Your favourite fantasy world?

[Smaack]

I think the world from Malazan Book of the Fallen is amazing. I love the multitude of different continents. The world just feels huge to me.

[Falconius]

Yeah the Malazan one is really great, though I find following the jump from book to book very confusing, unless you read them all in a row perhaps, whioch I've never done.

2. Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Lyonesse

Got to second that one. Mostly because Vance didn't really bother that much, it was a simply an empty canvas for him to create brilliant stories and the world just flows into and out of them, so it ends up being brilliant as well.

I like the world from the dragon lance series because I read a book about a Minotaur once. And one about a black smith/warrior (was it the same one?).

One of my favorites is of course Darksun. It's an archetype and a really good one.

Also Narnia. Really one of the best series ever so how could one not include it?

[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.

[Falconius]

Haha, yeah it's a series that is very inconsistent from book to book. Deadhouse Gates was the best though, (there were a couple more that came close).

[Jariik]

My favorite was the world presented in the First Avatar: Avatar Wan episodes of LoK. The time taken to create a very different style of animation, and present a mythical world warrants far more exploration than it has thus far received.

[Daistallia]

Professor Barker's Tekumel!

[damonjynx]

Not worlds, as such, because for me it's hard to distinguish the settings from the stories.

R.E Howard's, Conan
Moorcocks, Eternal Champion Series, particularly Elric & Hawkmoon's worlds.
Lieber's Lankhmar
Tolkien's Middle Earth, of course.

For games, MRQII Elric, Faerun, I liked the Dragonlance setting from the books but never played in it, Ebberon and Golarion.

[atomikdog]

So many great ones. Someone make a poll?

I would vote for REH's Hyboria, Tolkien's Middle Earth, Lieber's Lankhmar, and Burrough's Mars.

Some recent additions might be:
Bas-Lag - Mieville
Eberron - DnD
Tamriel / Skyrim
The Trisolaris world in Remembrance of Earth's Past - Liu Cixin

And just to keep it all intellectual...
Invisible Cities - Calvino