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Math is fun (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 108 points 4 months ago (17 children)

that's not how this works!! it's silly to assume all other species reach maturity at the same point proportional to their average lifespan! almost as silly as to assume all species reach maturity after the same absolute time.

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  • [–] 62 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Well this is RPG memes and 100 is when an elf is considered an adult in DnD so

    That is how it works (legally and culturally)

    Of course it's also a medievalish world and they didn't care that it ruined brain development. I guess you might argue that dwarves and elves would though, particularly since a brain damaged drunken youth is going to be a problem for a lot longer

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I think the general consensus is that it's elven society that considers 100 the age of maturity. Elves grow to adulthood at the same rate as humans, but the knowledge and worldly experience they must gain is what elves see as being an adult.

    So, a 73 year old elf would be more than able to drink responsibly

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So, just like a human teenager, there's a difference between physical maturity, mental maturity, and the age their brain finishes developing?

    Regardless, the threat to call their parents is still valid and players should absolutely do it if they have an elven teenager PC

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Except that the elf's parents likely wouldn't care. If we're going with D&D generic lore as our base, elves typically are on their own(ish) from physical maturity around 20 and on. They simply flit about with different projects and teachers until around 100.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    Except if this was how it worked, then elves would be babies for like 10 years before being toddlers for like 30 and teenagers for 50-70 years.

    A decade as a toddler? Nah.

    I think it's fair to say elves reach maturity almost as quickly, just age slower after reaching maturity. Same with dwarves, etc.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    We don't know what the alcohol content of the drink is, as when alcoholic drinks were the standard they were much lower AC than today's (on average), nor do we know how impactful alcohol is to elven physiology.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure where you got this information, but I'd be interested to see a source. As far as I know in the middle ages beers and ales were brewed using the same mash multiple times leading to varying strengths ranging from 10-12% for the first batch to very little alcohol ~1% from the third batch. And of course there were also various types of wines available. Children drank only the weak beer, but there was definitely high alcohol content drinks available.

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