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Fred Brackin · 03-01-2021, 09:53 PM

The baseline is Humans of course and even if they avoid all other problems they start having to make Aging rolls at 50. At TL3 they get no bonus and the average human will start at HT 10.

That's 10 rolls for each Attribute between 50 and 60 with a chance of failure that starts at 50% and gets steadily worse as they lose HT pts.

I could do the math for you but it's probably even worse than you'd expect and I'd assume at least 7 pts lost from each Attribute before age 60 and the average human just didn't make it that far.

If you add in all deaths from external causes the average age of humans will be even worse of course.

03-01-2021, 09:53 PM	#2
Fred Brackin Join Date: Aug 2007	Re: [DF] How long do the different races live? The baseline is Humans of course and even if they avoid all other problems they start having to make Aging rolls at 50. At TL3 they get no bonus and the average human will start at HT 10. That's 10 rolls for each Attribute between 50 and 60 with a chance of failure that starts at 50% and gets steadily worse as they lose HT pts. I could do the math for you but it's probably even worse than you'd expect and I'd assume at least 7 pts lost from each Attribute before age 60 and the average human just didn't make it that far. If you add in all deaths from external causes the average age of humans will be even worse of course. __________________ Fred Brackin