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

Mercurius · May 5, 2022

Urriak Uruk said:
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.

Yeah, you pretty much nailed all the reasons I haven't bothered. Talk about a can of wyrms...

The Glen · May 5, 2022

The monkey wrench is Dragon 315 as it covers every 1st and 2nd settings except Spelljammer and Lankhmar. Which is rather odd because Fafrd and the Grey Mouser were the intro art for the concept.

Mercurius · May 5, 2022

The Glen said:
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.

Skim through the thread - we've talked about this at length. I've gone back and forth with the chart, but settled on making the decision on whether or not to add a separate row based on how the product was initially marketed and how autonomous it was, but then @Parmandur--my main consultant, lol--convinced me that more is gained by having separate rows, at least for significant sub-settings. But I haven't updated the chart yet.

Still, it leads to some fuzzy calls, and it might be the type of thing I go back and forth on through multiple revisions.

Mezuka · May 5, 2022

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Mezuka · May 5, 2022

Hollow World could be a setting in it's now right.

Parmandur · May 5, 2022

Urriak Uruk said:
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.

Well, the Warcraft game was marketed as official D&D: it has the official logo on the front and everything. But it later evolved into d20. Grey areas abound.

Parmandur · May 5, 2022

Reviewing the Red Steel stuff a bit, it seems that while it is canonically tied to the Known World, TSR went out of their way to treat it as a separate modular Setting, that a DM could repurpose easily, and focused on marketing it as it's own thing.

Urriak Uruk · May 5, 2022

I don't know what methodology (if any) Wikipedia is using, but this is their take on D&D settings, up to 2020;

Nikosandros · May 5, 2022

Paul Farquhar said:
I know, but the ad for something something Waterdeep was definitely in one of my 1st edition core books bought well before then. I don't suppose anyone has the books to check?

I have no recollection of such an ad. My books are in storate, but I have the PDF version of all of them, do you rememebr which one might have this ad?

Mercurius · May 5, 2022

Alright, another revision (3.0).

Changes:

Added in rows for the Mystara sub-settings, as well as Masque of Red Death under Ravenloft.
Added thicker dividers for the "group settings" (FR, Mystara, Ravenloft
A separate section for licensed settings.
Removed Other Publishers, although mostly to make room as I can't fit them in my screenshot. I'll probably make a second list of "Notable Third Party Publishers" and add a bunch more (e.g. Iron Kingdoms), and maybe TSR/WotC non-D&D settings.

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

Mercurius

Legend

The Glen

Legend

Mercurius

Legend

Mezuka

Hero

Mezuka

Hero

Parmandur

Book-Friend

Parmandur

Book-Friend

Urriak Uruk

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Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator

Mercurius

Legend

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