Explain the learning capacity for elves. While this table is

>>49887404
Back in the day, elves took comparatively more XP to level up, so you could kind of take slow learning as a head-canon explanation. Although they were basically fighter-mages, so it was balanced to have them level up more slowly.

>>49887404
Yes.
End of Thread.

The "adulthood at 100+ years of age" thing is entirely cultural. Elves mature physically at the same rate as humans but their longevity makes them dicks about recognizing their offspring as adults.

>>49887465
Exactly. Nobody stops from making a younger elf, maybe raised in another culture. Or also a Wood/Wild elf, since they're more practical than their cousins and start their training earlier.

>>49887465
Then a much wider range of starting ages with far more overlap would make much more sense. Intuitive should range from 18-134, Self-Taught from 22-146, and so on. Remember, killing a deer is worth experience.

>>49887404
Balance. Don't search for any in-setting reason, it's just to explain why the common elf isn't a level 30 hero and the whole world isn't already bowing to their elf rulers.

>>49887663
>Balance
What balance? are you implying elf race is strong so they have to make them super old to balance them?

>>49887492
>Nobody stops from making a younger elf, maybe raised in another culture
Except penalties to all stats because they aren't adult ;^)

>>49887684
Pretty much.

D&D is a result of taking Tolkien's demigods and trying to cram them together with non-demigod races.

It's better to just throw >>49887404 table out and pretend it never existed.
It's MUCH better to throw 3.5/pf out and pretend they never existed.

>>49887684
>are you implying elf race is strong so they have to make them super old to balance them?

No, he's saying that it would be unbalanced for elves to automatically be level 8 before their very first adventure just because they've had a century of training.

>>49888382
I always find it amusing when little shits try to blame the edition that makes them irrationally sperg on things that can be found in other older and newer editions.

>>49887404
Elves reach physical maturity in their 20s and are only considered adults around 110 for cultural reasons.

Many adventuring elves are childred enjoying their 90 years of what is essentially Spring Break, where they get all their silly shit out of the way before settling down and spending half a century carving a statue.