What is your favorite setting? Why? What are some things that

Eclipse Phase. It's a compelling firm Scifi setting that's very well thought out, and makes nazis buttpained.

>>54088679
I like Stars Without Number's standard/default setting.

Enough of a framework to be easy to work with, generic enough that you can use any themes you want to apply to it and the system itself gives the GM his own minigame he can play, but is completely optional, between sessions to help it feel like a living star cluster.

The fact that I'm a sucker for OSR style games also helps, probably.

>>54088679
I don't have one. Or at least none springs to mind. Always played in custom settings though.

I guess the real world as a setting, since it's the measuring stick every setting is weighed against.

>>54089589
>makes nazis buttpained
How's that?
Everything I've seen from eclipse phase seemed like transhuman/furry porn without logic or reason.

>>54088679
Exalted. It's an example of a mythic setting largely untainted by modern ideas, at least in 1E. Heroes are larger than life people who worked their asses off to accomplish legendary deeds, they aren't paragons of morality. They're usually the opposite: power corrupts. People who don't to deserve suffer often get utterly fucked over and the weak do fear the strong. It makes righteous deeds and saviors so much more delectable when they aren't expected by anybody. Something that would make many settings better is internal consistency of logic and tone, which is another thing that makes Exalted 1E pretty sweet.

>>54089589
I got to second the setting. It's pretty nice and depending on the GM it can give you one of the best scifi tabletop experiences out there.

>>54088679

My favorite setting would have to be either Greyhawk or Dark Sun, for the sheer nostalgia. I feel like a proper setting needs plenty of ruins from an ancient and mysterious precursor civilization, and I like it when the setting's gods are far away, and standoffish but their followers nonetheless influence the world, and magic is subtle in the vein of curses and whatnot. That, and historically accurate firearms, armor, and medicine are essential. That's just my opinion though, I'm GMing a group of blaster casters and plate armored knights in a dark age setting, and we've been having a blast so far.

>>54089589

Maybe if they're thin-skinned, I'm NatSoc and I'm partial to Eclipse Phase.

>>54089812
>transhuman furry porn

You could certainly use the setting to facilitate that but that's farrrrrr from its intended form. Eclipse Phase is set in our star system after a tech-singularity nearly wiped out humanity, a number of AIs bucked their restraints and either tried to kill us or use us for bizarre purposes we couldn't even hope to understand. Most of those AIs are gone, we've settled Mars, the moons of Jupiter, the asteroid belt, and various other places, and new models of society have adapted. These are hypothetical and trigger the shit out of the /pol/acks that occasionally wander over to our board because most of them are extremely left wing. The overall gist of the setting is meant to be like a hybrid of Cyberpunk 2020 and Call of Cthulhu, due to AI remnants and hyper advanced warfare occasionally causing shitstorms.

I know it's not the best written (frankly, it's kinda bad in places), but I have a nostalgic attachment to the WoW/Warcraft universe. Those games have carried me through a lot of bad shit.

Assuming we mean tabletop, I'd have to say 40k, though I don't have too much experience with other settings -- maybe a bit of Shadowrun and Exalted. What I don't like about Shadowrun, I suppose, is that I feel it's way too preachy -- and, honestly, that the lore is even more confusing than 40k. I feel like 40k can get away with being weird shit because it's pretty detached from reality even in the beginning of its history, whereas a setting like Shadowrun is a bit too close to home for me to take it seriously. I don't know that I have any objective reasons for 40k being my favourite -- I just feel that it provides me a lot of wiggle room to do the shit I like with all my characters in, but it definitely suffers from GW not controlling their writers well.

>>54090023

But Nazis are left wing, they support government control of industry, banking, and education, and are for socialized welfare. It's where the Socialist part of National Socialist comes from, I'm a Democratic Socialist and I don't agree with their morals, but they had the right idea with their economics. Also, populations genetically enhancing themselves is Nazi as fuck.

>>54090343
I don't think genetic enhancement is necessarily Nazi shit -- Nazi shit would be more like preventing people with defects, perceived or otherwise, from reproducing.

>>54090367

Yeah, but the point of that was to enhance the population's genetics over the course of several generations. I'd bet my left hand the Nazis would've tried to genetically engineer themselves a "master race" if they'd had the technology to.

>>54090420
Well, sure, but it's not necessarily bad to use genetic engineering to repair life-ruining disease, is it? That's pretty benevolent. I guess that doesn't necessarily make it impossible to be a Nazi thing, but I don't like when people give that sort of nicer stuff thw Nazi label.

>>54090343
Political definitions are constantly in flux, so you're both right and wrong. The original definition of left-wing corresponded to individual freedom, equality among individuals, political and social reform, and internationalism. Now some people think it incorporates the ideas of socialism and communism, while others want to separate that out into a new political axis of authoritarianism versus libertarianism. Some of the societies in Eclipse Phase are authoritarian, or left-wing by your definition, but most of them are so transhuman and internationalist that notions of national, racial, or even species supremacy have been completely discarded. And wiring new genetics into your offspring is a eugenics effort, but not the nazi kind if you aren't trying to build an ubermensch. The Jovian nation is the exception, they're nazis.

>>54089589
Eh. It's leftwank politics are a bit much for me. I personally like a kind of hammered together version of Transhuman Space-as-EP's past.

Gotcha Force

>>54090023
Eh. Going had towards one side or the other if the " political spectrum" smacks of paging an agenda. If anything existential threats lead to authoritarian governments.

I've only ever seen a couple things about it and it all involved "it's not beastiality if they're uplifted" and rape dolphins.

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>>54090718
If it passses the harkness test it isn't beastiality.

Come on /tg/, this is easy shit.

My own. Failing that, Dark Souls.

Warcraft. It became something very close to me, becuase I have a lot of good memories about it.

Swords & Sandals

I enjoy it because the setting allows dark/heroic/magic themes that fit in an amount I like.

Dead gods tickle me in a poetic way.

>>54094455
Is that a real "setting," or just an aesthetic? I've been thinking of running a game like that myself, so if you have any information I'm all ears

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>choosing your favorite things purely on the merit of who they piss off

>>54094455
After reading >>54094548 I looked into it and should say instead I like Pulp Fantasy settings.

>>54094455
S&S is heavily aesthetic, but a distinct feature is that magic is restricted to villains and monsters. Player magic comes in the form of praying and enchanted items.

>>54094572
I've found a lot of things I genuinely like that way, actually. I know a few people with extraordinarily bad taste who are just a huge pain in the ass to even be in the same room with, and looking into the things they dislike has resulted in me finding some of my favourite things, whether it's video games, TV shows, tabletop games, or novels.

>>54090477
I mean, why though? It's not like Nazis spent (or spend) everyday shitting on puppies, you can share some political goals with Nazis and not be evil. Genetic enchancement would definitely be a Nazi thing, just like Vegetarianism and Animal Rights was a Nazi thing, or Occultism was a Nazi thing. For everything that is a Nazi thing, you can find another group that overlaps that aren't evil Nazis, making it a (other group) thing too. Don't let labels control your life.