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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SylverFlame" data-source="post: 766797" data-attributes="member: 8423">In the FR book Evermeet (a novel) it explains that elves are ageless, though they still recieve aging effects (wrinkles, stat changes, etc.) only VERY slowly. They only "pass on" when they choose to make that move or they are killed. Choosing to move on is like meditation in the book where the elf turns into light and disappears. Pretty cool effect.As for birth rates... I look to the Kinslayer Wars trilogy of Dragon Lance. In that the elven king and queen of Silvanost have two kids, and at one point they mention that that is a lot considering the parents are both around 1000 years old (I can't remember if that's accurate).As for actual chance of fertilization, I just make it a 20% chance every ten years and cap the family at 3 or 4 kids over a period of around 2000-3000 years. That keeps the numbers low. Also, I allow certain families to have more in special cases ("It's said they had a human in the family a few hundred years ago!"). Also, feral elves have a slightly higher birth rate and mortality rate. City elves (as I call all civilized elves), have a fairly low mortality rate so their society is either stable or in a slight growth position.</blockquote>