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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2411388" data-attributes="member: 2067">You underestimate the "pretty" factor. Elves can be l33t n1nj4 ancient magical sorcerous sneaky mysterious powerful beter beter katana wonderkind.Dwarves can hit things hard. Dwarves take their blows. Dwarves work hard for their ability. They are powerful and technologically masterful, but they ain't pretty. They aren't going to look like a badass cutting down swaths of goblins. No self-respecting dwarf would ever shield-surf. They are comic relief at best.There's no outcries against dwarves because even if they ARE mechanically superior (which is certainly not a universally accepted truth), they ain't pretty.It's like the Cleric Complex. Dwarves are powerful so that people will have a reason to chooes them, just like clerics. Elves don't need to be powerful. If elves were blind quadrapeliegics, people would be lining up to play them because "Legolas is kewl!" and "I want a mythral shirt!"I have had lycanthropes, orcs, unicorn-people, ettins, fey, elementals, and beholders as PC's. I have had maybe one dwarf. I have had over 20 elves.I don't hate current D&D elves, however. I mean, they're no longer Humans++ in the game. And IMC, they *definately* are closer to being fey and prankster than any of the pseudo-demigod Tolkien crap. Which works fine for his story, but is a pain to deal with in the game, IMXP.</blockquote>