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RE: Birthdays / Do they age? - FreelanceWizard - 06-24-2013
Yep, I age my characters. Usually this is just a function of them getting older with no outward effects, as getting wiser (or not
) is a function of their RP. In CoH, I had two characters that I played from early access all the way to when I stopped playing about 2 years ago. One of them was in his early 30s at game start, and over time I greyed his hair a bit, modified his combat rotation to be less physical in nature, etc. There was also some RP about how he wanted to leave a legacy, how he felt he may be getting too old for the hero game, and the like. The other character matured mentally over that time, coming out of her shell and rounding out as a person. A character I started later and played for about 2.5 years started considering retiring, starting a family, and such as she aged.In general, when I age characters, I do it by RL calendar years. Otherwise, the time compression would result in them being dust and bones by the end of the game's second or third year.
In FFXIV, I envision most of my characters being fairly young, so physical aging won't be a major factor. That said, a good friend of mine is going to play someone fairly old who's just recently taken up adventuring as a form of penance for past actions.
RE: Birthdays / Do they age? - Mara - 06-27-2013
I really, really don't like retconning things... Which is why Mara will only age a single year until someone official says, "We've moved from year X to years Y in the timeline." That way I don't end up aging her two or three years then realize only a year has actually passed in the game and not only have to change her age, but potentially other big stuff that takes a while and she wouldn't have had time to actually accomplish in that short of a span (like having a child in the second, non-existent year, for example). In the same vein, though, if the in-game time skips ahead three years... Then the character would get a couple of years added on. (And I get to play around and add in stuff that happened over those two years.)
My personal method of choosing birthdays... I tend to try to pick dates which will be fitting for the character, be it the astrological sign's traits fitting their personality or the specific significance of the date linking to them somehow. Mara, for instance, was born on the 32nd Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon - the date with the RL equivalent of Halloween. She's a Black Mage, so it seemed fitting.