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<blockquote data-quote="The Amazing Dingo" data-source="post: 1722336" data-attributes="member: 23353">I think that by this point in the evolution of fantasy games and D&amp;D in general, the generic elven city has been split into precisely the two ideas you mentioned - tree cities or traditional cities.&nbsp; This is mostly, in my humble opinion, because people have differing views of what role elves play in any given campaign.&nbsp; Some campaigns/DMs go with both roads - FR has high elves for the tree homes and the moon elves for the more regular cities.&nbsp; Even Lord of the Rings showed the differences between Elron and Galadriel's homelands.&nbsp; It just depends on the role you want the elves to fit or the idea you have for them - tree houses for a more nature oriented elf or the cities for more magic oriented elves.As for how the elves built the stone cities, I'd tend to say it was primarily magical in nature.&nbsp; Elves are generally considered more frail and not up to the heavy lifting and manual labor of moving giant stones.&nbsp; That isn't to say they would cast a spell to form a building though.&nbsp; I wouldn't doubt that some elf has created some higher level spells to help or perhaps even an epic level spell to create part or even a whole city.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Amazing Dingo, post: 1722336, member: 23353"] I think that by this point in the evolution of fantasy games and D&D in general, the [I]generic[/I] elven city has been split into precisely the two ideas you mentioned - tree cities or traditional cities. This is mostly, in my humble opinion, because people have differing views of what role elves play in any given campaign. Some campaigns/DMs go with both roads - FR has high elves for the tree homes and the moon elves for the more regular cities. Even Lord of the Rings showed the differences between Elron and Galadriel's homelands. It just depends on the role you want the elves to fit or the idea you have for them - tree houses for a more nature oriented elf or the cities for more magic oriented elves. As for how the elves built the stone cities, I'd tend to say it was primarily magical in nature. Elves are generally considered more frail and not up to the heavy lifting and manual labor of moving giant stones. That isn't to say they would cast a spell to form a building though. I wouldn't doubt that some elf has created some higher level spells to help or perhaps even an epic level spell to create part or even a whole city. [/QUOTE]

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