SRD talk:Elans (Race)

Immortal Races
For the IP which edited Elans to not having age catagories and having Timeless Body (with no benefit for aging), thank you but please leave the SRD pages alone save for typos of conflicts with the actual SRD pages and/or errata. The Elan created by WotC does not have your traits listed (and the immortality bit is in errata, FYI).

But I figure you were trying to close what you might have seen as an attempted abuse, so this is an FYI on dealing with immortal races, including warforged, by the WotC rules. Immortal races can age, unlike undead which simply stop aging, unless stated otherwise. This is their body breaking down but never dying. They have no maximum age, so once they reach venerable, they stay venerable forever. Now, is this broken? No, no more than the fact you could play a venerable human wizard. Since most games don't take decades, there's never a threat from dying of old age, and given that your statistics for venerable is -6 Str, -6 Dex, -6 Con, +3 Int, +3 Wis, +3 Cha, its a bit of a suboptimal choice to begin with. All immortality offers is a flavor choice, one which allows you to say that you are 20,000 years old (and probably venerable).

Anyway, FYI there, and the reasoning of the revert. -- Eiji-kun 02:51, 9 April 2011 (UTC)