D&D 5E Aging

[Balfore]

Characters aged by Ghosts and such, where are the charts for aging and its penalties?

 

[iserith]

There are none. The DM will have to decide what effect, if any, aging has on a character.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

Aging is like injury: There's no point in tracking penalties, until you hit critical existence failure.

 

[Horwath]

There are none, but I would use a variant of 3E rules.

Middle age(human 40+) -2 to one physical ability(str,dex,con), +2 to one mental ability(int,wis,cha)

Old age(human 60+) -2 to other two physical abilities, +2 to one other mental ability

Very old age(human 80+) aditional -2 to all psysical abilities, +2 to third mental ability.


So very old human(80+ yrs) would have -4 to all psysical abilities and +2 to all mental(this ofcource applies only to perfect health in those years, no dementia, arthritis, etc...)