I'm sick to death of dwarves, elves, halflings, and gnomes!

[Geoffrey]

Why does every single campaign setting for D&D have to have all (or at least most) of these guys in it?

Greyhawk--has them all
Forgotten Realms--has them all
Kalamar--has them all
Ravenloft--has them all
Scarred Lands--has them all (except for gnomes)
After Winter Dark--has them all
etc.

I was excited when Nyambe came out, thinking these over-warmed fellows at least wouldn't be in an African setting. Wrong. There they all are!

I am so tired of the re-re-re-re-re-rehashing of these Tolkien refugees. Please, some d20 designers out there, give them a rest! The most innovative thing you could make would be a setting without yet more of these guys in it. (And slightly altered dwarves, elves, etc. don't count--they're still overused.)

I want either all-human settings, or something along the lines of Tekumel or Talislanta. I most certainly never, ever want to see Campaign Setting #47 with Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, and Gnomes. We already had more than enough of that fifteen years ago.

 

[Mistwell]

You might enjoy the Tellos series of comic books. It outlines a world FULL of strange races.

 

[Utrecht]

Then again, you might as well ask for a seeting without swords or magic. - You just have to accept the fact that in order for a setting to be accpetable to the mainstream audience they have to have the demi-humans.

Or you could simply homebrew a world and make them go away......

 

[Michael Sorensen]

Pick up Oathbound from Bastion Press. Barely a mention of elves, dwarves, gnomes, or halflings is to be found in the book, and even those can be easily ignored. Plus, there is a bunch of really cool new races in there, and it is a great campaign settings.

Buy it! Buy it now!

 

[Maerdwyn]

Rokugan?

 

[Dragongirl]

How about those damn humans? Why the heck do we have to have them in every single campaign world? So sick of those short lived, easily swayed humans!!!!!!!

 

[Dragongirl]

By the way, there were no gnomes in Tolkein's books.

 

[Enforcer]

I'll second Rokugan as a setting without the typical races (aside from humans, of course).

Also the Wheel of Time RPG has only two races: human and ogier (pronounced as "ogre" in case you didn't know).

 

[boothbey]

You could always play Star Wars. No elves, gnomes, halflings, or dwarves in there. Or if there are, they are cleverly disguised with prosthetic makeup or an abundance of fur/scales/goo.

 

[Dragongirl]

Star Wars? No Gnomes? What the heck do you think Jawas are? They are just Krynn tinker gnomes in robes.