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<blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 4373316" data-attributes="member: 58439">I would say that the best theory around is the proliferation of elf sub-races:&nbsp; Grey Elf, Moon Elf, Golden or Sun Elf, High Elf, Dark Elf, Wood Elf, Wild Elf, Aquatic Elf, Half-Elf, and so on.That's enough to give anyone nightmares.I was happy with the treatment of elves in fourth edition, if only because it was with the understanding that they were front-loading all the elves into the first PHB.&nbsp; I think that someone somewhere from WotC had claimed that the Eladrin and Elves, along with the half-elves and dark elves, would be it for playable elf races, that essentially they were folding the nature aspects into &quot;elf&quot; and the high-minded intelligent fey aspects into &quot;Eladrin&quot;, and the evil aspects into &quot;drow&quot;, and that would be it.Whether that remains the case throughout 4e remains to be seen.&nbsp; I spent a lot of time repeating that claim, that this was all the elf we were going to get, before 4e was released, to people that were attacking the fact that already 3/8ths of the races were &quot;elf.&quot;&nbsp; So hopefully that remains true.I guess we'll find out with Forgotten Realms, as I think that's where a lot of the original blame lies for the elf explosion.&nbsp; If that change doesn't carry over to their premiere campaign setting, then a lot of the other elf subraces will probably leak back into 4e as a whole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cryptos, post: 4373316, member: 58439"] I would say that the best theory around is the proliferation of elf sub-races: Grey Elf, Moon Elf, Golden or Sun Elf, High Elf, Dark Elf, Wood Elf, Wild Elf, Aquatic Elf, Half-Elf, and so on. That's enough to give anyone nightmares. I was happy with the treatment of elves in fourth edition, if only because it was with the understanding that they were front-loading all the elves into the first PHB. I think that someone somewhere from WotC had claimed that the Eladrin and Elves, along with the half-elves and dark elves, would be it for playable elf races, that essentially they were folding the nature aspects into "elf" and the high-minded intelligent fey aspects into "Eladrin", and the evil aspects into "drow", and that would be it. Whether that remains the case throughout 4e remains to be seen. I spent a lot of time repeating that claim, that this was all the elf we were going to get, before 4e was released, to people that were attacking the fact that already 3/8ths of the races were "elf." So hopefully that remains true. I guess we'll find out with Forgotten Realms, as I think that's where a lot of the original blame lies for the elf explosion. If that change doesn't carry over to their premiere campaign setting, then a lot of the other elf subraces will probably leak back into 4e as a whole. [/QUOTE]

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