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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
I agree with Flyndaran. Aging is never going to come up in most games. Why charge someone high pain threshold prices for immunity to something comically rare in games?
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01-31-2015, 10:38 AM | #23 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Rarity of magical aging attacks is very setting dependent.
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12-29-2023, 08:17 PM | #24 |
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39.6 110 154 198 would this be Lv 1.1 or 1.2?
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12-29-2023, 08:32 PM | #25 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Elves have relatively little need for a high reproductive rate. If your average age at death is 1000 years (death by accident, homicide, or suicide), then you only need to have 1 birth per 1000 population per year to maintain a stable population. If your birth rate is a mere 14 per 1000 your doubling time will be 50 years, and the world will be buried in elves in a few centuries.
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12-30-2023, 05:13 PM | #26 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
I suspect that few elves will reach 1000 anyway; life is too dangerous. Even an unaging species probably tops out an age of 200 to 300, by which time you succumb to a novel disease, an orcish invasion, or riding accident, or something else.
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12-30-2023, 07:44 PM | #27 |
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Re: Age and Aging and Extended Lifespan...
Elves in my fantasy settings tend to become more self-isolating as they age, eventually disappearing from public life altogether. Elf adventurers are almost all rambunctious youths of a couple centuries or less in age.
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For 90% of human history, the average number of children birthed by any woman was 10, because you could automatically assume that 60% of your children would die by childhood diseases, violence, & adult diseases. That leaves you with only 4 out of 10 children to take care of you in your old age. That is a huge factor that usually doesn't come into fantasy worlds or most setting-building, but there clearly was a reason that people historically treated women as nothing more than a womb... 10 children & 6 of them would die... duh... Of course any woman would feel that was her duty to do nothing but have children & any man would feel that was her only duty & nothing else mattered. Quote:
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Elves are kind of odd because generally they're depicted as physically maturing as fast as humans do but culture wise, many fantasy settings seem to have elves not be considered adults (in their culture) until they're like 100 or something. Which did make me think of an elf waiting to be of legal age to get married to a human friend, only for said friend to die of old age. |
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