Arnwyn said:As two other posters who are more eloquent than me said:
- Tree houses are cool.
- Perky elven babes that stay perky for centuries are cool.
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Driddle said:Total agreement. ... Not enough to make ME love elves, but I appreciate those aspects just the same.![]()
On the other hand, it's amusing that such reasons are totally non-gameable(?). Which is to say, they'll never be played out at the gaming table. Elf race gamers and fellow elf-lovers seem to share a vaguely defined set of racial concepts, but they still vary widely and are almost entirely unspoken (at least until someone asks about them on a thread like this).
Ohhhh... you meant cool as in "reasons to play them".Driddle said:On the other hand, it's amusing that such reasons are totally non-gameable(?). Which is to say, they'll never be played out at the gaming table.
In 1e you could cast spells without penalty while wearing elven chain mail (just another example of something being better because it's made by elves), which elves would not give to a non-elf. In 3e, elven chain armor is simply made of mithril (and so has a lower arcane failure %). I don't recall how elven chain mail worked in 2e.Orius said:I'm pretty sure that was the case in all the pre-3e rules. I know for a fact that they couldn't cast while wearing armor in 2e if they were fighter/mages, and I'd imagine it was the same with 1e.
Lord Zardoz said:- I have never heard of an ugly elf
Like in 1e. Elven chain = cast spells a-okay.Spatula said:In 1e you could cast spells without penalty while wearing elven chain mail (just another example of something being better because it's made by elves), which elves would not give to a non-elf. In 3e, elven chain armor is simply made of mithril (and so has a lower arcane failure %). I don't recall how elven chain mail worked in 2e.
Driddle said:On the other hand, it's amusing that such reasons are totally non-gameable(?). Which is to say, they'll never be played out at the gaming table.