D&D General A Chart of D&D Campaign Worlds (v 3.0)

[Lanefan]

I'll check it out.

One of the problems I ran into while researching this is that not all sources offer the same dates. It is never off by more than a year, but I'd sometimes see two different dates for the same product, at least before 20-25 years ago.

Could those different dates be from, say, staggered timing of USA and UK/European releases?

 

[Maxperson]

As someone who works a lot with data security... you should probably change emails, AOL is like one of the easiest to hack nowadays because support for it is essentially donezo.

I use it as the, "I don't care about this email," email. It's the one I use when I get Ralphs Rewards or something and I know the email address will be sold to spammers. I have other emails for personal use on things that matter.

 

[Mezuka]

Do you consider RedSteel a setting or a Mystara pseudo-gazetteer?

 

[Parmandur]

As someone who works a lot with data security... you should probably change emails, AOL is like one of the easiest to hack nowadays because support for it is essentially donezo.



Just jumping on this thread, but it seems to me like d20 and D&D should be considered distinct enough to be considered seperate categories, at least in the "Square vs. Rectangle" kind of way. The thread is called D&D Campaign Worlds, not d20 Campaign Worlds.

Also, World of Warcraft had a d20 book as well.

Well, it gets fuzzy along the edges, such as the Wheel of Time book from the D&D team which is just as D&D compatible as most of the weirder 3E supplements.

The Warcraft example is another good point, because that started out as an official licensed D&D product, @Mercurius :

Dungeons & Dragons Warcraft The Roleplaying Game

Dungeons & Dragons Warcraft The Roleplaying Game is the first book in the Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game series — which eventually evolved into the World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game series. It acts as the first edition's core rulebook. Initially published in 2003 under the d20 System...

wowwiki.fandom.com

 

[Mercurius]

Could those different dates be from, say, staggered timing of USA and UK/European releases?

It could be. Or sometimes a book has a late release date and is delayed and comes out the following year.

 

[Mercurius]

Do you consider RedSteel a setting or a Mystara pseudo-gazetteer?

In the version posted I did, but some have convinced me that I should have a separate line for it and Savage Coast (as one). So next revision.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Well, it gets fuzzy along the edges, such as the Wheel of Time book from the D&D team which is just as D&D compatible as most of the weirder 3E supplements.

The Warcraft example is another good point, because that started out as an official licensed D&D product, @Mercurius :

Dungeons & Dragons Warcraft The Roleplaying Game

Dungeons & Dragons Warcraft The Roleplaying Game is the first book in the Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game series — which eventually evolved into the World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game series. It acts as the first edition's core rulebook. Initially published in 2003 under the d20 System...

wowwiki.fandom.com

To be honest, I'd almost mark it as "Is it marketed/printed as d20, or D&D?" Because I think if it's the former, we should just consider it d20. It's just a simpler metric to use, IMO.

 

[Mercurius]

Maybe I'll be a bit more conservative for this chart, and then do another chart of 3rd party D&D worlds and d20 settings...but that could get pretty crazy, especially when you consider self-published, PDFs, etc.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Maybe I'll be a bit more conservative for this chart, and then do another chart of 3rd party D&D worlds and d20 settings...but that could get pretty crazy.

I wouldn't even try the latter. If you look at the third-party settings thread (it may be in the wiki), it's insanely huge. It would drive you insane to put them all in a chart, and loads of folks will attack you for skipping their favorite third-party.

Then number of kickstarters and other products folks have made to launch a book for their personal world has exploded in 5E. I don't think that's a bad thing (who wouldn't want to make their personal world-project into an official looking book?) but it's also far too many for any reasonable person to possibly peruse all of them.

 

[The Glen]

Red Steel is specifically tied to Mystara as the Savage Baronies are settlers from Thyatis. There are a few others but the settings are canonical linked.