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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 796710" data-attributes="member: 990">My current campaign world has no elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes or orcs.The only playable race is human.  There are also a minotaur race, a lizard people race, a shapeshifter race and a mysterious race of flying humanoids that no one in living memory has seen.  The players half believe that they're mythological.I don't really miss the other races, especially the elves and gnomes, which will never darken my table, ever.  My players have inadvertantly planes-hopped once, and will probably end up doing it again soon.  When they do, they might find other races, just not elves and gnomes.In the online game I used to run, the elves had all mysteriously disappeared 500 years ago, leaving behind thousands of half-elf slaves.  These half-elves were given their own country and all half-elves in the world were automatically welcome there as citizens.  They tended to have a bit of a chip on their collective shoulder about their past, and all refused to do unskilled manual labor, since it reminded them of their slave past.  Instead they were artists, skilled craftsmen, scholars and adventurers.  All the unskilled manual labor in their kingdom was performed by "guest workers" or by magic.</blockquote>