The World of Avlis

*** DISCLAIMER *** Avlis works exactly the way Orleron says it works. Period. But it's good to compare and contrast Avlis with the "average" D&D world, to help us better understand Avlis. Naturally I'm running on my ideas of what "average" elves are like, which might be very different from your idea...

The kind of slaughter you describe would not sit well with nature loving/protecting peoples. Slaying animals and destroying plants to achieve a short term military objective is not protecting nature, a basic moray in the nanshi culture. Im just saying that it would be very out of character forT'Nan...

In the short term, a Total War strategy would work for T'Nanshi. One must consider the long term effects though. The basic motivation of the war for the Nanshi is defense of nature. Prevent the humans from despoiling thier lands. They garner a lot of support from Elysia, followers of O'ma and other...

Re: Stalin ... I'm only saying the *current* T'Nanshi council isn't brutal enough to apply a scorched earth policy, not a general statment about the races. The rulers M'Chek seem willing to kill as many elves as it takes to get what they need. Perhaps, but you make assumptions about the relative siz...

The upshot of this is that to solve the M'Chek problem the elves should send a continuous stream of raiding parties into the M'Chek bread-basket to burn their crops and kill their livestock. Ash and blood would renew the soil and within 2 years the humans would have plenty of empty space within thei...

I posted this under the M'Chek thread, but it really belongs here. ========================= I'm a newbie trying to get a grip on this war, so take this with a large grain of salt. I think it's safe to say that all of the human and orc nations are chronically malnourished. Ancient scholars lamented ...

The upshot of this is that to solve the M'Chek problem the elves should send a continuous stream of raiding parties into the M'Chek bread-basket to burn their crops and kill their livestock. Ash and blood would renew the soil and within 2 years the humans would have plenty of empty space within thei...

Just for the sake of some real-world input on this, populations can exist (and grow, albeit slowly) in a chronic state of malnutrition. In fact, that's pretty much the history of mankind, up until about 1800. Lots of 'empty calorie' from grains and very little meat. Think of India or China in the e...

Just my experience as a noob ... Elysia is much easier than Mikona and more geared toward newbies. The 'sign the writ' quest in Elysia is the best I've found so far. Each signature is worth 75-150 XP, much more than the typical fedex. If you get 8-10 signatures (and why not) that's 2nd level right t...