Author Topic: Ageing (Read 1264 times)

Shadowblade225 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2006, 10:52:09 am »

That would open up a few issues. You'd have most submissions be of long-lived races (elves, dwarves, etc...) though from a RL perspective it is interesting. Not even going to dive into it. Playing a human would be cool in that respect, but for some it may further encourage faster leveling. The "man I need to level this guy before he gets alzheimer's" mentality. Interesting none-the-less, but yes, impossible to manage.

Pseudonym · « **Reply #21 on:** August 26, 2007, 10:20:28 pm »

During this weekend just past, at one point I somehow found myself in a 100 metre beach sprint against a friend for the first time in years. Without going into detail, suffice to say, 50 metres into it my hamstring went 'twang' and I was painfully reminded I am in my mid 30s, -not- my mid 20s.

Re-reading this thread, I now think human characters should have retirement imposed upon them at about (in game) age 26, when their bodies can still cash the checks their big mouths are writing.

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **Reply #22 on:** August 26, 2007, 10:41:47 pm »

Hehe... Just cause yer old doesnt mean we all are.

I was in ROTC in highschool and my sergeant, who was 60+, could lift himself up by his finger tips on a door frame....

miltonyorkcastle · « **Reply #23 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:10:20 am »

it certainly depends on what sort of character you have. Warriors and those who RP daily excersize would likely age "better" than your average mage who uses magic to do most of the strenuous activity for him/her.

Eight-Bit · « **Reply #24 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:10:45 am »

Matilda is 92. She is retired.

miltonyorkcastle · « **Reply #25 on:** August 27, 2007, 01:19:54 am »

Holy ... 92... wow.

Xirion · « **Reply #26 on:** August 27, 2007, 04:30:32 am »

And what about NPCs? I am not long enough here to worie about one of my PC now and not long enough to judge how old the Captain and Leiutenat in Hlint or Last or.... are but I guess many of them schould be dead, shouldnt they?

Lord of the Forest · « **Reply #27 on:** August 27, 2007, 04:54:35 am »

Some of them retired, like Garent of Hlint

kenty191 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 27, 2007, 07:41:30 am »

...play a young elf, problem sorted. Karn is around 160-70 so but he's still a baby really!

Eight-Bit · « **Reply #29 on:** August 27, 2007, 10:34:44 am »

Quote from: miltonyorkcastle

Holy ... 92... wow.

My math might not be perfect.

I was ten off. It's 82. Any human made in Beta 4 ought to be retired by now if you follow time.

Halfwit Genious · « **Reply #30 on:** August 27, 2007, 12:58:55 pm »

Well is response to Milty: I think yes people who exscersize daily would stay healthy as far as physical strength for longer, but a mage doesn't nessecarily need his/her physical strength. Kalin is only like mid 30's at oldest but I expect his connection with the weave will never get weaker... if anything it would get stronger. Just my thoughts. Does magical ability age? Sorceror wise especially I can understand maybe a wizard's mind getting old and not being able to remember spells (not that I think wizards should have to retire anyway).

I'm gonna quote some wise words someone once said to me refering to some forms of RP legality such as a situation like this. People who enforce things like that (such as forcing certain chars into retirment) forget that this is about having fun even if RP is a large part of it. In the end I think at least in this situation it should be up to the player.

Honora · « **Reply #31 on:** August 27, 2007, 02:12:51 pm »

Magical ability would age if the mage started becoming senile...wouldn't that be fun? A mage that could remember spells but not what they did or how powerful they were?

Gulnyr · « **Reply #32 on:** August 27, 2007, 02:48:24 pm »

But would the mage remember to memorize them? hehe

In PnP D&D, there are modifiers to stats due to age. As a character gets older, physical stats (Str, Dex, Con) generally get lower and mental stats (Int, Wis, Cha) generally get higher. While that may seem like a bad thing for warrior types, it does add a sense of thoughtfulness and consideration to those characters. That grizzled old veteran is still pretty tough, but he knows he's not as rugged as he used to be and plans his battles accordingly, using wit and strategy more than he did when he was a spry youngster.

That may not matter much here, but maybe it's something to consider if you're trying to RP the physical aspects of your character's age.

Hellblazer · « **Reply #33 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:40:42 pm »

I personally never have avoiding the ageing of my chars. The fact that I have only few humans though makes it that most of my chars live longuer.

For example rain is now close to 65 out of 180 years
Lex died of old age/heart failure after seeing his wife die in her sleep
Brian permed at the age of 41
Sil is 35 something and still kicking.

The aging is not that fast as most people would think. using the layo time converter and the start up date of your char will give you how many years he has been adventuring.

And I totally agree with halfwitt here. Just take a look at those who have practiced martial arts all their live, as part of their daily life. Heck just look at jackie hehehe.

// boy, talk about taking a very very old post back on the front page.

SteveJW · « **Reply #34 on:** December 01, 2009, 06:04:57 pm »

I don't know if this is feasable on how to RP a prolonged life span but it does make a little sense to me.

Kyle has recently reached level 21 and like most chose SMD getting the 5 extra Soul Strands. I RP actually getting younger 'a man half my age' as I put it.

Think about it...your soul is getting stronger and a by product of that is regaining some youth. Now Kyle has another generation of adventures to have.

Realistic...maybe not...but this is a fantasy setting innit?

//Nothing like firing up an old thread again...

Pankoki · « **Reply #35 on:** December 01, 2009, 06:33:38 pm »

Couldn't help myself...

SteveJW · « **Reply #36 on:** December 01, 2009, 06:46:02 pm »

@Pan....ROFLMAO

Gulnyr · « **Reply #37 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:57:43 pm »

And here I am posting in the very old thread... At least it's a response to a new post, right? hehe

Quote from: SteveJW

Think about it...your soul is getting stronger and a by product of that is regaining some youth.

Losing a Soul Strand (or getting a DT - let's go all the way back in time) isn't really the loss of a piece of soul. The character's soul is still all there, one whole soul as soully as it ever was. It's just that one of the strands that allow the soul to stay connected to the body broke. SMD either "heals" some previously broken strands somehow or "grows" new ones some-other-how or something very similar (and it probably doesn't really matter which or how, at least in NWN), giving the soul more strandy goodness to hold onto to stay with the body. It doesn't make a soul stronger, or do anything else to a soul.

PS: [post=979842]Reference for that info.[/post]

Alatriel · « **Reply #38 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:04:49 pm »

Seems to me it's not so much the soul that's the problem, but whether or not the body will hold up. Soooo... maybe by the fact that each time we die we in theory get a new body, and also we are constantly being healed by magic, maybe that in it self slows the aging process so that stone-bound adventurers have a longer life span (in theory anyways- some perm relatively soon)

Maybe it's one of those risks you take when binding. You may be able to in theory live forever- or you could die simply because you touched it.

Daniella is nearing 40. I think she has the age and wisdom of a 40 yr old that has seen way too much. But since I hope I don't have to retire her by the time she is 66, I hope that maybe the healing effects of magic and Toran's blessings keep her body young and strong enough to do the task she was given for a while longer. But if you tell that to her shoulder that's been dislocated far too many times... it might disagree.

my two trues worth.

~E

Gulnyr · « **Reply #39 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:24:54 pm »

Characters don't get new bodies, actually. The "how death works" post says:

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Sentient creatures can forge a link with a bindstone, which will ensure that when a creature is killed it pulls both the body and the soul back towards it and joins them together once again.

So it looks like bindstones actually teleport bodies back to the bindstone, where the soul (sucked there like a ghost into a trap in Ghostbusters) is empowered to climb back in.