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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 295910" data-attributes="member: 1645">If you live a long life, taking few risks (because you've got "all the time in the world"), you'll presumably spread out a typical human's life-time of experience over hundreds of years.No, what I'm saying is that elves, because of their great longevity and slow maturation, don't cram as much life experience into any one decade.Compare three decades at the same job, performing the same task at the same desk, married to the same woman, to serving overseas in the military, making one group of friends, going to college, meeting girls, working odd jobs, going back to grad school, meeting your wife, having kids, helping start a start-up, trying to bring it to IPO, watching that start-up fail, going back into industry, etc.If novel experiences and challenges yield enriching experience points, then long-lived races, operating on a slower schedule, might experience much more in their lifetimes, but much less in a typical decade than shorter-lived races who go from childhood to adulthood in a single decade.And the culture and environment of a long-lived elf is quite different from the culture and environment of a short-lived human -- partly from the culture they're born into, and partly from the decisions they'd naturally make (or not get around to making).</blockquote>