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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 829520" data-attributes="member: 2067">My argument is pretty simple:Time x=x LevelsIf Time = Levels, then, yeah, the old elves would be the mighty of the PC races.But if Time x=x levels, there's no reason for any given old elf to be any more powerful than any given old person.There can be a lot of explanations for the Time x=x Levels equasion. My answer is by saying that an elf that lives 10 times as long as a human is going to take 10 times as long to become just as competent in anything a human can do. That is, IMC, part of the reason humans are seen as quick, impetuous, and rather distastefully grasping (even to your dwarf or gnome, who don't live nearly as long as an elf). They don't learn how to do things RIGHT, they just learn to do 'em well enough, and then go out and use their hack skills.So a human takes 12 years to get mature. That same elf that lives 10 times as long would take 120 years to do the EXACT SAME THING. They'd just contemplate it for longer, spend it dabbling in the longsword/longbow, spend it slacking off in trees inventing poetry, attending all-night dances, whatever. A human that takes 5 years to master swordplay can do it well. An elf must take 50 years to do it as well, and add in their little elvish cultural quirks to boot.That's IMC. There's a LOT of ways to slove it, almost as many as there are to view elves themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 829520, member: 2067"] My argument is pretty simple: Time x=x Levels If Time = Levels, then, yeah, the old elves would be the mighty of the PC races. But if Time x=x levels, there's no reason for any given old elf to be any more powerful than any given old person. There can be a lot of explanations for the Time x=x Levels equasion. My answer is by saying that an elf that lives 10 times as long as a human is going to take 10 times as long to become just as competent in anything a human can do. That is, IMC, part of the reason humans are seen as quick, impetuous, and rather distastefully grasping (even to your dwarf or gnome, who don't live nearly as long as an elf). They don't learn how to do things RIGHT, they just learn to do 'em well enough, and then go out and use their hack skills. So a human takes 12 years to get mature. That same elf that lives 10 times as long would take 120 years to do the EXACT SAME THING. They'd just contemplate it for longer, spend it dabbling in the longsword/longbow, spend it slacking off in trees inventing poetry, attending all-night dances, whatever. A human that takes 5 years to master swordplay can do it well. An elf must take 50 years to do it as well, and add in their little elvish cultural quirks to boot. That's IMC. There's a LOT of ways to slove it, almost as many as there are to view elves themselves. [/QUOTE]

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