Whereas a human doing the same thing would take about a decade.Īs for physical superiority. Practiced for decades, if not centuries, simply to become a 1st level Wizard. they live their lives exactly like humans. Elves don't live ridiculously long, becoming wiserer than mere mortals for it. There is no official yardstick for humans, elves or dwarves, so anyones opinion is equally valid.Īt least in the DnD-verse, the idea of elves having a "better perspective" due to age is actually false. The really important thing to remember is that none of it is real. If you like the old races, you will portray them in that light. It's all fluff, and it's all opinion and perspective. But being inquisitive, they discoved it by observation (of elves and dwarves) rather than experimentation first. And humans took one good, long look at the inventions of both races, thunk to themselves 'wow, that's neat - I'll do that too.' And generally did a lot more with those things than their original inventors ever did.Īlso, being far faster, humans would have invented both in time. Yes, the dwarves invented mettalurgy, then sat on it for millenia, doing nothing.Īnd the goblins ate the dwarves, and the humans drove out the elves. Yes, the elves created magic, then sat on it for millenia, doing nothing. The older races tend to draw a lot of pride and justification from the fact that they came up with things first, yes. So they really suck at innovation in some settings. Yeah that depends on the setting you're in - In the one I play in humans have never achieved anything and elves and dwarves are responsible for almost all innovation the only reason humans have any technology at all is the elves gifted them with it (or they stole it).Īlot of settings use this explaination to varying degrees for example The Realms had humans taught magic by the elves which was a huge leap forward provided for them with the partial exception being netheril which learnt basic magic from elves then learnt from another race in the form of the netherese scrolls armour was learnt from the dwarves etc etc - humans very rarely innovate to the degree of "as good as you in 1 millionth the time" in fact I have never ever seen a setting where humans came up with everything they knew independently and not have some gifted upon them / traded to them by elves, dwarves, gods, spirits, creator races etc.įinally in the realms humans being a creator race have only recently accomplished what all the other creator races did ages ago, and STILL havent matched them. Unless a few billion people volunteer to die to prevent over consumption of "natural" growing food resources that is. evolution can result in a change occurring and then getting undone, because conditions change, evolution doesn't have a will or a desire or direction.īesides which, technology is the key to nature preservation and reacclimation. Now, how about you take your army elsewhere and let the 15 of us deal with the orcish menace."Īlthough, on the flip side of the coin, an elf might argue that technological advancement is not the evolutionary path intelligent races should be striving for, but rather integration with nature - which has existed before, and will exist after, sentient life fades.Įvolution isn't a path, nor does it have levels.
As an elf, I can assure you of this from the perspective of my superior intellect and experience. I think this is a perfect example of why Dwarves have a racial Charisma-penalty.Īre you kidding? that was charisma up the wazoo! dwarves are awesomer then I ever imagined!
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