Re: Elven population

> Well AD&D basically says an elf of 150yrs is a 15yr old... if puberty
>starts at 130 they could have 10 kids at this point. And potential to have
>more ... But elves are less hardy than humans.. Pregnancy is probably more
>dangerous for them. However magic or science could offset this.  Also elves
>are never in forced marriages as they prize individuality so highly and as
>loose as royalty and fealty are among them perhaps even nobles are exempt to
>this.  And finally perhaps it is difficult to get elves pregnant...

	I'd go with the last.  Figure that elves don't reproduce as often because
elven women don't ovulate as often.
	If elves have a physiology at all similar to humans, than elven women are
born with a fixed number of eggs (same as human women).  This means that
they'd either run out of eggs before they mature (around 50), or they
ovulate on a much longer cycle (say every decade instead of every month).
This means that there would be an opportunity for an elven woman to get
pregnant every ten years or so, while human women have the opportunity to
get pregnant every month.
	Figure that every opportunity isn't taken, and you are back to elves
having roughly the same number of children that humans have, but scattered
over a lifespan of 1500 years.  This isn't a lower population growth, but
it is a slower one.

		Gaijin