Your fantasy ... Vanila or Neapolitan?

anglefish · Post by **anglefish** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:15 pm

So how close is your fantasy world to the standard?

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:17 pm

GAH! You changed the poll and killed my response!...
Will retype later.

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:17 pm

I would not classify mine as "Neapolitan" considered the choices you provided as examples, but it would not be "standard" as I don't ascribe to such notions -- there is fantasy, and then there is fantasy.
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Sir Osis of Liver · Post by **Sir Osis of Liver** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:20 pm

I'm in between chocolate and neapolitan. I guess I'd lean towards chocolate. It's got most of what you'd look for in a CS, but the magic system is a bit different. It's not as crazy as Dark Sun, but it definitely isn't your father's campaign setting.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:21 pm

Neopolitan.
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ssfsx17 · Post by **ssfsx17** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:25 pm

Coffee with chocolate chip!

...wait, we're talking about fantasy worlds? I'm not sure how I'd classify my current campaign world.

gideon_thorne · Post by **gideon_thorne** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:41 pm

None of the above. It wanders off into realms even beyond Eberron and Planescape.
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Frost · Post by **Frost** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:01 pm

Mainly chocolate, but I have nothing against any of the "flavors" listed above.
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anglefish · Post by **anglefish** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:50 pm

Omote wrote:
GAH! You changed the poll and killed my response!...
Will retype later.

~O

LOL! Apologies. It was my first poll and I couldn't get my Neapolitan choice to show up.

narpet · Post by **narpet** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:30 pm

I had to go chocolate... because I love chocolate
Usually I take a campaign setting like Greyhawk and customize it heavily, so that it ends up being basically a thing of my own creation... sometimes wondering off to other worlds or plains of existence.

clavis123 · Post by **clavis123** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:33 pm

I'd say it's squid sorbet wrapped in chocolate.

On the surface its got many standard fantasy tropes, though they are presented in a rather dark fashion.

As the games go on, the players learn that the surface reality of almost everything is a lie, and if there is a truth, its mind-bendingly weird. There are conspiracies within conspiracies that reach across the planets, planes, and even across time. There are reptiloids trying to change the past, and dreams trying to make themselves real. The Imperial Legions are actually trying to preserve the existence of monsters and maintain strife. The gods of the world didn't create the universe, but they think they did beacuse the worshipers who created them told them they did. Wizards have multiple versions of themselves walking around, and sometimes operating at cross-purposes.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:07 am

Uh, bro ~ ya need strawberry to complete the poll (thus a neopolitan) . . . I'd suggest The World of Aihrde!

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CKDad · Post by **CKDad** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:34 am

I've mixed standard tropes with Poul & Karen Anderson's King of Ys series, elements of Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion, Zelazny's Amber, and bits and pieces from elsewhere in fantasy & SF. Not sure what flavor that makes me. Though I like Cherry Garcia.
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AGNKim · Post by **AGNKim** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:02 am

Greyhawk was, for all intents and purposes, the first 'world' to be used extensively in an RPG. To classify it as 'has a few tweaks, but not that different' is odd to say the least. Greyhawk is the standard by which all others are judged. If vanilla can be a compliment, then Greyhawk must be vanilla.

Also, GrEyhawk, not GrAyhawk.

(ps, I love me some Greyhawk)
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Steerpike · Post by **Steerpike** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:45 am

Hmmm.

Well, I hate FR. It's the most improbable, illogical, mish-mash of a setting out there (IMO). The spell plague may have helped it; I haven't looked at any of the new stuff.

Iron Kingdoms was by far my favorite 3e setting.

My current game is run in a homebrew world that is akin to Greyhawk in the level of magic, types of societies, races, etc. Greyhawk was always my favorite setting for 1e and 2e, though I never used it for 3e D&D.
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Aladar · Post by **Aladar** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:52 pm

Chocolate, but with a twist. I use Greyhawk with the Haunted Highlands thrown in for extra flavor.
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anglefish · Post by **anglefish** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:04 pm

AGNKim wrote:
Greyhawk was, for all intents and purposes, the first 'world' to be used extensively in an RPG. To classify it as 'has a few tweaks, but not that different' is odd to say the least. Greyhawk is the standard by which all others are judged. If vanilla can be a compliment, then Greyhawk must be vanilla.

Also, GrEyhawk, not GrAyhawk.

(ps, I love me some Greyhawk)

My apologies if I offend. I've HEARD that Greyhawk had some slight steampunk aspect to it, mostly relics from another age. Though that's about the same as calling War of the Worlds science fiction. i.e. a label that's applied after the fact.

Admitedly, I've never been able to get my hands on a GW world book long enough to find where these steampunk elements are.

If I'm in error, please let me know.

As far as what's vanilla? I'm basing that on the usual fantasy fare of a medieval-like world with the standard fantasy races. For me, that would be Mystra, FR, LOTR, etc.

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:11 pm

I picked chocolate but mine is more like Tiger Tail... gods I miss ice cream
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AGNKim · Post by **AGNKim** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:46 pm

anglefish wrote:
My apologies if I offend. I've HEARD that Greyhawk had some slight steampunk aspect to it, mostly relics from another age.

Oh, no apologies needed! I'm just a grognard when it comes to Greyhawk. And as far as steampunk in Greyhawk, I have been playing in GH off and on for over 25 years and never saw any. However, Gary wrote GH as very open-ended to allow DMs to mold it as they please, so someone may have altered it as such. But the basic GH is pretty, well, vanilla.
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Sundog · Post by **Sundog** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:21 pm

Rum n raisin.

Sundog · Post by **Sundog** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:37 pm

OK, OK, I'll behave. I suppose it'd be neapolitan with extra chocolate. I like the fantasy staples, but there always needs to be something extra, to set it apart from everything else. It seems silly to me that fantasy, surely a genre that should be dominated by imagination, is so often deeply formulaic.

lobocastle · Post by **lobocastle** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:25 pm

I use Diablo, Shannara, and Lone Wolf.

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Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:55 pm

About the most tweaking I do is in providing more races and classes from which to choose. This of course leads to other monsters too, but otherwise it's pretty vanilla.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:10 pm

I voted "chocolate" because that's where Greyhawk is.
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CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:30 am

lobocastle wrote:
I use Diablo, Shannara, and Lone Wolf.

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Lone Wolf? The Kai master? I loved those books!
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AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:33 am

Lone Wolf and Cub?
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:49 am

Not Lone Wolf & Cub, Lone Wolf & Gray Star!

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AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:54 am

Never heard of it.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:04 am

AslanC wrote:
Never heard of it.

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpg/s ... sSeries=24
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dachda · Post by **dachda** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:04 am

AslanC wrote:
Lone Wolf and Cub?

The Lone Wolf and Cub films rocked.

So did the Zatoichi the blind swordsman movies.
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