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The title kind of says it all but to reiterate, what do people think are the age categories for the Orang-Pendak from B5? I'm in the midst of working on a Pendak NPC and I'm trying to figure out how they age. My guess is something close to humans or halflings since as other primates I assume they've got a lifespan at least as long as our own but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or knows anything about their mythology that might hint at how long they live. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Orang pendek is an Indonesian legend/cryptid, either a clever animal or a very primitive people. Taken as that they're probably shorter lived than humans - maybe the half-orc categories.
Orangutans by comparison live about 40 years in the wild, up to 60 in captivity.
I gave them "Young | Adulthood | Middle Age | Old | Venerable | Maximum Age
6 years | 14 years | 30 years | 45 years | 60 years | 60 + 2d10 years (62-80)" in my setting.
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I gave them "Young | Adulthood | Middle Age | Old | Venerable | Maximum Age
6 years | 14 years | 30 years | 45 years | 60 years | 60 + 2d10 years (62-80)" in my setting.
Thanks for the ranges man. I feel like that's a bit on the short side. Like, even the vanilla goblin has a starting age of 12. Part of me thinks it's something closer to human life ranges it's just that with their relative secrecy and seclusion from other societies makes guessing their age difficult to others.
The other part of me thinks maybe longer lives would be interesting. If they have social lives like orangutans with mostly solitary existences longer lives would help facilitate spending most of their lives nowhere near a mate. Part of me also wonders if bigfoot or the Pendak legends/sightings have a history of spotting the same individuals over long periods of time. If that's the case, it could be cool having them have really low numbers but making up for it with REALLY long lives.