Jorgelino @ Jorgelino @lemmy.ml

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Doesn't really matter if it's a job you don't like doing.

My head-canon is that they have a shorter window of fertility. I mean humans have menopause as well.

Though it would make more sense if that happens later in their lives, otherwise you're saying every adventurer has given up the possibility of raising kids. Also, i suppose if that's the case they haven't really matured in the sexual sense, so much as they've just grown enough to be independent.

I seem to remember some bit of lore saying dwarves only settle down to have kids near the end of their lives, but i can't find that anywhere ( Might've just imagined it, lol).

Maybe adventuring across ages with different heirs of humans who go from weak to strong extremely fast while elves start strong and grow slowly?

That sounds cool but you'd need all your quests to span generations and leveling in general would be very slow. Probably harder to make it balanced as well.

Rules don't apply to you when you're a motherfucking dragon, lol. They're so broken they don't need to hurry up growing, cause they're already at the top of the food chain at basically any stage in their lives.

Leveling in general gets more confusing the more you try to explain it.

Why has my old character never leveled up before i started playing them?

Why has my Elf/Dwarf/etc never leveled up in hundreds of years?

If i can level up from 1 to 20 in a matter of days, why isn't every adventurer level 20 by now?

Also, even outside of level:

How isn't there a massive overpopulation issue when these races have hundreds of years to procreate? Instead they always seem to be rarer than humans.

Why would any job ever hire humans when elves/dwarves exist? They could acummulate way more experience and be better at basically anything.

In fact, why aren't Dwarves/Elves just better at everything? Do they learn things at a slower rate? But if that's the case, how come they can level up so fast once we start playing them?

I mean, really, at some point we gotta draw a line in the sand and decide that some things just need to be handwaved for the sake of fantasy.

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.

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.

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Hopefully they stick to the 10 8 condiments

I used to have a problem with this as a DM, where i'd get kinda anxious if nothing is happening or no one's talking and just start moving things too fast out of fear they'd be bored.

But moments of silence are an important part of it, especially if you want them to roleplay. Players usually don't have stuff planned ahead of time like you do, so you gotta give them some time to think about what to say, lol. Plus if feels way more natural to have them speak to eachother on their own time instead of rapid-firing lines.

Ya also can't force roleplay. Just give them some space, maybe some chill moments in between the action and they'll take it if they feel like it. Though if they're shy/new it can be good to start the convo with an NPC or simply ask them what's going through their characters minds at the moment. I find that tends to help.

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If you program you're a programmer. No need to do it professionally to call yourself that.

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Aww, i was enjoying our fact exchanges.

Some species of flatworm practice what is known as "penis fencing" to reproduce. All of them are hermafrodite and in order to mate they must duel with their sharp penises and try to stab eachother to inject sperm inside, impregnating the loser, but often also killing it.

The most preserved dinosaur fossil ever is of a Psittacosaurus. This fossil is so well preserved in fact, that scientists were able see what it's cloaca looked like.

Whales have their own form of language. Scientists have identified a number of patterns in whale calls that seem to suggest they have a similar system of communication to our own. Their calls have certain sequences called codas that seem to repeat reliably in their speech, and show similar properties to our human vowels.

These aren't just instinct either, they must be learned, and so baby whales will start out only being able to make incoherent sounds, until eventually they are taught to use the same codas their parents do.

Not only that, but they are different for each pod, so two separate groups of whales can't communicate with eachother because their languages are differerent.

Scientists are currently trying to decipher whale language with the help of AI language models.

Eggs have a protective layer of wax that protects them from bacteria. However, in the US, this layer is removed, which means eggs need to be refrigerated there, while in most other countries they can be kept at room temperature for long periods of time without spoiling.

Wait, maybe this isn't useless...

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