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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 3571597" data-attributes="member: 2518">I fully agree with the original text. As written elves would not survive in any D&D world except because of ther Lotr image of perfect beings which leads to that writers and many DMs simply say that the elves are somehow powerfull and survive despite being against any logic.The biggest problem for elves are the low birth rate (which is coupled with the long life span) and their choice of terrain and nature loving society.The first means that elves would be destroyed through attrition. By the time a orc tribe has breed warriors, trained and equipped armor to wage war on elves, the elves have not ever recovered from the previous war yet. So slowly the elves would be overrun by shorter living races.The second means that elves lack many important ressources. Ore, gold, diamonds and many other exotic materials required for spellcasting (favored class wizard, remember?)Having a lot of wizards is very expensive (money and material). That has to come from somewhere.And as the OP said, elves have no special abilities to compensate. They are not exceptional wizards or super forest fighters. How to remedy that? The easiest fix is to lower the elven lifespan, or at least their breeding age to something more reasonable. But as it is now, elves are probably the slowest breeding race in D&D. They even breed slower than dragons.</blockquote>