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miltonyorkcastle

Re: About character age
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2007, 02:50:30 pm »
Oh, and characters on Layo have died of old age. (they were RP'd as having done so)
 

Hellblazer

Re: About character age
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2007, 03:08:22 pm »
yeah but for an asimar he is only middle aged so you still have  quite a few years to go *tries to cheer him up*

Eorendil

Re: About character age
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2007, 03:45:47 pm »
Ignoring time jumps due world level quests, one year passes approximately every 24 real life days which means a character would age a little over 15 years for every real life year.  Given the prevalence of healing magic among adventurers you could draw parallel between it and a higher technical knowledge of, say, medicine.  People, at least people with access to healing and those with immunities to infection will likely live longer and have a better quality of health resulting in being more active even through what we term now to be middle age.  This, generally, would include many adventurers.

Assuming few or no great jumps in in-game time and a fairly young starting age a human character could be RP'd for four years or more.  Now, at that point it might be interesting if someone could change their appearance to that of the old woman or old man..
 

Hellblazer

Re: About character age
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2007, 04:31:21 pm »
That's an interesting idea, I think I would like the idea of being able to change rain's hair collor to paler shades of red untill finaly it is white.

jrizz

Re: About character age
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2007, 11:09:21 pm »
Quote from: Eorendil
Ignoring time jumps due world level quests, one year passes approximately every 24 real life days which means a character would age a little over 15 years for every real life year.  Given the prevalence of healing magic among adventurers you could draw parallel between it and a higher technical knowledge of, say, medicine.  People, at least people with access to healing and those with immunities to infection will likely live longer and have a better quality of health resulting in being more active even through what we term now to be middle age.  This, generally, would include many adventurers.

Assuming few or no great jumps in in-game time and a fairly young starting age a human character could be RP'd for four years or more.  Now, at that point it might be interesting if someone could change their appearance to that of the old woman or old man..


But the use of haste magic and speed potions would cause PCs to age more quickly.
 

Faldred

Re: About character age
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2007, 09:11:42 am »
Quote from: jrizz
But the use of haste magic and speed potions would cause PCs to age more quickly.

I think that rule went away with the introduction of the D&D 3.0 edition.
 

Eorendil

Re: About character age
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2007, 09:31:13 am »
Unfortunately, its difficult to keep track of and quantify the effects of haste in the current environment.  Its much easier in table top games.  

I, personally, do not feel that haste, used occasionally, would drain ten, five or even one year of your life.   If it does I'd better be on par with The Flash (TM) while hasted.   Though if it did, its use would be guarded, at best.  Many would likely have words, at sword point, with casters who cast it without their permission. Habitual or continual use could have seriously adverse effects.

As a note:  Though Layo runs on a platform that pulls a lot of mechanics from 3.0 situations that can not be handled by the system and require GM rulings often follow more old-school revisions.
 

Interia_Discordius

Re: About character age
« Reply #27 on: May 11, 2007, 10:59:44 am »
Doesn't the Tome of Teleportation drain two years off a life whenever it's used also?

This is all too complicated *giggle*
 

Shadowblade225

Re: About character age
« Reply #28 on: May 11, 2007, 12:19:06 pm »
With the amount of exercise most PCs get, I'd say not to compare them to todays' standards age-wise.  And ya, I'm being silly :P
 

Interia_Discordius

Re: About character age
« Reply #29 on: May 11, 2007, 12:25:45 pm »
That and, well, who knows what some PCs go through during their time...
Evil spells, possessions, magics, clerical healings...

Maybe it just gets to a point where you always look in your 20s xD
 

miltonyorkcastle

Re: About character age
« Reply #30 on: May 11, 2007, 01:15:48 pm »
Hellblazer, I'm not sure there's actually a definite life expectancy for aasimars (or tiefers for that matter). Because of their unusual heritage, and depending on how strong their planar blood is, aasimars can live a normal human life span or never age beyond adulthood. I think it's a matter of how you wish to RP it (so long as it's not abusive, obviously).

However, this is my understanding, and not an official GM ruling, so take it with a grain of salt.