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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1992764" data-attributes="member: 6533">Lizards need less food, true, but that is primarilly because they are far less active.  If you make a lizard exercise as much as a mammal does its caloric intake and muscle structure change to become roughly similar to that of the mammals.  So if you want to put an army of 1000 people up who don't move much and spend most of their time lying in warm light up against an army of 200 people who don't even sleep so much as trance, can more or less see in the dark, have worked and trained together for at least a century, and have an order of magnitude higher ability thanks to a cabal of 10th level + officers than I wish you luckLook a hundred people shooting magic arrows at you, which would be something of a feat given the line of sight and range rules, is impressive.  But it's still just 100d4s.  Five times, at most.Archers can arc fire, will have way higher hit points, do more damage - even though the damage isn't as certain - and have a useful primary attribute.  They're probably carrying more than five arrows.Not saying Kobolds are bad, just that you shouldn't discount Elves.Loosing 90% of your population is bad, and the Elves will likely take a bigger hit than Kobolds given that they have more to loose.  But somehow I still think the Elves will end up with more levels after the quake is done.</blockquote>