05-02-2010, 10:22 AM | #1 |
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Longevity: am I doing it wrong?
Per the aging rules, B444, Longevity means that you succeed on an aging roll on anything but a 17 or 18, or only on an 18 if your modified HT is 17 or more. And if you fail the roll, you only lose one attribute level. Rolling a 17 or 18 is only a chance of 1/54, and so it is likely to take hundreds of rolls to bring any of a character's attributes down to zero, starting from 10. At four rolls a year after age 90, that means very likely living well past the world record of 122 years.
Making aging rolls experimentally against a character starting with 10 for all attributes, I get an average age at death with Longevity of about 169. The advantage is not listed as exotic, unlike Extended Lifespan, so I don't think this is the intended result. Am I misreading the rules somehow? |
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05-02-2010, 10:41 AM | #4 |
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Re: Longevity: am I doing it wrong?
Pneumonia. At least, that is one of the more common causes of death when you get older. But it is true, as we get older, our immune systems do get weaker. The body struggles harder to keep going and recover. But even with longevity, your HT score will drop, making health rolls against various diseases harder, and with a reduced ST score, less HP means less damage to kill you. So, longevity will keep you going, but there are other ways to die in GURPS.
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05-02-2010, 10:42 AM | #5 |
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05-02-2010, 10:55 AM | #7 |
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I should make it clear that the average age at death of 169 I quoted is based on death from aging rolls only. I realize this means unrealistic assumptions about the absence of infant mortality, disease, accidents, homicide, and so on. Still, Longevity makes it possible for humans to live into their 130s or longer, even at low tech levels, and this doesn't look right to me.
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I think that it is taking the attributes all the way down to zero that is giving the funny answers. Very low attribute levels for all of them aren't spelled out but when your IQ drops below 6 you apparently aren't able to use human language any more. When I've done brute force looks at Longevity and Aging I've considered death to be likely around scores of 7 or below and get numbers in the low hundreds.
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