01-29-2015, 07:40 AM | #11 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Who said it did?
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01-29-2015, 08:03 AM | #12 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Elves seem to be a radically K-selected population. If they are truly immortal, then you mostly only need new elves when an existing elf dies by accident, suicide, or violence. That could be a very low reproductive rate.
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01-29-2015, 04:39 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
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If Americans average 2.5 kids for their entire 75 years of life, that's not hard to beat for elves. Imagine how much effect just a few Elf Duggar Families would have.
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01-29-2015, 04:42 PM | #14 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
I assumed you meant to imply long non-reproductive ages results in more deaths from juvenile idiocy.
I now realize you probably just meant reduced reproductive rates. But as non-humans, they could still be fully, mentally, and physically equal to sexually mature adults long before complete puberty.
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01-29-2015, 05:33 PM | #15 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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01-29-2015, 05:47 PM | #16 | |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
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To use the rules n p.20 and interpolate between the figures given there for ages 5 and 10 your 2x as long childhood child has 75% of his Adult ST at 18 and 85% of his adult DX and IQ. Even with 2x as much education as a human 9 year old you have someone who still needs defending rather than joining your ranks of defenders. Even if your Racial Template adds +1 or 2 DX and IQ that's expensive.
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01-29-2015, 07:31 PM | #17 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
For my short run campaigns, long lived is a 0 pt feature.
For my long run campaigns it is a perk.
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01-29-2015, 10:15 PM | #18 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Length of time spent in childhood is a zero point feature. And even Unaging in most games is completely unimportant.
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01-30-2015, 08:37 AM | #19 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
For Short Lifespan it's a part f the Disad. It's also pone of those things that helps orcs and goblins survive as races in spite of their flaws.
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01-30-2015, 08:01 PM | #20 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Think of it like Immunity (Aging), which would make it 5 points. Maybe 10. Make Longevity a perk, and Extended Lifespan a leveled perk. If Unaging is 5 points, nobody will take more than Extended Lifespan 5, which means living 1,600 years before an aging roll, something that will never come up in a game ever. Make Short Lifespan -2 points a level, and let there be more than 4 levels to fold Terminally Ill into it.
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