Favorite PnP Campaign/World?

Actually the title says it all, but what is your favorite PnP game world/Campaign?

My favorites are MERP and Call of Cthulhu. It is only too bad that only a few plays MERP these days anymore.

 

Well mine's the World of Darkness, specifically Vampire: the Requiem. With rpgs, computer games and books I tend to prefer horror over fantasy - Arcanum is more the exception to the rule.

 

Mostly played DnD. Gonna try some Star Wars tonight...hopefully I can convince the GM to allow me a wookiee character despite an imperial "no aliens allowed" edict during the time period of the game. Which is odd, because he has an Aqualish (think Ponda Baba, the first guy to get sabered in A New Hope) NPC he said I could play. The wookiee would be an albino, which is a bad omen. He's named Kat (Moon) of the family Kazza (Ghost), and witnessed something horrible (WOOKIEE RAPE OMG) that caused him to lose his wookiee temper, unsheathe his claws, and fight with them-dubbing him a "madclaw" and exiling him from his community. The reason he was exiled is because he used his claws specifically (which are tools of precision and climbing, never weapons), and not his bowcaster, in which case everyone would've been like "Good job, Katkazza! You stopped a rapist!" (or, as we'd hear it Grrragh..Rrrgh Ragh Grrrr or whatever...I don't know friggin wookiee) Though his sheer whiteness probably factored into his exile, too, in that his community figured his being an albino would mean he'd eventually fuck up big time. Aside from that, he'd be a mercenary engineer working directly for a pirate crew and subcontracting for the empire.

 

Haha... derailing Arthgon's thread with character profiles. Brilliant.

I've never actually played any pen and paper RPGs. I was given some kind of D'n'D starter edition thing when I was 12 or so, and I started reading the booklet, and I just didn't get it. I don't think I even took the funny shaped dice out of their plastic bag.

Then, many years later, I started watching someone playing Baldur's Gate. And at first I was like "Yawn". And then I was like "No no, you should be trying to optimize the AC of your frontline fighter, not distribute everything evenly throughout the whole party." And then finally I was like "Hmm... I should probaby just play it myself instead of trying to backseat drive your game."

So I guess the Forgotten Realms is the setting I know best, since that's what BG, IWD, and NWN were all set in. But I don't really think of it as a "campaign setting". To me it's just the background to those games.

 

Aww...I wasn't trying to derail, I'm just brimming with antici...pation.

 

The first time that I came in contact with the PnP when I bought The MERP Campaign Setting Book back in the 80's and played AD&D 'Dragons of Flame' with some friends. Later on I bought Call of Cthulhu BRP.

Edit: I forgot to write White Wolf, Modern d20 and L5R in the poll.

 

You also forgot Planetscape.

 

Is there a PnP version of that? Sorry, but I am really old fashioned with this.

Edit: I forgot Ebrron as well.

Edit: Is there a way to let me edit more Campaign/Worlds in my poll?

 

Start a new poll - I'm sure nobody would mind.

It's spelled "Eberron", by the way.

 

Wait. Is it okay to make a second poll with the same question (Favorite PnP Campaign/World?) then? Because I think that would be too much.

Edit: Never mind. Just include them (the ones that are missing in the poll) in the catagory of the 'Other One'.

 

Wait a minute, Arthgon;
I'm a mod. I can edit your poll for you, I think.
EDIT: Yep, I sure can.

 

Trudvang!

 

Kult rings a vague bell *, but Trudvang? No. Is that a campaign/world that is/was famous and is/was only sold in your country or in the surrounding lands?

*I may confuse it with an old game with the same name or something that sounds like it.

 

Trudvang is the Campain world of "Drakar och Demoner", one of the biggest Swedish RPGs.
Been playing it for somewhat 10 years now.

 

Can it only bought in Sweden and in the Swedish language? Or are there any translated versions if it? (IE English or German)

That is because you can get the Call of Cthulhu Campaign (BRP and d20) in many different languages these days. (Not in Dutch though)

Has any of you tried d20 Apocalypse?

Edit: I just found out that there is a PnP version of Diablo II. Did anyone know that?

 

I once knew a Swedish woman who was always talking about "Jävlar och Helvete". That's a similar thing, right?

 

Trudvang. 'Nuff said.

 

At least I'm not the only one who over-explains other people's jokes.