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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8687096" data-attributes="member: 20564">Absolutely.In the current campaign I run I have an Eladrin Bard who has been making appearance in the material plane for close to 100 years.&nbsp; She is exceedingly well known, and equally hard to disguise or sneak around with.&nbsp; I have a 700+ year old High Elf at the end of his life who remembers back to when the High Elven Houses had power before they scattered during a civil war, which is a major influence in the current campaign arc.&nbsp; He's also old enough to remember before the dwarves were genocided 640 years ago and has provided insights to the magic ritual that was used to do so, leading the dwarf-out-of-time character to realize that she can perhaps undo the effects of that ritual.In another campaign I was running the shorter lived Dragonborn had multiple cultural details around how quick there maturation and old age was.Back in AD&amp;D &amp; 2nd, Haste used to age you a year.&nbsp; This got to be a big deal, and we had multiple adventures where potions of longevity were rumored to be found, even though each one you took had a cumulative 1% chance to undo all of the previous ones.&nbsp; I think eventually we came to an agreement with a number of elves for some of their blood so we could brew them ourselves.&nbsp; (Our DM often required blood from multiple for item creation recipes, such as a girdle of giant strength needed the blood from one giant of that type for each point of STR it granted.)&nbsp; Also had a friend cast Haste on a bunch of giant bugs so they all died of old age since their lifespan was less than a year.I've run campaigns in the same setting.&nbsp; Last was an 80 year gap.&nbsp; So there were plenty of dwarven and elven NPC who were still alive (and often more powerful), vs. the decedents of other races.It definitely influences my cultural design as part of setting building.So it is very rarely a sessions-to-session matter in these days were Haste doesn't age you, but a sentence or two in the racial information can more than pay for that minimal weight if you incorporate it, same as any other lore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8687096, member: 20564"] Absolutely. In the current campaign I run I have an Eladrin Bard who has been making appearance in the material plane for close to 100 years. She is exceedingly well known, and equally hard to disguise or sneak around with. I have a 700+ year old High Elf at the end of his life who remembers back to when the High Elven Houses had power before they scattered during a civil war, which is a major influence in the current campaign arc. He's also old enough to remember before the dwarves were genocided 640 years ago and has provided insights to the magic ritual that was used to do so, leading the dwarf-out-of-time character to realize that she can perhaps undo the effects of that ritual. In another campaign I was running the shorter lived Dragonborn had multiple cultural details around how quick there maturation and old age was. Back in AD&D & 2nd, Haste used to age you a year. This got to be a big deal, and we had multiple adventures where potions of longevity were rumored to be found, even though each one you took had a cumulative 1% chance to undo all of the previous ones. I think eventually we came to an agreement with a number of elves for some of their blood so we could brew them ourselves. (Our DM often required blood from multiple for item creation recipes, such as a girdle of giant strength needed the blood from one giant of that type for each point of STR it granted.) Also had a friend cast Haste on a bunch of giant bugs so they all died of old age since their lifespan was less than a year. I've run campaigns in the same setting. Last was an 80 year gap. So there were plenty of dwarven and elven NPC who were still alive (and often more powerful), vs. the decedents of other races. It definitely influences my cultural design as part of setting building. So it is very rarely a sessions-to-session matter in these days were Haste doesn't age you, but a sentence or two in the racial information can more than pay for that minimal weight if you incorporate it, same as any other lore. [/QUOTE]

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