Li Shenron
Legend
In our family game we're mostly adventuring in the Forgotten Realms (with a bunch of non-FR locations tossed in, due to having run some adventures not set in any specific setting). Soon the PCs will have capabilities to travel to other planes, and being myself a fan of planar adventures I already had the itch many times to lead them somewhere else. This time however I am more intrigued by the idea of having several material/mortal worlds rather than (or before) visiting the usual inner and outer planes.
Thinking out loud with myself, these are the worlds I am already quite sure I'd like to have in my cosmology:
Abeir-Toril (Forgotten Realms): our starting point and world of origin for our current PCs
Rokugan: I know this well and liked a lot playing and DMing it, but I am aware it will feel very different if the PCs are outsiders visiting it; still, it could work as a pilot to spark interest in playing a whole campaign in it
Athas (Dark Sun): never played it and I like how distinct feel it has compared to other fantasy worlds, with focus on psionics and no religion
Ravenloft: a sure bet! strong unique feel
I am undecided on whether I should bother with other famous fantasy worlds such as Oerth (Greyhawk), Mystara and Krynn (Dragonlance). Aren't they already a bit too similar to Forgotten Realms? What difference would it make to run a certain adventure in Oerth instead of Faerun, for example? ToEE is an old favourite adventure of mine that is officially set in Greyhawk, but I don't see why it could be set in Faerun.
Eberron is a special case. I never liked it, but it definitely feels different than other worlds! It probably deserves to at least exist in my cosmology.
Then in the last year or so I've been looking with interest at those MtG worlds that are being published for D&D. I definitely do NOT want to incorporate the whole MtG cosmology, but a small bunch of worlds have that distinct feel I like for settings an adventure there: Amonkhet, Zendikar, Ixalan, Theros, Shandalar, Ravnica. Perhaps some of these are a bit too similar with regions already part of other chosen worlds, for instance Ixalan and Amonkhet might be too close to the Maztica and Mulhorand regions of FR, and Innistrad too similar to Ravenloft?
In addition to all this, I had the tendency in the past to cover several outer planes of Planescape with the ambiguity of being not so different from alternate material worlds, for example Arcadia and Acheron. I can play with some ambiguities and don't need to have everything clearly defined.
So what alternate material planes/worlds are you using together in the same campaign setting?
Thinking out loud with myself, these are the worlds I am already quite sure I'd like to have in my cosmology:
Abeir-Toril (Forgotten Realms): our starting point and world of origin for our current PCs
Rokugan: I know this well and liked a lot playing and DMing it, but I am aware it will feel very different if the PCs are outsiders visiting it; still, it could work as a pilot to spark interest in playing a whole campaign in it
Athas (Dark Sun): never played it and I like how distinct feel it has compared to other fantasy worlds, with focus on psionics and no religion
Ravenloft: a sure bet! strong unique feel
I am undecided on whether I should bother with other famous fantasy worlds such as Oerth (Greyhawk), Mystara and Krynn (Dragonlance). Aren't they already a bit too similar to Forgotten Realms? What difference would it make to run a certain adventure in Oerth instead of Faerun, for example? ToEE is an old favourite adventure of mine that is officially set in Greyhawk, but I don't see why it could be set in Faerun.
Eberron is a special case. I never liked it, but it definitely feels different than other worlds! It probably deserves to at least exist in my cosmology.
Then in the last year or so I've been looking with interest at those MtG worlds that are being published for D&D. I definitely do NOT want to incorporate the whole MtG cosmology, but a small bunch of worlds have that distinct feel I like for settings an adventure there: Amonkhet, Zendikar, Ixalan, Theros, Shandalar, Ravnica. Perhaps some of these are a bit too similar with regions already part of other chosen worlds, for instance Ixalan and Amonkhet might be too close to the Maztica and Mulhorand regions of FR, and Innistrad too similar to Ravenloft?
In addition to all this, I had the tendency in the past to cover several outer planes of Planescape with the ambiguity of being not so different from alternate material worlds, for example Arcadia and Acheron. I can play with some ambiguities and don't need to have everything clearly defined.
So what alternate material planes/worlds are you using together in the same campaign setting?