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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 952922" data-attributes="member: 8439">I was flipping through some official PrC's today and a bit caught my eye on one... Its that old &quot;unaging, but not&quot; shtick that the druid and monk get. Basically, you don't age, but you still die of old age. Why? Who knows? Apparently there's some not well spelled out core assumption that life spans of the humanoids are based on their spirits and not their bodies, but if that was true, I think we'd get a little more to work with...I guess it could be a balancing rule... but then I try to think if I've every seen aging penalties or bonuses used to begin with. So a few questions for the crowd...Have you ever, as a PC or DM, enforced or seen enforced the bonuses and penalties for aging characters, or had a character age to the point where (s)he could not adventure? Have you ever had a sufficiently long running campaign that it was an issue? Did you actually keep track of character ages?Then there's some more rhetorical questions... Would any DM actually let me make a 263yo elf in order to get the aging benefits if I took the penalties? How do these +/-'s interact with the stat boosts you get from leveling? Has WotC told the social security admin that a human is 'old' at 53 and do they enforce this in their retirement age? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; Why do elves get the shaft on proportional time spend as adults?Thoughts?Kahuna burger</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 952922, member: 8439"] I was flipping through some official PrC's today and a bit caught my eye on one... Its that old "unaging, but not" shtick that the druid and monk get. Basically, you don't age, but you still die of old age. Why? Who knows? Apparently there's some not well spelled out core assumption that life spans of the humanoids are based on their spirits and not their bodies, but if that was true, I think we'd get a little more to work with... I guess it could be a balancing rule... but then I try to think if I've every seen aging penalties or bonuses used to begin with. So a few questions for the crowd... Have you ever, as a PC or DM, enforced or seen enforced the bonuses and penalties for aging characters, or had a character age to the point where (s)he could not adventure? Have you ever had a sufficiently long running campaign that it was an issue? Did you actually keep track of character ages? Then there's some more rhetorical questions... Would any DM actually let me make a 263yo elf in order to get the aging benefits if I took the penalties? How do these +/-'s interact with the stat boosts you get from leveling? Has WotC told the social security admin that a human is 'old' at 53 and do they enforce this in their retirement age? :p Why do elves get the shaft on proportional time spend as adults? Thoughts? Kahuna burger [/QUOTE]

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