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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1703032" data-attributes="member: 571">Age of MaturityA number of folks have raised the objection that people back in medieval times became adult at age 15. Some going so far as to claim that a PC starts adventuring at that age. Wrong on both counts.First, the minimum starting age for a PC who is not a Cleric, Druid, Monk, or Wizard is 16. If the PC is a Cleric, Druid, Monk, or Wizard the minium starting age is 17. As our 16 year old members can attest, there is a substantial difference between them as they are now, and them as they were as little as a year ago.Now, there were occasions when somebody as young as 15 would assume an adult role, but such were the exception and not the rule. Most of the time you would take on an adult role at 18 to 20 years of age, and possibly even older.Now you might find yourself on your own, and doing well all things considered. But you're far more likely to be placed in somebody's care. If you don't find yourself someone's property that is.And let us not forget the presence of magic in Faerun. I'll be discussing magic as a part of society later on, but for the nonce you can be sure that there will be magics, arcane and divine, designed to assess problems such as you. Are you good? Are you evil? Can you be responsible for yourself? Are you in danger from others? Your new guardian may be more of a bodyguard than a parent.One final word on this early maturation thing. Are you aware of the changes that would be necessary on the genetic level to produce a human population that matures slower than in times previous? We're talking about species level change. Look at it this way, if we maturied at 15 back in the 1500s we'd be maturing at 15 today. We don't now, so we didn't back then.Bad news? Odds are you have a guardian of some sort.Mixed news? He likely expects more of you than your parents did when you were first that age. (Why is this mixed news? Think about it.)</blockquote>

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