It's more like he pish-poshed the usual "Because they're old" meme that's commonly accepted as the reason for elven excellence. He explicitly left the door open for other explanations, particularly magical ones. "Age equals bad assery" is a potentially interesting premise to build a game world around but I don't think it's nearly as plausible or self-evident a concept as so many elf wank books would have you believe.virgil wrote:So, K, no pomt in having elves at all? Your spiel so far is fairly discouraging in even pursuing the concept of something being different than standard human settlement. Once you go down that road, why bother with fantasy?
Also, as a general rule, I prefer to have my races be powered by bullshit artifacts, vast stockpiles or other things that can change ownership. It's silly, but at least it means that intrepid adventurers or villains can steal that shit. Take a lesson from Shadowrun--players cared about the megacorps because they were the ones with all the hookers and blackjack tables. By contrast, nobody really gave a shit about the Tir books in the long run, because you can't steal or buy personal excellence as easily as you can hijack someone's sweet prototype hover car.