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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 735474" data-attributes="member: 1328">Everyone knows indeed that pregnancy, menstruation, childhood and sleep length are directly related to life expectancy. Yeah. That's why elves have invented trance, because their normal sleep period is not 8 hours, but 72 hours (for 16 hours of activity).Now, if you consider that, that would loveably explains why elves don't do anything...But, to turn my sarcasm on other things: the reasonning one could have with elves taking over the world because they're long lived, one could apply it also to, say, dragons, fiends, celestials, illithids elder brains...Elves are chaotic good, so they don't want much autority, neither from other on them nor from them on others. Except in the Forgotten Realms were Chaotic Good is the elven way of saying Lawful Evil. They are interested by all things of beauty, spend their days and nights looking at the flight of hummingbirds and hearing the lovesong of nightingales. When they are not going rough-and-tumble with nymphs and satyrs and other guests. They also spend the greater party of day washing and perfuming themselves and brushing and combing their hair.These activities give them neither the time nor the seriousness to exert autority on other races.If there was a humanoid race to take over the world, it would be the dwarves. They are long-lived the same; but they are stern and serious, totally devoted to their clan and the ideal of work, and most of them are lawful good, the perfect alignment for just autority. (My theory is that a perfect society in D&amp;D terms would have a LG government and CG citizens.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 735474, member: 1328"] Everyone knows indeed that pregnancy, menstruation, childhood and sleep length are directly related to life expectancy. Yeah. That's why elves have invented trance, because their normal sleep period is not 8 hours, but 72 hours (for 16 hours of activity). Now, if you consider that, that would loveably explains why elves don't do anything... But, to turn my sarcasm on other things: the reasonning one could have with elves taking over the world because they're long lived, one could apply it also to, say, dragons, fiends, celestials, illithids elder brains... Elves are chaotic good, so they don't want much autority, neither from other on them nor from them on others. Except in the Forgotten Realms were Chaotic Good is the elven way of saying Lawful Evil. They are interested by all things of beauty, spend their days and nights looking at the flight of hummingbirds and hearing the lovesong of nightingales. When they are not going rough-and-tumble with nymphs and satyrs and other guests. They also spend the greater party of day washing and perfuming themselves and brushing and combing their hair. These activities give them neither the time nor the seriousness to exert autority on other races. If there was a humanoid race to take over the world, it would be the dwarves. They are long-lived the same; but they are stern and serious, totally devoted to their clan and the ideal of work, and most of them are lawful good, the perfect alignment for just autority. (My theory is that a perfect society in D&D terms would have a LG government and CG citizens.) [/QUOTE]

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