Does Age reduce your speed?


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Just curious.


> Nope. <

One day you will be old.

Grand Lodge

Changing size doesn't adjust your speed either, last I checked, except for small to medium. Funny huh?


TriOmegaZero wrote:
Changing size doesn't adjust your speed either, last I checked, except for small to medium. Funny huh?

Unless you use a polymorph spell and then it does.

Liberty's Edge

harmor wrote:
Just curious.

Indirectly. Age reduces a character's strength. This reduces carrying capacity and can result in reduced speed for a given load.

Grand Lodge

Abraham spalding wrote:
TriOmegaZero wrote:
Changing size doesn't adjust your speed either, last I checked, except for small to medium. Funny huh?
Unless you use a polymorph spell and then it does.

Apparently not even then. You just get to use the different form spells, which don't change speed either.


TriOmegaZero wrote:
Apparently not even then. You just get to use the different form spells, which don't change speed either.

Nice -- now go read this.

I'll quote for you:

Quote:


While under the effects of a polymorph spell, you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form (such as keen senses, scent, and darkvision), as well as any natural attacks and movement types possessed by your original form. You also lose any class features that depend upon form, but those that allow you to add features (such as sorcerers that can grow claws) still function. While most of these should be obvious, the GM is the final arbiter of what abilities depend on form and are lost when a new form is assumed. Your new form might restore a number of these abilities if they are possessed by the new form.

So as per the rules for the polymorph subschool -- you do.

Grand Lodge

Thanks for the quote, d20pfsrd is blocked at work.

Ah, polymorph subschool, that thing I forget even exists. I'll have to see if it fixed the problem of people getting larger still moving at their normal speed despite longer legs. :)

Have I mentioned the rules are really spread out?


TriOmegaZero wrote:

Thanks for the quote, d20pfsrd is blocked at work.

Ah, polymorph subschool, that thing I forget even exists. I'll have to see if it fixed the problem of people getting larger still moving at their normal speed despite longer legs. :)

Not with enlarge person since that isn't a polymorph spell -- but alter self is and it would change your land speed.

Grand Lodge

'Your base speed changes to match that of the form you assume'.

You could have quoted that one instead of the later paragraph. :P

Unfortunately, Alter Self doesn't let you assume a larger form, as I recall.


TriOmegaZero wrote:

'Your base speed changes to match that of the form you assume'.

You could have quoted that one instead of the later paragraph. :P

Unfortunately, Alter Self doesn't let you assume a larger form, as I recall.

Unless you start small.

I do have a 'greater alter self' spell in my homebrew that goes to large size and covers some monstrous humanoids and a few more humaniod abilities (with a bit more duration too) -- I put it at 4th level iirc.


harmor wrote:
Just curious.

Never stopped Gandalf, did it.

Grand Lodge

IN PFS, no modifiers are applied from age. So if you want to play a spry 80 year old grandpa to kick those monsters "off your lawn" go for it.

It was a very popular trope in Living Greyhawk, the first campaign to apply this rule.

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