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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 747911" data-attributes="member: 1328">Re: Re: The winged elfIMHO, this is reasonnable. Why the big strength ? I dunno, but maybe, if you have to lift your nigh human weight with two wings, you would like to be much more muscular, at least with regard to your winged limbs, than you are. If you look at how a bird is built, you'll see their wing muscles in their chest are oversized compared to a walking animal. And since muscular strength grows with the square of your muscle width, while your weight grows with the cube of your size... If this weren't fantasy, avariels could not fly. They may be able to glide, but not lift.As for the -4 Int... This can be explained quite easily.First, +2 Str must be balanced by -4 to something else. -2/-2 could have been chosen instead, of course, but they need wisdom (awareness of own's surrounding, keenness of senses) and charisma (if you play an angel-looking elf, it's not to have the charisma of a shy, introverted, socially-impaired orc).Then, birds have a bad reputation for their intellect. Feather-brained, bird-brain, etc. In my mothertongue, I know a good dozen sayings used to insult someone by comparing his intellectual capacities to a bird's ones.Finally, to reduce their weight, half their skull is full of helium rather than grey matter. This has the side effect of making them popular in illithids revelry, where the flayers have fun by sucking a sky elf's brain and then speaking with squeaky acute voice that make them endlessly laugh. Even mind-flayers need to unwind from time to time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 747911, member: 1328"] [b]Re: Re: The winged elf[/b] IMHO, this is reasonnable. Why the big strength ? I dunno, but maybe, if you have to lift your nigh human weight with two wings, you would like to be much more muscular, at least with regard to your winged limbs, than you are. If you look at how a bird is built, you'll see their wing muscles in their chest are oversized compared to a walking animal. And since muscular strength grows with the square of your muscle width, while your weight grows with the cube of your size... If this weren't fantasy, avariels could not fly. They may be able to glide, but not lift. As for the -4 Int... This can be explained quite easily. First, +2 Str must be balanced by -4 to something else. -2/-2 could have been chosen instead, of course, but they need wisdom (awareness of own's surrounding, keenness of senses) and charisma (if you play an angel-looking elf, it's not to have the charisma of a shy, introverted, socially-impaired orc). Then, birds have a bad reputation for their intellect. Feather-brained, bird-brain, etc. In my mothertongue, I know a good dozen sayings used to insult someone by comparing his intellectual capacities to a bird's ones. Finally, to reduce their weight, half their skull is full of helium rather than grey matter. This has the side effect of making them popular in illithids revelry, where the flayers have fun by sucking a sky elf's brain and then speaking with squeaky acute voice that make them endlessly laugh. Even mind-flayers need to unwind from time to time. [/QUOTE]

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