How many elves are too many elves?
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
What do you mean what will we hunt? We'll hunt what we've always hunted. Gnomes.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
This is what I was going to say, if it had not already been said. So we need an elven variant for every real world human cultural and regional variation, both current and extinct. Of course, this is also why I do not like Drow as a player race because of the obvious comparison some people make with the superficialness of skin color. Is there even a dark-skinned elf race anywhere in D&D that is not evil and not Drow?
pogre
Legend
Well, yes, on Wednesdays - but, what about the rest of the week?!
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
What is that from, I don't recognise the names, is it Greyhawk?
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
Tolkien.
Hriston
Dungeon Master of Middle-earth
Yes, it's from the Silmarillion. I'm not sure if this chart was created by Christopher Tolkien or his father, but my point is the way Tolkien presented his elves as having split into many groups influenced how they are presented in D&D.
edit to add: That being said, I think High Elf and Wood Elf covers it pretty well. And I guess they had to include Drow because D&D.
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