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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6085721" data-attributes="member: 6678119">As a unique character it's possible that the writers simply said they wanted him to be X years old.  For uncommon but perhaps not legendary unique characters that would be player characters, the age categories are in place since that's representative of the vast majority of the race, and those age categories might not line up with Tanis.And do keep in mind the actual D&D rules don't always easily carry over into books or real life.  There are people with strength scores of 23 or so based on carry capacity, and if they worked by D&D rules to get it naturally they'd have to either be 20th level or have a special class that granted a strength boost (such as War Hulk.)  If it wasn't for Natural Heavyweight being a planar heritage feat I'd say that's what those weightlifters had, but it can always be refluffed.</blockquote>