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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8796932" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Why should a 1st level elf be 500 years old? But if a 1st level elf is 500 years old, how is that any less believable than a 55 year old 1st level human? When is the last time someone asked to play a 55 year old 1st level human in your game?</p><p>Typically, elves in my games at 1st level are teenagers as far as other elves are concerned. It's not unusual for me to have the starting age of an elf a mere 130 years old. </p><p>The biggest issue I've had with elves in game is more conceptual, and it started when the XP tables in D&D went from being exponential to linear with respect to leveling up in 3e. Prior to that change, it was reasonable to suggest that an NPC that was an order of magnitude older than another NPC was only a level or two higher. But with XP going to linear if you are gaining life experience even at a very slow rate, if you are an order of magnitude older then you are problem an order of magnitude higher level as well. That's a problem if you look at the world in simulation terms. I can ignore it as a DM because it's "off stage", but it's made me several times want to go back to the older exponential level tables of 1e AD&D just to be fully coherent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8796932, member: 4937"] Why should a 1st level elf be 500 years old? But if a 1st level elf is 500 years old, how is that any less believable than a 55 year old 1st level human? When is the last time someone asked to play a 55 year old 1st level human in your game? Typically, elves in my games at 1st level are teenagers as far as other elves are concerned. It's not unusual for me to have the starting age of an elf a mere 130 years old. The biggest issue I've had with elves in game is more conceptual, and it started when the XP tables in D&D went from being exponential to linear with respect to leveling up in 3e. Prior to that change, it was reasonable to suggest that an NPC that was an order of magnitude older than another NPC was only a level or two higher. But with XP going to linear if you are gaining life experience even at a very slow rate, if you are an order of magnitude older then you are problem an order of magnitude higher level as well. That's a problem if you look at the world in simulation terms. I can ignore it as a DM because it's "off stage", but it's made me several times want to go back to the older exponential level tables of 1e AD&D just to be fully coherent. [/QUOTE]
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