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<blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 3366124" data-attributes="member: 607">It's probably just you. Let's see, though, shall we?With a lifespan of at least 5 centuries, they'd better have been around for a long time. But &quot;once extremely powerful, now, not so much&quot; is only in Middle-Earth. The baseline D&amp;D elf has the same society he has always had, for the extent of known history.The game is written by humans. And to avoid calls for &quot;prejudice!&quot;, the writers tend to pay lip service to the myriad of human ethnic groups and the environments and cultures where they originate.Halflings are more so. Dwarves are generally far from the Elves, and in D&amp;D they are equal to elves in craftsmanship of weapons and armor, as opposed to Middle-Earth, where Elves surpassed Dwarves in everything (including, apparently, drinking).So they don't support your theory, so there's no point in analyzing them? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Because, you know, necromantic elves who keep their deceased in mummy-like states or bedouin-like elves who ride for blood and glory and death are everywhere (just for an example).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Klaus, post: 3366124, member: 607"] It's probably just you. Let's see, though, shall we? With a lifespan of at least 5 centuries, they'd better have been around for a long time. But "once extremely powerful, now, not so much" is only in Middle-Earth. The baseline D&D elf has the same society he has always had, for the extent of known history. The game is written by humans. And to avoid calls for "prejudice!", the writers tend to pay lip service to the myriad of human ethnic groups and the environments and cultures where they originate. Halflings are more so. Dwarves are generally far from the Elves, and in D&D they are equal to elves in craftsmanship of weapons and armor, as opposed to Middle-Earth, where Elves surpassed Dwarves in everything (including, apparently, drinking). So they don't support your theory, so there's no point in analyzing them? :) Because, you know, necromantic elves who keep their deceased in mummy-like states or bedouin-like elves who ride for blood and glory and death are everywhere (just for an example). [/QUOTE]

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