Elves' shortened lifespans


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Silver Crusade

Why was the elven life span cut from over seven hundred years to 350+ years?

The Exchange

It wasn't changed. If you notice, the end is 350 +4d% (or 4d100), allowing for elves to live up to 750 years if they're lucky.

Liberty's Edge

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Hunterofthedusk is correct. In fact, if you compare the Pathfinder age tables (Here) with the 3.5 age tables (Here), you'll note that they are exactly the same.

The only difference that I can see is that Pathfinder doesn't have an explicit reference to elves living to be 700+, while I seem to remember that 3.5 did have a sentence that called that fact out.

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And the Chronicles sometimes infer that they can become older than that, that they might, in fact, be immortal (maybe under certain circumstances.)

Silver Crusade

Hungerofthedusk, JagyrEbonwood, KaeYooss, thank you.

Oh Jagyr Ebonwood, Hi, i hope everything is going well at home. Please say hi to your wife, the little one, if he has arrived and Mo for me.
things are progressing well down here in NC, I am losing weight, and the lung doctor expects me to be off oxygen in another four to six weeks.

Liberty's Edge

ElyasRavenwood wrote:

Oh Jagyr Ebonwood, Hi, i hope everything is going well at home. Please say hi to your wife, the little one, if he has arrived and Mo for me.

things are progressing well down here in NC, I am losing weight, and the lung doctor expects me to be off oxygen in another four to six weeks.

I'll pass it on (and no, Baby Girl is not here yet - 75 days left!). Very glad to hear of improving health. :)

Looking forward to seeing you when you get back. Depending on the timing, our Kingmaker group may have established a barony by the time you return...are you interested in a cabinet position? :D


Such is the way with elves. Slowly they diminish until they leave the lands of man behind them and journey on to the shining shores...

The Exchange

Abraham spalding wrote:
Such is the way with elves. Slowly they diminish until they leave the lands of man behind them and journey on to the shining shores...

And then, with much less grace as soon as they are out of sight, they die from a violent heart attack...


A high-level wizard then sucks their souls out and live on a couple human lives more... and kills the halfling witnesses.

About the eternal thing, it is probably an elfic folklore that they enjoy nourishing among other kins. Elves tend to be megalomaniacs, you know.

Be it true or not, it is under DM discretion for the campaign setting you play in.


KaeYoss wrote:
And the Chronicles sometimes infer that they can become older than that, that they might, in fact, be immortal (maybe under certain circumstances.)

"Certain circumstances" being that the elves do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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