I am not a fan of Warhammer, 40k or Games Workshop material. Rather than go into the "Re-Imagining Warhammer 40k???" thread and shitting all over it I thought I'd start a new one.

Here is my premise: I do not like 40k, I think it should vanish off the face of the earth/up its own backside/whatever. No real reason why. Perhaps it is the aesthetic, the mood, the grimdark, the absurdity of it all. Whatever.

My boat doth not float with this one.

And what about you? What RPG/wargaming setting do you not buy or engage with? What setting sits there and makes you go: nope. I've heard it said of Planescape before, which I am personally not bothered about. Forgotten Realms kind of makes my teeth itch, but that is probably due to personal hygiene issues (not mine, hygiene issues of certain fans of "THE REALMS!" I have known in the past).

Cthulhutech, Battletech, Dragonlance, "The 'Verse", World of Darkness (Old, New, or Classic flavour. It's a choice not a compromise.)?

No need to shout "No! You're wrong!" and get butthurt about all this. No one is taking anyone else's toys away, so relax. I am just curious. It won't hurt I promise.

While I like the Star Wars universe just fine, I wish it wasn't always sucking all the air out of other science-fantasy settings through its mere existence. I also really wish it wasn't currently the top scifi rpg, leaving only the grimdark 40k as the consensus alternative.

Everything I've heard about Cthulhutech makes it sound irredeemably moronic.
That said, I've found many published settings just aren't all that useful at the table.

I can't stand Earth.  It's much too hard to gain levels and the NPCs don't behave realistically at all.

Umm.
All of them.  
Very early on, I was taught or got the idea that part of the job of GMing was the creation of the setting for the games to exist in.

I can't play in supers games, or generally games which allow/encourage excessive degrees of superiority over average human beings (Exalted, D&D etc). It's all a bit wanketty wank for me.

40ks setting, despite making sense within its background. Is a turn off. Mainly all the Imperium stuff. But some other too.

World of Darkness: Hated the coyotes. Wraith was interesting though and the Hengeyokai stuff had potential never used.

Forgotten Realms never really grabbed me. Just kinda... there.

Dragonlance and Dark Sun: interesting try at something new. But they couldnt stick with the premise. Dragonlance especially suffered.

Any Gamma World after 2nd ed. Boy has that game suffered ping ponging every new edition. The latest version was just short of cartoon slapstick in setting and zero to do with Gamma World.

Buck Rogers: There was something just kinda... bland about it... It lacked the flare of Star Frontiers somehow.

Too Bland or too Bleak seem to be my personal turn off points.

Everything that is or feels too "generic" to me.
This obviously includes most or all of the well-known D&D, except perhaps Ravenloft, and also most Fantasy, and probably all strict historical.

I used to like cyberpunk, but that feels too often generic to me nowadays, too, and "steampunk" is in the dangerzone of going the same way.

I still like the "Sci-Goth" of WH40K, the only thing with it i dislike is the "only war" and that everyone in it is or seems to be Shitheads, bastards and/or murderers.

(Sure, combinating settings works fine, like giving Twilight 2000 the "Shadowrun-treatment" by adding beings from D&D, or mix medevial with CoC-things instead .... or why not mix D&D and CoC?)

I also severly dislike StarWars, and i find Star Trek too confined.

Exalted, Vampire...well, pretty much all of WoD.

Nobilis.

Shadowrun.

Twilight: 2013 (not the rules, the rules are pretty good!)

Anime everything.

Any fantasy setting with magic item shops.

Sooner or later the players have the following realization: Hey guys, why are we raiding these dangerous dungeons, lets break into magic item shops!

There are plenty of settings that I find dull and uninspired, but none that inspire active dislike of the "I'd rather this didn't exist" sort.

Shit, I'm not crazy about Rokugan and I'm playing a L5R game right now.

I can't think of a setting that couldn't be made interesting by the right GM.

But if I had to pick one that as written does nothing for me, then Blue Rose's Venisonochracy.

Quote from: TristramEvans;717102I can't think of a setting that couldn't be made interesting by the right GM.

But if I had to pick one that as written does nothing for me, then Blue Rose's Venisonochracy.

That one too.  The world of Blue Rose needs to be destroyed via orbital bombardment.

Quote from: Benoist;717078Anime everything.

Hehe, these days I rarely use an existing setting without injecting more anime/JRPG into it. I like the weird flavors I get when Robert E. Howard crashes into Final Fantasy, and Outlaw Star is a pretty good example of the wilder sort of Traveller campaign.