We've generally never had to deal with it until my latest campaign where someone wanted to play a younger half-elf right around high school age.
Wizardry academies would love elves because their decades-long youths would spell a massive windfall of tuition dollars, haha! Basically any kind of schooling that combined classes of different races would be impossible. I have always found the aging thing to be hard to deal with as well. Work out your backstory with your DM.ĪFAIK, it is only in PFS that you are restricted to taking an age from the appropriate bracket for your race. Could a 15-year-old elven child learn to become a druid after a few years, just like a human? Probably. So there is no real answer to your question other than whetever you and your DM want to decide.
The Unchained background skills system could easily be modified to work with this. Logically, an adventuring elf who is 114 to 170 years of age has been doing lots of other things with his time, and really ought to get a slew of obscure or eclectic skill ranks like profession (birdwatching) or craft (treehouse weaving). PF doesn't really attempt to deal with this age discrepancy. It's just that this elf spent so much time doing other things like admiring poetry, hunting in the forest, attending elaborate ceremonies, watching the sun rise and so on. How long did such an elf take to learn to become a wizard? Probably no longer than a human, really. Presumably, the 114 years figure is meant to be the equivalent of a young adult (human, around 17 or 18). The starting age for elves, 110 years +x yields a starting age between 114 and 170 years. We've had threads here before asking how many years elves spent in diapers, how long they were teenagers, etc. Seriously, the idea of spreading out the aging process for a long-lived race like elves is rather silly.
0 kommentar(er)
