How Long Do Half-Dragons Live?

[Cotterpin]

Would it be based on their non-dragon side? For example, would half-dragon/human only live to 80 or so -- Or rather does the draconic lineage change the longevity of the race?

[BEGS]

they live half as long as as a dragon.
Seriously i dont think is any guide for this.
Just do what you want would be my call

[Kerney]

Answer: How ever long you decide. Paizo or Old Wotc can't think of every answer for every creature. My Recomendation: Use Elf aging.

[James Jacobs]

My suggestion for this type of thing would be to default to the age categories of whatever the non-dragon part of the template ages as. A half-dragon human would age like a human. Seems like the simplest solution to me.

[Navarion]

I would keep it somewhere in the middle between how old the dragon can become and how long the other parent race can live, like it is handled for half-elves.

[Kerney]

Navarion wrote:

I would keep it somewhere in the middle between how old the dragon can become and how long the other parent race can live, like it is handled for half-elves.

That's my reasoning for using elves. Dragons live 1000s of years. Humans, Dwarves, gnomes and halfings live decades to low hundreds.

In between is the high 100's elves live.

[Crimson Jester]

they die like all critters, when the adventurers kill them and loot their dead mangled corpses.

[Cotterpin]

Of the various ideas, I think I will go with the Elf one -- Giving them human lifespans (For half-dragon/human hybrids) just makes no sense to me. Half-Elves pick up some elven longevity, half-dragons should do the same IMO. Thanks for all the great feedback.

[Ambrus]

According to the original source for Half-Dragons, Dragon Magazine #206, their age expectancy is dependent on the sub-race of the draconic parent:

Half-Gold (Max = 300+5d10; Middle-age 150 / Old 200 / Venerable 300)
Half-Silver (Max = 250+3d20; Middle-age 125 / Old 167 / Venerable 250)
Half-Bronze (Max = 200+4d10; Middle-age 100 / Old 133 / Venerable 200)
Half-Chiang Lung (Max = 125+3d20; Middle-age 62 / Old 83 / Venerable 125)
Half-Shen Lung (Max = 125+3d20; Middle-age 62 / Old 83 / Venerable 125)
Half-Greyhawk (Max = 170+4d8; Middle-age 85 / Old 115 / Venerable 170)
Half-Steel (Max = 170+4d8; Middle-age 85 / Old 115 / Venerable 170)
Half-Iron (Max = 400+3d10; Middle-age 200 / Old 267 / Venerable 400)

The Half-Deep Dragon and Krinnish Half-Silver are special cases as detailed in the article.

Make of that what you will.

[Tacticslion]

Ambrus wrote:

According to the original source for Half-Dragons, Dragon Magazine #206, their age expectancy is dependent on the sub-race of the draconic parent:

Half-Gold (Max = 300+5d10; Middle-age 150 / Old 200 / Venerable 300)
Half-Silver (Max = 250+3d20; Middle-age 125 / Old 167 / Venerable 250)
Half-Bronze (Max = 200+4d10; Middle-age 100 / Old 133 / Venerable 200)
Half-Chiang Lung (Max = 125+3d20; Middle-age 62 / Old 83 / Venerable 125)
Half-Shen Lung (Max = 125+3d20; Middle-age 62 / Old 83 / Venerable 125)
Half-Greyhawk (Max = 170+4d8; Middle-age 85 / Old 115 / Venerable 170)
Half-Steel (Max = 170+4d8; Middle-age 85 / Old 115 / Venerable 170)
Half-Iron (Max = 400+3d10; Middle-age 200 / Old 267 / Venerable 400)

The Half-Deep Dragon and Krinnish Half-Silver are special cases as detailed in the article.

Make of that what you will.

Wow, Ambrus, that's great! Thanks!

What are the special case spans noted in the Krinnish Half-Silver and the Half-Deep Dragons?

[Ambrus]

Tacticslion wrote:

What are the special case spans noted in the Krinnish Half-Silver and the Half-Deep Dragons?

I don't have the article here with me, but I believe that Krinnish half-silvers are always the offspring of a female dragon and male humanoid parent and that the age expectancy of the offspring is in line with that of the humanoid race (either elf, human or half-elf) whose form the mother normally adopts in her alternate form.

The Deep Dragon entry on the age chart seems erroneous when compared to the other entries; it making no sense that I could fathom. IIRC, it has the max. age listed as a strange fraction akin to 200/150.

[Ornery Hobbit]

Is that African or Domestic? :P

[Tacticslion]

Well, OH, I'd say it's a half-breed. :)

Thanks again Ambrus!