Why do people hate Elfkind?

[Ranger REG]

Elves with sunburn is not cool.

Have you ever seen one with sunburn, red, peeling skin and all?

 

[portermj]

Because they make their cookies soo unhealthy, but soo good.

 

[Gothmog]

Hmmm. Anti-Elf ideology from a being named Gothmog.

Heh, first person to catch that. Here's a cookie...made of elves!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Why do I hate elves?

Ever since reading DL as a youngster and them trying to take the dragonorb of the heroes, grrrrrrrrr those self righteous gits!

Never got over it, sad as that is!

 

[TheEvil]

Like, gag me with a spoon!

Like, gag me with an ork!

 

[TheEvil]

I cant explain WHY, but I do know it goes way back. I remember there was a fantasy RPG in the 1e era (name escapes me) whose tagline in their Dragon Magazine ads was NO ELVES.

Taslislantia.

Though to be fair, half the races had pointy ears...

 

[Mercurius]

Because they're "fay."

 

[fba827]

So why do people hate the various races of elves (Elves, Eladrin, Drow etc).

Because elves cause cancer ...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HNrLMob39qI




Edit: Okay, so I skipped a page of the comments and now realize that someone had posted this exact same video on the page that I skipped. Sorry for rehashing a joke that those who read every page already saw.

 

[Reneshat]

They usually have better taste. Few French people I know would wear those garish colours or long, flowing robes and hair.

That's merely bad art design. Could you imagine anyone wearing those clothes?

 

[Gailbraithe]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I've been playing for twenty years and seen (and participate in) a lot of Elf Hatin' going on.

My personal reason for hating elves, and many people seem to share these, are two-fold:

1) Of all the races, Elves have the twinkiest advantages. This has been slightly balanced over time, but back in the day they got bonuses on long swords and long bows, long swords being the most common of magic weapons. They got bonuses to detect secret doors, while dwarves got to detect sloping passages. Elves could be magic-user/fighters.

2) The worst twinkie players I've ever met all played elves. One of the absolute worst players I ever had was obsessed with elves and ALWAYS played an elven fighter-wizard-cleric. Later it become the Drizz't thing, and by 2nd Ed. every powergaming twink dork was playing an elf who wielded two long swords which he was specialized in at first level.