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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 2289912" data-attributes="member: 1328">Eberron Elves are far more Tolkienian in feel than FR elves. Sure, FR elves are imitating Tolkien's elves by Retreating to Evermeet (this was lame, fortunately it's over now); but that's aesthetic.Eberronian elves have all the mystic of Tolkien elves, the worship of past heroes, the urge to preserve what they have and what they like in perfect stasis, the confuse feeling their time is over, against which they lash out by becoming deathless or undead...Core D&D elves are supposedly chaotic, chaotic good for the civilized high, wood, and gray elves, chaotic neutral for the barbarian wild elves, chaotic evil for the decadent drow. Eberron's elves aren't chaotic in one bit.From the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20050530a" target="_blank">latest Dragonshards</a>:Beyond its fascination with the death and the deathless, Aerenal is a land that looks to the past to shape the present. The Aereni elves place tradition above all else: Artists and bards are expected to perfect ancient techniques instead of developing new styles. The elves apply themselves to their work with uncanny devotion; an elven bowyer may spend centuries honing his skills, and produce bows the like of which a human craftsman could only dream. But he still follows the traditions of the past, and the bow he makes today is a mirror of one that could be found in a 5,000-year-old tomb.Of course, you still had to have the "elven craft is soooooo much better than anything else" bit. Why don't WotC finally acknowledges they can't help but have elvencraft be the be-all, end-all, super-duper extra-mega-better-than-everything-else craftmanship, and give elves a +50 racial bonus on all Craft checks? Sheesh. That or just saying that elves are the best crafters ever. The best crafters ever are dwarves for anything stone- or metal-related, the gnomes for alchemical products, and the kobolds for traps.</blockquote>

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