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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7399949" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>In an old-school set-up where the age of adulthood is radically different for each race, gangs of similar-age-equivalent kids like that would have the faster-growing races drop out after a year or two, while the core of slower-maturing ones remains stable. In extreme cases, the kids of a Big Rascal could re-join the gang, and hear about what dad was like when he was their age from his 'old friends.'</p><p></p><p> The one time I did was 3.0, the idea was the PCs were all born under a specific celestial conjunction - on the same day, 40 years before the campaign started. So human characters were already 'mature' with some NPC class levels under their belts, while the dwarf a 1st-level adolescent, and the elf was still a kid and the player was running his NPC guardian. </p><p></p><p>Starting in 4e, all the PC races matured at about the same rate, and different classes didn't call for different starting ages, so a party could all be childhood friends, for instance, and no issues with a fantasy-racially-mixed band of Little Rascals. </p><p></p><p>5e kept that, but the DM could always change it back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7399949, member: 996"] In an old-school set-up where the age of adulthood is radically different for each race, gangs of similar-age-equivalent kids like that would have the faster-growing races drop out after a year or two, while the core of slower-maturing ones remains stable. In extreme cases, the kids of a Big Rascal could re-join the gang, and hear about what dad was like when he was their age from his 'old friends.' The one time I did was 3.0, the idea was the PCs were all born under a specific celestial conjunction - on the same day, 40 years before the campaign started. So human characters were already 'mature' with some NPC class levels under their belts, while the dwarf a 1st-level adolescent, and the elf was still a kid and the player was running his NPC guardian. Starting in 4e, all the PC races matured at about the same rate, and different classes didn't call for different starting ages, so a party could all be childhood friends, for instance, and no issues with a fantasy-racially-mixed band of Little Rascals. 5e kept that, but the DM could always change it back. [/QUOTE]
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