Chris Lawrence
First Post
cattoy said:
I think the 'problem' is that D&D in general imagines very long-lived races who nevertheless always have the same average skill levels as humans. So, in a typical D&D world, the top-level elven adventurers tend to be about the same level as top-level human adventurers, even though the former may well have been adventuring ten times as long. It also seems strange that level 1 elves only get as many skill points as level 1 humans.This paradox will apply to anything in D&D worlds that involves learning, whether its gaining levels in wizard or gaining skill points in craft.
But it's easy enough to come up with rationalisations for elves/dwarves/etc. not learning. They get bored, they learn slowly, they go through different life cycles, etc. Personally, I'd like to see a setting that says, 'OK, so someone who carves wood for a living for 200 years really will be much better on average than someone who does it for 30. What consequences will that have on the game world?'
