How do you like your elves best?

[Someone]

I like them doomed and angry.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

Teriyaki is good.

I just cringe 95% of the time someone wants to play an elf in my games, because I know we will be doing the old treadmill. Special, arrogant, wanting non-rule benefits for age and experience, yada yada yada

Actually I would prefer to ignroe elves and bar-be-que elf players, if I had my druthers.

But prison is a bit of a deterrent.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I prefer them Haldendreevish. (don't ask )

 

[kolikeos]

1st 3 options

 

[AFGNCAAP]

I went with the 1st option, mainly because that was the closest option I could choose (and not the exact option I would have chose, if you get the idea).

IMC, I have elves established as the highly-magical race (there's a reason for Favored Class: Wizard, after all). I wanted to just have Elves as Elves, and stray away from the umpteen-infinite subraces that have populated D&D before. There are several influences that shaped the elves IMC, but they all more or less add up into an ancient magical society.

In addition, I saw elves and their nation as the best thing for a large, intricate, bloated aristocracy linked to the throne. Whereas the other races have a King and Lords, the elves are the only ones with the mutli-tiered caste of nobility such as Archdukes, Earls, Counts, Barons, Baronets, etc. Since they are so long-lived, it made sense for them to really keep track of such things.

 

[Sejs]

Somewhere right between Frivolous and Whimsical and Fey and Dangerous.

 

[Cedric]

Medium Rare - which is to say, medium power levels and there aren't a lot of them.

 

[Nebulous]

More non-human if possible. Even the elves in PJ's LoTR looked too human to me. I wished that had used some of that CGI magic prevalent so much elsewhere to make them look a little different.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

Of the choices, Fey and Dangerous.

Proud and Imperialistic (ala Spelljammer elves) would be my first pick, though.

 

[Sejs]

Proud and Imperialistic (ala Spelljammer elves) would be my first pick, though.

I kind of dug how FFXI handled the Elvaan. Proud, imperialistic, devout, and French. It was an interesting change from the normal woodsy type.