Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Sutemi 10-01-07, 03:00 PM	Arctic Elves are in Unearthed Arcana. Snow Elves are in Frostburn. Which one do you prefer? Or do you prefer both races in your campaign?
Krusk 10-01-07, 04:37 PM	I like snow elves a lot better. Generally I use the unearthed arcana environmental races a lot, but only if i can't find an equivilent race in one of the environmental books. -sandstorm, stormwrack, frostburn-
Crebain 10-01-07, 09:50 PM	I think the idea of artic or snow elves is preposterous. elves have thin figures and were not meant for the cold.
zeratulcraft 10-01-07, 10:17 PM	I think the sheer number of elven subraces is ludicrous. They don't strike me as a creature that would adapt so damn easily. In fact, they don't strike me as the kind of creature to leave their home except in ones or twos as adventurers in the first place.
IdleAltruism 10-01-07, 10:27 PM	The snow elf is just like all the other elves. Except the designers finally admitted that everyone hates elves(-2cha) and that their unnatural long life/health isn't actually affected by their constitution(no penalty to con). I really really really dislike subraces of all types(they don't make much sense mechanic wise, the sheer number of subraces would be astronomical if a region could alter a race that much in a few thousand years). I think the only reason they haven't made many human based subraces is the fear of racism creeping into the scene. I prefer the arctic elf, because its more balanced(If its not physically weak in one way or another its not an elf imo).
The_Shaman 10-02-07, 12:40 PM	I think the idea of artic or snow elves is preposterous. elves have thin figures and were not meant for the cold. Elves are pretty much the cockroaches of D&D. If an environment exists, they're there. Deal with it ;) . Anyway, I prefer arctic elves. Snow elves seemed like high elves in the arctic... just way out of place.
tantric 10-02-07, 05:35 PM	Astsantse Ice Elves have pale alabaster skin and milky, pure white or transparent hair, but it is their custom to dye it with unnatural colors. The color of their iris changes of its own accord, though it becomes generally bluer as Corruption increases. They are tall, fully 5'8", and thin, around 150 pounds. Like all Elves, they have angular faces , pointed ears and no facial hair. They are Iron Alliance and are affected by the High Metals as are other Faeries. Ice Elves neither eat nor drink. The Astsantse's long history of Dark Magic has had its effects of their physiology. When injured, their blood is light blue, almost electric, and steams and gives off a strange sweet odor. They are cold-blooded in that their body temperature is the same as their environment, but they suffer not at all from the effects of cold. They become ill at temperatures above 50 F, and since they can't sweat, their bodies become swollen. Astsantse are also unique amongst Elves in they they can and do sleep and dream. Astsantse can lie asleep and Dream for years, their minds lost in the Dream Land. Their Dreams are not like those of mortals. The Astsantse Travel using their minds, and have made contact both with another Myth and with an abhorrent Alien Deity, which they call the Source. Astsantse live only in the City of Glass, which is situated directly on the South Pole. The plateau that nestles the city in the Ringwall Mountains is called simply LandsEnd. LandsEnd is home to the Worldstree's only Dream Land animals. These creatures bear resemblance to normal Races, but can only be seen in total darkness as shifting 3D colored lights. The shadow animals are the pets of the Astsantse, and are only around during the long night (they dislike light because it both blinds them and makes them invisible). The City of Glass is a city of soaring towers of pale hued Ice, both translucent and opaque. The colors show best in complete dark, seeming almost luminescent, and sunlight saps their strength leaving them pale white or gray. Many of the towers are unused - the city is in an eons old decline. The towers may be single or linked with elevated catwalks. Although at first appearing unadorned and plain, the ice captures images from dreams, and shows them in shifting patterns in its murky depths. Ice Elves have no social structure or politics: each lives in his own world and does as he pleases. The only spark of group consciousness that they have relates back to the enigmatic Source. The outlook of the Astsantse is one of decadence, power and absolute indifference. While other elves live partially in their memories, the Ice Elves live in their Dreams. Their private dreams have no less reality than the shared Dreams of Worldstree and the Higher Worlds