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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3576151" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think you could then say that all the demi-human races are doomed since none of them are as widespread as humans (with the possible exception of halflings, who seem to fit right in to human cities and spread along with them). The idea 'elves should rule everything because of X and Y' is an arguement as old as D&D.The reason they don't has nothing to do with logical conclusions drawn from source material: it simply ends up that D&D is played by humans and so humans are going to be the dominant race in virtually any setting you look at in either fiction or game settings. You have to have that baseline for the reader or player to be able to relate to the world. Certainly there are a few settings that turn this on it's head (though I can't think of any actual game settings in print at the moment that do this).You wanna see what a world ruled by elves is like? Read Steven Brust's Jhereg books. The setting is taken from his time as a gamer. The Dragaerians are elves. The main viewpoint character is a human, who has to deal with living in an empire ruled by people who live for hundreds and hundreds of years.</blockquote>