Elan Elan!

[Particle_Man]

I just realized, that since elan is a race that one can become, technically Elan the Bard could go through the process and become an elan Elan!

That said, it would be a very foolish thing to do, what with the -2 CHR penalty.

[knag]

I shudder to think of what a psionically enhanced Elan would be capable of.

Actually now that I think about it, probably not much (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0031.html).

[Jason]

If Elan became an Elan, and he was happy about it, then we might have Elan feeling elan about being Elan.

[Edea]

I do find it slightly amusing that Elan would not make for a very good Elan.

I think he'd be better off as a flan. (Or a con. Which is was a can of Diet Coke really is.)

[Fyraltari]

I just want to say that I have no idea what an elan is in D&D, but the fact that élan is French for moose makes this thread hilarious.

[Jason]

I just want to say that I have no idea what an elan is in D&D, but the fact that élan is French for moose makes this thread hilarious.
So if Elan became an elan, and then was polymorphed into a French moose and was happy about the change, we would have: Elan who was an elan feeling elan that he was now an élan.

[TheStranger]

So if Elan became an elan, and then was polymorphed into a French moose and was happy about the change, we would have: Elan who was an elan feeling elan that he was now an élan.

But we can do better: Elan, who had been an elan feeling elan, became an élan and Elan the elan élan felt elan.

[Jason]

But we can do better: Elan, who had been an elan feeling elan, became an élan and Elan the elan élan felt elan.Oh yes, that is even better.

[RatElemental]

I just want to say that I have no idea what an elan is in D&D, but the fact that élan is French for moose makes this thread hilarious.

Short answer, it's a psionically 'perfected' human who has increased physical and mental abilities, including an innate affinity for psionics and possibly biological immortality.


But we can do better: Elan, who had been an elan feeling elan, became an élan and Elan the elan élan felt elan.

This reminds me of that old joke about the buffalos from Buffalo.

[mucat]

I just want to say that I have no idea what an elan is in D&D, but the fact that élan is French for moose makes this thread hilarious.

A moose once bit my sister.

[Edea]

A long while ago, I'd had an idea in my head that the elan race was the result of a clan of humans figuring out how to 'attenuate' (i.e. excise the consciousness of) an illithid tadpole, in such a way that it could be used in a carefully-controlled, symbiotic version of ceremorphosis via the use of the psychic chirurgery power.

I had it written up so that the attenuated tadpole effectively formed an additional, 'third lobe' of the elan's 'base human brain,' and that was why they were aberrant and able to use psionic energy to sustain themselves even when freshly created. Even wrote up a prestige class for the race that symbolized an elan strengthening their own faculty with this symbiotic relationship, to the point they were a much greater threat than an actual mind flayer of equivalent level (or even elder brains).

But then I imagine Elan undergoing this procedure and then insisting on singing Zombie by the Cranberries 24/7.

:elan: "What's in your heeeead, in your heeeead-"
:haley: "Elan..."
:elan: "ZOOOMBIE~!"
:haley: "ELAN, for the last time, you're not a zombie just because you now have something in your head that normally likes eating brains!"
:roy: "After spending any amount of time forced to exist solely inside Elan's head, I'd fully understand not wanting to eat brains ever again."

[Nail]

I just want to say that I have no idea what an elan is in D&D, but the fact that élan is French for moose makes this thread hilarious.

Not really relevant, but one of the Mooses natural predators is the Killer Whale.


Yes, I am contractually obligated to share that piece of information any chance I get.

[Albion]

An elan Elan would be elanically elanivous. And it would do something alarming to Roy's blood pressure.