From all the fantasy books I've read, or those I know things about, the top five are, in order:
1) Arda (Lord of the Rings);
2) Westeros (A song of ice and fire);
3) Hyboria (Conan);
4) Eberron (D&D);
5) Narnia;
I also find pretty interesting the Dark Tower series world, even though it's kind of confusing sometimes - and steampunk, or something near by.
Last edited by Beoner; 02-26-2013 at 11:12 AM. Reason: grammar mistake
My Finished Maps | My Deviant Art
Current WIP - Trying tablet
Lite Challenge winners: Junjul's Treasure | Bargon's Harbor | The Amazonas
nice to see Athas get some love as i think its one of the most intersting D&D/rpg worlds. the ecologial themes and the dragon-sorcerers make it stand-out against most other D&D worlds.
I'd probably have to choose:
- the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (if that counts),
- Jack Vance's Dying Earth
- Frank Herbert's Dune
- Robert E. Howard's Hyboria
- D&D's Planescape and Dark Sun
add them together and (hopefully) you get the type of world i'd create myself
Last edited by vorropohaiah; 02-26-2013 at 11:45 AM.
Some of those which are already been mentioned and another one (don"t think it has been mentioned here) that always pleased me : Lankhmar from Fritz Leiber.
Last edited by - Max -; 02-26-2013 at 01:05 PM.
Oh, yeah, glad you mentioned Planescape. I hadn't thought of it as a "world" but I guess it should be. It's one of my favorites.
M
and now you mention it, i do love 40k very muchOriginally Posted by mearrin69
i do like me some grimdark
Westeros ftw, it is far my favourite world ever.
If we talk about steampunk and SF I would say also the Iron Kingdoms RPG world - steampunk. And Star Wars world - SF.
For me, it has to be the Iron Kingdoms.
If a map of the world makes you look closely for interesting spots (or "untreated areas") for inspiration, if you look up current and ancient sites of events and how close/far away they are from other contemporary events - I think that is a very dead giveaway.
If a man walks through a forest - and no woman is near - is he still wrong?
I like quite a lot of fantasy worlds but one of my favourites is golarion
Middle Earth
Earth Sea
Westeros
Narnia
Pern
Wheel of Time series
Harry Potter
Last edited by lonewriter; 03-31-2013 at 05:49 PM.
My favorite would be Robin Hobbs world (Farseers and Liveships) and Joe Abercrombies setting is cool too
regs tilt
:: My DnD page Encounter Depot free stuff for your game :: My work page Catapult ::
:: Finished Maps :: Competion maps - The Island of Dr. Rorshach ::
:: FREE Tiles - Compasses :: Other Taking a commision - Copyright & Creative Commons ::
Works under CC licence unless mentioned otherwise
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
