General Discussion Thread IX

[El Jefe]

I've been adding a year to each of my character's ages on the R/L anniversary of their creation (first post in the Character Thread).

 

[Velmont]

I've been adding a year to each of my character's ages on the R/L anniversary of their creation (first post in the Character Thread).

Rinaldo age was modified after his first adventure, as I wanteded him to be father, and thus, would not likely be one at 21 years old, so I gave him 26 instead... since that time, I did like El Jefe, and so, he is now 29. In 2012, if he is still alive, he will have stats modification... and he should be level 19 at the rythm he gain level

 

[Knight Otu]

I've aged Ashnar 2 years a few days ago, mimicking El Jefe's way of doing that. I haven't aged Semabin as, honestly, it doesn't feel like he's been adventuring very long (two aborted adventures and one finished one that went comparably fast). Irony being that Semabin was posted long before Ashnar.

 

[Bront]

OK. I freely admit to being lame lately. I finally did get into my email, but didn't stay in long enough to read the email bront sent me, among others. I do have an adventure planned out and approved, but I'm happy not to start it quite yet. I was actually hoping for a good -aligned party, of whom not more than 2 had been in my Monemvassia series, and all being Level 5+. Not to mention being balanced. I was going to recruit OOC, as well, giving my hooks to those PCs whose players had volunteered them.

In any case, Rystil, please recruit & clear out the Inn. More PCs will trail in for me, & by then, I ought to be ready for them.

I'll still get to your email Bront!

Hey - when's GenCon next year?

No problem. My guess is that you'll have to wait on the good aligned 5 player party, though I'd love to play in your game, there aren't too many of us at the moment.

Gen Con is in August, not sure the exact dates.

 

[Bront]

I've been adding a year to each of my character's ages on the R/L anniversary of their creation (first post in the Character Thread).

I've been aging as the adventures have had me age. I added 2 years for my last adventure.

 

[SlagMortar]

I think all my character's have been adventuring for at most a couple of months in game time. Nars has been on 3 adventures, but none were more than 3 days travel from Orussus. Beamer was in Dance of Souls for around a month I think and only in his current adventure for a couple of days. Planus is on his 3rd adventure, but the first was aborted 1 day's travel from Orussus, the next covered maybe two weeks including travel, and his current was at most a week or two travel plus a couple of days adventuring.

They are all 4th level though so they must learn fast!

 

[Velmont]

I think all my character's have been adventuring for at most a couple of months in game time. Nars has been on 3 adventures, but none were more than 3 days travel from Orussus. Beamer was in Dance of Souls for around a month I think and only in his current adventure for a couple of days. Planus is on his 3rd adventure, but the first was aborted 1 day's travel from Orussus, the next covered maybe two weeks including travel, and his current was at most a week or two travel plus a couple of days adventuring.

They are all 4th level though so they must learn fast!

If I accumulate all the duration of my adventures, I am still in teh first year of adventure, but I have always assume there was time that have pass between adventure, ctaching up the real time. So If in Real Time, an adventure have taken 6 month, but in game time, it took 2 weeks, I assumed my character have spend over 5 month on other things, like his business.

 

[Rystil Arden]

If I accumulate all the duration of my adventures, I am still in teh first year of adventure, but I have always assume there was time that have pass between adventure, ctaching up the real time. So If in Real Time, an adventure have taken 6 month, but in game time, it took 2 weeks, I assumed my character have spend over 5 month on other things, like his business.

Interesting--what happens if the adventure takes more game time than real time?

 

[orsal]

Is there any LEW rule in regards to character aging? The SRD lists penalties / bouses for age categories, but so far as I can tell, offers no mechanic for determining the rate at which characters age (e.g. reconciling real time with game time, changing age as a function of levelling, etc.).

If I missed this somewhere, my apologies for the redundancy.

thanks,

jason

As you may have already surmised, no, there is no rule. So do whatever you think appropriate for you character's timeline. Nurlan, for example, hasn't aged much since he was first brought into play, since all his adventures have been part of a connected story arc, and therefore I figure not a lot of downtime. But he'll probably be a few years older by the time he next goes on an adventure, because he's right now in a phase of pulling back from the adventuring lifestyle to concentrate on his music. His age as of his next foray will be completely unrelated to when in real-time that ends up happening.

 

[Velmont]

Interesting--what happens if the adventure takes more game time than real time?

I don't know, never happen. Time distortion?