What is the best age range for a D&D character?
(Adjust age for race)
9 to 12 years?
13 - 16 years?
17 - 20 years?
21 - 24 years?
25+ years?
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What is the best age range for a D&D character? (Adjust age for race). 9 to 12 years? 13 - 16 years? 17 - 20 years?
15-20
Isn't that a little young? Please explain your choice.
Anyone older doesn't have time to build their legend before they hit their physical peak at 25. Anyone starting adventuring older than 20 is just wasting opportunities that should have gone to younger people who could take better advantage. It is just basic biology.
Not a fan of the old grizzled veteran types I assume?
If sex is an option, 15+
If sex is not an option, 13+
Old grizzle veteran types exist as an early game crutch but have horrible stat growth so they frick you over if you rely on them too much
15. Base age of adulthood.
It is not an option, but that doesn't mean it's not gonna happen. So yeah, sounds about right.
>15. Base age of adulthood.
Don't the class have age modifiers to them?
Not a fan of penalties to physical stats or get hit by a ray of getting old and die immediately
>not playing a Mitch McConnell tier player character
We should be doing something with old ineffective people in power on both sides. Why the frick we allow 70+ year old people there when we wouldn't do it in any other job?
Because old people know better than you. Not necessarily for the best intention, but better.
>old people are ineffective and corrupt, we need the young
Picrel destroys your argument
This moron is the most incompetent politician I've ever heard of. Absolutely insane that this bozo is allowed to hold office.
She's literally an actress whose job is to keep the left from voting in someone who might actually stand up to the uniparty. Nothing incompetent about her.
>Why the frick we allow 70+ year old people there when we wouldn't do it in any other job?
We absolutely would, though. If an 80-year-old was still capable of being an architect, we'd let him be an architect. If he was capable of being a watchmaker, we'd let him be a watchmaker.
So - to keep things on topic - if an 82-year-old is still capable of being a paladin, why not let him be a paladin?
And why would you prefer a jester who's only 3 years younger?
The Fourth Crusade was lead by a 95 year old blind man.
Wasn't 4th crusade absolute shitshow that ended doing more harm to fellow christians than to the muslims?
Yep
Yes, it's a big factor in the decline and destruction of the Byzantine Empire centuries before Constantinople fell to the Turks. It was a cascading domino effect they never truly recovered from.
Because they're not workers doing a job, they're personality-products being sold to the masses, the product doesn't expire until they die.
>We should be doing something with old ineffective people in power on both sides.
Not at level 1 characters, you twit.
More physical based characters are 16-30 while magic based characters can go up to like 50
They can work if there was a late stage change in profession due to life experiences.
A mercenary turning over a new leaf in his later years, becoming a cleric, which after years of inaction in the priory and letting his skills degrade before receiving a divine revelation has to start out with the power of a lv1 cleric.
Exceptions, exceptions, exceptions. There's always exceptions, and some are just too small to take into account when talking broadly, you twit. This is an exception where you need to put more work than most D&Drones are willing put up with to make it not be fricking moronic.
I actually think a washed up old vet makes more sense for a low level dnd character than a young inexperienced person. Reason being that you get so much EXP and level up so fast that three power growth makes more sense logically for a has-been who is getting back into the swing of things to go from zero to hero in a few months than for some 18 year old boy with little experience at base.
if every village sent their kids adventuring for 1 year, they'd be literally immune to goblin and orc attacks
anime has poisoned your mind
Wasn't Aragorn decently old?
aragorn was not an ordinary human.
Aragorn is a Numenorean. They're superhumans who live to be like 400 or something.
Still wasn't like the Numenorean equivalent of 20 though
“I am no longer young even in the reckoning of men of the Ancient Houses,” said Aragorn.
And yet he lived for another 122 years
So I dunno what to tell you, he was 80 something when he became King
He was like 70+, but his biology was in his prime. Something like 30 or 40 physically.
>his biology was in his prime
>Something like 30 or 40 physically.
Still proves my point, thanks anon
The youngest member of the Lord of the Rings Fellowship was Took, and he was 28. Bilbo was 50, Boromir was 40, Gimli was over 130 and Aragorn was in his 80s.
Just go
>Boromir was 40
that's why he died first
That's more of the actor's fault
Eliud Kipchoge set the marathon world record at age 37. Jiří Lipták won an Olympic gold medal in a shooting discipline at age 38. For a lot of physical activities you peak in your early to mid twenties, but it's still possible to perform at a high level later, especially for disciplines where endurance and technique are important.
Older people are wiser and more disciplined
Some people peak past 25, though. Especially if it's a man.
In what way?
Generally the vibe you like to play
I like death alternatives, so usually the best age is whatever age the table is okay with having booties plundered at.
It's not guaranteed from a loss, but orcs in the spring time are after something different than orcs in the late fall is all I'm saying.
18-25 for 1st lvl PC (roleplaying as a teen can be tedious), 30-40 for experienced folks (not too old and still kickin'). 50-70 for trainers or sages.
Remember that people age faster under stress, so adventurers that survived a lot pressure can look like 40 in their 30s
role-playing a younger person tends to make you just as obnoxious as they would actually be. 30+ in the equivalent of your given race please.
Depends on the experience/backstory of a character and the race. I play a goblin right now that's young since they age quicker. He's about 8. If I play a human, are they experienced in their field? Are they a novice adventurer? Someone who lost a family/spouse? etc. Usually for that the youngest i've gone is 16-25 and then if I want them especially experienced or a longer backstory 30-40.
0 to 8 years
Ara Ara
CALAMITOUS MAMMARIES
Mid twenties to thirties
Nice
Would plap that girl until she's pregnant
You like mage girls huh?
Broad generalizations only make sense if there's a specific set of circumstances that lead into the "Adventurer" lifestyle or skill-set. Figuring out what the age-range is for analogous roles or professions is going to serve you better than going by estimations for a very broad category of vocational workers, mercenaries, freelance performers, scholars, craftsmen, or religious figures.
Hackmaster's character generation process reflected this quite nicely, having an estimated Racial starting minimum age to aim for, then having a racial variation, and then a variation based on Class to add into this.
A human warrior might have a baseline minimum of 17 years old (15+1 per die rolled) ranging up to 23 (max on 1d4 for race, 1d4 for physically intense but baseline training difficulty/time to proficiency being 4 and 4). However, a human Magic-User would range from 18 minimum (15+1+1+1) to 31 (15+4+6+6) years old before finally reaching professional competency of Level 1 in their class.
D&D editions have reflected this to some degree or another in various editions, but finding anyone that actually read the Background chapter before it was tied into their actual mechanics was a rare thing.
whatever your age is
21-55
Legally old enough to drink
I’ll either play 12-20 or 45-55. I can do the middle range but I enjoy the extremes a bit more.
>adjust age for race
This shit makes some races aging differently so redundant, not to mention other nonsensical shit like leveling being the same in spite of it.
Nonhuman aging in humanoid PC races was a mistake, every character who's hundreds+ years old should be a vague cryptic npc, frick whoever popularized it.
Aren't elves supposed to e super child-like till they reach 100?
Depends on the setting/system but typically yeah, they live for centuries
What the DMG says the character's starting age is of course.
>15 at the absolute youngest
>50 at oldest (60 for wizards)
anything less or anything more is a meme / degenerate character and shouldn't be accepted in a table that's trying to take anything seriously.
>anything less or anything more is a meme / degenerate character and shouldn't be accepted in a table that's trying to take anything seriously.
idk playing a 70 year old wizard makes sense to me
alright man, let's have 60 at oldest +20 MAX for wizards. and don't tell me you need anything above that, 80yo is already pushing it and is already peak old man.
18-55
same age as the player
Depends on the archetype you want to play.
Grizzled old warrior or jaded cleric? I make them older - late 20s, early 30s at the youngest.
Fresh-blooded warrior or plucky wizard apprentice? 15 or 16.
I've personally found players gravitating to "younger" characters, so the human-year range should be around 15-24.
>I've personally found players gravitating to "younger" characters
Funny it's like that
18
legal
>here’s my character sheet, GM
>Anon, why are you playing as an 11 year old girl?
I did this once
Story time
21 years old so were all old enough to drink