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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9506426" data-attributes="member: 29398">Because it has the same physical effect on the victim's body, regardless of species.This does, of course, assume the natural sequence of events as one ages is similar among all kindred species, only stretched or compressed along different timescales for different species' lifespans.The example and precedent for this assumption comes from good ol' JRRT: Hobbits come of age at 33, the rough equivalent of Humans &quot;coming of age&quot; at 21 (which was the norm in his day).&nbsp; To me this almost screams out that a 24-year-old Hobbit is developmentally about the same as a 15-year-old Human,.&nbsp; The &quot;age categories&quot; and associated stat modifiers given for different species in the 1e (PH?&nbsp; DMG?&nbsp; too lazy to check right now) solidly back this up.Thus, it makes sense to me that something that ages a Human 10 years (i.e. about half the span of an age category) should also age an Elf or a Dwarf or a Half-Orc by an amount that represents roughly that same half-an-age-category span, because that's the effect that ghost or whatever is having on the victim's physiology.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9506426, member: 29398"] Because it has the same physical effect on the victim's body, regardless of species. This does, of course, assume the natural sequence of events as one ages is similar among all kindred species, only stretched or compressed along different timescales for different species' lifespans. The example and precedent for this assumption comes from good ol' JRRT: Hobbits come of age at 33, the rough equivalent of Humans "coming of age" at 21 (which was the norm in his day). To me this almost screams out that a 24-year-old Hobbit is developmentally about the same as a 15-year-old Human,. The "age categories" and associated stat modifiers given for different species in the 1e (PH? DMG? too lazy to check right now) solidly back this up. Thus, it makes sense to me that something that ages a Human 10 years (i.e. about half the span of an age category) should also age an Elf or a Dwarf or a Half-Orc by an amount that represents roughly that same half-an-age-category span, because that's the effect that ghost or whatever is having on the victim's physiology. [/QUOTE]

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