Why are so many settings treating elves as just humans with pointed ears? Something that lived for 300 years will have a mind completely alien to a human. Sometimes I think elves shouldn't be playable.
You can't even blame this on Tolkien since his elves lived in clear separation from humans.
Why don't you post your manly elves instead?
Started with early RPGs and war games, in which people wanted to be able to play the elegant, beautiful, perfect creatures that elves are shown as being. Over the decades, this turned into them being more humanized for the purpose of being easier to roleplay as.
Having a generic fantasy setting where you can't play as what's been established as one of the premier generic fantasy races is the death knell for that setting. At the very least, there needs to be another race that occupies the same space as elves (elegant, beautiful, regal elder race that tends to be arrogant and aloof).
Also, people keep depicting elves like your image does, as incredibly hot humans where the only elvish thing about them is an exotic eye color and pointy ears. That's not an elf, that's just fap bait.
Yeah sure, you didn't find any other pic to go for your topic. Like there aren't a million elf pics out there.
/thread
But this surely will go for at least another 200 posts anyway.
because OP humans and geek humans don't see the forest only the tree..and that is why every stupid nerd in his faggotry and fail has fantasy racism hates elves because they think they are superior well in fact every race in every fantasy settting thinks that is superior..and that is why elf woman rape exists because it's supposed to be the ultimate female example and nerds want to be the alphas of alphas..well in fact elven people should treat humans as 12 year old virgins with apism :P...
They can still be played well - just by players who know the limitations. Legolas in a party people think movie legolas, being chipper and handsome and a bro. The book depictions of elves were more alien, unknowable and frankly weirdos.
Having a member of your party who is ancient but roused into action can be effective (especially so the DM can speak through them), but people do often just make them lazy or weirdly humanised.
Stat systems inherently make this worse - an Human wizard who has studied magic their whole vs. a 600 year old elf wizard should be no contest, but D&D makes them quite similar. Also D&D says elves are treated as teenagers until they're like 120, which is similarly stupid.
i like you sir
Yeah, it's just as bad as taking a random Earth warrior culture and turning them into orcs or whatever.
I guesa it makes a better bait that pic related.
This user gets it.
Brown elf thread?
Brown elf thread. Western style, just to trigger the weebs.
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>I guesa it makes a better bait
And you will get exactly the quality of thread you baited in with a stupid anime fapbait pic. I can promise you, as this thread keeps going it will get stupider, with an increase in shitposting, and it doesn't even need me sperging out.
How fucking difficult can it be to just use a reasonable pic if you want a reasonable thread.
>Why are so many settings treating elves as just humans with pointed ears?
Stop watching animoo.
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>Implying I am OP.
I guess now I know why "not that user" exists.
Besides, I prefer this type of elf.
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Even if you are not that user, the point stands.
Also:
Just in case I haven't noticed it, if you don't like the thread but want to dump it into the ground: sage.
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That's just the lighting.
Who said I wanted to sage?
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But you want to dump it into image limit.
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take an elf and roleplay it as a straight celt (how - gurps described it alright), with some funny magic stuff tacked on
No, I'm just sharing brown elves.
It's fine as long as images don't tingle mod's lewd sense.Thinly veiled lewd thread just got deleted so I'll wait and see how the board police will handle this one.
But it's exactly like that in D&D.
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Western elves aren't really doing that much of a great job as well.
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There are a dozen different cultures on Earth that are sufficiently orc-like without having to make any major changes, user.
Scythians come to mind.
Stop being an autist. It's an image board. If OP pic doesn't draw attention thread teleports to page 10.
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>OP asks a question.
>Second post becomes the best post.
>Since OP's requests was granted, some user decides to post legit elves with dark skin.
>REEEEEEEE! YOU RUIN ELVES FOREVER!
For someone who defends the rights of a fictional race, you are a living proof of why they don't like us in most settings.
How do you know what is orc-like user? Have you ever talked with an orc?
That's a halfling from Baldur's Gate
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That's just not true, but if your thread needs tits to attract an audience it was probably a shit thread to begin with. Or you didn't want to talk about the topic.
>Have you ever talked with an orc?
Loik dis?
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>>REEEEEEEE! YOU RUIN ELVES FOREVER!
wayq
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You and I both know the answer to that question. It's whatever you believe the Ur-Orc to be in literature, which is generally how they're described in Tolkien to most people.
The Scythians were an ahead-of-their-time industrious people that also just happened to sew human skin into their clothing and weapons and drink out of their enemies skulls.
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Warhammer orcs are nothing like any human culture. Tolkien orcs are nothing like any human culture.
If you just take a human culture and make them green it's a pathetic lack of creativity.
Oi mate, I was in London once
>Warhammer orcs are nothing like any human culture
Literally based off of football hooligans.
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>niggers as elves
I thought Veeky Forums loved brown elves though.
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>Sometimes I think elves shouldn't be playable.
But elves are like half the playable races.
They love brown elves, not nigger elves.
Somewhat stupid, since most fantasy worlds are in a technological stasis anyway, where humans also don't advance at all. Also elves are one of the most advanced races in magic, which helps probably even more than some kind of industrial evolution with their standard of living.
Brown elves are nothing but cheap fapbait that has barely anything to do with traditional games and is usually enjoyed by people that have no actual interest in elves and traditonal games as well. At least some of these nigger elf pics could be used as character art.
But all I see in this thread are brown elves.
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>Brown elves are nothing but cheap fapbait that has barely anything to do with traditional games and is usually enjoyed by people that have no actual interest in elves and traditonal games as well.
And people here love them.
>At least some of these nigger elf pics could be used as character art.
>playing as a nigger
nah, those are nigger elves
>And people here love them
And yet here I am, shitting on them. As I said, basically only plebs "love" them, meaning they fap to porn and that's it, and they could go fuck off to /e/ or /h/ and Veeky Forums would lose nothing of value.
Have you considered not being so racially charged?
Only the way they speak.
Brown elves are not African elves.
What makes these elves African? Most fantasy settings do not feature Africa as a continent.
Facial features? Skull shape?
You could make them look like aliens. Lanky, pale, humongeous eyes like a bush baby, and culture that doesn't make sense.
I see. And brown elves are incapable of having these facial features and skull shape?
>implying it's the weebs who get triggered by dark skinned elves or elves otherwise portrayed "wrong"
You've triggered me plenty thank you
t. tolkienfag
>somewhat stupid
Naturally
Well, at least they're not as bad as this.
Please stop posting these shitty tumblr elves, they look awful.
You have an issue with brown elves?
Post quality Tolkien art then.
That's a Troll if I ever saw one, Sir. The hair, position of ears, and the nose, make it so.
>the story would gaint a lot from being seen this way
>I felt bad liking the movie as much as I did
>LotR is basically being black = being a Bad Guy = horseshit
>proceeds to make Saruman black
Are you trying to kill me, user? Is that what this is; an assassination attempt?
Jesus fuck, I saw less ugly orcs.
By what definition of troll? Can you cite the setting you are using to support this accusation?
Of course an anime poster would think that.
>WE
I have an issue with the brown elves you're posting, yes. They look terrible.
For a moment I thought it would be Shadow of Mordor. You know, the latest thing that twisted the tolkienfags' nipples.
>Post animu.
REEEEEEEEEE
>Post 'realistic'.
REEEEEEEEEE
Why you don't do like does and stop screeching.
Scandinavian folklore
Please post an image of a Scandanavian folklore troll that looks closer to that image than that image looks to an image of an elf.
>>Post animu.
>REEEEEEEEEE
>>Post 'realistic'.
>REEEEEEEEEE
It's almost like there are different pics of elves and fans of these pics.
By the way they sound, it would seem it is the same arsehole.
lmao
>>neogaff
Not all trolls are angry giants user, here in souther scandiland we have these sweet ass forest women
>56779116
Oh shit, we got a master baiter in here. Everyone watch out.
This is what happens why you apply communist ideas to the idea of fantasy races. It all becomes stale, boring shit because everything's the same as everything else. In my setting the only elves that aren't asleep in the amber of the world tree are ancient, tens of thousands of years old hermits who keep to themselves and would sooner eat or enslave any dumbass human that would disturb them. They also look nothing like humans because why the fuck would they? They're at least 10 feet tall with huge, glowing eyes, webbed hands with long, spindly fingers and flowing, gossamer flanges falling from their heads where their hair would be. They use this to swim through fluid interior of their tree homes.
Now, if I wanted OP's pic I'd just call her a FUCKING HUMAN, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SHE IS.
Thank you user for posting these brown elves, I'll have a lot of inspiration for characters now
I'd rather fuck the cat.
And I'm not even Druid.