Message no. 1

From:	Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject:	Elves and Attitudes
Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 1994 15:48:19 -0700

From what I have seen, many people have an impression of hate at first
sight for elves and shoot the arogant bastards. It is my belief that many
people are not playing them as well as they could be played, and taking the
worst aspects.

To start off with I will admit that it would be hard to play an Elf - a NORMAL
elf has the charisma of a national hero, while any elf that is more suave will
be nearly always "impressive". This is damn hard for a GM to play because we
are only normal humans - most of us don't have the charisma of Sean Connery or
Patrick Stuart nor the IQ of a demi-power for playing Greater Dragons.

What comes of this is that Elves are often played as arogant and nothing else,
especially in the books. In my opinion, yes the Elf could sometimes be played
as arrogant but most won't be as bad as we make them seem. Also, yes the elf
may be arrogant, by you WILL listen to what he says, the personallity should
catch you and hold your attention for a time.

Elves do make good villians because of this, and these types of villians should
not be just people there for you to hate. Look at it like the X-men think of
Magneto - he is very charismatic and impressive both in power and personality.
Yes the x-men may dislike what he stands for and what he does, but he is always
an enemy to be respected not ridiculed.


Nightfox