Ageing

[Seb Berendse]

was: High-Level Adventures

> Wow..your players get less upset about losing permanent things like HP and
> Stats, then levels. I always felt level draining was better than these
> other options because you can always get the levels back...Stats and
> especially permanently lost HPs are much harder to recover.
> Interesting...

I know it depends a bit on the characters and the races, but ageing
is actually also quite a nasty thing. Say you game-time played 10
years, so your PC would be in his 30ies if you started at TSR ages,
and then some nasty sth comes in and ages you to 40 years old. Qould
you be recognised? stats change only for the worse (Wis changes only
with 'real' time passed, not drained), options for adventuring cease,
do you have an heir? all these questions can come into the piscture,
pretty nasty I would say.
Sebastian

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At 10:40 PM 5/20/97 +0000, Seb Berendse(148530@student.fbk.eur.nl)wrote:
>
>I know it depends a bit on the characters and the races, but ageing
>is actually also quite a nasty thing. Say you game-time played 10
>years, so your PC would be in his 30ies if you started at TSR ages,
>and then some nasty sth comes in and ages you to 40 years old. Qould
>you be recognised? stats change only for the worse (Wis changes only
>with 'real' time passed, not drained), options for adventuring cease,
>do you have an heir? all these questions can come into the piscture,
>pretty nasty I would say.
>Sebastian
>

This would also be a good time to hit the PC with some of the other natural
afflictions of old age. Arthritis, cataracs, and other maladies that come
with old age can be used to make the experience more "real". Doing this is
sure to drive them in search of a way to reverse the aging, and with that
hook you can create loads of adventure. Can anyone say Fountain of Youth.

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