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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6993029" data-attributes="member: 6677017">The 5e books do give maximum lifespans, and each racial entry tells about how fast they reach adulthood.I would advise against looking at the age categories of elves in prior editions, as they were frankly just stupid. Basically, elves took forever to get to adulthood, and then rapidly descended into middle and old, and even older age. Most elves would be children or elderly under that system, in contrast to the way elves have generally been presented in D&D, which is much like Tolkien's elves in that they seem to be forever young adults. Just go with the 5e PHB (or Basic Rules) info which is far superior and believable. Elves physically mature at about the same rate as humans, but aren't socially considered adults until sometime after they reach 100*, and can live up to about 750. While I can't find it, I'm positive that 5e said they have an ageless look about them and don't appear to physically degenerate even when they get older. (Does anyone know the reference for that?)If you want a suggestion for an age that seems thematically appropriate in 5e, I'd say somewhere in the range of 350-450.* I think this was a minor design mistake, as it can leads to the problematic example of being a great-great-great-grandparent while you're still considered a child. My personal solution is to just add in a note saying that elves aren't fertile until they get to around 100.</blockquote>

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