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== Tabletop Games ==

* Craftworld Eldar from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. The Dark Eldar, meanwhile, use mass cloning and [[Uterine Replicator|Uterine Replicators]] to replenish their numbers and avert this.

** In regular [[Warhammer]], the Elves are dying off due to the various catastrophes that have hit them over the millennia. Dark Elves, again, don't seem to have this problem (presumably they breed at least fast enough to make up the numbers from their sacrifices). Dwarves are also dying, and have stayed in decline since the destruction of their greatest kingdoms<ref> Not at all helped by their obsession with grudges that constantly cause them to go from one war to the next</ref>.

** In regular [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]], the Elves are dying off due to the various catastrophes that have hit them over the millennia. Dark Elves, again, don't seem to have this problem (presumably they breed at least fast enough to make up the numbers from their sacrifices). Dwarves are also dying, and have stayed in decline since the destruction of their greatest kingdoms<ref> Not at all helped by their obsession with grudges that constantly cause them to go from one war to the next</ref>.

* "[[Dying Race]]" (by that exact name) is a racial disadvantage in ''[[GURPS]] Aliens'': "For whatever reason, the race's death rate has exceeded the birth rate. If this trend isn't reversed, the race will be extinct in a few generations."

** The Jarrel in ''[[GURPS]] Aliens'' have it. However, they are trying to recover and start growing again.