You can have only two races in your setting, and they have to be either:

You can have only two races in your setting, and they have to be either:

Humans and dwarves
OR
Humans and elves

No other options.

What do you choose?

Nightmare Mode: The dwarves and elves are both the Veeky Forums meme versions.

Humans and Dwarves. Elves aren't different enough from Humans to justify them being the only other race.

Humans and Elves. Dwarves aren't different enough from Humans to justify them being the only other race.

Those are Draphs and Erunes though.

>Elves aren't different enough
Dvarves are way more human in behavior than elves, what are you smoking

Even if we count nightmare mode.

Humans and women.

Humans and (original Germanic, not Tolkien) elves.

Humans and Dwarves.

Adult Elves make no sense for PCs.
You're an Adult elf, you've been alive for 300+ years and yet you have the same base mental skills as a 30 year old human.
in three fucking centuries you haven't developed any more proficiencies or refined your mental skills beyond what some dirty human has achieved in 1/10th the time.
For elves to make any real sense they'd have to have robot like efficiency. with over 100 years of youthful stamina and hundreds of years to refine your crafts, every Elf over age 200 (still a young adult) would be considered a master of their craft by human standards.

Humans and elves. Male human x female elf loving relationships with handholding are my fetish.

Humans and elves, decrease the elf population to zero.
A human-only setting.

But dwarves also live for long-ass time

Is this a Veeky Forums meme Dwarf?

>yet you have the same base mental skills as a 30 year old human

What you are describing is a bad attempt at expanding a D&Dism. Even in D&D, your average elves have much more accumulated knowledge and experience than your average human, but the game stats are not intended to reflect that because that would upset the balance of the PC races and secondly fails to appreciate that the stats are not intended to directly quantify every single aspect of a character.

It's why a forty-year old human isn't automatically more experienced than a twenty-year old human, despite being twice their age. You're not quantifying things that have little mechanical effect on the game like appearance, allergies, phobias, genetic disposition, etc, and in the case of the Elf Age paradox, its not taking into account the thousands of little hints of accumulated experience that an elven character drops, like an emphasized appreciation of the fragility of life. That's good for roleplaying, hence the spot on the character sheet for Age, but doesn't really contribute much mechanically. Sometimes though, this does actually get reflected as a bonus to Int/Wis, depending on edition/subrace.

Above all else, the simple rationale in solving the "paradox" is appreciating that PC stats reflect exceptional individuals, but that the racial stats shouldn't just be used under the assumption that the world is just filled with level one commoners with the racial bonuses.

To reflect even how elves are in the various D&D/FR novels, it would be better to assume most elves past a certain age have accumulated a fair number of character levels.

And this all only applies to D&D. Outside of that, elves tend to just be smart and wise with no reason to try to put them in the same "playable" category as humans.

Who would want dwarves in their right mind when you can have elves?!

Dwarves and elves. Humans aren't race, they're pets bred by both races.

This guy gets it...
>they're pets bred by both races.
Nevermind

My African-American Brethren

>doesn't want to have a loyal, fluffy companion human, guarding your home, hunting with you and playing with your children
Both elves and dwarves have long lives. Humans are social animals and would make perfect pets to them.

In the setting my group is in, PC Elves are typically the same age as humans. Elves develop at a similar rate to humans, get antsy and wunderlusty by their thirties and go off into the world.
It's considered the 'teen' years of an elf and as they enter their seventies or so, they slow down and finally start to act 'elfy'.

Tl;dr, Thirty year-old elf 'teens' run away from home only to return in a few decades time once it's out of their system.

You can't post something like that and not post a source along with it.