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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6854265" data-attributes="member: 98008">For me, the stand out thing about elven culture is that nobody works, at least by human standards. On any given day, an elf may or may not turn up to work and everybody is OK with this. If the local blacksmith does not get his shipment of steel until a month after he ordered it, he is not that put out. Everybody will just have to wait. If the builder then can't make a building because he does not have his hammer and saw fixed, oh well, maybe next month.If a PC turns up to see a Sage, they might find he has gone skiing and will be back in a month. They are expected to be OK with this, after all, what is the rush, they can just chill out for a while and catch him when he comes back, if he does. I use this to infuriate PCs quiet a lot. On the flip side, the elven idea of something being urgent is very foreign too. The elf king sends them on an adventure to do something with the utmost haste. They return a few days later and he is confused, as he only just sent them, he was expecting them to arrive sometime later in the year. The macguffin they busted their humps to get will sit on a shelf for 6 months until the court sage gets around to studying it.Commerce is also a bit weird. They are not very greedy people and are happy to wait things out. You need a sword, but have no money to buy it, that is fine, they know you are good for it, just pay when you can. If you are an older human, they don't mind if your son comes back to pay for it some time after you are dead. They think humans are incredibly rude for demanding payment straight away though. Its OK in their books to offer to pay somebody 1000GP when you don't have a penny to your name. After all, sometime in the fifty years you will surely have the money.Elves also already have what they need. Their city has more houses than they need, as their populations are generally dwindled. Living so long and making such good stuff, they already have their needs met, so they can live a life of reflection and song if they want. This also helps explain why somebody can be 100yrs old and level 1 and why humans achieve so much more in their lifetime than elves do.</blockquote>

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