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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 828709" data-attributes="member: 2067">It really depends on your elves, since elves vary from campaign to campaign....I'd personally say no. Because *everything* in the time span of the elves is multiplied.Say an average human lives 70 years, and an average elf lives 7000 years. I would say, effectively, this boils down to the same things...Humans reach maturity at 12. Elves, 1200. It takes humans maybe 5 years to learn how to use a sword. For an elf, it takes 500.Adventuring elves are a slight anomoly, because they're pressing themselves harder than the rest of their society. They gain skill quicker, and probably die sooner because of the stress.The extra time an elf usuall spends doing things gives them time to *perfect* it, and to look cool doing it, and to appreciate it in all it's nuances. An elf who gains power faster just doesn't have the time to appreciate all the nuances of their abilities. They gain power too quickly.So, it's possible to explain that elves don't rule the world by explaining that everything a human can do quickly, and elf has to take an eternity (but abuot an equal percentage).That's not going to hold true for all elves everywhere, but I prefer a world in which age doesn't nessecarily equate dominance.</blockquote>