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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byronic" data-source="post: 4374077" data-attributes="member: 56829">Hello Plane Sailing, Why am I interested? Well, since you seem so curious I'll tell you. Remember a while back I was considering to replace Tieflings with Melniboneans? Well while solving that problem I decided to  do something about Elves and Eladrin as well. Don't take me wrong, I loved them in Third Edition, but we were promised quite a bit more in the previews for fourth edition. So I decided to recreate them.I solved quite a few strange things about Elves. I solved their aging problem. I explained why Elves haven't conquered the world with magic. I gave them a unique psychology, identity and worldview. No longer could people mistake them for humans with pointy ears. They were proper fey, bound by laws, mores and convention that were alien to human sensibilities. They don't even have a biology as humans understand it. I had originally planned to post that but your forum decided that it rather preferred to eat it up. I have yet to type it out again.However, before I unleashed my creation on my players I needed to gain other perspectives on the matter. Which answers your next point, what I wanted to get out of it. So far we've learned that a lot of people disliked the sheer amount of races Elves have, their snooty manner, some of the players that play them and a lack of "connection". While most of the points have little to do with my version of them the last one brings forth an important point. While as a race they are well written, how many players can truly play something non-human?As for the rest of your post, in hindsight my question seems to have done it's job quite nicely, and if this post is anything to go by I can say it has been a win-win situation for us all.Hoping the weather is nice up there in Harpenden,Byronic</blockquote>

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