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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8197276" data-attributes="member: 23751">First, not many half-elves.  Second, wandering =/= adventuring.  1e Lore: "Half-elves do not form a race unto themselves, but rather they can be found amongst both elvenkind and men. For details of the typical half-elf see ADVANCED DUNGEONS L DRAGONS, MONSTER MANUAL under the heading Elf." - So the typical 1e Half-elf is a 1 hit die creature.2e Lore:  "In general, a half-elf has the curiosity, inventiveness, and ambition of his human ancestors and the refined senses, love ofnature, and artistic tastes of his elven ancestors.Half-elves do not form communities among themselves; rather, they can be found living in both elven and human communities. The reactions of humans and elves to half-elves ranges from intrigued fascination to outright bigotry." - Still nothing about either wandering or most of them becoming adventurers.3e Lore: "Half-elves find themselves drawn to strange careers and unusual company. Taking up the life of an adventurer comes easily to many of them. Like elves, they are driven by wanderlust." - "Many" is undefined and could be 5%, 10% or whatever percent of a small number of racial members.  Halflings adventurers would still dwarf(see what I did there) the number of Half-elven adventurers out there.4e Lore: unavailable to me.5e Lore: "Many half-elves, unable to fit into either society, choose lives of solitary wandering or join with other misfits and outcasts in the adventuring life." - this does not say that many become adventurers.  Only that many(again undefined) of the rare half-elves wander or join the adventuring life.Um, no.  You have no race that is 90% adventurers and you have Halflings which the lore calls out for producing lots of adventurers, so .1% is way too low.  I mean, if you invent fictional numbers like that, then you can almost show that Halflings need thousands of times the numbers to make more adventurers.  There's no way that even close to 50% of the very, very few Half-elves become adventurers.  I would be shocked if it's even as high as 25%.It does not say that there might be communities of Half-elves.  It says that there might be SMALL communities of Half-elves.  So if you have a large population of Elves and Humans mixing together(rarely happens), you MIGHT get a few dozen Half-elves in a small community.  It's not even a sure thing in those rare instances where it could happen.You might have 3 in the city!</blockquote>

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