How do you like your elves best?

[dagger]

I prefer mine to have purple eyes and use two scimitars.

Opps, did I really write that?

 

[Mercule]

IMC, they're somewhere between the first two, but more doomed. I also see a strong appeal for fey and dangerous.

 

[Baron Opal]

At first, long ago, they were Awesome and Magical. Then as the campaign evolved they became Doomed and Tragic. Which became so cool that everyone played one. It became a running joke that elves were the master race since they were so strong compared to everyone else. Since they became Leet and Twinky I soon engineered a starfall for them and their little drow friends, too. Hello Teriyaki Style.

I've since moved away, matured greatly and come into a new group. I've though about bringing them back, either as the survivors of Ragnarok, and the attendant glory that brings, or as the rulers of a little city they call Taltasqa...

 

[Moon-Lancer]

i don't get it, arn't these the same thing?

Frivolous and whimsical? (Woodland sprites types)
Fey and Dangerous? (Mound Lords of Illusion and Time)

Can we redue this poll so we can click all that apply?

 

[Gez]

But seeing as Necromantic Baboon has a certain appeal, I may have to give Eberron a longer look.

Ah, don't worry. They're necromantic fetishists of baboons, not fetishists of necromantic baboons. (Yeah, "fetishist of baboon" sounds awkward, but normal grammar was ambiguous.)

 

[Brennin Magalus]

I like them to resemble sidhe.

 

[Hussar]

I voted Teriyaki style. Because I am an elf hater. Why? Because I love dwarves, and the elves are a bunch of arrogant #(*!^)&@%s who steal all the glory and attention.

QFT

I'm just sick and tired of humans that can see in the dark. If I ever saw a player who actually played anything else when he wrote elf on his sheet, I'd probably choke to death.

 

[blargney the second]

Violent and bloodthirsty. (Valenar!)

 

[Scarbonac]

Elves in our games are roughly one part JRRT, one part Pini with one part each of 1e and 2e.

They are in decline, mostly keeping to their forested enclaves except for a few merchant-types, diplomats and adventurers. They're as inclined to psionics as they are to magic, generally they follow EQ moral standards and societal norms, and they're much more leet and twinky than 3e elves.


Of course, they know nothing about the Imperial Elven Space Navy...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Otherwise....why ever mix / socialize with baser races like humans and gnomes.

Why do people keep pets?

Besides, someone has to do the dirty work...


(In Urbis, elves are actually the result of an ancient civilization run by human wizards that indulged in magical genetic engineering. They created all kinds of new servant and slave races - and turned their own children into the first elves, who then became the long-lived ruling caste until that civilization collapsed.

You won't find that stated in the actual setting description of Urbis, since I don't really consider that to be all that relevant to the time frame of the campaign and almost nobody knows it, but that's the background assumption I am working with.)