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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 5213141" data-attributes="member: 19412">I'll happily listen to people talk from their experiences and trust they know what they're talking about.I think its obvious that with a few exceptions for most of us the storyline stops long before the aging becomes onerous. No one ever talks of the short lifespan of the half orc as a detriment to game play. Many of my games are intense storylines pushed into very short spans of time.I have wanted immortal characters entirely for flavour. Joe's rich and powerful but I shall drink coffee and tell stories at his funeral etc etc.... I've never had the nerve to really use immortality."We leave the castle and return in 40 years, what has happened?"There are ways of exploiting the ability but most players don't want to give up the web of setting and the issues they are struggling with right now.I disagree categorically that wish can't do it. Wishing for immortality is too big a storyline. I think you're smarter to wish to become an immortal form you are familiar with that might please  you but a benevolent wish can make you ageless in my world. A treacherous wish might make you regret it - perhaps letting you rot in a body that won't die.I don't think it is significant what else is done by other people to combat aging. Other solutions don't work as well but there are probably many solutions you have never heard about. Furthermore, this is one person's story - if they wanted to bottle and sell the stuff I'd have a different answer. DM's can do a disservice of enforcing the universal average on exceptional players.I really don't think this has to affect the game at all. It certainly hasn't affected the games I've been in.Sigurd</blockquote>

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