What's the Adulthood for "Monster" PC races?

[kevin_video]

So one of my players just asked me a legitimate question. He wants to play a dhampir, but since we're starting at 1st level, he'd like to know when "adulthood" is. The same goes for my players who are playing a tiefling and vishkanya.

What do I tell them?

[Starglim]

Sometimes in-depth sourcebooks or articles for unusual races give this information, otherwise you could decide if they start adventuring a bit earlier (as a half-orc) or a little later (pick a race that seems similar). This may, but doesn't necessarily, match up with their aging profile.

Personally I might give a tiefling a half-orc's starting age and half-elf's aging modifiers, a dhampir starting age as a human and half-elf's aging modifiers and vishkanya as a half-elf in all respects.

[Nochtal Balzer]

This information may be available within the Race book that will be coming out this year. That's the best I can think of, I haven't seen anything myself as of yet.

[kevin_video]

It's unfortunate that the information required isn't readily available now. Maybe I'll be lucky to get it with the new Race book when it comes out.

[I'M INCREDIBLE!]

There might be more in the Advanced Race Guide, but dhampirs are actually one of the only races that they tell you.

prd wrote wrote:

Although polluted by undeath, dhampirs do grow old and die, aging at a rate similar to elves.

Italicized for importance. Hope that helps.

[Nightwish]

I'M INCREDIBLE! wrote:

There might be more in the Advanced Race Guide, but dhampirs are actually one of the only races that they tell you.

prd wrote wrote:

Although polluted by undeath, dhampirs do grow old and die, aging at a rate similar to elves.

Italicized for importance. Hope that helps.

I wonder if that is in terms of both starting age and aging effects, or only the latter. I always kind of pictured them reaching maturity at about the same rate as humans, but then leveling off to enjoy a longevity similar to elves.

[kevin_video]

I'M INCREDIBLE! wrote:

There might be more in the Advanced Race Guide, but dhampirs are actually one of the only races that they tell you.

prd wrote wrote:

Although polluted by undeath, dhampirs do grow old and die, aging at a rate similar to elves.

Italicized for importance. Hope that helps.

Note "similiar", not "equal" to elves.

[Nightwish]

kevin_video wrote:

I'M INCREDIBLE! wrote:

There might be more in the Advanced Race Guide, but dhampirs are actually one of the only races that they tell you.

prd wrote wrote:

Although polluted by undeath, dhampirs do grow old and die, aging at a rate similar to elves.

Italicized for importance. Hope that helps.

Note "similiar", not "equal" to elves.

I think in this case it can be considered roughly synonymous. It is more proper to use the term "similar" rather than "equal" when the things being compared are abstract. Since no two elves age at *exactly* the same rate, there is no hard and fast aging rate to be equal to. But if we read that dhampir and elves age at similar rates, then we can certainly infer that data sets for dhampir ages and elf ages would occupy the same set of averages enough to consider them roughly equal.