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<blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 741330" data-attributes="member: 1016">Reading this thread fresh has given me a new perspective. You can read that some of these comments imply that elves get to be high level just by virtue of long life ... and just going about your business, which sort of contradicts the basic premise of XP in all editions of DnD. You don't get XP unless you overcome challenges (and in some editions, amass wealth), not just by standing around and growing old.Unless a GM assigns XP for training oneself all day, then the only people gaining levels by viture of doing their job are the &quot;NPC&quot; classes, such as Expert, Adept, Arisotcrat and Warrior, though I haven't read up yet how those NPC classes get XP.Depending on how far you want to take it, this does make sense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> A elven NPC class with centuries of experience routinely beats his human competitors. So how does the human race stop from being puppets of the elves? Ah! those crazy, impulsive humans have a lot of more people and it seems that quite a few of them are ready to throw their short, short lives away in challenges and adventures.The real answer is that humans are on top not becasue there are a 100 of them to 1 elf. The truth is that the humans have 10 adventurers with substatial classes compared to every 2 elves. And of those 2 fey folk, one has an NPC class is still alive and the other had a real class, but he died in that last great War of the Heavens that was only a few centuries ago. It was truely a pity, that young one was only 400 years old and he threw it all away in 50 years of dangerous living with those epheral humans. Well, at least he didn't make a whiny half-breed with a human woman. *shudder*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voneth, post: 741330, member: 1016"] Reading this thread fresh has given me a new perspective. You can read that some of these comments imply that elves get to be high level just by virtue of long life ... and just going about your business, which sort of contradicts the basic premise of XP in all editions of DnD. You don't get XP unless you overcome challenges (and in some editions, amass wealth), not just by standing around and growing old. Unless a GM assigns XP for training oneself all day, then the only people gaining levels by viture of doing their job are the "NPC" classes, such as Expert, Adept, Arisotcrat and Warrior, though I haven't read up yet how those NPC classes get XP. Depending on how far you want to take it, this does make sense. :) A elven NPC class with centuries of experience routinely beats his human competitors. So how does the human race stop from being puppets of the elves? Ah! those crazy, impulsive humans have a lot of more people and it seems that quite a few of them are ready to throw their short, short lives away in challenges and adventures. The real answer is that humans are on top not becasue there are a 100 of them to 1 elf. The truth is that the humans have 10 adventurers with substatial classes compared to every 2 elves. And of those 2 fey folk, one has an NPC class is still alive and the other had a real class, but he died in that last great War of the Heavens that was only a few centuries ago. It was truely a pity, that young one was only 400 years old and he threw it all away in 50 years of dangerous living with those epheral humans. Well, at least he didn't make a whiny half-breed with a human woman. *shudder* [/QUOTE]

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