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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 2633372" data-attributes="member: 29663">Not to keep beating a dead elf, but I think I can see where the player was coming from.  I guess if somone was willing to take all the cumulative penalties for age, I'd allow it.  But I think that might be this players problem...they are so focused on twinking out their character before they start playing, they are making it unplayable or at least unreasonable, which is your problem.  +3 to mental -6 to physical is a big hit, especially if you are using a reasonable point-buy system.  But it's your campaign, you make the call...it wouldn't make sense to have a 120 year old human running dungeons with three 20 year old punks.Same with the dogs, I would definitely steer the player away from creating anything new, just find something in a book.  If they can't find exactly what they want in a book, or make it using standard rules, TFB.  It's really easy to advance an animal or throw a template on it without making a dog double size and giving it wolf stats...just use a dog or a wolf...what's the problem?  There's plenty of material out there to avoid 'making it up'.  Motivations for making it up are usually so they can squeeze 500 pounds into a 100 pound girdle (some call it unbalanced/munchkin/PG/whatever) and get away with it.IMC I'd also make it hard on a character trying to do this.  Like I'd point out that the dogs, since oversized, eat A LOT.  The character has no money, and the dogs are starving.  Make them waste time scavenging for food for the mutts...isn't this fun?  Have the dogs been trained to hunt?  If so, they can find food if it is available, but it's easy for the dogs to get into stuff where they might become diseased or poisoned.  I'd make the character take care of the dogs, they get the whole ball of wax, not just the perks.  Maybe get kicked out of town because the dogs aren't potty trained and leave dumps all over the place.  Most importantly, I'd tell the player what I thought some of the bonuses and penalties of their strategy would be in my campaign and let them make an informed decision.</blockquote>

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