Annoying Elves

[Percivellian]

Hi-

Playing in Joe K's Shackeled City campaign and we have this one guy play an elf Wizard, he plays the elf as a real snob and know it all. Plus he compares all non elves to monkeys. Is this annoying? Should we kill the elf and take his money? How are elves played in your games?

thanks

Scott

You should suggest that the DM curse him with being polymorphed into a monkey, then take your time finding a cure.

 

[Demmero]

Hi-

Playing in Joe K's Shackeled City campaign and we have this one guy play an elf Wizard, he plays the elf as a real snob and know it all. Plus he compares all non elves to monkeys. Is this annoying? Should we kill the elf and take his money? How are elves played in your games?

thanks

Scott

I'd turn on Fox, wait until "When Monkeys Attack" comes on, and then see if anything registered in the little bit of gray matter between the guy's two pointy ears.

 

[StupidSmurf]

Some elves are arrogant, sure. Others are merely quiet and contemplative. Our Forgotten Realms party has a pair of Wood Elf Rangers, and they're the quiet, tracking, hell-on-wheels-with-a-longbow type of elves.

And it's just their luck that the party is adventuring in and around the Nether Mountains. Anyone of you familiar with it? It's positively swarming with:

Orc war-bands....and we all know how they feel about elves

Tanarukk war-bands...orc/demon crossbreeds who are 10 times more hideous than regular orce, and who also, yes, despise elves in particular

Fey'Ri parties...gold elf/demon crossbreeds who go out of their way to destroy all other elves.

Not a good time to be an elf in my campaign.....

 

[Psychic Warrior]

THis is another reason i like the Scarred Lands as a campaign setting. The elves have had some horrible things happen to them (the 'high' elves god is dead and the 'wood' elves goddess is human) as a result the enitre race has had their world turned upside down. They have become debased and indolent. Slavery in the formerly high elven nations is rampant and half elves are abundant (the death of their god as well as a curse by a dying titan has prevented the high elf race from breeding with each other). The rightfully earn the name 'Forsaken'.

The sterotypical arrogant elf is a cliche that i had thought dissappeared long ago. i just don't see it very often anymore. maybe that makes it new again?

 

[Crothian]

THis is another reason i like the Scarred Lands as a campaign setting.

People can't be annoying in it??

 

[Funeris]

In my campaign...the elves can't be (for the most part) jerks with superiority complexes. They've been forced into the woods...hunted nearly to extinction...and treated with extreme prejudice in all instances. Humans (as a whole) are quite intolerant and untrusting of the pointy-eared ones...and their monothesitic church (the government) constantly wages a propaganda war against the elves. The church also says genocide of the elf race would be in the best interest of the world.

It's no wonder I get the paranoid-untrusting-racist-elves.

~Fune

 

[JoeGKushner]

You should suggest that the DM curse him with being polymorphed into a monkey, then take your time finding a cure.

Well, the elf recently did just insult a priestess of Wee Jas after coming to her for aid and demanding her assistance. Of course she helped, but only after increasing the cost of the spell used...

Now perhaps it's time for a curse...

 

[jdrakeh]

That's awesome!! It'd be great if I could get a player to do something like that. That's good personality, harmless conflict, and plenty of ways for a DM to have fun with that. Joe is lucky to have such a creative player in his group and I think you all should engage him in some good role playing.

I largely agreee, but... if the Elf in question has a high Charisma score, then being an egotistical, snobby, !@#$! that nobody could hope to like is actually way out of character (regardless of whether or not he looks like Fabio). If this is the case, he should either reign in that attitude or the DM should knock a few points off of the Elf's Charisma score so that it reflects the completely reprehensible, elitist, snob that the player is portraying.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I largely agreee, but... if the Elf in question has a high Charisma score, then being an egotistical, snobby, !@#$! that nobody could hope to like is actually way out of character (regardless of whether or not he looks like Fabio). If this is the case, he should either reign in that attitude or the DM should knock a few points off of the Elf's Charisma score so that it reflects the completely reprehensible, elitist, snob that the player is portraying.

I haven't knocked any points off his Charisma score but he does often have penalties when trying to charm people using... poor language.

 

[jdrakeh]

I haven't knocked any points off his Charisma score but he does often have penalties when trying to charm people using... poor language.

That works just as well, I imagine (possibly better, as it allows for more flexibility).