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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 4147638" data-attributes="member: 70">I've got or have had all of these.  I'm not going to answer all those questions, though.  In short: I sold KoK and Blackmoor.  Neither excited me.  Nothing excited me.  In fact, the "realism" that proponents of KoK celebrate was one of its drawbacks to me.  It just didn't stand out.  Blackmoor was nice, but nothing special.Mindshadows: is a mini-setting from Green Ronin; it's a quasi-Indian setting focused on psionics.  There's not alot of material out for it - essentially, just the one rather slim book.  Doesn't sound like what you're looking for, IMO.  On the other hand, you can really make it your own.Iron Kingdoms: Quite a bit of support for this, and quite a few fans.  Again, personally, it never caught for me. I can't get past the mecha.  And the guns.Wilderlands of High Fantasy:  I don't have the whole boxed set, just the slender campaign guide.  Wide open potential.  It -is- very sword and sorcery, but you could easily make it high fantasy.  Great setting.  I'd love to get the set someday.  Very, very, iconic - elves are elves, dwarves are dwarves, and so on.Dawnforge - My favorite published setting, no question.  I'm "eh" on the magic thing, but the setting and themes are great.  Support is limited to the main book, one adventure book, and one "companion" book.  That's not a problem, it's a feature!  Low buy-in cost!!  Customizable!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Scarred Lands - I didn't like this one either, but I've gotten back into it, and I'll admit - it's really growing on me.  It's got a great central conflict - titans vs gods - that can go either way.  The characters can be druids (servants of the titans) or clerics (of the gods).  You can run it as high fantasy or low fantasy.  There are two fairly well developed continents to explore (Ghelsphad and Termana) and three lesser ones (covered in Strange Lands, the final Scarred Lands product).  There's probably more material out there for SL than any other 3e setting except FR and KoK.  And if you're not afraid of buying pdf, it's cheap.  EVERY Scarred Lands product except Relics & Rituals and the Creature Collections is $4.99 or less at RPGNow/ENWorld/DriveThruRPG.  The Relics&Rituals books and the Creature Collections are $9.99.  So you can get the Ghelspad hardcover, Termana hardcover, and Strange Lands hardcover for $15.  (not the gazetteers; those are 48 page overviews for $4.48).  I know I sound like a furniture salesman, but that's an incredibly good deal.  Looking back over your questions -- nonhumans in the Scarred Lands are pretty iconic.  There's room for everything and then some.  It's a fairly straightforward fantasy world with a really, really good hook or twist.  A few other quick notes: I have Warlords of the Accordlands; nothing special, alas.  For rules tweaks and some other cool stuff, I actually like the World of Warcraft RPG.  Relics & Rituals: Excalibur and Relics & Rituals: Olympus are also really good books for jazzing up the high fantasy in your world, particularly Excalibur.  Neither has any relation to the Scarred Lands.</blockquote>

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