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Best setting written in the Noughties ?

Started by Sean, January 16, 2008, 02:57:53 AM

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Sean

January 16, 2008, 02:57:53 AM
Yep, in your opinion - which is the best setting created so far this decade and why do you rate it beyond the rest ?

Warthur

#1
January 16, 2008, 02:45:30 PM
A-State. Pretty much rules-neutral (the system and setting stuff are kept almost entirely separate in the core book), full of adventure opportunities from street-level vigilante activism to high-level corporate intrigue, stuffed to the gills with mysteries but with a strict policy of letting individual GMs decide what the answer to the riddles are rather than having a centrally-decided "truth", and excellently laid-out. I was literally able to improvise an entire campaign straight out of the core book.
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January 16, 2008, 02:47:17 PM
JAGS Wonderland. It's like having your skull sawn open and stuffed with live squid.

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January 16, 2008, 02:53:58 PM
Hard of me to draw a bead on one without drawing a distinction between ideas and execution. I liked the ideas behind Scarred Lands, but it suffered a bit from stuttered delivery and rules-shift in the middle of its run. :(

Factoring in execution, I'd probably say Freeport. Nice short initial run, good follow up, and the way that they immunized themselves against system issues was really clever.
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January 16, 2008, 02:56:10 PM
Andy Hopp's Low Life beats out pretty much everything else I've seen this side of the millennium.
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January 16, 2008, 03:38:43 PM
The setting of Starcluster 2e is really great hard sci-fi.

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January 16, 2008, 03:46:36 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceJAGS Wonderland. It's like having your skull sawn open and stuffed with live squid.

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...Huh.

Y'know?  I think that's a real contender, for me.  I've seen lots of games that I thought did neater things *with* their setting, but for just straight the-world-is-thus?  Wonderland was wicked.

'Course, I also thought Puppetland was awesome, in the waybackwhen, but still.

Settembrini

#7
January 16, 2008, 07:45:12 PM
Puppetland is awesome!

EDIT: But if it counts as a setting, then most module locales do. So I´d say Diamond Lake is pretty nifty, too.
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David R

#8
January 16, 2008, 08:19:24 PM
Does Unknown Armies count?

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Warthur

#9
January 16, 2008, 10:21:02 PM
Quote from: David RDoes Unknown Armies count?
Given that it came out in the late 1990s, I'd say "no". Unless we're using a very flexible definition of the "Noughties".
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#10
January 16, 2008, 10:22:45 PM
Quote from: SettembriniPuppetland is awesome!

This is my most surreal unexpected-point-of-agreement online ever.

Melan

#11
January 17, 2008, 02:43:03 AM
Scarred Lands, the initial Gazetteer is a superb setting which is both familiar D&D terrain and something entirely new. It suffered from overdevelopment in later supplements and Nightfall the Super Shill, but I very much adore the idea of that first little guidebook. Just enough to get you going, not too much to overwhelm.
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January 17, 2008, 07:58:46 AM
Quote from: Levi KornelsenThis is my most surreal unexpected-point-of-agreement online ever.
If we are talking of...
Quote from: John H. Kim's Encyclopedia of Role-Playing GamesPuppetland
    1st ed by John Tynes (1999) Hogshead Games
    A fantasy/horror mini-RPG, set in a world of puppets where the evil Punch has killed the creator and rules over the other puppets with an iron hand. It uses a minimalist diceless system where players are required to speak out (in puppet-show style) what they are doing as dialogue (i.e. "I hit you with this stick, you evil nutcracker!").
...then I agree.
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(But even then it does not belong to the potential "best settings of the Noughties", considering that it was published in 1999, and before that in 1997...)
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#13
January 17, 2008, 08:15:24 AM
I've been wracking my brain on this one--I've really liked a lot of settings, from Cold Space to Roma Imperious to Lacuna (gaps and all).

But I think Midnight is very, very well done.
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#14
January 17, 2008, 11:33:28 AM
So what are your other contenders besides Wonderland, Levi?

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