Your favourite fantasy world?

[bartmoss]

Amber. No Contest.
Also:
Graybox FR (but soon after it turned to a messy hodge-podge).
Thousand and one night - the setting everybody associates it, not any particular written down version of it.

[Mr_potato_head]

I really enjoyed Ravenloft. I liked the horror themed campaign world. This was also a bit before the current zombie apocolypse craze, so it was kind of interesting at the time.

[Diamond]

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. Thieves' World
2. Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Lyonesse
3. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
4. Earwa (Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series)
5. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn

Earwa especially is just so freakin' realistic, and extra geeks points to Bakker for including a 100+ page glossary/encyclopedia in the third book, The Thousandfold Thought.

[Eilathen]

4. Earwa (Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series)

Earwa especially is just so freakin' realistic, and extra geeks points to Bakker for including a 100+ page glossary/encyclopedia in the third book, The Thousandfold Thought.

Well, it seems even in fictional worlds of others we have the same taste And i looooved that glossary.

You should really try Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. A very good novel with very deep and compelling worldbuilding!

So here is my list (in no particular order) :

World of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (by S. Erikson)
Earwa (Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker)

and, naturally, the still unconquered King of Worldbuilding and Myth

Middle-Earth (by J.R.R. Tolkien)

[Diamond]

I've tried three different times to read Gardens of the Moon by Erikson, and... I just couldn't do it.

[Eilathen]

I've tried three different times to read Gardens of the Moon by Erikson, and... I just couldn't do it.

Yeah, GotM is a hurdle for many. Around page 200 it really picked up (at least for me). Well, i can only encourage you to try again...because it is a wild ride. And i think as a fellow rpg-er and worldbuilder, you'd really appreciate all the depth in the 10 books that is the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I was blown away by it. It's true, though...Erikson is a writer that really embodies the "show, do not tell" style. He really does not make it easy on the reader...you have to dig in and discover everything for yourself, he is never just flat out telling you important things about his world. But the depth and mythic power of his creation is really something.

Erikson is my top fantasy author to date. Bakker is close but much more ordinary in his worldbuilding and story.

[Majere_Draven]

Besides My own Effed up Fantasy world in my head.
I really love Pern, Dragonlance(krynn). And I think that's about it. Tattooine has good back story that isn't really apparent.

[Falconius]

I've tried three different times to read Gardens of the Moon by Erikson, and... I just couldn't do it.

Don't start with Gardens of the Moon, start with the one after it, Deadhouse Gates.

[Propaganda Bot]

Azeroth. Hands down. I grew up with the Warcraft universe as well as participated in a WC3 RP community for quite sometime. I've also spent many hours of my life playing WoW, so I have a slight bias to justify the time investment.

[Diamond]

Don't start with Gardens of the Moon, start with the one after it, Deadhouse Gates.

I did finally read Gardens and then Deadhouse Gates (which was AWESOME). But I stalled out about 80 pages into the third one and haven't picked it up in months.