![]() This was the first time in several years that I’d looked at the assumptions that underlie “standard aging” tables, and I’ve learned quite a lot since the last time. He proposed, “would it be appropriate to use the 3.5 tables? If so, then my elf would be at least 350 years of age (more probably 450+) with a maximum age of *rolls 4 percentile dice* 606 years, according to 3.5 PHB ageing for elves.” But the game in question – I won’t name the rules system – has no rules for character aging, and doesn’t even nominate standard lifespans for different races. ![]() One of my players asked me today about how to determine the age of his new character, an elf who has entered the game in question in an age category of “Venerable”. Instead, the following is based on an email exchange between one of my players and myself, raising some serious questions about the population dynamics of longer-lived species and aging in RPGs… I’m taking a break from the ongoing Earth-regency Alternate History series this week (mostly because research has been taking more time than I’ve had available. ![]()
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