Last question on this topic!
Do non-human races have their own games and leisure pastimes? How do they differ from human games? How do they reflect the physiology and/or particular magical talents of the non-human races?
Fairies enjoy playing sproutball--a game akin to soccer using an enchanted seed as the ball. While the underlying rules appear simple, (get the sprout into the other team's goal, and whoever gets the most points wins) there's a huge difference. With the sprout being enchanted, it has a mind of its own, ballooning the rules to almost Calvinball-esque proportions depending on what the sprout decides to do--changing its element requires a different strategy to get it in the goal, erratic movement is almost a game in itself, and when it takes flight, what happens in the air is just as crazy.
Elves and avris have their own variants on human card and board games (including the "reverse Klondike" I mentioned before) and using magia and voice command, elves have made the fantasy equivalent of a video game. The appropriate playing field for the game they want to play is summoned, and the game is played by vocal command.
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