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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 2322493" data-attributes="member: 8713">Fealak:I would heartily recommend getting ahold of Volume 10 of the History of Middle-earth series, as well as The Complete Guide to Middle-earth.  It puts a lot of the information you need to determine racial traits into a more digestible form, thus making it easier to judge which abilities make sense for which races.Your write-ups look pretty neat, except for a few things.First thing's first: I would give the Noldor a bonus to Intelligence before I'd give them one to Strength.  Though they can make powerful and valiant warriors, they have an even greater affinity for craftsmanship and lore.  In addition, they have an unparalleled love and gift for languages.  This suggests that they have, on average, a higher Intelligence score than other Elves.  It's not just greater knowledge and experience.  Tolkien implies that they simply have more powerful gray matter than everybody else.Second, I wouldn't limit the Craft bonus to blacksmithing.  Their primary talent lies with gem-cutting.  In addition, amongst other things, they have also been adept with copper, silver, and fabric.  This suggests their knack for craftsmanship is more generalized.  Perhaps a racial bonus to any one Craft skill would suffice.Second: The Sindar and the Silvan Elves are two different peoples.  They just tend to live together a bit more often, especially in Mirkwood and Lothlorien (at least, in LotR; they were everywhere in the Silmarillion).  They both descend from the Teleri, but they split up early in their history and developed into different cultures.  Before the return of the Noldor, the Sindar were the most powerful Elves in Middle-earth, and it is they who were more or less the rulers.  The Silvan Elves were pretty much content to live close to nature and do their thing.  All Teleri were good singers (bonus to Perform (Sing) checks, perhaps), and the Sindar in particular had a talent for making and sailing ships.  The Silvan Elves, though, had the greatest knowledge of and affinity for living things (bonus to Handle Animal, Knowledge (nature), Ride, and/or Survival? Or even Wild Empathy as a racial trait?).I would nix the Charisma bonus for Silvan Elves since, though easy on the eyes, they don't have particularly forceful personalities as a rule.The Charisma bonuses for Sindar and Noldor, however, are right on.  The Dexterity bonus for elves is good too.  The Wisdom bonus is a good addition too.  I know where Inner Light comes from, but I think a better way of doing it would be to give Noldor the paladin's Divine Grace ability (applicable only to Fortitude and Will saves) as a racial trait.  This might bump up the LA, but for the Noldor it makes a lot of sense.Strangely enough, though, The Hobbit does have sleeping elves.  They were really drunk, though.  So perhaps you could change immunity to resistance to keep things at a manageable LA?</blockquote>

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