Favorite RPG setting.

[Kristian Fischer]

What's your favorite type of RPG setting, i.e. urban, dungeons, jungle, desert, whatever?

I'm personally a big fan of urban settings, like Ptolus, Sigil or Athkatla (BG2). All kinds of stuff scrunched together within a relatively small geographic area. I lub it!

 

[Anachronism]

Sigil.

It's a ridiculously cool fantasy/ Victorian/ steampunk city which contains a portal to anywhere you can possibly imagine, provided you have the right key. Walking down the streets, you're as likely to run into a demon or deva as an elf or a dwarf, and the ever-present Blood War in the background just makes things even more interesting.

But yes, as you can probably tell, I tend to like urban settings. There's usually loads of things to do and people to talk to, and plenty of side quests on offer, which is nice. Dungeons tend to bore me if they go on for too long, anyway.

 

[Gypsyssilver]

What's your favorite RPG setting, i.e. urban, dungeons, jungle, desert, whatever?

I'm personally a big fan of urban settings, like Ptolus, Sigil or Athkatla (BG2). All kinds of stuff scrunched together within a relatively small geographic area. I lub it!

I love it when they get away from the bog-standard settings in favour of something a bit different. I mostly see it in fantasy games - but it's always neat when you see completely out-there plant/terrain/creature designs - ones that show a bit of imagination.

Other than that, I usually prefer it when there's island beaches or lush forests.

 

[DoPo]

Let's see...favourite RPG setting - near modern day urban fantasy setting. I'm just a sucker for those. Yeah, if you've missed it, I love World of Darkness. MARRY ME!

But there is also rather low amount of those games, even outside RPGs. Which is unfortunate. But my second favourite would be cyberpunk so there is some more of those, even some more upcocming, so it's not so bad.

To be honest, I don't mind the "classical fantasy" ones either - you know middle ages, dragons and such, but there is just so many of them, it's hard to be original or interesting any more. Most of the potential there is (over-)tapped, so there isn't much else to see.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

High Fantasy.
I like games where the world is different with it's culture and look. Games like the Tales series and Xenoblade Chronicles fit the bill.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Not sure I have a favourite as I like them all if done well but I tend to like dreamscape or steampunk settings a lot I suppose but yeah any well realised setting suits me.

 

[Delerien]

I'm a huge sucker for everything Sci-Fi, not just in RPGs. So obviously Mass Effect was a blast for me. For me it's just the feeling i got when i was young and watching Star Trek. The feeling of flying a Spaceship through a huge empire and still having almost unlimited uncharted planets and new civilizations to discover.

 

[MintberryCrunch]

Boring generic old fantasy for me. Never seen anything wrong with it, and a lot of modern takes and twists on elves, dwarves and the like are really interesting (for example the Dragon Age series).

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Sci-Fi in any form. If it's sci-fi then I love it already.
But the best is the star trek/ mass effect type. Shitloads of aliens, civilised planets, many factios flying about the galaxy. The sheer size of the game universe is awesome.

EDIT: damn, ninja'd by number 8.

 

[Mutie]

Good ol'Fable... Mainly because it reminds me of home! And to be honest, the freedom to handle things how you see fit and generally be a douche simply because it is in your power, I find far more gratifying than a lot of the dialogue options and such like in wider RPGs. Yeah, they're not the best as far as accomplishment goes; but I'd say they say that what they lack in design and time, they more than make up for in spirit. After all; I'd read Discworld over Ice and Fire any day.

 

[90sgamer]

Medieval. I am a sucker for weaponry, protectives and architecture from that era.

 

[the December King]

It's the inherent 'common' or 'poor' feeling of the feudal dark ages/medieval european landscape that provides the most satisfying backdrop to fantastic events, structures and beings in both my role-playing experiences, and DMing.

 

[hermes]

I don't have a favorite setting (I enjoy science fiction future, alternative present, steampunk, noir, ciberpunk, etc), but I am grow tired of the fantasy medieval setting. At this point, I feel like there is nothing new left to innovate if you are going for an elves and dwarves setting with magic, swords and bows...

 

[Berling's Beard]

Horror Westerns. Deadlands is the tip-top here (old edition, where game mechanics require the use of playing cards).

The I've heard Werewolf Old West is dope too.

 

[shrekfan246]

I don't know if I'd say I have any particular favorite, but if there are any I'd like to see more of in video games they'd be Steampunk and Cyberpunk. Although even standard Sci-Fi feels criminally underrepresented outside of Mass Effect this console gen. Only JRPGs really cover it too, and they more often than not tend to mix Sci-Fi with High Fantasy and Steampunk into some weird conglomerate mess.

 

[FrostyChick]

I'm going to have to go with the Iron Kingdoms for this one. It's a pen and paper setting for those that don't know. Shame it doesn't have any video games around it, I'm sure some studio could make a rather awesome action RPG set there.

As for what the Iron Kingdoms is. It originally started out as a D&D 3e adventure module series entitled The Witchfire Trilogy which eventually evolved into a full D&D setting in it's own right. Fast forward a few years and you have Warmachine, a skirmish game set in the Iron Kingdoms universe which was soon followed by it's sister game Hordes (which is fully compatible with Warmachine). Just last year the second edition of Iron Kingdoms was released, having moved away from the old D20 system and onto the same system as the wargames.
The setting merges Steampunk and industrialisation with some more fantastical elements like Trolls, Goblins, Steampowered Robots and Dragons that are actually Eldritch Abominations.

 

[Tom_green_day]

I think post-apocalyptic settings. Not settings like the Walking Dead or the last level of Mass Effect 3, those are just buildings falling down and being overgrown, I mean deserty desolate places like Mad Max, Book of Eli, Fallout etc that are open and have been so for years. Every ruined building and burnt-out wreck is important because they are so few and far between.
I really dislike the common fantasy setting. Not because of its merits, but because it is so over-used and boring now. Same goes for cyberpunk and steampunk, people use them as settings by saying 'this is cyberpunk' instead of showing us through features and descriptions/imagery. Remember, show don't tell.

 

[Squilookle]

I don't care where you set it, as long as it doesn't have stupid 'magic' elements in it. Unfortunately that rules out about 99% of them.