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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8682798" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I'll be 40 this year, [USER=82524]@Vaalingrade[/USER]. That's not -that- old, but it's old enough that I look back at my teen years sitting in The Bookmark (Comic book shop) playing those first sessions of AD&D 2e with my first DM Toby and the rest of the gang and I have hefty nostalgia for it.I think back to Gargoyles and how great a show it was. I titter to myself as I remember sneaking out of my bedroom at 2am to watch new episodes of Deep Space Nine after CBS tried to kill it to make Voyager "The" Star Trek, and I remember it fondly.I still remember all the bad things that happened around that same time in my life. I remember being closeted. I remember being exposed to hurtful, hateful, ideas. I remember internalizing a lot of hatred about myself at that point.But I still have those rose tinted glasses about AD&D 2e. About picking up the Psionics Handbook for the first time and reading it cover to cover.This is also mostly true... But since elves reach "adulthood" at 100, that's still "Dust Bowl Youth" who watched WW1 and 2, Vietnam, the Iran Contra, Desert Storm...But even a 60 year old "Teen Elf" would be vastly more progressive than their 300 year old parents.WHOA. Whoa. Whooooooa.This is not bioessentialism. This is all about life experience and the span of perspective. The human life span hasn't really increased since the Bronze Age. It's only the infant mortality rate that has significantly changed so that the average age of death goes up. But people have always lived to around their 70s or 80s, with outliers reaching 100s+, barring accident or sudden illness.The point is an old Elf character has been around for a very long time and seen a whole lot of stuff and has a perspective shaped by that span of time.Maybe, yeah. Though more than likely they'd be trying to steer the ship straight on the direction it's going, since it's worked for the last 200 years, right?The example was the US as it has changed over the last 300 years which is significantly more drastic than 1965 to 1975. In many campaign settings that's long enough for kingdoms to rise and fall, major land wars to change the map, dragons to wipe out entire forests, and multiple deities to die and/or get resurrected...It's more than the 60s and 70s.</blockquote>

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