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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9364711" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I wasn't including those species in the "major peoples of the Material Plane," by which I meant elves, dwarves, humans, and halflings, which I thought would be clear from context, my bad. It's unclear in my mind, for instance, how long goblins live. They could be nearly as immortal as elves or have shorter lifespans depending on their breeding.I like to use the maximum age ranges given for elves in D&D as the age by which an elf must depart into the Feywild or fade if they remain on the Material Plane.Sure, I mean there could be settings where humans aren't even present or are newcome into a world dominated by older peoples. Generally though, I think of D&D settings as inhabiting an imaginary time that precedes a time more like our own, in which humans are the sole or at least dominant sentient people. Typically, for instance, elves and dwarves are depicted as having preceded the existence of humans.My title is intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek and has a double meaning. I make no secret of being a fan of JRR Tolkien, and it's a play on his unofficial title, Master of Middle-earth, to which I've merely added the word dungeon. I also consider the name Middle-earth to carry the same meaning as Midgard. I.e. the inhabitable world of mankind in which you and I both live. In that way, it can be said I am a DM in Middle-earth. I've never actually run a D&D game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth (the closest I've come was running MERP), but I use his tropes as sort of a default for my D&D games. With respect, I'm not sure what criteria you're using to determine what does or doesn't constitute "a D&D setting", but I would think there've been numerous games of D&D set in Middle-earth as described by Tolkien.</blockquote>

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