Delicious in Dungeon had a running joke where the dwarf kept thinking the halfling was a child and complimenting him for “being so skilled at his age”. Eventually the halfing gets frustrated and says he’s 29 to which the dwarf and elf reply “oh so you are a child”.
40 years old Cabbage:
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So I’ve been watching Frieren
She’s been banned from the Mage City for 1,000 years shrugs.
“Oh, Serie is always like that, something I said put her in a foul mood.”
Lol.
Good series btw.
She was banned from all CMA buildings, not the city.
Friendly reminder that although you can homebrew it to be like this if you want, in the official D&D 5e lore, Elves and Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, so they’re all adults at 21.
Culturally is a little different, much like some older humans still view people in their 20s as “kids”, elves and dwarves will only consider themselves to be truly adults after at least 100 years or so, but that’s just a social stigma, not how they are biologically.
What is important here is the mental maturity, not physical I believe, at least for adventuring. It would make sense that, mentally, a race that can live hundreds of years would take longer to mature
Why? Why is your body slowly falling apart necessary to mature mentally?
No? When you live for hundreds of years you can wait a couple of decades before going to school, maybe 50-100 to think about leaving your town, no need to rush anything. It makes sense that races that live longer would experience life at a slower pace therefore mature later in life.
And if you want to play by RAW, they’re born with all their stats, knowing whatever language they know, and and the same size class as adults.
that’s stupid. if what you are saying was true they would die before or shortly after becoming an adult
They grow into adulthood at the same rate as humans, but after that point they age at a slower rate.
As per the PHB, page 23:
“AIthough elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old”
And page 20:
“Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they’re considered young until they reach the age of 50, On average, they live about 350 years.”
So i did get some things mixed up, for Dwarves it’s 50, not 100. Same idea though.
I know it sounds weird at first, but It actually makes a ton of sense. I mean, even outside of fantasy, the amount of time an animal takes to reach maturity isn’t really proportional to how long it lives, it has more to do with its intelligence, which is about the same for all D&D races. For a lot of animals, reaching full maturity only takes a couple of months tops. Turtles can live way longer than humans yet they mature in about 5 to 8 years depending on the species.
Humans are already pushing it with about 2 decades worth of growing, having to spend a literal century as a kid, especially in a world as dangerous as the forgotten realms would be insane.
That was one the best scenes in the show. If there’s one scene that captured the show’s essence, it’s serious yet irreverent tone, that’s the one.
