What are some of the most high quality world/settings you've

>>49704643
one that i have been with for years is a homebrew by a guy. It followed D&D 3.5 rules, but was completely original from the ground up otherwise. The guy spent about ten years on this and shared it with us. he had everything indexed and sorted perfectly, had thousands of lists set up. he had unique and wonderful npc's who you loved to love or loved to hate. He has his fiancee co-Dm with him (we have a large group- six regulars and a few floaters) since she spent about six years helping him with it and they take turns with the npcs as voice actors. We enjoy a nice, full day once a week doing this, for about 12-14 hours.
sadly, he refuses to actually let us look at much material on it, besides the several books worth of lore he has written up.

>>49704732
There's probably a lot of porn in the material.

MERP and the One Ring really makes Middle Earth come alive.

Also the world of Greyhawk

>>49704643
The Forgotten Realms.

>>49704732
By the gods I'd love to see such setting notes.

>>49704643
As another anon said, MERP. You have the attention to detail of Tolkien in a rpg setting.

Mythic Europe, from Ars Magica. Only thing more detailed then Tolkien, cause it is based on history. Real history, mixed with legends. Just be smart enough to take off the science goggles you have been trained to see through for your whole life. The legends and myths are real. So your modern science means very little here. Classical philosophy is how it goes.

Those are the best I got.

>>49704643
World of Warcraft (or WoW for short) has the most epic lore I've ever encountered. It's blows old classics out of the water with its sheer depth and scope. You could lose yourself in it for hundreds of hours and still find something new and amazing, it really invokes the sense of wonder unlike any other setting!

>>49706677
>$0.02 have been deposited to your account

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>>49704643
>Wants to talk about high quality settings
>Posts a picture of le Christian fanfiction tier Boringstan.

The city of (You).

>>49706835
>a setting needs to have half-demons and infanticide to be considered good

>>49705774
>>49706677
god, no.

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>>49706835

>>49706835
Well I don't see you posting an example of what you consider a high-quality setting.

>>49704732
Bet you're all unemployed spongers.

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>>49706677

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>>49704643
The Endless Universe (Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless)
The Elder Scrolls
Dune

>>49706677
t. Corruption pro

have you tried just reading actual history?

>>49704643
Eclipse Phase
Lovecraftian Mythos

>>49707298
he has a patent on something that lets him roll in cash, wont tell what it is, but said i probably own several of them. i saw a bank statement of his once. he could buy my house several times over on a whim.
our actual group of players actually holds normal jobs. I work 40 hours a week in 10 hour shifts. 3 days off a week leaves me a nice long day to do that.

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>>49706835

>>49704643

It depends on what you seek, bruh.

For example Fading Suns is some high-quality renaissnce-like space opera that, if you ask me, really gets the "passion play in space" idea and lets you do almost any adventure thing you could think of, in a single campaign.

But the hard sci-fi aspect is worse than in SWs.

>>49709308
>>49709308

The first part does sound like bullshit.

>>49704643
learn French and read/listen to all the background about la Terre de Fangh

Warhammer Fantasy and 40k

>>49707352
Don't be edgy.

Lots of great stuff if you go old-school: Harnworld, Talislanta, Tekumel, etc.

>>49711956
Not him but he's telling the truth. Actual history, or at least our romanticized bullshit version of it is pretty entertaining. Hell, even the realistic stuff is so fucking interesting. Just putting yourself int he mindset of people of the past is so freeing.

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>>49704643
>3e Shadowrun and its fantasy equivalent, 3.5e Eberron.

>>49704643

The Wheel of Time has excellent worldbuilding in hundreds little details. Everything from the kind of weird blend of asian and western cultures to how magic works, and how that is reflected in the world at large is interesting and has lots of potential.

Its a shame the author managed to populate his world with the most obnoxious characters to ever grace the written page, and had a weird preoccupation with certain phrases and body language.

>>49712157
The past is super edgy, even when you limit it to the pre-industrial era.

>>49704643
Delta Green

>>49715021
It is pretty edgy.

Have you imagine young Caesar as a player character?

>party made up of pirates
>new player makes aristocratic character
>GM reasons that the best way to introduce new character to the rest of the party is for us to kidnap him and make up a ransom quest around it
>hogs all the atention, player insists on reading his own poetry, acts as leader of the group, all the while threatening to crucify our characters
>as soon as he is free he goes and has us crucified
>he cuts our throats before "because we're friends"
>goes on to try rule the evil empire while we role new characters
It's OK, cause we stabbed his character to death later.

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>>49704643
Despite the unplayable system in any version of the game: Exalted.

>>49704643
Carcosa

>>49704643

Orion's Arm for transhuman sci-fi.

>>49715372

Go easy on the quotes, anon. Two suffice for any kind of emphasis you want to give any specific words or phrase. We're in enough of a shortage without some anons hogging all the quote marks with superfluous flourishes that only serve to overstate their already prodigious faggotry.

>>49704643
Warhammer Fantasy

>>49715372
I love that this fucking myth is getting BTFO'd on the regular.

I thank Paradox and CA for igniting in me an interest in Byzantium when I was a young lad.

>>49715372
>>49716032

"Renaissance kicks off after Constantinople is conquered and all the Byzantine Greeks flee to Italy"

Muslims: MERELY COINCIDENCE

I'll give them Averroes, though. Too bad he lost the argument to Al-Ghazali.

>>49704732
>3.5
Throw it in the trash, start over.

>>49706677
>epic
Fucking dropped.

>>49715381
I think the setting is very interesting but the stories are...bleh...Still plenty of great stuff.

>>49715335
E3 is at least playable, be fair. Even if it's not very good.

Birthright is a sandbox done right. There's enough detail to give everyone a firm grasp of who's who and what's what, but there's enough left vague for DM and player interpretation. The fact that the players are put in the kinds of positions usually reserved for NPCs seals the deal.

The Big Bads, the awnshegh, are classic and yet novel, all of them being rulers themselves with unique twists to their monstrous inspirations.

The fact that you get to do wide-scale politicking and war as well as traditional adventuring is fantastic.

It's a shame it's tied to the D&D rules set, especially the clusterfuck that is 2e.

I'd love to convert the whole thing to Reign if I had about a year of free time.

>>49716140
I tried to read the PDF, then gave up. It's playable in the same way as WFRP 3rd-- painfully.

>>49716040
>49716807

That's bullshit though. Renaissance in Italy started almost two centuries before that.

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>>49706677

>>49704643
I'm in a game set in mythological America but on pathfinder rules. Nature gods running around, human sacrifice, orcs reskinned as neanderthals actually make half orcs make more sense.

The dm used to live in central America and has lots of crazy stuff in game that turn out to be real things.

>>49712108
Ugh. Talislanta is totally underrated. Its world was created in the era of OSR gaming, and its got this campy 90s sketched out nation/races. I am actually looking forward to the new "how the cataclysm happened" setting, although I think I'd prefer to just take the original setting and dirt simple rules and streamline the races to make it vaguely more Dark Suns and more Conan bronze age city-states-esque.

This has been my random .02 cents. You can resume insulting each other over opinions and fashion choices now.

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>>49706835
This is fa/tg/uy country you've happened across, son. Ya better watch y'self now or deus is going to vult some beatin' on ya, ya hear?

>>49705728
>Greyhawk

I've never had the pleasure. Is it as gonzo-batshit-crazy as the Big G's other settings?

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>>49716285
Artesia is my favorite setting. I even like the RPG, although I'm thinking of just using the mechanics of Birthright in a 5e game to run it.

>>49717883
5e would probably be alright.

I would DEFINITELY still use the Company rules from Reign instead of its own realm rules.

>>49704732
>having a fiance that works on worldbuilding with you
I didn't know desire like this could exist until just now

>>49717950
I think the most success I've ever had with running games with mass combat was not to use mass combat rules, but a threat flowchart. That is, come up with multiple fronts that would worsen if it wasn't taken care of. So for example, Hill giant stone throwers are hurling boulders against the curtain wall protecting the inner keep, but there is also a powerful shaman doing a lot of damage on the men & women performing a sortie on the invading army, and the third front? Let's say it's some spy trying to break into the inner keep to steal an important artifact.

The fronts may have different difficulties associated with them and since I'm a prep heavy GM, I would calculate how many turns would pass before the situation degenerated and usually plan them out in 3 phases, each following phase more dire than the last.

>>49718032
That's precisely why I would use the Company system.

A siege like that would effectively be two companies, no matter how many actual companies are on both sides. You combine each side's forces as appropriate and divide their pools to multiple fronts.

If the PC side is getting stretched too thin, then you add a character-level skirmish/encounter to each front (or make the players decide where they want to send their PCs/lieutenants) to try to turn the tide.

>>49714706
There's no end, there's no beginning. The braid pulling will never stop. The crossing your arms under your breasts will never stop. It just keeps on spinning.

>>49717785
*cringes*

>ctrl+f glorantha
>0 results
shame
Also The One Ring's iteration of Tolkien's world. It isn't that big in pure volume sense, but it manages to give the world that in its original form, while awesome, is kind of depleted in therms of possibility of fitting yet another story into it, lot more space without contradicticting, and even more, highlighting the atmosphere and themes of the original.
I also like Morrowind-era TES much
>>49717803
Greyhawk isn't super-awesome but as long as D&D generic settings go it's still far ahead everything else. It's geopolitics and history are organic and make sense, it is more "tame" in aspect of high magic bullshittery and deus ex machinas of other ones and still has lots of interesting plot elements and iconic features (I love Scarlett Brotherhood, for example). Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Golarion are pure shit but Greyhawk is totally viable as a setting.

>>49704643
I really love the Fallen London/Sunless Sea setting that Failbetter games built. There's just nothing quite like it.

>>49704643
Victoriana - It's effectively Steampunk Shadowrun.

Shadowrun - It's a lot of fun, but it MUST be played with its shitty system, or else the magic isn't there.

Dark Sun - Sword and Sandal epic made even greater by how over the top it is.

>>49720530
>emoting
Time to leave

>>49717785
>muh crusades
Tenth time is the charm, right guys? We'll surely succeed this time in taking Jerusalem from the heate-ooooh shiny Greek cities to loot.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

My favorite setting is from an obscure Swedish rpg called Tellus. It's a post-post-apoc/neo-civ setting that feels plausible

Other than that I'd have to say Neverwhere. It's dirty, weird and grimly comfy

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It's so difficult to find a far-future setting that's innovative enough to feel like anything's actually changed, without running into a truckload of settings that are all about existential dread and terror, that I have to give SA major props for that alone. That it's actually well-made and logical on top of that is just icing.

>>49722791
Just ascalon made it all worth it. Also, the first time the wine press was successfully trodden in Jerusalem if you know what I mean.

>>49716124
It's great if you want to crib devices and ideas for some future game.

>>49716849
The renaissance took place in 1200s. Okay.

It didn't take place concurrent with the Black Death and the fleeing Byzantines from Turkish conquest in Anatolia and Macedonia and Greece. Nope. Total coincidence, right, achmed

>>49707352
Best inspiration is human history.

>>49727794
Actually, he is not entirely wrong. Dating Renaissance isn't straight forward, and there are multiple ways to determine what constitutes it's beginning and end (since, the actual notion of "renaissance" itself is largely arbitrary and only exists since like 1850's...)
Plenty of historians identify the beginning of Italian Renaissance with the transmission of Greek philosophy and renewed interest in humanities and Antiquity that began in Italy in late 11th century after sacking of Constantinople during the fourth Crusade. Arguments have been made that it would be more appropriate to say that parts of Italy never really entered the Gothic era and basically moved from Romanic era to Renaissance directly. This is further supported by claims that most of what we later recognized as Renaissance architecture and artstyles have can be already identified in things like Campo Santo in Pisa, which predates the traditional northern-europe Renaissance by almost two centuries.

So he is not talking entirely out of his ass there, even if it's not the single most mainstream way of using the term.

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I fucking love the setting of pic related, as it's hard science fiction that is still very human and not cold and ethereal. Also really enviornmentalist

>>49728005
I think my point about the renaissance coming from greater contact with Byzantium rather than any bullshit Islamic golden age still stands, even with this earlier dating system.

But thank you for the different perspective.

>>49728406
The notion of Islamic golden age is not entirely bullshit either, and I really wonder why it makes people so god damn mad, although when it comes to it's relationship with Renaissance... well the most mainstream associate end of Middle Ages with fall of Constantinople 1453 and place the beginning of Renaissance directly after that (though the perspective I've suggested in previous post actually contradicts that notion...) and fall of Constantinople is generally regarded as something that pretty much marks the high-rise of Turkish Islamic states, that is the end of the so called Islamic Golden age, so I'm not sure where this whole notion comes from.
Funny how Constantinople plays vital role with both datations - either though the sacking of Constantinople (1203), or Fall (1453). That city would not take a break and every time it got fucked in the ass, somebody somewhere in Europe declared it a beginning of the new, more enlightened era. Poor sods.

>>49728549
I don't think it's funny. I think it's just that when the city is fucked, many of the enlightened leave. Or, in the case of the sack, the Italians could take some the Grecco-Roman secrets kept in the city.

You've got folks like Gemistus Pletho moving to Italy and trying to revive Classical Paganism in a bid to fight the Muslims.

>>49728631
Well, yeah, I do know what happened there. Still find it funny. In a "I did not have to live there at the time, and in the hindsight there is certain dark humor in us slapping our shoulders and congratulating on our amazing Renaissance social and scientific progress while in reality it was just someone else, or even worse yet, OURSELVES, raping someone else's legacy."
The irony of the sacking of Constantinople is even juicier when you realize that protection of Constantinople against the evil Islamic hordes was one of the very main reasons why the fourth crusade was launched in the first place.

>Gemistus Pletho
The only reason why he got away with it is because he was a skilled translator. I doubt he tried to revive classical Paganism in an attempt to fight the Muslims though, I'm pretty sure he did it because he was half-mad and obsessed with the ancient greek legacy.

>>49728005
>late 11th century
>4th crusade
Something's off

>>49706677
Please tell me where you came from so I can put you back there with extreme force.

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>>49729506
>replying to a 2 days old bait post

>>49729347
4th crusade was time travel crusade. started by Pope Beget-Not-Infidelity Fieri in the 24th century and retroactively added to history after that date.

It haven't happeneded yets.

>>49729640
Now that's a setting I'd play in

>>49728821
He thought it would make people stronger. Almost a Nietzschean attack on Christianity.