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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZephyrTR" data-source="post: 5274989" data-attributes="member: 91875">I play a heavily customized 4th Ed, with my own 9 base races that don't include outsiders, like Eladrin (and yes a lot of old DnD material is a nod to Tolkein -- Halflings were reskinned hobbits, originally, cause of litigation.  They appear as they do now because a race that doesn't like adventuring can't fit very nicely into an adventure RPG).I suppose some of you don't remember the elven distinctions in 3rd ed, then?  So you can see how I broke Elves up, this is what I have as my working draft:Elves are broken down in to Vanyar (Fair Elves), Laiquendi (Wood Elves) and Silvan (Green Elves).  All have the same stats, but slightly different ethics and virtues.Drow are Avari, which doesnt make total sense since Tolkein avari aren't evil, but w/eHalf-Elves are now called by the quendi distinction Peredhil.And I've brought back Gray Elves (Sindar) to 'replace' Eladrin (who should remain an outsider race IMHO) and they act as a morally ambiguous, more magically inclined elf, and can easily be reskinned as a Half-Drow!I also snuck in Falmari as a way to bring back Aquatic Elves for my players to possibly bump into along their travels.</blockquote>