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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7328054" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Stop thinking of the problem from the perspective of you. What I mean by "you" is this: human. You're trying to apply human "logic and expectations" to a non-human race that lives for hundreds if not thousands of years. Don't do that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You may be surprised to know that the whole 'time thing' was the default in 1e AD&D. How I tackled it was to stop thinking like a human and start thinking like an elf (as I imagined them back in 1983'ish when I started playing/DMing AD&D). In *my* view of elves, they don't look at the individual with regards to handling administrative tasks. To an elf, if they make a deal with Mayor Smythe, the human from Ellesbrook, to rid the area of a goblin menaece in return for free food and lodging for life, and then 20 years later they come back to Ellesbrook. Well, they meet with the new Mayor Jhonson and, from the elf's perspective, the elf should recieve free food and lodging. The fact that the elf made the 'deal' with a particular Mayor, and that particular Mayor is no longer alive/there is irrelivent to the elf. It's the "office of the Mayor" that the elf made the deal, as far as he's concerned.I just take that basic principle and apply it to the elven race as a whole. To an elf, when Clan Treegrower snubs Clan Swifthunt at an important social function (the marrying of two elves, for example)...it doesn't matter that 2000 years later there are no orriginal memebers of either clan left alive; the Clan name is the important thing.This way, when elves deal with anyone on the prime material plane, they don't much care one way or the other for the actual person...they are interested in what/who that person represents. This falls into the stereotype that "elves are aloof and seem to look down on other races"; not really, its just that they see a persons family, guild, clan, etc as the defining characteristic...so they don't care if they are talking to Henry the first, Henry the third, or Henry the fourteenth. They'd just refer to him as "Human King" because they don't care *what* this particular king is like...they care what his ancestors did and promised.Once you start thinking of races from a non-human perspective it becomes significantly easier to adjudicate these little "idiosyncrasies".^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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