
AD1: Yes, Tolkien was the first one to say that elves are taller than humans, but not the last one. In many other worlds was this repeated, for example in the DD world of Dragonlance.
Shae, you are a genius. I've always hated the fact, that while my character may be a high level enchantress with VERY good mental scores (int&wis&cha) 90% of her spells fails, even when using the fancy 4th level I-forgot-it's-name weakening one, while all the HOSTILE characters have no problem, no whatsoever, to wreck havoc amongst my party members. Especially Illithids, but even a simple hedge wizards has a better chance of casting a successful chaos spell than I do. I guess it is my RL luck's fault - I always lose at chance games, and we are talking of rolling dice, after all...