Age

[rgard]

There's a spell in Monte's Complete Book of Eldritch Might that reverses aging. You suck ability stat points from a victim which in turn shave weeks off your age.

I'll find it and post the spell name here.

Thanks,
Ric

 

[Krensky]

Timeless Body isn't a complete waste. It prevents magical aging effects and allows the PC to gain the benefits of aging without the penalties. This means they don't lose Str, Dex or Con while gaining bonuses to their casting stats.

It's not entirely pointless. It's conceivable that at some point in time it might, possibly, if the GM wants it to com into use.

Not likely though. Magic aging effects are few and far between, especially since they were stripped from haste. I honestly can't think of one off the top of my head. I know they exist, but I don't know any off hand.

It stops acrual of penalties, but doesn't erase them. I'd venture, and feel pretty safe doing so, that the number of campaigns where the aging rules were applied at some time other then character creation are well outside the norm. Further, I suspect that the vast majority of campaigns don't run long enough either in table or game time for them to come up unless you pick a odd age in the cusp of one of the thresholds.

To add insult to injury though, they're very high level abilities. Granted the Druid doesn't need cool abilities at that level, it's a full caster. The Monk though... he gets it two levels later and he's not a full caster.

Yeah. Ok. It's not a completely useless ability. In the finest of hair splittings. About the only class ability I can thing of that would be more useless would be "-". It's a non-ability. It's part of why they get other stuff at that level, although in the case of the monk, it's only a cool power if the DM actually allows it to be so.

 

[Jhaelen]

There's a spell in Monte's Complete Book of Eldritch Might that reverses aging. You suck ability stat points from a victim which in turn shave weeks off your age.

That reminds me of something ... I _think_ there's also a prestige class somewhere that grants a similar ability. IIRC, you have to kill someone of your current CR or higher to stave off aging. Probably one of the Eberron books ... something related to the Blood of Vol? Faiths of Ebberon, maybe?

 

[Oni]

Hmm, now that I think about it, wasn't there a PrC that revolved around collecting a certain rare metal or stone to slowly turn themselves into a living statue and functionally immortal in the process.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Hmm, now that I think about it, wasn't there a PrC that revolved around collecting a certain rare metal or stone to slowly turn themselves into a living statue and functionally immortal in the process.

Indeed you are right. The Green Star Adept (CArc) revolves around starmetal and becomes an ageless construct at 10th level.

 

[rgard]

There's a spell in Monte's Complete Book of Eldritch Might that reverses aging. You suck ability stat points from a victim which in turn shave weeks off your age.

I'll find it and post the spell name here.

Thanks,
Ric

Hi All, I looked for that spell in the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, but didn't see it. I either missed it or it's in another book. I'll keep looking.

 

[rgard]

Ok, found it. It's called Steal Life and it's in the Book of Vile Darkness...written by Monte Cook, so I had the author right.

8th level arcane spell [Evil], fortitude negates. Takes one point from an ability score each round from the victim. Have to work your way through all the ability scores then start over with the original. Has to be cast in an area under the effect of a Desecrate or Unhallow spell. If cast during a night of the full moon, caster becomes one week younger for every point drained; not losing any memories or abilities learned originally during that week.

So a plebe with 9s across the board would be worth 54 weeks of getting younger. The full moon appears to be full for about 36 hours so the spell could possibly be cast 2x per month. In a year's time, given 26 (13 full moons) victims failing fortitude saves, the caster could reverse aging by 26 years.

 

[HatedRogue]

our GM plans on skipping ahead 100years hard to explain why but it all good... only problem is i am an elf and do not what a human friend to die is all.

 

[Votan]

our GM plans on skipping ahead 100years hard to explain why but it all good... only problem is i am an elf and do not what a human friend to die is all.

Temporal Statis?

 

[Starfox]

Reincarnate makes you a young adult. And in Spell Compendium, there is a quick for of Reincarnate that doesn't even cost you a level. Of course, you have to die to benefit.

This reminds me of an episode from the Golden Fleece (Greek legend). The way I recollect it, Medea convinces the daughters of a king to slaughter their father in the hopes that he will be reincarnated young and virile. Which did not work, but that I always found to be a very suggestive way of revitalizing someone in what 4E calls a "primal" culture. And with 3E reincarnation, it works.

of course, he might come back as a kobold (no more small animals on the reincarnation table). But, since there is o cost, you can always do it again.