If the farmers already are emaciated they aren’t going to be able to survive that long even if they do plow and plant (it takes a long time). Moreover, plowing takes a lot of effort. The most likely result if they do kill the dark elves in a marginally realistic situation is that the farmers will still starve. The whole situation is poorly thought out (and becomes even more poorly thought out as the DM claims that the farmers don’t even have functioning farm equipment and thus that the dark elves aren’t the only problem).
It seems obvious to me that even if many had died in the famine, not all would have. Once the famine was over there still wouldn’t be any dark elves causing them problems. Also a good way to help them is to share some of the stuff you looted from the dark elves.
If the farmers already are emaciated they aren’t going to be able to survive that long even if they do plow and plant (it takes a long time). Moreover, plowing takes a lot of effort. The most likely result if they do kill the dark elves in a marginally realistic situation is that the farmers will still starve. The whole situation is poorly thought out (and becomes even more poorly thought out as the DM claims that the farmers don’t even have functioning farm equipment and thus that the dark elves aren’t the only problem).
It seems obvious to me that even if many had died in the famine, not all would have. Once the famine was over there still wouldn’t be any dark elves causing them problems. Also a good way to help them is to share some of the stuff you looted from the dark elves.
And delicious dark elves.
I had a character who was famous for his kobold stew. I bet elf tastes like pork.
If humans are ‘long pork’, and elves stereotypically taller than humans, does that make elf ‘longer pork’?