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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8798105" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>That very much depends. Tolkien elves are immortal but mature at roughly the same rate as humans, so that a 20-year-old elf is the peer of a 20-year-old human. If elves do mature at the same rate as humans, then starting PC elves should be close to the same age range as starting PC humans. The implication of the D&D system is all PC's are at the beginning of their career in some fashion, so it is a bit weird but hardly impossible that a 50 or 100 year old being (of whatever race) has been doing nothing for all that time.</p><p></p><p>But it's implied in D&D that elves live a long time because a god of time blessed them so that time wears slowly on them. It's implied in most D&D settings, and certainly in my own, that not only do elves live longer than humans, but mature more slowly as well. So that 20-year-old elf may still have trouble dressing themselves and functionally be like a human toddler in many respects.</p><p></p><p>It appears that 5e, in its "wisdom" changed all that somewhat. But in my campaign world, which extends back to 1e, a 70-year-old elf still hasn't hit puberty or it's full adult stats and as such may not even necessarily be eligible to gain levels and may be stuck as a 0th level character.</p><p></p><p>In fact, because on one of the longer running campaigns we played where players started getting spouses and children, we started thinking about dynastic play and worked this out to some degree. Average elves in my game world may well be over 100 before they are able to hit 1st level and even start gaining levels. And consider the implications of that in terms of rebuilding a race after it has suffered casualties from some tragic event, whether war, pestilence or disaster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8798105, member: 4937"] That very much depends. Tolkien elves are immortal but mature at roughly the same rate as humans, so that a 20-year-old elf is the peer of a 20-year-old human. If elves do mature at the same rate as humans, then starting PC elves should be close to the same age range as starting PC humans. The implication of the D&D system is all PC's are at the beginning of their career in some fashion, so it is a bit weird but hardly impossible that a 50 or 100 year old being (of whatever race) has been doing nothing for all that time. But it's implied in D&D that elves live a long time because a god of time blessed them so that time wears slowly on them. It's implied in most D&D settings, and certainly in my own, that not only do elves live longer than humans, but mature more slowly as well. So that 20-year-old elf may still have trouble dressing themselves and functionally be like a human toddler in many respects. It appears that 5e, in its "wisdom" changed all that somewhat. But in my campaign world, which extends back to 1e, a 70-year-old elf still hasn't hit puberty or it's full adult stats and as such may not even necessarily be eligible to gain levels and may be stuck as a 0th level character. In fact, because on one of the longer running campaigns we played where players started getting spouses and children, we started thinking about dynastic play and worked this out to some degree. Average elves in my game world may well be over 100 before they are able to hit 1st level and even start gaining levels. And consider the implications of that in terms of rebuilding a race after it has suffered casualties from some tragic event, whether war, pestilence or disaster. [/QUOTE]
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