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Originally Posted by KDLadage
not to quibble too much, but are you saying that the typical human in Middle Earth is build on a 0-point template (no modifiers); the typical drward is built on a 23-point template; and the typical elf is built on a template that is an order of magnitude (or more!) higher in cost?
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Well... prety much. Tolkien elves, even the non-High Elves, are pretty darn impressive. Tolkien wasn't much concerned with "party balance" or anything. Elves in Middle Earth weren't limited by their physical bodies much, just by the fact that they just tended not to actually
do anything. Note that, in the First Age, when they actually
were going around doing stuff, they created legends that lasted for millennia, and accomplished stuff like
- Besieging and holding at bay for four hundred years a foe more powerful than Sauron.
- Successfully wounding and permanently scarring same enemy,
in single combat.
- Creating three jewels so powerful and beautiful that the gods made them holy, and that were tied to the very fate of the Earth.
- Creating innumerable items that were probably pretty minor to them, and ended up as potent magical artifacts later in history.
- Killing multiple Balrogs, again, in single combat a lot of the time.
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Walking across the Grinding Ice, essentially equivalent to crossing the Bering Straights in midwinter by going from ice flow to ice flow.
So, yeah. Not point balanced, really.