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Planetouched ageing is somewhat inconsistent, but it is more often "mortal parent's rate", but case could be made about how thick or thin their extra-planar blood is.

I'd probably say her blood is pretty thin given she came from a relatively normal background. (Not like she literally came down from the heavens themselves or any of the other ultra supernatural aasimar origins I've heard.) It would make more sense to age close to the same rate as her parents, but at the same time, having a character everyone in the party assumes is a kid when she's actually the oldest is a constant source of amusement during our sessions.

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And also thanks for reminding me about sizes, Tacticslion! I think wondering if age imposes a size penalty/bonus was one of the reasons I looked up the young characters page. It's funny they don't have any mention of size penalties on that page, but I think 4'0" 70 lbs would qualify as small. (I came up with her height and weight myself since the random rolling for them wouldn't have made much sense given her age level.

4'0" and 70 lbs actually does fall into the Medium size category. I don't know if Pathfider ever reproduced the whole table, but you can find it here (scroll down a bit to "Big and Little Creatures in Combat"). Medium-size covers from 4 to 8 feet and from 60 to 500 pounds.

Ah, thank you! I did realize such a table existed. (Our campaign is just a bunch of friends and very casual. We follow the rules mostly but aren't super strict on fine details.)

And also thanks for reminding me about sizes, Tacticslion! I think wondering if age imposes a size penalty/bonus was one of the reasons I looked up the young characters page. It's funny they don't have any mention of size penalties on that page, but I think 4'0" 70 lbs would qualify as small. (I came up with her height and weight myself since the random rolling for them wouldn't have made much sense given her age level.

Also I got the aasimar maturity age from d20pfsrd. I assumed that site's always up to date but who knows, maybe they aren't. My whole campaign's using that site, so I'm sticking to it for consistency.

Ah, the point many of you brought up about biology does make sense. My character had a pretty sheltered life up until her early 30's when everything suddenly went downhill, forcing her to leave home and take up an independent nomadic lifestyle. But now that I think about it, she probably didn't handle many of the challenges she faced in those days the same way she would handle them now or the same way she would in 10 years time. I mostly brought this into question since I'm trying to develop my character around what would make the most sense from her backtory (and benefit our party), but there are still a lot of growing edges to her character I haven't thought too much in depth about. Those could count for wisdom with age.

Feel free to keep the conversation going if you want though! I'm enjoying the discussion. :)

Hello, I was reading the Young Characters page in reference to a character I have just to see if Paizo Pathfinder had any specific rules regarding young characters. This line in particular is significant.

"A young character has a +2 bonus to Dexterity and a —2 penalty to Strength, Constitution, and Wisdom. (A young character's potential inexperience and awkwardness are represented by having only the skill ranks of a 1st-level character rather than taking a penalty to Intelligence or Charisma.)"

Young people are quick but also not fully developed physically, so the DEX, STR, and CON adjustments makes sense. But the WIS penalty to me doesn't.

Personal case- I have a young aasimar character. Aasimars reach adulthood at age 60, and mine is 40 years old (about 12 in human years). This would make her a child by any personal consideration (I couldn't find any official age ranges on non-core races). However, wisdom by most definitions is the accumulation of life experience, and considering she's older than any other character is my party, despite being a "child", wouldn't she realistically have as much, if not MORE wisdom than the other characters?

This applies to other races with late adulthoods as well, such as elves and, if you want to stretch it, gnomes and dwarves.