04-16-2020, 10:30 PM
I mean, I do understand the whole idea of an age category providing a bit more nuance to RP beyond having a number, however, I've never really seen it used to that purpose, even up until now.
Teenagers are treated as defacto teens, Young Teens are treated as children, Young Adults/Adults are generally lumped as 'You are Grown up' in a pile, and Elders are just old dudes. The only time I believe this age category over numerical age business was valuable, was when there was percentile DR loss based on your age, and it varied for each year.
Now it is purely, 'Are you Young Adult or older?' 'If yes, you're fine. If no, you have -10% DR', which I feel wouldn't really change anyone's opinion when it comes to verbing and being anal about it.
Again, I'll state, I like the idea of age categories, but I don't see them used much if at all, and I feel like having a number to attribute to a character's life adds more into RP than a generic 'Adult'.
Teenagers are treated as defacto teens, Young Teens are treated as children, Young Adults/Adults are generally lumped as 'You are Grown up' in a pile, and Elders are just old dudes. The only time I believe this age category over numerical age business was valuable, was when there was percentile DR loss based on your age, and it varied for each year.
Now it is purely, 'Are you Young Adult or older?' 'If yes, you're fine. If no, you have -10% DR', which I feel wouldn't really change anyone's opinion when it comes to verbing and being anal about it.
Again, I'll state, I like the idea of age categories, but I don't see them used much if at all, and I feel like having a number to attribute to a character's life adds more into RP than a generic 'Adult'.