Tell me about elves.
No, not the elves of a specific published setting.
Not the elves of your homebrew setting either.
Certainly not folkloric elves.
Definitely not what you personally think elves should be like.And absolutely not why they wear the mask.
Tell me what you understand elves to be, going purely by /tg/ memes and every single elf thread that preceded this one.
What are they like? What do they look like? Where do they live? What is the stereotypical elven personality? What are their subraces?
Shoot.
>>46902442
Elves are the fantastical representation of every popular girl or guy /tg/ has ever looked at with envy, they are the large-breasted blonde that goes out every Friday night just like they're the handsome football star that's popped more cherries than you can count on your fingers.
>>46902442
Depends on--
Okay, okay, gotcha, mate, I won't be a cheeky cunt, I promise.
That said, the problem is that the definition of such a vague thing as "elf" is very dependent on the context they are used in, mainly because elves don't exist and there isn't a singular entity to compare.
If you want some sort of universal definition of an "elf", it's probably "knife-eared humanoid that whose origins have some sort of connection with mystic forces".
An race of contradictory, abstract concepts of the universe that simultaneously emit feelings of intense, irrational loathing and unmitigated desire and lust in all who behold them.
They are also both the wise elder race that must stand guard to keep the world safe and the slack-jawed retards who manage to inadvertently ruin everything for everyone else.
>>46902474
>Elves are the fantastical representation of every popular girl or guy /tg/ has ever looked at with lust
Fixed
>>46902442
Elves are asshole hippies who take decades to do anything, isolate themselves in their fucking forests, and look down upon all the other races without actually trying to establish meaningful communication with them or acknowledge the benefits of their society.
And then the Orcs come to the forest.
>>46902442
>Tell me what you understand elves to be,
Standard Fantasy race #3
>>46902474
>elves
>large breasted
pick one.
>>46902544
It's both, the typical fa/tg/uy lusts after the big-breasted blonde but quickly turns to rage and envy when the big-breasted blonde, who goes through men like they're candy, refuses to sleep with him because even her "low standards" are beyond him.
Elves are the stuffy aristocrats of the fantasy race hierarchy. They live in great treehouse mansions in the woods, where they eat fine food and drink fine wine. They are obsessed with self-expression, and spend their days writing poetry, playing music, making art, and frolicking in glades. They are also tremendous fucking wimps. Yet despite all their faggotry, they are the most lusted after of all fantasy races.
Basically, French people.
>>46902577
Elves are now commonly depicted with fairly sizable busts, anon, especially on /tg/.
>>46902596
I wasn't talking about the women
>>46902638
And you're acting like flipping genders will somehow change the response.
>>46902596
>big-breasted blonde
>not the small-breasted raven-long-haired lithe small girl that you want to protect
Holy shit, look at all that plebeian taste.
>>46902442
>Tell me what you understand elves to be, going purely by /tg/ memes and every single elf thread that preceded this one.
That request is bad and you should feel bad about having made it.
>>46902442
They are shaped, sir, like themselves, and they are as broad as they hath breadth. They are just so high as they are, and move with their own organs. They live by that which nourisheth them, and, the elements once out of them, they transmigrate.
>>46902663
No, I'm saying that when I look at an elf """male""" I'm much more likely to feel lust than envy ;^)
>>46902442
I'm angry
Angry about them
>>46902442
>Tell me about elves.
ABSOLUTELY INHUMAN
>>46902724
Are their tears wet?
>>46902442
You know, for a while now I've been wondering to myself what makes elves a more acceptable fantasy race than, say, catfolk. Even just outright cosplay-tier catgirls.
What's really the difference between a human with long ears and a human with some cat-like features? Or features of really anything else? Why is one considered the norm when the other gets trashed as anime or magical realm? You might say culture and background, but that can easily be copy-pasted to almost anything. Why do elves just get a free pass?
>>46902760
So having high standards that no one can meet leads to no one meeting your standards?
Holy shit, all these truth bombs. It's like Hiroshima and Nagasaki all over again.
>>46902773
Their tears are as wet as those of an elf.
>>46902442
I ran a setting where the elves where barbaric Proto-Gauls who used magic.
Other than that, elves are okay. I prefer how they're portrayed in Tolkien, but I don't feel strongly about them in any particular way. I also play Harlequin, which amuses me greatly.
>>46902785
Catgirls weren't in Tolkien and default D&D settings.
>>46902785
>Why do elves just get a free pass?
More prominent in modern Western culture. On the shoulders of the giants and all that.
>>46902442
>Tell me what you understand elves to be, going purely by /tg/ memes and every single elf thread that preceded this one.
The worst kind of elves.
>>46902803
>he's assdamaged because he isn't descended from a senator appointed by Romulus
>>46902668
>ever describing anyone as "lithe"
>>46902873
Lithe has implications that willowy doesn't, and supple is just a creepy word to use.
>>46902847
Actually, yeah, I am assdamaged, and I definitely would've preferred to be a direct descendant, but that is not really a problem.
Nobility is capable of devolving into low standards just as much as peasantry is.
It's just that the blue blood that flows through their veins gives them a casus not to.
Upholding high standards is your duty as a human being, anon.
>>46902785
Because catgirls are stupid fetish bait you weeb. If you're asking this seriously, though, you're too far gone to recognize that.
>>46902928
How are muh super special, ultra attractive unbelievably intelligent and morally superior Elves any better?
>>46902442
You still buttered?
>>46902966
What setting are you talking about?
>>46902913
>descendant of the legendary Consul Marcus Valerius Corvus
>the trusted French Lord that rode with Richard The Lionhearted
>the last catholic Cardinal of Scotland prior to the reformation
>and some German pig farmer
Truly I am heir to all around me.
>>46902442
Elves as defined by /tg/ memes have become something I hate. I preferred the older depictions of elves beforeweebsruined them.
>>46903019
>>and some German pig farmer
Okay, that got me good, you cheeky bastard.
Good job.
>>46902785
That's awesome, Chen!
Elves are sentient butts. Sometimes they are nice butts, but the fact that they are pleasing butts might make them arrogant.
Arrogant butts cause other species to have a stigma associated with said butts, which results in high impact sexual violence.
Also the C key on my keyboard is feeling a bit faulty, there must be some dust under it.
>>46902966
Because they're not kawaii uguu kitty cats.
Elves can be done like how you describe, but it's at least possible to do them seriously. Doing catgirls seriously is just jarring and makes their retarded nature stand out. A person with animal bits glued to them in such a nonsensical way is not going to be able to be as iconic as a person with merely different features.
>>46902910
I think lithe is more creepy than supple broham.
>>46903010
Pretty much your run of the mill fantasy setting. It's what we were discussing here. Why are elves as I described there allowed without a second thought but cat-eared humans not?
>>46903090
The only difference between humans and elves is the ears bullshit. In many settings there's too much HFY for Elves to possess the magical upper-hand for long. Not to mention the only way for humans and elves to co-exist is for elves them to be nerfed (dying race, lost knowledge, shit breeding, can't breed without humans etc) so hard that the only 'magical prowess', intelligence etc that they might have is pretty much only fluff. If that.
>>46903090
>Because they're not kawaii uguu kitty cats.
>but it's at least possible to do them seriously.
>Doing catgirls seriously is just jarring and makes their retarded nature stand out.
Can't tame the "cat" in the "catgirl".
You want catgirls done seriously?
Think Hotline Miami and its violent animalistic nature, only as if the masks were actual heads. Think that Caravan Palace music video.
Think basically any straight-up cat-furry race, and apply it to catgirls to a lesser extent.
>>46902825
>>46902826
Maybe they weren't, but they were still existant even in western culture. Take even Thunder Cats for example, they're there. It's dumb that just because something is more popular makes it better, and it's entirely reasonable, but it still just always feels like a let down when you can't make anything that isn't dwarves/elves without someone trying to call you out.
>>46903090
Anon, if you're going to point out certain instances, you can at least even look at the op image.
>>46903202
> It's dumb that just because something is more popular makes it better
It's not because it's more popular, it's because it's more "authentic", for the lack of the better word to describe it.
Tolkien defined the staple races in western pseudo-medieval fantasy. So now every step sideways from the norm (especially where humanoids are involved) is considered to be "weeb shit".
>>46902442
/tg/ elves are basically the worst traits of all elvs across the settings condensed into one contradictory creature. They exist to prove that /tg/'s favorite race of the week is the best and will surely wipe out/rape/prove to be superior to what essentially is a strawman thrown to the floor and dragged through mud. /tg/ elf's purpose in life is a singular thing - to keep average fa/tg/uy's fragile ego afloat, to make him look at them and think "at least i'm not as bad as these imaginary stereotypes."
So, in short, they're to /tg/ as what non-white people are to /pol/ - someone to smugly shitpost about.
>>46903171
The elves you described are pretty much only from Tolkien, maybe Eldar. Warhammer fantasy elves are pretty strong, but no so all-powerful as you seem to think. In so many other settings in which elves are playable they are not really better than humans, excel at some things and are worse at other.
>>46903265
Don't be suprised if you see your own post brought up in similar threads like this in the future. Because you said it well.
>>46903090
>Doing catgirls seriously is just jarring and makes their retarded nature stand out
You could just told from the beginning you're an unimaginative faggot, fampai. Seriously, i can name several works where they were done fine from get-go and several more if i think of it a bit.
>>46903177
This is kind of oversimplification. You can't make an entire race's shtick to be "ultraviolence". Or, rather, it only fits early stages of society. Mine ended up as a mixture of imperial china and generic balkan country - a bunch of crafty, violent people held in place by an extremely rigid government (as sort of overcompensation for their traits).
They sure as hell weren't stereotypical "kawaii uguu".
>>46902474
Dumb counter meme that only makes sense in a Hollywood High School movie.
>>46903450
>ultraviolence
It's not "ultraviolence", dummy, it's "hair-trigger temper". And, yes, I can.
Elves are the pretentious and arrogant popular kids in High School, PETA-loving hippies who swear they're "connected with nature" more than anyone, the local incredibly cock hungry and willing sex slave, or all of these at once.
Also, they're always either perfect specimens of the aryan race barring their knife-ears or chocolate-skinned BDSM lovers.
>>46903555
This.
>>46902966
>How are muh super special, ultra attractive unbelievably intelligent and morally superior Elves any better?
Because the whole point of Teh Original elves was that despite being super special, ultra attractive unbelievably intelligent and morally superior, they were ultimately GINORMOUS DOUCHES who are usually doomed to gloriously fuck up despite their awesomeness until they literally die of cringe, butthurt and sadness. That's something at least.
Meanwhile catgirls fail to provide anything outside of dem lewds. "Ok, so I just fapped. So what's the point of these shits being here again?"
>>46903450
Anything done with anime-style girls with cat ears and a tail glued to them is done better with khajiit-style furries.
The only exception I can think of is if they're genetically modified humans but that's still pretty out there and dumb.
>>46903450
>Seriously, i can name several works where they were done fine from get-go and several more if i think of it a bit.
Please provide.
>>46902442
The elves of /tg/ are an unholy mixture of japanese pornography and headcannon. The headcannon can make the difference between them being stuck-up assholes that never do anything right and are sub-humans for the self-insert character to hate/kill/rape. Or boring, one-dimensional waifus that only lust for human dicks.
So they are everything that elves outside of /tg/ aren't.
>>46903672
canon *CANON
>>46903693
Yes, sorry. Will not happen again.
Elves are fucking faggots, quasi-immortal classicist shitbags who constantly fuck anything up that promises any sort of substantial improvement over the status quo, under the guise of "maintaining the natural order", but actually because they're deathly afraid of actually having to work to maintain equity with other civilizations. Elves are the force that resists fantasy settings becoming scifi.
>>46903639
Thank you! I've been struggling to figure out exactly what my problem was with catgirls and now I know. There's nothing inherently wrong with them; there's just no good reason to have them outside an ERP campaign. The only advantage to weeb-style catfolk is that they're more fappable (to normal people, anyway). If you wanted a serious catfolk race, you'd do them khajit-style, like you said. If you didn't want to make them cat-like, you wouldn't give them recognizably feline features. Catgirls only exist to be kawaii waifus
>>46902442
>Tell me what you understand elves to be, going purely by /tg/ memes and every single elf thread that preceded this one.
Isn't it obvious?
/tg/ is the elves.
>>46904438
I wonder what this setting is.
>>46904538
All of them
>>46904555
So it's headcanon as always. Fantastic.
>>46904521
The exact same thing could be said of elves and making them fappable by having them be svelte humans with pointy ears.
>>46904595
Read the OP you retard
>>46902442
You made it impossible to answer you you abominable catamite.
>>46904521
>The only advantage to weeb-style catfolk is that they're more fappable (to normal people, anyway). If you wanted a serious catfolk race, you'd do them khajit-style, like you said. If you didn't want to make them cat-like, you wouldn't give them recognizably feline features. Catgirls only exist to be kawaii waifus
Truer words were never said.
>>46904620
No, because svelte humans with pointy ears can exist seriously too. There are plenty of real svelte humans and pointy ears isn't a huge difference. Elves are not designed with the purpose of being fap bait. It's really not the same.
>>46904669
That's something I barely read on this board. Maybe that they are supposed to be primitive, but not actively halting technological progress for other races.
>>46903639
Eh, i disagree. There's no real advantage of one over the other other than aesthetic you like. Mine are the race closest to humans, so it makes sense for them to be human-like.
>>46903660
The examples are mostly japanese, but in a large portion of RPGs there's at least one or two well-done beastman character. Mel and Jessica from Lunar, Nikki from mana khemia, don't get me even started on various Breath of Fire games (although those are a bit furrier, but still distinctly human-like).
Final Fantasy 11 and 14 did pretty well, they treat all races equally seriously.
Western example is a bit of cop-out, but humanlike Khajit.
Ctarl-Ctarl. They, after all, were successfully fighting with humans in galactic war, and were competent (if hammy and short-tempered).
Terra Battle's beastfolk were pretty great, more of big cat/monkey hybrid, but they had a variety of characters, including pic related, who doesn't look like "traditional animu catgirls".
Obvious mention of FARA AMBLAM.
>>46902442
I own them as slaves, that's really all. I don't give a fuck about where they came from, who they were. They work for me now and if you don't work you die slowly infront of the others.
>>46904707
Kind of. Elves were often sexual in nature in mythology. Either as a dangerous seductress or more of the classic kidnap and rape combo.
>>46904707
>take elf
>instead of arbitrarily saying they have pointy ears, say they arbitrarily have cat/dog/fox/squirrel/pine marten/rabbit ears and tail instead
Is this so bad?
>>46904521
The same could be said of just about anything Japan gets ahold of.
>>46904794
Hahaha this shortear. That's cute. You just carry on thinking that for your pathetic few remaining decades.
>>46902442
You're asking what the prototypical elf based on /tg/ memes is? The /tg/ meme Elf?
That is a very silly question. Let's have a go.
Physically, I guess that would make them basically extremely fit human-like appearance, with the only real differences being slightly idealized lithe body figure and aberrantly long tips on their otherwise human ears. Then of course is their longevity, which ranges from Long to Holy Shit That's Long depending on who you ask.
Culturally and psychologically, that would make them supremely arrogant, but not actually more talented than other races. Generally their culture is summed up as elitist-hippie bullshit. They are usually more magical than whatever the human baseline is. And of course, the /tg/ staple: slutty. They're often also characterized as letting their vanity or whimsy overcome their logic.
In the end, despite having 8-20x the lifespan of anything else, it is a running joke that elves accomplish almost nothing with their long lives, and thus in almost every RPG system I can think of only barely reach normal human competence with years of effort.
>>46904884
Still always gonna be a slave to a short-ear mate, the others will laugh. I've won.
>>46904810
Are these beatfolk still nimble and agile? Good at archery or magic? In tune witth nature or anything like this? Ancient culture? How is their lifespan?
Elves are not only pointy ears like you seem to think.
>>46904521
>>46904696
The real problem is all those literally terabytes of khajit/kilrathi/generic furry catpeople porn that kinda undermine your argument.
Seriously, people will fap to anything remotely attractive. Catpeople, no matter what kind of, have attractive features (in fact, they're essentially the same as elves'). It's not what race is, it's what you do with it. And people generally are willing to take race seriously if it's presented seriously. Elves just had one hell of a head start (arguably with one hell of a setback that was all the trashy fantasy novels).
>>46904943________________ Depends on the setting. _________________
>>46904943
M8, you're making me agree with touhoufag/colette/weebposter. Please stop, i don't want this future.
>Are these beatfolk still nimble and agile?
Yup.
>Good at archery or magic?
Yes, although many of them prefer hand-to-hand combat.
>In tune witth nature or anything like this?
Yep.
>Ancient culture?
Depends. Most are tribal or nomadic, but with lodsa shamans.
>How is their lifespan?
All right, i'll give it to you, this is one difference.
Still, 4 out of 5 isn't bad. And in general they fulfill the same niche - people halfway between primal and civilized.
>>46904886
You also forgot that they are depicted as magical, yet their magic never actually matters. Once near the human they lose magic and all redeemable traits, becoming an easy target for all sorts of abuse.
Scientists studying this phenomena has dubbed it "the HFY radius", and there are theories that it applies to other races too.
>>46904990
>The real problem is all those literally terabytes of khajit/kilrathi/generic furry catpeople porn that kinda undermine your argument.
>more fappable (to normal people, anyway)
Did you even read my post? I know full well people jerk it to catpeople. My point was that they have a reason to exist in a setting other than to be fapped to, which you can't say about catgirls/boys. Again, if you were serious about having a race of sentient cats, you'd make them look like bipedal, humanoid cats. If you didn't want them to be cats, you wouldn't give them cat-like features.
Your usuall fantasy elves:
Long lifespan (like, "really" long...)
high dexterity, agility and strenght
usually the best magic users
each member are fucking beautiful (even the males...)
snopish and highheaded
archrival of dwarves
usually splitted into high-, dark- and woodelves
have a low fertility rate
That's the most generic things I came up with...
>>46904752
>The examples are mostly japanese
Ew.
>Final Fantasy 11 and 14
Are shit.
>Western example is a bit of cop-out, but humanlike Khajit.
I'll give you that.
>Ctarl-Ctarl
Ew.
>Terra Battle's beastfolk
Ew.
>Obvious mention of FARA AMBLAM
Ew^2
Trouble is - Khajit are the only example where the beastlike qualities of the race add something beside arbitrary difference from baseline humans and fetish factor.
>>46902442
They're entities used to bait this board.They make good fapbait
>>46905186
>My point was that they have a reason to exist in a setting other than to be fapped to, which you can't say about catgirls/boys.
As someone who ran several campaigns, two of them with people who do not like weebstuff, without any complaints, i absolutely fucking can and you cannot do anything about it.
There's no absolute arbiters of setting seriousness, It all comes down to author/GM.I agree, though, that in 80-90% of cases catpeople are done terribly, but you can say the same about everything.
>>46905220
>beside arbitrary difference
In the examples you so conveniently dismissed there are two societies with wildly different social dynamic from humans, two races of natural shapeshifters, one of which is on wholly different physical level from humans even in baseline form and a race of nature-attuned people who successfully adapted to post-apocalyptic cyberpunk clusterfuck.
But then again, you said "ew", so i am utterly and completely defeated, and, by old /tg/ custom should commit a ritual suicide by playing a session of FATAL. Goodbye, cruel world.
>>46905344
>As someone who ran several campaigns, two of them with people who do not like weebstuff, without any complaints
A N E C D O T I C E V I D E N C E
> i absolutely fucking can and you cannot do anything about it
Just because people didn't complain doesn't mean that cat-ness of people served any purpose in the setting.
>>46905453
>In the examples you so conveniently dismissed there are two societies with wildly different social dynamic from humans, two races of natural shapeshifters, one of which is on wholly different physical level from humans even in baseline form and a race of nature-attuned people who successfully adapted to post-apocalyptic cyberpunk clusterfuck.
They are all still quirky humans, whose cultural differences could be perfectly implemented without the animalistic differences in physiology.
>But then again, you said "ew", so i am utterly and completely defeated
You were defeated when you started listing unimaginative weeb shite as legit examples.
>>46903019
Is you last name sweinsteiger?
>>46905456
Anecdotic evidence is still evidence. They CAN be done good.
>Just because people didn't complain doesn't mean that cat-ness of people served any purpose in the setting.
It did, but i'm not gonna write two whole posts of setting explanation to just have it dismissed.And i'm gonna be a cunt here and mention that in most RPG settings, elf-ness or dorf-ness of people does not actually serve any purpose too, besides a few stat points and a stereotype or two.
>>46905344
>japan sexualizes everything
>elves can also be depthless fapbait
>theyre the same!
This keeps popping up but it's obfuscating the main point. Sure, at their lowest the races can be the same, but it's when done in a serious context that catpeople fall. There is no good reason for humans with furry cat ears and cat tails to be a thing. Elves can be a thing. Humanoid cat races can be a thing. Anime style "staple cat parts to it" being done seriously just highlights how trashy the idea is.
You may have had them be serious, but they're just a worse option than khajiit type people because they're so nonsensical and inherently fap bait by being kept so humanoid with just the fuzzy ears and shit.
>>46904884
>not roundear
Shortear only applies to anime elves
>>46905456
>A N E C D O T I C E V I D E N C E
Oh, come on. I'm the guy that anon was replying to and even I think that's unfair. His point that it's not impossible to use them seriously was legitimate, even if I still contend that doing so is pointless
>>46902442
>/tg/ elf
Hello! How are you?
>>46905692
I want this meme to die.
>>46905558
>It did
I don't believe it.
> in most RPG settings, elf-ness or dorf-ness of people does not actually serve any purpose too
True. But at least there are examples of aversions with major cultural impact.
>>46905671
Even if he managed to pull this off in his own setting (which is unlikely, due to fundamental idea being shit. It's either Dr. Moreau or bullshit) - it still doesn't prove that anything influential can be created basing on that.
>>46905581
Those are some hot opinions, famalama. And hey, opinions are okay. Mine is that they can be done seriously and done well, it just requires a bit more of work. And i've seen it done, i DID it done, so it's not baseless.
>>46902442
Maple syrup for blood and a mind like a rock.
>>46905715
Literally immortal.
>>46905909
Even outside of original settings, the many times /tg/ had discussions like these the opinions were generally on "yeah, fine" side. /tg/ is farthest from hivemind, but there's no reason to dismiss it entirely.
Pic related is how Elves should be in more settings.
>>46902442
cute
THEY EAT PEOPLE
>>46905220
>final Fantasy 14
>shit
Pick one you fucking WoWcuck.
>>46908406
MMOs are shit by definition. Weeb mmos are double shit by double definition.
>>46905523
And you can do almost all of the standard stuff with elves without giving them long ears or fey ancestry.
Or Dwarves without making them short, bearded, and headscratchingly male Scotsmen (seriously, female dwarves practically don't exist).
Or Orcs without making them tall, green, hyper muscular, betusked humanoids.
We have different races because it allows us to have a shorthand for different types of cultures, but also just because things would be a little more homogenous if everyone was just "Human from elegant civilization, human from innovative civilization, barbaric human, human from mining civilization" etc. Not a bad approach, but most people like a little variety.
Catfolk (or any kind of part beast humanoid, really) very easily fit the mold of a "nature attuned" race. Sometimes elves or some other flavor of fey fit this, and in that case catfolk would be a redundant and unnecessary addition. But otherwise, if you want a nature attuned race, there's nothing inherently wrong with catfolk.
When it comes down to whether or not to implement them weeb style (normal humans with ears and tails and sometimes claws) or khajit style comes down to personal taste and the needs of the setting. The stranger they get (re: furrier), the more likely people are going to dislike the race and leave it the fuck alone, but stronger animal features could easily suggest more animal like behavior, if you wish to go that route.
>>46902442
Elfs are different variants based (sometimes) based upon the Elves from old Germanic Mythology.
Many people here see them differently, either Spellcaster the race/Hot girl/guy to fap to/muh special snowflake/an interesting race that sees things far deeper than humans ever could.
Elf discussions are always smut and long words in "lore" threads, while in standard bait threads there is only smutand sometimes it creates things like Warcraft General
>>46902442
They are the Tuatha de Danann, the Fair Folk, the Tylwyth Teg, The Hidden People, Or commonly "Elves".
They come in as many forms as there are songs, some are like beautiful men and women with fine features and a supernatural glamour, some have heads like beasts and know the tongues of animals, some are tiny and winged like birds or insects, and some have no shape at all.
They live in secret places; under faerie mounds where time stands still for those who feast and play in the halls within, drinking from the jewelled goblets of long dead mortal heroes, who's shrivelled corpses still sit as guests of honour at the tables; trapped forever by enchanted food and drink.
Others live deep within the bowels of the earth, at the bottom of the sea, atop mountains or anywhere untouched by men.
Their commonalities are that all Elves fear Iron, and are hurt by it's touch, they are possessed of diverse innate magical powers, and are conditionally un-ageing unless they fall in love with a mortal, or are banished.
>>46905692
>100% Cute
>>46903555
>Also, they're always either perfect specimens of the aryan race barring their knife-ears or chocolate-skinned BDSM lovers.
And there will be endless arguments on /tg/ as to which is better.
>>46902442
Elves are idealized beautiful and perfect white Scandinavian people. Simple as that.
If you want to get to know the elves deeply read the Silmarillion.
>>46905608
>>46903500
Did you even get the reference?
>>46904534
>implying /tg/ isn't halflings
Fat, fond of food, often short, fond of leisure, whimsical except when angered, live underground but not in cold mountains, scared of real danger but always dreaming of adventure, and surprisingly good cooks considering that isn't their actual job.
Also, hairy feet.
>>46902652
>Requesting elves
>>46912297
>elves
>white
I always have problems understanding how elves can be 300 years old and mechanically still be shittier than some 18 year old human.
This Elven warrior has been fighting for 300 years, and knows war inside and out....and he's a 8th level fighter....
This 21 year old human fighter is ALSO level 8!
Goddamn, man.
Long lived races make no sense to me.
Do they just spend their years jacking off?
I like my elves like I like my drinks.Shaken
>>46902544
>tfw you transfered schools in 10th grade
>lost weight, less awkward, more fashion conscious
>tfw you end up being one of the popular kids there
>>46912297
>Scandinavian
Tolkien's elves were a cross between Wales and Finland.
>>46902442
At their base Elves should basically be aliens. Their culture shouldn't just be 'Humans, but better', but it should have a different way of thinking that comes with being incredibly long lived.
Eldar from 40k are pretty close to what I'm thinking. Their decision making seems random to an outsider but makes sense in the grand scheme of things over hundreds of years.
>>46915997
Like what another post once said about long lived races and magic. They tend to be much more careful since their lives are so much more precious than a human's life. The riskier decision making a human makes would let him be just as good.
Though if it were me I would only allow young player elves instead of older ones. Not from a fetishy point of view. Just a, "You are 100 years old now, you need actual combat experience and not just practice."
>>46904752
>jessica
What part of her race impacted her character? I could literally forget she was nonhuman and nothing would change.
>nikki
>entire story based around getting a hubby
>sings to get admirers
I'm not really sure where you're going with this. While her catgirl culture is certainly UNIQUE, what little we hear of it is centered around sex and kids.
>bof
Those were pretty good, regardless of how many people fetishize them.
>ff14
Arent all the races there mostly globalized already? I only hear of race mattering when people comment on short/tallness.
