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Most videos you find with titles like this usually cover settings like Eberron, Dragonlance or Ravenloft and only occasionally throw in a curveball like Scarred Lands, for example. Useful for beginners but boring for people who have been playing for a while. This video was a genuine, refreshing surprise.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Augustus! I really appreciate that.

@marvalice3455

6 жыл бұрын

Augustus Dens fact! I love Eberron, but i also know about it you know?

@Zelmel

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I'm a huge Eberron fan, but because of that I don't really need a "hey Eberron exists!" video.

@davidwagner2626

6 жыл бұрын

I thought for sure he'd bring up the old TSR settings like Spelljammer, Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, Menzoberranzan or even the Ultimate City and Ultimate Dungeon sets...

@johnsnow9210

5 жыл бұрын

Scarred lands 😱🥰😘😘😘😘

1:30 - Yoon-Suin 2:24 - Hot Springs Island 3:43 - A Red & Pleasant Land 4:54 - Veins of the Earth 6:04 - Dolmenwood (Wormskin printing)

@max4750

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I thought to myself: "Hah! No way I've never heard of them!" Huh. I've never heard of them. You win this round.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

There's a ton more like these from the DIY D&D and OSR scenes.

@swedbp1

6 жыл бұрын

I've been a gamer since 1991 and i thought the same thing

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

Well these settings all came out in the last 5 years, so they're probably new to most people.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

What on earth are you talking about?

@analeigholdeworlde4178

6 жыл бұрын

Questing Beast I'm not sure if he knows.

Please do a part 2 of this video, I'd love to hear more fascinating and unique settings like these

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

Check out all the Old School D&D reviews on this channel, I show off a lot of other ones!

I suppose you could say these Realms are... *Put’s on Sunglasses* Forgotten... *YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!*

@jakeisawizard4073

6 жыл бұрын

Inquisitor Thomas I support this comment with my soul

@emdub9679

6 жыл бұрын

10/10

@rhinoxrifter356

5 жыл бұрын

Ugh. Cringe. Well played sir. Well played.

@kevynhansyn2902

4 жыл бұрын

@@JacksonOwex I wasn't a fan of Vegas honestly. But all 3 had their ways. New York was more darker than the 2. Miami was bright lights big murder sites. Vegas was a contrast of both, things happen day and night.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

No.

Even though it is a part of Forgotten Realms, my favorite setting was Al-Qadim. I also was a fan of Mystara and Hollow World.

@JosephFuller

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Hollow World for Basic D&D was where most of best adventures took place.

My favorite official TSR/WorC campaign settings are: Greyhawk/Oerth Mystara/The Known World Ghostwalk Mahasarpa Rokugan But as for 3rd party campaign settings, I'd have to agree that your list is high quality and some of the best

1:30 - Yoon-Suin 2:23 - Hot Springs Island (the one I will be buying super soon!) 3:43 - [REDACTED] 4:54 - Veins of the Earth 6:04 - Wormskin For those that want to jump around. Before watching, I had heard of 3 of these and will be buying one here shortly. The other two... THANKS!

@Bluecho4

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a reason why A Red and Pleasant Land is redacted? EDIT: Nevermind, I looked up the creator. Yikes.

@LordVader1094

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bluecho4 What?

@angrytheclown801

3 жыл бұрын

Eh I'll wait for a conviction. Too many people are getting destroyed by allegations when the simple truth is humans lie. He seems skeezy but that's not enough to me.

@emmyallen4582

3 жыл бұрын

you've... you've never seen how the legal system handles this stuff, have you?

@risottopose9970

2 жыл бұрын

So, any news on what’s going on

Thanks for this. Been playing for 30+ years and it's exciting to find new stuff to explore.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I have reviews of lots more books like this on my channel, and I'll be putting out some new ones soon.

I feel like Hot Springs Island just by the sound of it could make for a good what I'm going to call a Vacation Campaign, cause if you can fit it into the world, you can have your characters go there preparing for vacation then the mystery unfolds, that sounds cool to me at least

Although it's a "new school setting," I have repeatedly found myself returning to 4e's Nentir Vale/Points of Light setting, which has been absolutely amazing for running sandbox games. There is a lot of DIY sensibilities to it, as the setting exists mostly in sketched form, relying upon the GM to fill-in-the-blanks of the details, particularly in the wilderness that exists between those points of light/civilization.

@estebanrodriguez5409

Жыл бұрын

The Chaos Scar series of adventure is a more exciting take on the Caves of Chaos from OD&D with a bunch of small locations which you could use to seed a hexcrawl

Hah! Not only have I heard of Yoon-Suin, I've played in a campaign in the setting! Hadn't heard of the others, though.

Remember, was it Spelljammer? That was the one that was Scifi-ish that explained that each world(game settings, Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Darksun and so on) was part of these "Shards" and you could, in a sense "Jump" from world to world (if you choose to) spaceships etc... Game breaking for sure, you take those magic users from Darksun that exploit the life force of nature (and pretty much kills it) for their magical powers and plop them in a Forgotten Realms setting or a lush jungle setting etc.. I may be WAAAY off as I am pulling dusty ass memories 30+ years old but I think this is what I remember..

@aspektx

4 жыл бұрын

Spelljammer loosely used the ancient Greek concept of the universe consisting of 'crystal' spheres. In the setting each sphere basically comprised a solar system. But each sphere contained it's own setting. As you mentioned you could travel between the spheres and visit Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance. I believe other settings were left to the DMs discretion. The FR sphere had an interplanetary, but not inter-sphere, elven empire of sorts. A home world of Beholders. A huge living spaceship. Wandering dwarven space fortresses. And an odd twist on the behavior of mindflayers (Illithid). I always liked the setting once I actually read through it. And I'm glad someone mentioned it here.

@NecromancyForKids

4 жыл бұрын

I believe the story of Dark Sun even references people traveling to their world the Spelljammer way. I think it was the Gith that did this?

@LovesRodents

4 жыл бұрын

Ravenloft is actually a set of demiplanes inside the Deep Ethereal Plane, not accessible by spelljammer. Unless the Mists take you...

My two books of Hot Springs Island are on their way thanks to you, mate. I have been DMing for 30 years, used dozens of settings for my D&D games, and i had never heard of these five before this video. Great job!!

Hot springs island is amazing. Planning on marooning my players there soon

@somebloke3869

4 жыл бұрын

This got my attention as well. I can only seem to find it on PDF, I would love those books, an actual players book too.

This is an incredible video. I had Red & Pleasant land before but you sold me on Veins of the Earth & I'm still vacillating on Hot Springs Island. Great stuff & an incredible shopping list.

At the beginning of the video I was thinking I would make a witty comment in the comments about how my pay check for this week will be gone from this video. Turns out at the end of the video I looked over at my desk and already own 4/5 recommendations because of your earlier videos lol.

@donovanpeterson837

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@John-rb8gb

6 жыл бұрын

I liked putting my PCs into a gigantic robotic horse in different places on the horse.

@youtubefuckingsucks

6 жыл бұрын

yea right

It's amazing how well White Box Gothic works with the Dolmenwood Setting.

Oh my God!!! Best video ever for an old GM as I am. I need those amazing books!!!

Man. This may be the most exciting video for settings, you -really- sold these to me. Thanks!

Forgotten realms is one of the weirdest settings in Epic Fantasy. In Waterdeep you have Renaissance trading house politics. In the Underdark you have HP Lovecraft madness occasionally pausing for Drow Matriarchal politicking. Chult is a land of dinosaurs straight out of an Edgar Rice Burroughs book. The Sword Coast is a Tolkein style fantasy world. Kara-Tur and Maztica are campaign settings in their own right. We definitely need more campaign settings but Abier-Toril is a good setting. It has problems for sure (like too many gods, no consistent tone and 20th level NPCs running around) but it is a good and diverse setting with a lot of dnd madness to keep it interesting.

@Rathkryn

6 жыл бұрын

It's just Toril in 5e. Abier and Toril broke apart with _The Sundering._

@frankcastle1124

5 жыл бұрын

TSR D ark Sun was by far the weirdest with defiler mages destroying the ecosystem when they cast spells to clerics becoming elementals of their chose realm to both perservers and defilers being able to become advanced beings such as perservers becoming Avangions and defilers becoming Dragons . Then there are the races of Half -Giants , cannibalistic Halflings who eat anything that moves to Muls who are Half-Human and Half-Dwarves to the alien Thri- Kreen Human like praying Mantis who never sleep . Dark Sun is the strangest and most weird setting ever created

@ralfdahl263

5 жыл бұрын

uuuh Dark Sun ?

@haveswordwilltravel

4 жыл бұрын

Forgotten Realms is so versatile. I used to hate it because it was so generic, now I love it for all the reasons that I once hated it for.

@Bluecho4

4 жыл бұрын

The Forgotten Realms are a kind of High Fantasy stew. A kitchen sink setting where everything has been mashed in, where magic is on every corner and baked into the societies, and where a peasant can't dig a ditch without breaking into some hidden dungeon from a bygone civilization. If you want a really unique and strongly flavorful setting, you might go elsewhere. But if you want a place to go adventuring in, you can do much worse than Forgotten Realms.

Stumbled upon your video and I’m hooked. I was unaware of the material you reviewed. Plus, I like how you present the information. I’m happy to subscribe to your channel. Keep up the good work!

Well, I was surprised, but delighted. This list is some of my favorite settings. Excellent picks!

Love what you do here. You are a gift to our community and my own personal business. Thank you, thank you, thank you

Dolmenwood looks awesome! The Wormskin zines I’ve read so far are really captivating and well written, and I’m hoping for more content soon, like the promised KS launch for the campaign. Thank you for the discovery!

great video as usual. cant wait to see your next map video!

Look "Tormenta" up. Brazilian RPG setting. You'd have to be able to read Portuguese tho, but it's a freaking awesome setting! One of it's main attractions is the "Tormenta" itself: a crimson acidic storm, that comes out of nowhere, and once settled, never leaves, corroding and corrupting the place and reality itself. Along with the acid rain, comes innumerous monsters that are so alien to us, that we can't even comprehend their forms, driving to madness anyone who tries to even fathom what are they... Other than that, there's a goblinoid army (the size of it could put Saruman's to shame) being lead by a prophesied ginormous bugbear; a bloody interplanar traveling flying city-market, build on the base of a upside down mountain, by one of the (two) most powerful wizard (s) in the setting... It's a setting where anyone can become a minor God, with only a decent number of follower being required... A setting where the gods (20 main ones) act and interfere with the humans on almost a daily basis... And of course a setting full of dungeons to be crawled on! It has at least 5 novels written about it that I know of, and literal decades of supporting articles adding new stuff to it. Totally worth checking and having to learn a complete new language 😅

Huh. I wasn't expecting much from this video. But to my pleasant surprise, I found five books I now want to own. Thanks for making this!

Thanks dude, as a new d&d player this is very helpful. I think that after i run my own campaigns ill check these out.

Yoon Suin sounds somewhat like Red Tide by Sine Nomine lots of uniquenss and half of it can be used to flesh out a sandbox of your own design.

It's nice to see things other than the Forgotten Realms get some attention. I really hate the idea that the Realms are the "standard," or "default" for D&D. I'm always glad to see more people either using different settings or creating their own. Thanks for giving these things the spotlight

@michaelstronghold3550

2 жыл бұрын

Greyhawk will personally always be my default.

Thanks for the review, some really wonderful inspiration in those resources you mentioned by the sounds of it.

You’re quite correct. I’ve never heard of any of these. They sound amazing.

Dude, happy to see you are getting more views! Great video, thanks!

Wow these are great! I already have Red & Pleasant Land, it is brilliant. After seeing this vid I am likely to check out Yoon-Suin, Hot Springs, and possibly the Wormskin mags Some great stuff here, thanks for posting!

This video was excellent. I expecting: Dragon Star. This was great and you have made me have a mighty need.

Excellent video. My favorite setting is probably Oriental Adventures, although even the name is very dated. I also love Council of Wyrms and Planescape.

Fantastic, FANTASTIC video. Earned a sub.

I miss birthright. That was an interesting setting.

@aspektx

4 жыл бұрын

It's a pretty great setting. I love the mechanics of kingdom building alongside party adventuring.

@h347h

4 жыл бұрын

I still play it. It's easier to mod for 5E than it was 3E and 4E. So that's a bonus.

@joncarroll2040

4 жыл бұрын

It was Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones (though not by much). It mystifies me that Wizards hasn't done more with it given the popularity of the books/show

@darrinwebber4077

3 жыл бұрын

I had BIRTHRIGHT. Good setting. But as GM... Attempting to entertain my friends... I chose a variation. Took me almost a year to build world (for new campaign)... But I converted real Earth into BIRTHRIGHT styled domains... Where Elves ruled "Russia"... Minotaurs ruled Mexico... Fierce Amazon's ruled Brazil...etc etc...You get the idea. I converted the "Bloodlines & Blood Powers" into divine lineages from classical deities of Olympus, Asgard, and Pantheons. It was a good game. But as always...egos and petty squabbling...along with irregular participation...led to end of campaign. I quit after that.

@michaelcahill1450

3 жыл бұрын

Still playing our campaign! 15 years later

I swear, I'm addicted to home brew.. I'm genuinely lucky that I get to play with the same people and they are all creative enough to keep a solid storyline going, but I love this video and everything it puts across.. I can't stress enough how important it is to "make things up as you go" the players get so much more encapsulated in everything that's going on around them.

Yoi have just got me excited again to GM! Thank you.

Ironically, Veins of the Earth and A Red and Pleasant Land are now two of the single most expensive "collector-priced" books out there

I'm so sleep-deprived that I stared at the title for like 2 minutes, thinking settings as in like settings on your phone.... I was so confused... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Those books all look gorgeous. Like real collector's items.

The best, most detailed setting most D&D players have never heard of... Glorantha, the setting for The Runequest RPG. The MOST detailed setting ever developed for an RPG [that wasn't initially a novel], hands down.

@ElwoodShort

2 жыл бұрын

Glorantha is what kept me playing RQ long after I lost interest in D&D. It’s richness is utterly stunning, and it is still being continually developed now.

Jakandor is my favorite AD&D campaign world, it was basically Australia that had a magical disaster so the surviving people ruled my mages vs the invading barbarians.

@Arnsteel634

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one that new that great setting existed.

@shallendor

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arnsteel634 It's great knowing you're not alone. : )

Great video... never heard of any of these. Thanks!

Such a good video, earned a subscriber sir, well done!

I found your channel yesterday, and this is the RPG stuff I love. Sitting here now pondering the (mental) logistics it’d take to buy one of these systems and adapt it for my English-learning students given how popular Harry Potter is amongst them. Which classes would bite, etc. Plus, I just want to read them. Half of the fun growing up buying RPGs was learning the new worlds - my love for Star Wars comes from playing the Westend(?) Games RPG of it.

Thanks for the tip on hot springs island

Great mini reviews and recommendations....I must pick up Hot Springs Islands soon, heard nothing but great things about it. Veins is a masterpiece, a truly terrifying exploration of the underdark, jam packed with flavourful nightmares that will cause your players to lose their s**t 😊

This is great, thank you!

I really enjoyed playing Dark Sun. Athas was a great setting for those who wanted a gladiatorial scorched earth feel to their game. The realm had minimal magic and loot, so the gear that a player had was very valuable indeed. My campaign had the one remaining dragon as the scourge of the whole realm and the party and other NPC's did everything they could to find a way to end the tyrants rule.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

I really like games that make it more about survival than epic events.

These all sound really interesting! Thanks! :)

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video, cheers!

I only heard of 1 of those settings. Great video. Normally someone does a video like this and I already know all the settings. Not this time. Thanks.

Pre-spellplague Faerun is one of the best to this day!

@IaconDawnshire

4 жыл бұрын

Smoke.Jaguar You could always make a campaign where the Spell plague never happened

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

4th and 5th ed ruined D&D. Change my mind.

Pretty top shelf choices.

Cool a didn't knew about a bounch of those. Thanks for the info.

I've heard of Veins of the Earth before in conservations between some of the long times DMs I've played under, but all of the others I didn't even know existed.

This is pure gold.

These are great. I'm a little late to this party so I hope I can still get my hands on those hot springs books.

@AstralMarmot

4 жыл бұрын

I know I'm a year late for you, but if you didn't pick up the hot springs books yet, they're on sale right now at DriveThruRPG. Have fun and good gaming!

I'm gonna have to check out Veins of the Earth. I am a big fan of AAW Games which does mainly underdark type stuff for 5e. Their Rise of the Drow book is fantastic and they just launched a new book called Survivalist's Guide to Spelunking which has some great rules and options to really make the underworld fun and challenging and real. Sounds like Veins of the Earth would be right up my ally.

Well, I knew two of them. :) Wormskin is great!

This got me thinking so I checked my shelf of things I have gathered over the last 40 plus years. 1st ed Greyhawk boxed set 2nd ed Al Qadim box set plus extras Horde box setting Spelljammer bax setting plus Wilderness survivors guide Dungeoneers survival guide Oriental adventures Greyhawk adventures Dragonlance adventures Menzoberranzan box set And City State of the Invincible Overlord box set (Judges Guild) Almost all the Harn modules and world map. That should keep me busy.

Nice, I've actually heard of 4 out of 5 settings on this list.

More "best ofs" like this please!

THANK YOU, for thinking out of the box. I have been looking (not as hard as I should have been) for someone that doesn't go with the norm or thinks they are but uses the same old books. P.s. 40 y gm, old dog.. (you're unique)

Greyhawk, Mystara, Empire of the Petal Throne, Jorune are some of my favourite places, also the Lost Coast, kingdoms of Kalamar, Ptolus, and Harn.

Awesome review

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I'm thinking about do a "Dark Sun Lite" setting with a bent for the surreal. The idea started with me conceptualizing a sapien species of anthromorphic backpacks.

For the last ten months I've been GMing a conversion of Tales of Equestria to AD&D 2nd. It's an open world survival with majorly grimdark scenes and paradox. There are factions, full immersion, and untold surprises to be uncovered. My party is half way done with the main campaign and have found three side quests- apart from bounties and faction missions. I wish the comment section was large enough to truly go into detail about this unique setting.

There's a also Carcosa (OD&D) and Tekumel (a number of custom systems, but the first one is basically OD&D).

@gregskrivan4602

6 жыл бұрын

All you really need for Tekumel is www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141869/The-Tekumel-Sourcebook--Swords--Glory-Vol-1

In the world f clickbait, this sooooooo genuinely good.

Hey, great video! Is there any way you can make an updated one with the new osrs like the two you mentioned at the end?

Nice video.

I would toss in Hubris from DCC in this list as well. A more gonzo swords and sorcery setting.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

IMO, the best thing about Hubris is all the tables that sort terrain features and encounters by terrain type, so you can make up your own setting as you go.

I would love to play D&D someday as both a player and DM. Yet I would love to homebrew a setting, but I might start with some homebrew in existing settings and then do original content. I might even use the science fantasy book that I'm writing as a campaign setting if it comes to it.

Ever since I first read it, I have had a lovestory with Red and Pleasant Land. I intitally got it as one of my regular players is a big fan of Alice in Wonderland and the Alice games by American Mcgee. I got the book thinking it would be something akin to the old D&D module Dungeonland...boy was I wrong....in a great way.

I ordered Yuin-Suin based on your recommendation. It sounds like EPT a bit.

I’m gonna get all of these actually

Excellent review. I consider myself well versed in edgy campaign settings, but other than the LoTPF books, which I agree are top notch, I had not heard of any of the settings described here. Will eagerly investigate. I'd be interested in your thoughts on some of the more interesting non- D&D/OSR settings like Within the Ring of Fire or Numenera.

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

I found the Numenera book to not really deliver on its promise. I would have liked to see tons of generators for quickly making the weird scifi stuff.

You are the first person I have ever heard say they actually know anyone who liked Dark Sun.

@QuestingBeast

4 жыл бұрын

It's very popular (at least online). I haven't played it myself.

Awww no Scarred Lands? Its one of my favorite settings, that has a 3.5 and 5th edition updates! Check it out!

I want to visit the Dolmenwood again, despite the near death experience I had there.

I stopped playing in 1986, when between a combination of a PCS move and the change by TSR of only supporting "Dragonlance" based gaming pushed me out of the game. We ran freestyle campaigns, loosely following the modules, or made our own with house rules to accommodate play for us. Originally the rules were intended as guidelines not hard and fast but open to interpretation by the players and DM as agreed by them in play. I am now bringing my grandsons into it, to get them offline, and harnessing their imagination. Hoping to enjoy it, but I still own 1st edition books so they won't know the difference.

GLOG, Goblin Laws of Gaming, as made by Arnold Kemp and refined by Skerples are perfect for these settings, especially VotE.

AHH! GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!!! Wait... what game are we playing? But yeah, need all those.

KINGDOM'S OF KALAMAR, the most underrated and cheap 3rd editions settings

Huh.... I expected dark sun and plane scape etc. And I've never heard of these. Well played....

Already have them all. And I agree, they're way better than anything you'll find from WotC. I'd also mention Anomalous Subsurface Environment; it may ostensibly be an adventure, but there's a fully fledged setting that's sketched out in the first half of the book. Also, Operation Unfathomable just came out with a different take on the "Underdark." It's not quite as literary and weird as Veins, but that's the high bar for weird, so that doesn't say much.

@Semiotichazey

6 жыл бұрын

Guess I commented too soon, since you mentioned Operation Unfathomable at the end. It's out, by the way. www.drivethrurpg.com/product/233145/Operation-Unfathomable

@QuestingBeast

6 жыл бұрын

I backed OU. Really excited to get the hardback.

Your videos are great but expensive :-) I have already bought and read Wormskin based on your reviews. And (though I haven't started reading that yet) Yoon-Suin. Just ordered A Red and Pleasant Land (plus Vornheim and Death Frost Doom while I was in the LotFP store anyway). I have also bought Whitehack, Black-hack, Rad-hack, Deep Carbon Observatory after reviews on this channel. Quite a lot of the rest is on my "to buy" list.

very nice, but i was hoping for lesser know settings created/published by tsr/wotc such as the Wilderlands, Mahasarpha, or Aris. I imagine thia would take at least a top 10 list

Curse of Castle Ravenloft, hell yeah, that was my shit back in the day. I still run it in Pathfinder.

Wow, you're so knowledgable (spelling?) of this stuff. Thanks! I'm just preparing my first campaign as DM in regular 5th edition. I'm so hyped! And so subscribed!

If I had my way, I'd put something together using the races that D&D kind of has that make it unique - humans to start, of course, but then the rest of the makeup would include thri-kreen, warforged, dragonborn, and tiefling. The things that kind of say to you "you're reading a D&D supplement." What I'd really like to see, though, is strange and exotic places to be FROM and DEFEND, rather than VISIT and CONQUER.

D and d is so cool

The best setting imo is Eberron. But for my OSR game I want to run using Castles & Crusdaes I plan to use The World of the Lost Lands from FGG. I just love the feel of the world. In my dad's AD&D game he is running he is using Greyhawk.

Spell Jammer and heck, created my own. Thanks to a DND app creator, calling a forgotten ritual saying it must be a homebrew I do not bother with dnd beyond.