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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ogrebear" data-source="post: 1525323" data-attributes="member: 18689">Cure disease, while retarding the effects of aging wont stop someone getting old. The Human body will still fail and magic might help but nothing will stop it. As a side note - I removed Raise Dead, Reseruction Reincarnation etc. When you die in my game world the Gods will only give you back if someone does a major ritual and argues your case in front of a Gods Avatar. It's genrally not worth the hassle, esp as Speak With Dead is available. Still the biggest reminding problem for me concernign Elves is players being able to relate to a being that is 100's of years old. What frame of referance are they going to use to base the character off? Most players cannot role play a being that is that old- it is too strange to Human experiance. Same applies to Dwarves or any other long lived race.I argue that one of the reasons Hulk didn't do so well is that movie goers could not relate to a 15' tall green skinned giant- he was totally outside their realm of experiance or referance. Lou Feringo worked cos though big is is still fundamentally Human sized. Movie Hulk was something past beliveable. Elves, Dwarves etc sufer the same fate imho- they are too far removed from what real Humans can relate to and thus simply dont work as writtern.</blockquote>