.

For me, it was Greyhawk or Mystara/Known World where my characters would see action, depending on whether it was AD&D, or B/X D&D I was playing.

Currently, my gaming takes place on an alternate Earth where the Native Americans settled Europe and magic is on a slow decline.  As it stands, the ninth level spells we all know at their current power levels are actually pretty weak compared to the height of magic on the world.  Spellcasters have lost the knowledge of how to cast the wish spells (both of them), and making magic items more potent than a plain +3 sword is difficult at best.

I tend to collect different roleplaying worlds though, because you never know when I might change my mind or find something new.  I have Middle Earth (the Middle Earth map and campaign book from ICE), Atlantis (Bard Games), Harn, and a few others besides the aforementioned Greyhawk and Mystara/Known World.

With my group, it was Greyhawk, with some Greyhawk occasionally mixed in. Sometimes, we'd shake things up with a little Greyhawk, just to be different. But we usually got back to Greyhawk fairly quickly.

I mainly DM Forgotten Realms which is my preferred setting. Before Forgotten Realms came out I DMed Grayhawk, which I also enjoy very much. AL-Qadim is part of Forgotten Realms and I DMed a couple of sessions there but the players were not very interested in it, they didn't want to spend the time to get in to the setting. Kara-Tur is also part of the Forgotten Realms and I DMed a couple of games there. I DMed a couple of Spelljammer games that one of the players was interested in. The ship combat proved to be a little too complicated.

I have played in a Dark Sun campaign. It was fun for a while but the newness quickly wore off.

I also played in a Ravenloft campaign but didn't like it very much. It was too dark for my tastes.

I played in a Planescape campaign for a while, which was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I am more a fan of the old Manual of the Planes.

I have played in Dragonlance, but the campaign was too linear for my tastes.

I never played in Mystara but it looked interesting.

I have never played in Lankmar but I read the novels and found them good if a little bizaar.

I have never played in Birthright and never had any interesting in the setting.

There have been a lot of new settings for 3.5 released as well, but I think I'll stick to Forgotten Realms for a while.