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CookieFiend 08-19-07, 09:44 AM	Ok so me and a group of three other players are starting a new campaign. I intend to be an elven archer and one of my friends is a human ranger. Before we had decided on race we had both kinda picked out that we would be brothers. Of course that wouldn't make much senses since I'm 128 and he's 19. I was thinking that I was somehow raised by humans, but they of course died and I kinda stayed with his family while he grew up. That's the first part that might need changing or advice give me your feedback. How will the age thing effect our roles together, most importantly because I intend to be pretty immature and he intends to be more mature. (maybe mine is a cover?) The second part is that we start out as hustlers (sort of) he's the front man and bets my archer ability against people. Yet I'm neutral good and he's probably chaotic good. How do we justify that? I was also thinking that we would each have our own good and bad character traits which complement to others. Like I am impatient and like to wing things while he likes to be patient and plan. Were are some of my good to his fairly regular.(thats to say I like winging it LOL) The real problem is he seems like the older brother mature elf and I like the human. How do I solve this?
Fithero 08-19-07, 10:01 AM	Simple... your the same age. Think about it... do you really think that a being who has been around for 128years is going to be at the same skill level as one who has been around for 19? Just make them the same age, it solves so many problems and makes a world of sense! As for the personality traits, they sound good. Should be interesting. As for being hustlers or grifters while being good, perhaps you only target a certain type of person. Rich and selfish, corrupt government officials, spoilt clergy and the like. Peace
CookieFiend 08-19-07, 10:49 AM	I was thinking about that but that would make the elf about the equivalent of a 6 month old baby. Elves grow at different rates. He might actually be like two but still. I hate to be the dork but lets make the fictional game seem realistic LOL.
Einvaldurinn_mikli 08-19-07, 11:04 AM	I am not quite sure on this, but if I recall correctly, elves don't grow at a different rate. They usually just don't start adventuring until much, much later then Humans.
Fithero 08-19-07, 11:41 AM	I hate to be the dork but lets make the fictional game seem realistic LOL. Exactly, think about it... do you *really* think that elves would remain infants for 10 or 20 so years? That, to me, is what doesnt seem realistic. The only concievable reason that elves start adventuring later in life is because the whole "we can live up to a 700 years or so" thing seems like too great a advantage over the other races. So they take away 100 or so years by saying that elves dont 'feel' like adventuring during this time. If thats the case, what the hell are they doing for 100 years?!?!?!? They probably reach maturity a little slower than humans, ie: we get there around 20 or so and theyd be 25 or so. But my point remains valid, you can have a 20 year old human and a 20 year old elf adventuring together, quite realistically. The elf just has a longer life ahead of him.
Aiden_Bautista 08-19-07, 01:08 PM	Elves are physically mature at the same time humans are. A 19 y/o human and a 19 y/o elf would be roughly the same size except for the elf's natural tendency to be slender. BUT, in the elven community, elves are less mature as far as mentality goes when dealing with other ELVES. They would be exactly like a human of the same age, but another elf would consider them immature or green. It's in the Races of the Wild if you have it.
CrimsonDeath 08-19-07, 01:42 PM	As I see it, the story could work two ways. One: The elf could've been raised by a human family. He would've matured more slowly but reached his full physical growth within a reasonable period of time. Having been raised by humans rather than elves, he wouldn't have a cultural reason to just hang around for a hundred years honing his skills; he'd head out and get a job as soon as he was physically mature, probably not more than ten actual years older than a human would be when he left home. If you go this route, the elf would probably be extremely impulsive and somewhat childish, since he doesn't have the cultural background to learn Elven patience. Another option would be to have the human raised by the elf's family. As long-lived as elves are, I don't imagine it's terribly uncommon to have a brother or sister fifty, a hundred, or even two hundred years younger and still view them as siblings. This would place a good deal of stress on the Elven parents, trying to cram a century of instruction into fifteen years (even less time than raising a half-elf), but as a matter of practicality the human child would leave home at about the same time that'd he'd leave if he were raised by humans. Such a human would likely have an unusually strong appreciation for art, literature, swordplay, archery, and nature (which would explain the career choices that could lead to the Ranger class). His reaction to the typically Elven long-term view of life could go one of two ways-- either he could be unusually patient, or he could be unusually impatient (as a backlash against his perception that his adoptive parents would get very little out of their own affairs accomplished during his lifetime).