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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7788046" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I wouldn't consider 25-35 middle aged, and my frequency is definitely between once and fairly often, so...special lemonade it is. Anyway, my current gnome rogue is 36, which is young in terms of total lifespan, but he's been an adult for almost 20 years at this point. That's the thing about longer lived races. Just because they live to 500 years old doesn't mean 100 years is "young" in the same way that 20 is young for humans. A 100 year old elf may be considered barely an adult in some elf societies, but they've been physically and mentally a grown adult for 80 years or so. A 20 year old gnome is an adult, and has the full rights of an adult, they just aren't socially expected to settle down and raise a family and focus on a career until they're around 40. That rant aside, I also have a Goliath Fighter who is a guard in waterdeep who is in his 40's. On the other end of the spectrum I have a human 14 year old street kid in a Star Wars campaign, and a Feywild based 4e campaign we had I played a late teens female satyr bard. I don't consider middle aged folks to need some special reason to go adventuring, though, and I don't assume that most adventurers are "college aged". It's a wild world, with plenty of calls to adventure. I've played middle aged characters who send money back home to their family and spend downtime with them whenever possible, and I've had concepts I haven't gotten to play where my middle aged character was adventuring with his spouse or one of his kids.</blockquote>

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