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I need to create a NPC that was once powerful, but is now 75 years of age. While the physical stat reduction makes sense, it doesn't completely take into account human degeneration.

Let's say this character made it to Lv 25 as a Cleric. All of his physical stats have gone down, but he still hits like a Lv 25 Cleric. It would occur to me that someone that old would have a huge problem in melee combat - In 2003 in Orange County a WWII Vet was beaten to death by a 29 year old man.

Also, all Mental stats go up. What about things like Dementia and Alzheimer's? I'm not certain how to go about representing things like that.

Any ideas?

I'm looking to do a "fantasy apocalypse" style campaign for my players. The general idea I have is that the Goddess of Death has been waging war on the world, and the good races know they are losing. Roughly 70% of the world is a blasted and desolate ruin, populated primarily by the undead (with a few pockets of humanity remaining here and there). The world itself looks like someone dialed down the saturation values on all color, and this bleakness even effects what little plant and animal life remains.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions about what I can add? How do I put across the ruination to the players so that the extremely precarious position the world is in becomes apparently? This is a planet literally on the cusp of death, and it's picking up momentum.