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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3758903" data-attributes="member: 4937">This is not true.&nbsp; There have been scientific studies showing that perceptiveness can be trained.For example, video game players.&nbsp; It has been shown in studies that playing a certain amount of video games increases the speed and acuteness of ones visual perception.&nbsp; You don't actually see better, but you do process what you see faster and more throughly.&nbsp; For an other example, military pilots have long recieved training on perception in many ways similar to what video game players do as part of thier hobby.There is a famous comic spot about the old Call of Cthullu RPG, that spoofs the mechanics&nbsp; about adventurers and how they live to an old age.&nbsp; It shows an atheletic young man running as fast as he can from the dread Cthullu.&nbsp; Ahead of him and pulling away is a rotund middle aged professor.&nbsp; Ahead of him and pulling away is an old man with a cane, and ahead of him is an octogenarian women in a wheel chair.&nbsp; You have a point that RPGs tend not to handle the effects aging or inactivity very well, but for most games it really doesn't matter.&nbsp; In the 3rd edition of D&amp;D, you can go from 1st level to 20th level in a matter of days.&nbsp; The effects of aging in that period are trivial.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3758903, member: 4937"] This is not true. There have been scientific studies showing that perceptiveness can be trained. For example, video game players. It has been shown in studies that playing a certain amount of video games increases the speed and acuteness of ones visual perception. You don't actually see better, but you do process what you see faster and more throughly. For an other example, military pilots have long recieved training on perception in many ways similar to what video game players do as part of thier hobby. There is a famous comic spot about the old Call of Cthullu RPG, that spoofs the mechanics about adventurers and how they live to an old age. It shows an atheletic young man running as fast as he can from the dread Cthullu. Ahead of him and pulling away is a rotund middle aged professor. Ahead of him and pulling away is an old man with a cane, and ahead of him is an octogenarian women in a wheel chair. You have a point that RPGs tend not to handle the effects aging or inactivity very well, but for most games it really doesn't matter. In the 3rd edition of D&D, you can go from 1st level to 20th level in a matter of days. The effects of aging in that period are trivial. [/QUOTE]

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