Re: [Zen Elves?]

> Heres a query involving 3e or the CB of elves: Why in the world would elves
> not sleep?  Either set of rules has elves doing a Zen meditation thing. 
Its
> rather cool storywise, but I cannot find any mythological or fantasy
> reference.  Is this an actual original idea by TSR/WotC?

I think it originated with RA Salvatore's, "The Crystal Shard" (the first and
best of the Drizzt books).  I have vague recollections of seeing it somewhere
before that, however.  Overall I rather like it, reliving your memories each
night in order to stay sane across 2 millennia.  Just remember elves lack true
dreams (as in the ones that come when you sleep) in this case, however, so
they are more likely to recognize signs from their gods and such and have a
great affinity for certain types of dream magic (as they actually interact at
a different level of consciousness), on the other hand they have no chance of
encountering minor dream effects (for good or ill) and they often lack the
purpose that dreaming of a thing (vs just desiring it) gives us.  I tend to
make them less spacially imaginative (as in able to see something they've
never encountered in their minds) which effects certain spells also.

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