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:
  • Last supported edition:

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

• Dragonfist: If Dragonlance were manlier.

• Dragonlance:
  • Last supported edition:

• Eberron: Magitek adventurepunk with dark
  • 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.
  • Last supported edition:

• 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.

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

• Kara-Tur: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, though massive amounts of its Asian-centered material was updated/modified for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition

• Jakandor:
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• Maztica: A supplement to Forgotten Realms, taking place on the same planet.
  • 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:

• Pelinore: For all you Britfag grognards out there.
  • Last supported edition: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• 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:

Noteworthy/developed 'homebrew' settings

• Uberstadt
• The Unified Setting for /tg/