[DF] How long do the different races live?

[RedMattis]

Originally Posted by kirbwarrior

There's a setting where no one knows the age limit of goblins because they always die from actions (often their own). I can easily see that being true in DF where people are more likely to die from monster attacks, evil necromancers, and giant stone golems under their villages than old age.

I think officially speaking age doesn't matter because age damage is dealt relatively instead of directly, but I don't recall the page number for that.

I think that is a good point for elves et. al. Maybe they are all unaging, but practically speaking they live a median age to 35. Dying either to war, hunting accidents, super-diseases, magical disasters, dragon-attacks, etc.

If humans in a medieval setting were unaging you probably wouldn't see most people live terribly long. There might be the rare ruler who ruled for 300 years, immediately followed by a dozen guys who ruled for less than a decade before getting poisoned, executed, or just dying to smallpox along with most of the population.

In that situation you'd still see the normal age-groups, except that you'd have a rare few scholars, craftsmen, wizards, or elven rulers hiding in marble palaces. But the regular people generally aren't incredibly old.