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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Hawkeye" data-source="post: 395207" data-attributes="member: 295">A. Orcs are stupid. They are uncooperative. Their work methods are probably less efficient than those of other races.B. Orcs normally live by a hunter/gatherer or military society. Neither of which produces a preponderance of leisure. Leisure generally is most common in agrarian societies. Note: Elves are not generally farmers either. I will return to this.C. Living in a physically competitive society, Orcs are more likely to spend their leisure time improving strength or combat skill than at intellectual pursuits.D.Metabolism. Orcs are larger and shorter lived than humans, indicating a faster metabolism and commensurately higher food intake. Elves, on the other hand, are smaller and much longer lived than humans. I would estimate that the average Orc requires as much as three times as much food as the average elf. This may be why elves are so rarely farmers: either a small number of farmers accounts for all of elven agriculture (probably with druidic help), or the average elf may comfortably hunt/gather for his own needs and still have sufficient leisure time.On Dwarves: Dwarves, in general, seem to prefer work to leisure, so they probably have little of it.</blockquote>