Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Settings

Dungeons & Dragons had always been replete with campaign settings, both those officially released and those created by DMs themselves. From the grim and dark world of Ravenloft, to the noble and chivalrous Dragonlance, they span all manner of interests and themes in order to provide as broad an attraction to players and DMs of all strips.

List of D&D Campaign Settings

• Al-Qadim: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet. Fantasy medieval Middle East at the height of its wealth, science, and power.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1 class updated for Third Edition.

• Birthright: The gods fucked a lot of mortals, and one or more of your PCs is a descendant of one.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, unofficial porting to 3e taking place at http://www.birthright.net/

• Blackmoor: One of the three original campaign settings, developed by D&D co-creator Dave Arneson. Later retconned into Mystara as a Krull-esque distant past.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Council of Wyrms: You are the dragons.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, possibly. No idea if the 1999 reprint used the old Dungeons & Dragons ruleset or not.

• Dark Sun: Dying desert world.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Dragon Fist: If Dragonlance were manlier. D&D set in the world of wuxia folktales from ancient China Tlanguo, the land of this setting.
  • Last supported edition: None. Uses a weird hybrid of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules. Published online-only by Wizards, never expanded or supported.

• Dragonlance: One of the more well-known D&D settings, thanks to the many books about it. Twisted D&D standards in a Brighthammer40k sort of way. Home to the kender.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, through a licensing agreement between WoTC and Sovereign Press.

• Eberron: Magitek adventurepunk in a world literally made of dragons.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Forgotten Realms: The most famous and popular setting.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Ghostwalk: The one everyone forgets exists. The Ethereal Plane meets inverse Ravenloft meets Forgotten Realms, and players can play as ghosts.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, one of two new settings created for it. Only published reference was its campaign sourcebook.

• Greyhawk: One of the three original campaign settings, and the default D&D setting for most of its existence. Revered for being the personal setting of Gary Gygax, and originally completed for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as he couldn't finish it time for original D&D's launch.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, was killed off around it's 25th birthday in order to make way for Points of Light.

• Jakandor: Self-contained setting set on an island divided between magic-loving mage civilization, and magic-hating barbarian horde.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• The Horde: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet. Mongols and their related allies and enemies.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• Kara-Tur: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet. Ancient fantasy China/Japan with some later material detailing India and Southeast Asia
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, though the setting/land itself did not advance at all from it's original publication.

• Maztica: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet. Fantasy post-Columbian America, complete with paladins exterminating and suppressing the believers of native gods.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• Mystara: One of the three original campaign settings, and the first one to be officially published and supported. Partially inspired Greyhawk, it paints a broad picture of the lands around Castle Greyhawk and was designed by David Cook and Tom Moldvay.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons

• Planescape: Established the Great Wheel cosmology. Made famous by the videogame Planescape: Torment
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but many elements were taken in establishing the planar landscape of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. Some tiny elements reappeared in Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, but for the most part the setting and rules are dead.

• Pelinore: For all you Britfag grognards out there. Somewhat similar to Ptolus in that it focused on a single city and it's surrounding environs.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Published and expanded on exclusively in Imagine's UK edition.

• Points of Light: The "default" setting for 4e. Basically a completely blank canvas with no flavor other than "We're shitting up planar cosmology, deal with it."
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Ravenloft: You are evil and being punished in a magic Gothic world.
  • Last supported edition: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

• Spelljammer: D&D IN SPAAACE!
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but homebrew conversion to Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition took place at [1]. Rules for using a Spelljammer ship appear in Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Manual of the Planes.

Noteworthy/developed 'homebrew' settings

• Ptolus: City by the Spire
• Uberstadt
• The Unified Setting for /tg/