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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7724555" data-attributes="member: 29398">What about Elves who can live for centuries?In the game I play in the DM is using the same game world he did in the 1980's, only it's 250 years later.&nbsp; What this means is that our &quot;new&quot; characters are occasionally running into our old characters - mostly Elves - who are still alive.&nbsp; Now, when we meet these guys they're not 85th level (most were 6th-10th when last seen) so we have to assume they haven't been adventuring during this time...so what would have happened to their levels and so forth?For simplicity the DM in this case just left them where they were - which from my quasi-selfish player point of view is fine as some of these old characters are mine and I can play them again.&nbsp; But from a broader view this just doesn't work for me.&nbsp; Those characters should have either lost some levels, gained some levels, forgotten their class entirely, or maybe even have levels in a different class by now...it'd be quite unlikely to find one that just happened to be at the same stage of development as it was 250 years ago.&nbsp; They'd remember some key things they did back in the day, perhaps, and some striking events; and could tell us war stories till the sky turned pink...but that's it.Does what I'm saying make sense?Lan-&quot;but for some of us it was only a ten-year time shift, and to explain that would take more time than anyone wants to spend&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7724555, member: 29398"] What about Elves who can live for centuries? In the game I play in the DM is using the same game world he did in the 1980's, only it's 250 years later. What this means is that our "new" characters are occasionally running into our old characters - mostly Elves - who are still alive. Now, when we meet these guys they're not 85th level (most were 6th-10th when last seen) so we have to assume they haven't been adventuring during this time...so what would have happened to their levels and so forth? For simplicity the DM in this case just left them where they were - which from my quasi-selfish player point of view is fine as some of these old characters are mine and I can play them again. But from a broader view this just doesn't work for me. Those characters should have either lost some levels, gained some levels, forgotten their class entirely, or maybe even have levels in a different class by now...it'd be quite unlikely to find one that just happened to be at the same stage of development as it was 250 years ago. They'd remember some key things they did back in the day, perhaps, and some striking events; and could tell us war stories till the sky turned pink...but that's it. Does what I'm saying make sense? Lan-"but for some of us it was only a ten-year time shift, and to explain that would take more time than anyone wants to spend"-efan [/QUOTE]

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