D&D 4E Is there an advantage of being old in 4e?

[Uber Dungeon]

I was looking around to see if there is an age thing and a bonus for being old like in 3.5

anyone know?

 

[OnlineDM]

No, that's not part of Fourth Edition. Your DM could create a house rule, of course, but age makes no difference to the rules in 4e.

 

[Hawkeye]

"I'm 102 years old and I still like to get out there and show Orcus a thing or two, by diggity!"

"Who let grandpa out of the house?"

Hawkeye

 

[mkill]

You need to remember that in 4th edition PC rules are for PCs only. And very few PCs play in campaigns that stretch into their old age. Pretty much every PC will reach 30th level (or death, or retirement) before the effects of age kick in. And we're not even talking about PCs that don't age anyway, like Warforged or Deva.

As for the rest of the population, the old NPC beggar or king will likely have lower Str, Con and Dex, and possibly low Int or Wis too, but there is no need to make a table for it, the DM can just assign the numbers as fits.

 

[ourchair]

The advantage of being old in 4E is that usually, you have more disposable income to pay for pizza.

This entitles you to an audience for your stories about the good old days when PC stats were derived from matrices and tables and wizards had a single digit of hit points for roughly 1-3 levels.

 

[Aegeri]

Not to mention when PCs complain about monsters cheating you get to point out how in the "good old" days, when you touched the wrong thing you got your sphere of annihilation instant death and liked it.

 

[ourchair]

Not to mention when PCs complain about monsters cheating you get to point out how in the "good old" days, when you touched the wrong thing you got your sphere of annihilation instant death and liked it.

If you pay more enough for pizza you actually get away with this.