Have you ever had a PC die of natural old age?

[Oryan77]

Oh, "PC's"! I thought you were asking about DM's dying of old age

 

[BOZ]

only in flash-forwards.

 

[Evar Nettlespar]

Yup. Had a character die of old age in the Tower of Inverness. He was a ranger who in a panic drank down a potion of Longevity and a potion of Haste (two previous unidentified potions from an earlier random encounter,) during a battle with a basilisk. Sure enough, on the potion miscibility roll, I rolled a 00 and determined randomly that it was indeed the potion of Longevity which was increased. I was immediately aged 150 years by the DM. At which point we roleplayed it that my grandpa showed up, and was promptly petrified. One of those classic 1st Ed moments that i'll always remember...

 

[Woas]

Only by really strong age-advancing magic...

..like that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

 

[Thanee]

Dunno, we never played that far.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

I think in TRAVELLER you can die of natural old age... during character creation!!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Glyfair]

It's never happened to me, or in any games I've played in (and one campaign would jump hundreds of years at a time, but so did we ).

I was considering lately starting ages of PCs. The PHB has a very limited starting age range. I was considering whether to allow players to start characters older. A human could start at age 60, as long as they were willing to take the age penalties (which, of course, go with benefits). If that were to happen, I think it would be more likely.

 

[Chunklets]

Not yet. I had great hopes for a druid character I was playing who actually made it into middle age (mostly, I must admit, due to fudging the starting age roll), but that campaign has petered out, so it appears my druid will stuck at the ripe old age of 36.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Even in the days of magical aging, I've never seen a PC die of old age.

 

[Dracomeander]

In Pendragon, the campaign lasted long enough that all the first generation PCs except one that was shredded by a griffon died of old age and we were playing their grandchildren. So we managed to get three generations of characters out of that campaign.

The only reason my Traveler character didn't die of old age was because the group had a reliable source of anagathic drugs to counteract aging.