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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 3567282" data-attributes="member: 2518">I disagree with most of Sharks conclusions. Elves are not the magical powerhouses he says. Except for their favored class there is nothing which even hints that elves are somehow more magical then the other races. If there is one magical race at all, it is gnomes. Don't forget that the number of wizards is limited by the number of people with Int &gt; 10 and elves do not have any Int bonus. So they would not have more wizards than humans because like with humans only 1% or so of the population is smart enough to be a wizard.The low reproduction rate is the biggest drawback for elves, they recover so slowly from losses that they can't afford to be overly aggressive as it takes several hundered years to recover. And neither do have elves many advantages in combat, unlike what Shark says they do not have any advantages while hiding and laying ambushes. That is the realm of the small races which do have an actual hide bonus.Elves being higher level than humans? Not in the average. An elf can only start leveling when he is already 100 years old. By that point the human can already be lvl 20 for a long time.I also disagree that elves are an economic powerhouse. They mostly live in forests which is rather low on valuable ressources so elves would need to constantly import metal, spell components/focus and all other things which are required for a wizard. And they would have not much to trade away except wood.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 3567282, member: 2518"] I disagree with most of Sharks conclusions. Elves are not the magical powerhouses he says. Except for their favored class there is nothing which even hints that elves are somehow more magical then the other races. If there is one magical race at all, it is gnomes. Don't forget that the number of wizards is limited by the number of people with Int > 10 and elves do not have any Int bonus. So they would not have more wizards than humans because like with humans only 1% or so of the population is smart enough to be a wizard. The low reproduction rate is the biggest drawback for elves, they recover so slowly from losses that they can't afford to be overly aggressive as it takes several hundered years to recover. And neither do have elves many advantages in combat, unlike what Shark says they do not have any advantages while hiding and laying ambushes. That is the realm of the small races which do have an actual hide bonus. Elves being higher level than humans? Not in the average. An elf can only start leveling when he is already 100 years old. By that point the human can already be lvl 20 for a long time. I also disagree that elves are an economic powerhouse. They mostly live in forests which is rather low on valuable ressources so elves would need to constantly import metal, spell components/focus and all other things which are required for a wizard. And they would have not much to trade away except wood. [/QUOTE]

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