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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 4093095" data-attributes="member: 36150">All Drow get spell-like abilities, regardless of class.  How and why they get them is entirely up to you as DM: Underdark "radiation", favors of the Spider Queen, elven essence of mana, demons, whatever.  Same thing for your elves.  Innate spell-like abilities are simply that: innate.  They are naturally occuring, requiring no training, and "just happen", like breathing.Sure, if that's how you want elves to work in your game.  As I asserted earlier, elves are lazy aristocrats who laze around all day and night, drink wine, frolic, and just "be".  As such, the majority simply don't pick up a "trade", per se, let alone earn enough XP doing said trade to matter over the span of 2-300 years.Just because he only REQUIRES 4 hours of sleep doesn't mean that he can't or won't sleep/meditate more.  (Most)Humans do this all the time, and many that don't, wish they could.  Besides, sleeping less only means double guard duty for they who sleep more.I don't see the point, but you COULD have a mechanic in place to give a "floating" +2 to one skill, once per day, to represent the elf's constant tinkering with stuff.</blockquote>