Random Starting Ages [Archive] - Wizards Community

Random Starting Ages [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
AWizardInDallas
02-25-07, 01:21 AM Where can I find the random starting ages for all of the PC playable races in MM1? In other words, I'm looking for Table 6-4: Random Starting Age and Table 6-5: Aging Effects on page 109 of the Player's Handbook with all the monsters from MM1 added?
Thomar_of_Uointer
02-25-07, 01:31 AM As far as I know, they don't have them. The Races of ____ series might have something you could use, I've seen a box set of them recently.
AMGriffin
02-25-07, 09:37 AM It's not official...but a website called the waking lands has random statistics for quite a few races.

http://www.wakinglands.com/htm_files/the_races_page.htm

That's all I got.
Jersey Cowboy
02-25-07, 09:51 AM That would be a nice edition to MMV, to have listed lifespans for monsters. I think they did that in an older edition of D&D. It could be something really simple in the fluff text of a monster's entry, in that first paragraph. Something like:

The ___ reaches maturity at X years, and typically live XX years.

Or maybe just have the aging table at the end of the monster's description? Seeing as each MM gets better, this wouldn't be too big of a stretch of the imagination. A boy can dream, can't he?
AWizardInDallas
02-25-07, 02:14 PM Wow! That's even better than what I was looking for. I'm actually working on my character building program and was having a tough time accomodating a race with class features. The way this guy's done it the race is defined as a class. Even though it's not official it make a lot more sense! Kudos! Thanks, AMGriffin!
AMGriffin
02-25-07, 02:44 PM No problem, but I'd be a bit weary. A couple races are blatantly unbalanced.
AWizardInDallas
02-25-07, 05:08 PM You're right. I noticed that but it does gives me a really good constuct for a work around on the whole ECL issue and races built as classes. Unfortunately it means that whatever I do end up building won't be official and if I ever share my program I'll have to have that as a caveat. I'm an old 1E/2E guy and I'm all about play balance and role-play rather than combat so playing a different race is a role-playing opportunity to me.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
AWizardInDallas 02-25-07, 01:21 AM	Where can I find the random starting ages for all of the PC playable races in MM1? In other words, I'm looking for Table 6-4: Random Starting Age and Table 6-5: Aging Effects on page 109 of the Player's Handbook with all the monsters from MM1 added?
Thomar_of_Uointer 02-25-07, 01:31 AM	As far as I know, they don't have them. The Races of ____ series might have something you could use, I've seen a box set of them recently.
AMGriffin 02-25-07, 09:37 AM	It's not official...but a website called the waking lands has random statistics for quite a few races. http://www.wakinglands.com/htm_files/the_races_page.htm That's all I got.
Jersey Cowboy 02-25-07, 09:51 AM	That would be a nice edition to MMV, to have listed lifespans for monsters. I think they did that in an older edition of D&D. It could be something really simple in the fluff text of a monster's entry, in that first paragraph. Something like: The ___ reaches maturity at X years, and typically live XX years. Or maybe just have the aging table at the end of the monster's description? Seeing as each MM gets better, this wouldn't be too big of a stretch of the imagination. A boy can dream, can't he?
AWizardInDallas 02-25-07, 02:14 PM	Wow! That's even better than what I was looking for. I'm actually working on my character building program and was having a tough time accomodating a race with class features. The way this guy's done it the race is defined as a class. Even though it's not official it make a lot more sense! Kudos! Thanks, AMGriffin!
AMGriffin 02-25-07, 02:44 PM	No problem, but I'd be a bit weary. A couple races are blatantly unbalanced.
AWizardInDallas 02-25-07, 05:08 PM	You're right. I noticed that but it does gives me a really good constuct for a work around on the whole ECL issue and races built as classes. Unfortunately it means that whatever I do end up building won't be official and if I ever share my program I'll have to have that as a caveat. I'm an old 1E/2E guy and I'm all about play balance and role-play rather than combat so playing a different race is a role-playing opportunity to me.