Thunder Rift was a well-developed campaign setting for D&D of the early Nineties. This was the time of the large black box edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Thunder Rift was an isolated valley bordered on all sides by nearly-impassable mountains. It was a “points of light” setting, just a few settlements amid untamed wilderness for low-level characters to explore.
Thunder Rift deserved its own box set, but it was not to be. Dungeons & Dragons never got the bounty of fancy campaign setting boxes like its brother AD&D (Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, Planescape, and plenty more).
The Thunder Rift setting was well-supported, with a number of modules (and, yes, box sets… just not a “setting box set”).

Thunder Rift items in the shop
Thunder Rift product line in description and photos at my RPG reference

Thunder Rift
1992 … Colin McComb … 32 pages + poster map … TSR 9350 … ISBN 1560763817
DriveThruRPG ( PDF – $5 )
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Thunder Rift is a full sourcebook to the setting. Just enough info to work from, without burying the DM in minutae.
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Thunder Rift with locations of the official adventures

See The Piazza’s list of official adventures for Thunder Rift. Note there is a full Thunderrift forum there, with lots of info and user-created content!
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