We had a little debate at work about wheter elves could be engineers. My co-workes thought they would just destroy every piece of engineering gear they touched but I wouldn't buy it. The next time I D&D I'm making an elf engineer for sure.
Heh, i like the concept. Dunno how likely it'd be, i imagine there's odd people in every race so you cannot possibly say there aren't any elf engineers, but it's very un-elfy so there's probably very few. Still, i like the idea a lot. Just be sure there's Magitek contraptions, elves are too in tune with magic to believe that any elf engineer would pass the chance to add a bit of it to any piece of equipment.