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Posted By: Aldan Oct 07, 2003 - 09:36 am

A differently colored Honda Accord is STILL a Honda Accord. You said that they're "dark-skinned and violent." Taking away their worship of a spider goddess and having them live above the ground doesn't change that. You're taking what you like about the drow and just changing some things to attempt to make them YOURS. Wizards/TSR would probably fight you tooth and nail if you made them any more drow-like than you already have, so you just "lighten" their black skin to a dark brown/umber and say they're jes' Elves.

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 07, 2003 - 09:43 am

Then you're getting into D&D Style wood elves.

Posted By: Aldan Oct 07, 2003 - 09:52 am

*Aldan chuckles and sounds like Beavis*
You said wood. Huh huh Huh huh...

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 07, 2003 - 09:57 am

*gypsychic rolls her eyes and wishes Beavis had never been invented*

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 07, 2003 - 10:28 am

When you get to the specifics, my elves are quite different from those other types. It is the civilization, not just the look.

You misunderstanding cretins. hehe

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 07, 2003 - 10:36 am

Cretin?!? I think I prefer guppy if that's my other choice.

Posted By: Aldan Oct 07, 2003 - 10:42 am

Woo Hoooooooo!!!

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 07, 2003 - 10:58 am

If you insist. hehe

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 07, 2003 - 12:11 pm

I think I may have made a big ol' mistake with last post.

Posted By: Aldan Oct 08, 2003 - 09:56 am

*Aldan gives a huge wolfie grin*

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 08, 2003 - 11:28 am

Now that we have her permission....

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Posted By: gypsychic Oct 08, 2003 - 11:32 am

Hey doesn't that count as a repeat post? Bmat, I think you should delete all but one of those.

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 08, 2003 - 12:03 pm

I was just letting out all those guppy's that I had suppressed.

Posted By: Aldan Oct 08, 2003 - 01:41 pm

Yeah, you wouldn't want him to bust a seam, would you gup?

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 08, 2003 - 02:56 pm

GUPPY!

sorry. I couldn't hold it in.

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 08, 2003 - 05:22 pm

Maybe I would at that, Aldan.

So back to the original subject - Greentick, if you're unfamiliar with wood elves from d&d, you may want to check them out, because what you've described so far sounds pretty similar.

Also, bear in mind that its ok if some things that you do are similar to things that came before. It's really how you do it that's important.

Posted By: Athalia Oct 08, 2003 - 05:25 pm

Yeah, thanks to the Final Fantasty games you run into "Elves Suck" everywhere in books these days... just and example.

Posted By: gypsychic Oct 08, 2003 - 05:44 pm

I don't remember anything bad about elves in final fantasy. What am I forgetting?

Posted By: thegreentick Oct 08, 2003 - 05:53 pm

The one stereotype I am keeping is the reverance for nature. The build everything around the life that is there. Any sort of city will be build on the desert, rock, or be floating on a lake. There is a tree though that one tribe lives in. It is massive to the point of being a mountain. Many of the elves build their houses in the cracks of the bark.

Posted By: Athalia Oct 09, 2003 - 08:43 am

How small are your elves? I read a book once - can't remember which one - where the elves where barely topped three feet.

I enjoyed Terry Pratchett's take on elves... Which book was that? Oh yeah, Lords and Ladies.
Evil elves are pretty cool - and these weren't drow. I'm pretty sure most of ya'll have read it and know what I'm talking about.