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You have to decide if the rulers are tier-5 adventurer class or tier-3+ administrators. Are these Vecna-type conquerors or are they adventurers who don't want to be stuck with the pain of rulership? Both are feasible in different regions. The Greek-esque land can have bloodline kings with...

Arvandor was a celestial realm created by Correlon Lorathian for elves in FR lore. Arborea is as good as any place for it. I'm not surprised it appeared in Planescape, FR was open to multiple material planes and travel to the wider multiverse, unlike Eberron or Krynn.

I'm going to repeat what others have said, that 5e uses different rules for PCs and NPCs. Specifically, there are no rules for NPC advancement, NPCs may not even use levels, and yet NPCs can have capabilities greater than an level 1 PC, so we're past the days of Level-0 npcs. This is all...

Arvandor is a Faerun specific thing. I don't see any mention of it in 5e core books. Its definitely not in Eberron or Krynn and pretty sure it's not Greyhawk. So that particular view of elven society is setting specific, even within WotC lore. Their lifespan, trance, and physical maturity...

Going back to "Elves are Methuselah", this has the greatest chance of being why the world is the way it is. Humans (or other century races) start having societal break throughs, accumulate generational wealth and start to look like a new Atlantis and the "Great Elven Conspiracy" goes to knock...

It depends on what the other forces in the cosmos are like. The default theory in d&d is that while mountain-leveling gods/demons/elementals exist, they are somehow inhibited from entering the "kid zone" of mortals. Is it like Eberron, where these powerful types are running around closing...

I'm not going to derail this with a real world economics discussion, but generational wealth and community-provided services are massive drivers in actual wealth, usually because these are what provides the mechanisms to teach humans those skills. I will tie this back to in-game by pointing out...

I'm going to use this as an opportunity to harp on something. YOU JUST DESCRIBED ELVES. THIS IS EVERY ELF. It takes a human 6 clones to match the typical elven lifespan. Every game should treat elves like methusaleh. I mean, an elf can save for 500 years to get a clone. If they do things...

Elves could maybe be post-scarcity. They do spend a human lifespan to figure out how to be functional adults. But post scarcity is in conflict with human nature. We could be in a near post-scarcity world now if 50% of the world's wealth wasn't in the hands of 1% of the populace. Halflings...

Depends on those high-level casters. Mass Heal can cure 700 people of diseases/poisons/blindness/deafness by giving each 1hp. (5.5 has no diseases any more, just poisoned). In a week a caster could cure ~5,000 people with that one spell. They would have their 1st-8th level spells to...

I'd start with thinking about cantrips and low level spells on the base society. Given that 5.5e makes staves with cantrips very cheap, these will be owned by communities, whether that is the form of nobility, council of elders or elected officials. The wealthy will have their own golf bag of...

I will point out that is a matter of editions and game systems. 3E and 3.5E DMG had default demographics that provided norms what percentage of a populace was of each class and level. You can ignore those values, but they are the norm for "vanilla" 3E settings. Eberron is the non-enforced...

The problem here is Medusa wasn't the only gorgon. She had two sisters who could also turn people to stone. Nothing prevents her parents from having other gorgons, or even the three gorgons giving birth to other gorgons. I mean, Medusa had two offspring posthumously (a winged horse and a...

...and other golems created elsewhere in folklore. The Sefer Yetzira dates back to the 10th century and has purported directions to create a golem. Some texts refer to Adam existing as a golem prior to being given a soul. So Medusa is a specific, unique being who was given her name by her...

If Medusa was born of greek gods, then her blood turning into a winged horse is due to her parents divinely weird genetics. Cetus and Phorcys spat out everything; beautiful nymphs, gorgons, the Graeae and a bunch of sea monsters. And sometimes when you chopped up one of their kids, a couple of...

White wolf is mechanically a derivative of Shadowrun. Pretty sure it was Tom Dowd who designed the dice pool system for WW after working on SR1.

Medusa was not the only gorgon nor was Medusa universally given as being cursed, that shows up much later. She is more often said to be born to the same divine parents as the immortal gorgons, Stheno and Euryale, but born mortal. Much like some sometimes in a group of dryad sisters there will...

It's the definition of the word. Like "all mares are females" or "all bulls are male". The superset of "dryad" is "goddess" which rolls up to "divinity". Nymphs are minor female nature divinities, usually bound to a place or type of feature. Dryads are a subset of nymphs tied to trees...

IMC elves are the fey equivalent of tieflings; they were humans who mated with true fey and became a stable lineage.

I am always angered by "Medusas." That is like "Draculas". Medusa was a gorgon, Dracula is a vampire. Euryale was another gorgon. Her father the God of Sea Hazards, her Mother was the Goddess of Sea Monsters. She was raised under the sea.