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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6690824" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>You have already put more thought into this than pretty much anyone else who plays elves.</p><p></p><p>How exactly do I play a person who has lived a century but hasn't learned anything more than I knew when I was 16?</p><p>In what way does one's live play out that experience alone hasn't changed his outlook on life? And, hey, this is a people who never sleep so he actually has MORE experience than I would if I lived a century.</p><p>And Elves live in this society where magic is the convenient excuse for how everything gets done because I have never seen Wood Elves who have the basic menial jobs necessary for a society to function ever being really a thing... they seem to all universally be trained as adventurers with no explanation as to where they get their ore, who crafts their weapons and armor, how they get their food, who constructs their shelters and so forth ever being given-- it is just hand-waved as "magic".</p><p></p><p>I mean, really... how is their long life experience expressed? Having a few extra weapon skills? All those extra years lived and instead of learning any craft or profession, what they have to show for it is the ability to use a few more weapons?</p><p></p><p>Really, the more you think about it, trying to express an elf and their background makes less and less sense. This is why everyone more or less just plays them like humans and tries to forget any of the ludicrousness the various aspects of the race actually suggest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6690824, member: 6777454"] You have already put more thought into this than pretty much anyone else who plays elves. How exactly do I play a person who has lived a century but hasn't learned anything more than I knew when I was 16? In what way does one's live play out that experience alone hasn't changed his outlook on life? And, hey, this is a people who never sleep so he actually has MORE experience than I would if I lived a century. And Elves live in this society where magic is the convenient excuse for how everything gets done because I have never seen Wood Elves who have the basic menial jobs necessary for a society to function ever being really a thing... they seem to all universally be trained as adventurers with no explanation as to where they get their ore, who crafts their weapons and armor, how they get their food, who constructs their shelters and so forth ever being given-- it is just hand-waved as "magic". I mean, really... how is their long life experience expressed? Having a few extra weapon skills? All those extra years lived and instead of learning any craft or profession, what they have to show for it is the ability to use a few more weapons? Really, the more you think about it, trying to express an elf and their background makes less and less sense. This is why everyone more or less just plays them like humans and tries to forget any of the ludicrousness the various aspects of the race actually suggest. [/QUOTE]
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