Heck I'm mostly lost on how many generations of real world humans live during a given span of time. I'm mostly curious how many generations of each of the core (or even of the most popular) races there are in the span of a thousand years. In that time, a dragon goes from being a hatchling to one of the most powerful creatures in the setting, or (more likely) is killed by adventurers or monsters. Even so, 1000 years is a significant timespan to them. If I recall, the limits vary based on dragon color, and are somewhere in the ballpark of 2 to 4 millennia. Draconomicon puts maximum age limits on them, since the Monster Manual doesn't say what happens to them after they reach great wyrm status. An outsider could conceivably be tens of millennia old, depending on the campaign setting 1000 years would mean little to such a creature.ĭragons have long lifespans, probably the longest of all the core rule Material Plane creatures, though I'm not 100% certain of this. I don't think outsiders like demons or archons age if they do, it's from something listed in an obscure sourcebook somewhere and not in the core rules. I think the maximum age is somewhere in the ballpark of 700 years.ĭwarves live for 4 or 5 centuries, I think. Halflings are a little longer-lived, but not much when you compare them to anyone else.Įlves and gnomes live for centuries, though they start taking aging penalties at obscenely young points in that lifespan for whatever reason. Of course, the PHB notes that most people die from disease or violence long before that point.

Humans in D&D don't live much longer than in real life their maximum age might be a little higher than the current world record, or it might be a little under. What do you mean, 'erase' their backstories?

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