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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkCrisis" data-source="post: 9716165" data-attributes="member: 1788">I started D&D in 2E.  Pretty much all of D&Ding I prefer the basic Tolkien species.  Elves Dwarves Humans etc.Played WoW and yeah cow people and goblins and Orcs and whatever as PCs.Yeah ive read all the official an unofficial splat books on monster races.Even modern D&D with Dragonborn and Tieflings. Ugh.Then I started reading (audiobook listening) to a series called The Wandering Inn.  I fell in love with it immediately.  In no small thanks to the incredible narrator.The story is basically a girl named Erin (and many other Earthlings) are magically teleported to a Fantasy World.  Oddly enough people have classes they can level in.  Anything from Innkeeper to Seamstress to Soldier to Priest.  The locals don't question it but Erin and the other humans do.  Is it the gods manipulating things or some other force?  Are they in a video game (they aren't FYI).She appears near an Inn and starts to run it.  Erin is a very good person and I think why I like it so much is our real world sucks huge ass lately and she's just a little ray of sunshine.  See also the new Superman movie.She appears in a location primarily the home of Gnolls and Drakes, and humans are a minority.  She has a rough starting out by soon she's got the Inn up an running and things start spiraling into adventures.  She and her friend accidently introduce a lot of Earth stuff to this new world.  Like rock music and pizza.  And even a new religion (oops).There is a ton of world building.  This book even made me weep for a Ghoul.  A GHOUL.A tribe of Goblins live nearby and are considered a pest to be killed.  Many many chapters are dedicated to the Goblins and why they are they way they are and them trying to rise above and gain better status.  Not to mention back lore about how they used to be more well thought of until The Goblin Lord tried to conquer the land. There is even stuff about a great war with an insect species that's also trying to do better (or are they??!?!)I can't express how much I have been enjoying this series and yeah I know try to get my players to play non-Tolkien species.  Even stuff like Thri-Kreen.  Current group has 1 human.  The other 3 are Goblin, H-Orc, and Kobold.So yeah, it's opened my eyes to "monster species".  Better late than never, I suppose.Also read The Wandering Inn series.  It's fantastic.</blockquote>

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