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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 828421" data-attributes="member: 1125">Hello again SHARKI recently got to thinking about the relative technology levels of DnD and how this ought to be affected by Long-lived races like Elves.Then it occured to me that long-life could in fact lead to stagnation! For instance humans with their relatively short 70 years can only achieve so much, morever people tend to be resistant to changing things that they know work well and are familiar with. However after 3 generations what they each person achieved becomes history and needs to be reinvented. With each reinvention technological gains are made so that every 200 years or so the culture is trnasofrmed by new Tech being introduced. The same process might occur in Elf society to however the same 3 generations for them is 6000 years.So anyway we have Elves who might be older than others but who are still just as resistant to change - in fact moreso since they remember the last disaster when that had to go to war 500 years ago (to the average human this is 10 generations) because of this resistance to change Elves tend to have 'stagnant' cultures where they go about their lives in peace and tranquility and don't really gain that much XP compared to other more dynamic groups...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 828421, member: 1125"] Hello again SHARK I recently got to thinking about the relative technology levels of DnD and how this ought to be affected by Long-lived races like Elves. Then it occured to me that long-life could in fact lead to stagnation! For instance humans with their relatively short 70 years can only achieve so much, morever people tend to be resistant to changing things that they know work well and are familiar with. However after 3 generations what they each person achieved becomes history and needs to be reinvented. With each reinvention technological gains are made so that every 200 years or so the culture is trnasofrmed by new Tech being introduced. The same process might occur in Elf society to however the same 3 generations for them is 6000 years. So anyway we have Elves who might be older than others but who are still just as resistant to change - in fact moreso since they remember the last disaster when that had to go to war 500 years ago (to the average human this is 10 generations) because of this resistance to change Elves tend to have 'stagnant' cultures where they go about their lives in peace and tranquility and don't really gain that much XP compared to other more dynamic groups... [/QUOTE]

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