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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 9726474" data-attributes="member: 63508">My point is that the generations of dwarves and elves are a BS excuse by World builders in order to inflate human population and deflate elf and dwarf population. Because in no way and nowhere do most settings say that an elf male and an elf female can only have one offspring within a "generation". In fact D&D often states that human elf and dwarf fertility are compatible because they can have hybrid race offspring at a drop of a hat. There is nothing physically to keep an elf couple who are together for 400+ years of fertility or a dwarfing couple who are together for 200 years of fertility from having a child every 5 years outside of the resource course. And due to the high magic, high medicine ,and high skill of elvin and dwarvin societies compared to humans, a dwarfin or elven couple would be able to afford to continuously raise children. Especially if those children hit adulthood at the same time as humans. The entire cultural concept that dwarves and elves are not culturally considered adults for longer periods of time even though they are physically adults at the same rate as humans, it's just a World building excuse in order to keep their world humano-centric.At least settings like Warhammer makes sense where they have spontaneous creation of demons and orcs which constantly keep the elven populations down and elves being designed as buffers to Chaos invasion which keeps their populations in check. And the dark elves and high elves can't stop killing each other.Come on guys we're humans we're creative unlike the stupid elves. We should be able to vary the excuse a little bit. Switch it up./rant on why people don't switch up world building logic</blockquote>

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