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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 1546655" data-attributes="member: 3230">Well said.If you want to have a campaign setting where these things are treated "realistically", you need to have some other explanation for the behavior of elves & dwarfs etc. In Tolkien's Middle Earth, the elves weren't long-lived, they were IMMORTAL. Immune to extremes in climate (heat/cold), immune to diseases, etc. They obviously had a very different mind-set than humans. They were also leaving Middle Earth and few of them were left. The dwarfs of Middle Earth were never numerous and reclusive by nature. I think it's important to realize that dwarfs & elves in those kinds of settings are not short and/or pointy-eared humans, the are -essentially- alien species. They don't think like humans, they won't necessarily react like a human and -if it's important to you that the races make sense in that context for your setting- I would be leery of even allowing a player to run a non-human character. IMC, elves only live about 300 years (at most) and are tribal hunter/gatherers (like the Plains Indians). They spend most of their time competing for resources agains other elf tribes or orc tribes. Dwarfs only live about 200 years and were mostly wiped out several centuries ago by a magical war between the gods. Humans have only in the last few decades returned to the continent and are largely living in a "frontier" situation.</blockquote>