Aging


Rules Questions


I don't see anything in the ARG Race Builder about aging or lifespan. Is there really no RP difference between a race that lives for 50 years and one that lives for 500? What about a GM created race that stops aging after they reach adulthood and will never die from old age?


In the typical campaign? Nope. You go from 1 to 20 in a matter of months tops in most of them. Kingmaker is a marked outlier here. In my Rise group I think we've spanned a year, maybe, and that's because we just took some extended downtime.


There is magic that causes premature aging. Being immune to that should be worth something, I would think.

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This is an important question for me, actually. I'm about to run a Legacy campaign, and I don't know how long Trox tend to live. Since my players will be the decedents of their characters from the campaign that's currently running, it's important for roleplay purposes that I know things like that.

Anyone know anything?


I would pick a race that has a similar environmental and cultural background. And use that race's Race Aging Effects.

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Mirinaya wrote:

This is an important question for me, actually. I'm about to run a Legacy campaign, and I don't know how long Trox tend to live. Since my players will be the decedents of their characters from the campaign that's currently running, it's important for roleplay purposes that I know things like that.

Anyone know anything?

Taken from a real-world perspective, the word "humanoid" means "having the traits or characteristics of a human." Therefore, for all humanoid creatures, its generally safe to assume that all humanoid creatures do stuff "as a human" unless specifically noted otherwise. I'd assume that the trox grow and age at a rate similar to humans until something else is said about them, as a result.

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If they were actually humanoid, I'd agree with you. However, Trox (Troxes? Troxxi?) are Monstrous Humanoids. They are literally bipedal bug people that were enslaved and messed with by the Druegar for generations.

Have you seen them? They have scythes for lips! How do you even- nevermind. Not really relevant.

Point is, it could really go either way and I'm hoping for something solid to help tip the scales.

That isn't to say that your information isn't relevant or appreciated. It is. I just don't think I can use it across creature types. This is the kind of game where semantics can be important, depending on the group you play with.


Where is life span for special races

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Rogar Stonebow wrote:
Where is life span for special races

The Advanced Race Guide has life spans for every race published before that book (i.e. all of the races outside of the race building chapter).

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Rogar Stonebow wrote:
Where is life span for special races

In most cases it's in the race entry itself. Paizo however generally doesn't bother for truly monstrous ones though.

If it's bug people, I'd make it a shorter than human lifespan, and assume a very rapid transition from egg to full adault.

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