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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 426111" data-attributes="member: 1328">It is silly. With the exception of Truly Weird Things(tm) (Ooze, Outsiders, Undead, some (but not all) Aberrations) everything sleep.Furthermore, elves boast some connections to nature and to the fey, but if they can't sleep; they can't dream; and in my book, this is an unnatural thing that make them abhorent to the fey.However, I just consider that this "trance" thing is a special technique, sort of a zen meditation thing, they learn during their childhood (after all, they can't be so dumb they need one whole century to learn how to walk and speak, they must[/i) spend some time learning other things) and used during travels (so as to reduce the length of time they're helpless in unsheltered places) and when they feel a bit confused about their long, chaotic life in their head.This way, it is less stupid and can actually make some sense. IMO, elves are naturally creatures of the present (outside of the Middle-Earth, I don't like the Tolkien vision of them as creatures of the past) and thus live in the present; having long life and short memory. Their mind naturally match their body, making them eternal adolescents. This also explain why they need so much more time than other races to learn things (just compare the amount of time a stupid half-orc need to train as a first level wizard with the amount of time an elf need for the same thing). However, at a time of their history, they once discovered this trance technique that allowed them to reawaken old memories; and only then they could achieve great things.About 2e, the reverie thing is among one of the numerous things that made me heavily dislike the CBoE. Other complete books just added some background infos and munchkin kits. This one added loots of kewl powah to all elves (immune to diseases (despite their low con!), immune to temperature change (yet able to detect the slightiest change!), unbreakable and "uncrackable" telepathic communications at will, and so on). Hapifully, most of that crap has been removed in 3e. Sadly, they keeped the reverie, although in a less twink version.</blockquote>

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