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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 7724354" data-attributes="member: 813">I don't want to sidetrack the original topic with my tongue-in-cheek bummer comment. But how many people run Ars Magica (or any campaign in any RPG) long enough that getting old matters.In D&amp;D throughout the editions, there's been the issue of a handful of people who meet in a tavern in year 1002 rising meteorically to level 23 by year 1004 and then there's a world shattering event that they prevent and they retire. If the campaign world is reused they become the Elminster of the setting, a background figure of infinite renown. But the players no long give those characters much agency. They're just window dressing.I'm sure there are exceptions to the 2 year span and some DMs manage to make it take longer to get to high level. But does anyone make it take 50 or more years? I don't see many 70 year old characters running around as murder hobos. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (That could be an interesting campaign. A village is attacked and only the old folk survive. They band together to defeats the invading orcs who kidnapped their adult children as slaves. Eventually the band of seniors find themselves fighting against a demon cult and yada yada yada.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 7724354, member: 813"] I don't want to sidetrack the original topic with my tongue-in-cheek bummer comment. But how many people run Ars Magica (or any campaign in any RPG) long enough that getting old matters. In D&D throughout the editions, there's been the issue of a handful of people who meet in a tavern in year 1002 rising meteorically to level 23 by year 1004 and then there's a world shattering event that they prevent and they retire. If the campaign world is reused they become the Elminster of the setting, a background figure of infinite renown. But the players no long give those characters much agency. They're just window dressing. I'm sure there are exceptions to the 2 year span and some DMs manage to make it take longer to get to high level. But does anyone make it take 50 or more years? I don't see many 70 year old characters running around as murder hobos. :) (That could be an interesting campaign. A village is attacked and only the old folk survive. They band together to defeats the invading orcs who kidnapped their adult children as slaves. Eventually the band of seniors find themselves fighting against a demon cult and yada yada yada.) [/QUOTE]

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