What is your favorite setting?

What is your favorite setting?

Why?

What are some things that make a setting instantly better?

Eclipse Phase. It's a compelling firm Scifi setting that's very well thought out, and makes nazis buttpained.

I like Stars Without Number's standard/default setting.

Enough of a framework to be easy to work with, generic enough that you can use any themes you want to apply to it and the system itself gives the GM his own minigame he can play, but is completely optional, between sessions to help it feel like a living star cluster.

The fact that I'm a sucker for OSR style games also helps, probably.

I don't have one. Or at least none springs to mind. Always played in custom settings though.

I guess the real world as a setting, since it's the measuring stick every setting is weighed against.

>makes nazis buttpained
How's that?
Everything I've seen from eclipse phase seemed like transhuman/furry porn without logic or reason.

Exalted. It's an example of a mythic setting largely untainted by modern ideas, at least in 1E. Heroes are larger than life people who worked their asses off to accomplish legendary deeds, they aren't paragons of morality. They're usually the opposite: power corrupts. People who don't to deserve suffer often get utterly fucked over and the weak do fear the strong. It makes righteous deeds and saviors so much more delectable when they aren't expected by anybody. Something that would make many settings better is internal consistency of logic and tone, which is another thing that makes Exalted 1E pretty sweet.

I got to second the setting. It's pretty nice and depending on the GM it can give you one of the best scifi tabletop experiences out there.

My favorite setting would have to be either Greyhawk or Dark Sun, for the sheer nostalgia. I feel like a proper setting needs plenty of ruins from an ancient and mysterious precursor civilization, and I like it when the setting's gods are far away, and standoffish but their followers nonetheless influence the world, and magic is subtle in the vein of curses and whatnot. That, and historically accurate firearms, armor, and medicine are essential. That's just my opinion though, I'm GMing a group of blaster casters and plate armored knights in a dark age setting, and we've been having a blast so far.

Maybe if they're thin-skinned, I'm NatSoc and I'm partial to Eclipse Phase.

>transhuman furry porn

You could certainly use the setting to facilitate that but that's farrrrrr from its intended form. Eclipse Phase is set in our star system after a tech-singularity nearly wiped out humanity, a number of AIs bucked their restraints and either tried to kill us or use us for bizarre purposes we couldn't even hope to understand. Most of those AIs are gone, we've settled Mars, the moons of Jupiter, the asteroid belt, and various other places, and new models of society have adapted. These are hypothetical and trigger the shit out of the /pol/acks that occasionally wander over to our board because most of them are extremely left wing. The overall gist of the setting is meant to be like a hybrid of Cyberpunk 2020 and Call of Cthulhu, due to AI remnants and hyper advanced warfare occasionally causing shitstorms.

I know it's not the best written (frankly, it's kinda bad in places), but I have a nostalgic attachment to the WoW/Warcraft universe. Those games have carried me through a lot of bad shit.

Assuming we mean tabletop, I'd have to say 40k, though I don't have too much experience with other settings -- maybe a bit of Shadowrun and Exalted. What I don't like about Shadowrun, I suppose, is that I feel it's way too preachy -- and, honestly, that the lore is even more confusing than 40k. I feel like 40k can get away with being weird shit because it's pretty detached from reality even in the beginning of its history, whereas a setting like Shadowrun is a bit too close to home for me to take it seriously. I don't know that I have any objective reasons for 40k being my favourite -- I just feel that it provides me a lot of wiggle room to do the shit I like with all my characters in, but it definitely suffers from GW not controlling their writers well.

But Nazis are left wing, they support government control of industry, banking, and education, and are for socialized welfare. It's where the Socialist part of National Socialist comes from, I'm a Democratic Socialist and I don't agree with their morals, but they had the right idea with their economics. Also, populations genetically enhancing themselves is Nazi as fuck.