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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairfoot" data-source="post: 2877226" data-attributes="member: 23732">There needs to be a smiley which indicates the hand-pressed-to-forehead motion people make when they explain a point as thoroughly and succinctly as possible, but it's still heard as something completely different to what they said.Elves are made up.  By humans.  They do not exist.  Therefore, no-one can claim that (if they were a fact of real world life) elves, dwarves, gnomes, devils, or any other fictional species would look, act, think, feel, and relate precisely the way it is depicted in game/book/movie/series/computer game/vivid dream X.They might, certainly.  But it defies all belief that I'm being taken apart for stating that if something which doesn't exist did, it might be different to the way it's imagined.MM, PHB, Tolkien, Nintendo, or any other person, company, cult, or god which may render these species in future do not come into it.  The point was not how they function in a game, but what they would be like if realised.If I'm wrong, don't waste time arguing.  Get out there there and describe precisely how technology which doesn't exist works, so that we can have it now, instead of waiting for it to exist.  Cold fusion would be good.Ooh, ooh!  Better yet, create a holodeck.  If it's been imagined and depicted in fiction, its exact nature and ramifications should be patent.</blockquote>