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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3573157" data-attributes="member: 7240">I think that until you are able to answer this question, we probably aren't going to be able to come to a common understanding.People like the Celtic Twilight theme. There is no doubt that there is a big market for fiction that taps into the theme of the elves as being in decline. But that has to do with people's preferences in fiction. I don't think fantasy literature is going to change any time soon.If you feel that your D&D game is being adversely affected by reading fiction in which the evles are in decline, you should stop reading that fiction and pick fiction in which that is not happening. What you should not do is assume that because people like writing about declining elves that this has something to do with the rules of D&D.Now, last post, I threatened to tell you my theory about why you are saying what you are saying:You want to be able to justify giving the elves in your game special mechanical advantages, like a souped-up 3rd edition conversion of the Lifeproof spell. But somehow, you seem to have decided that it wouldn't be fair to hand out this advantage because it would be unbalancing. So, in order to justify your desire to make elves more mechanically powerful than other humanoids you think that you need to prove that they are currently under-powered. And my view is: don't sweat it man. Balance is not the only value that matters in a game. If you want to give out that spell to all the elves in your campaign world, go ahead. You don't need any justification beyond the fact that you find the idea cool. Things don't need to be mechanically broken in order to justify fixing them. Giving your elves more powers doesn't need to be necessary for you to do it. Do it because you will enjoy doing it.</blockquote>

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