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I don't agree here. Although the 2 years old dog would act 'mature' compared to a puppy he would still act like a dog. I WOULD expect better problem solving skills from a 2 years old human than from a (untrained) dog of any age. Futhermore, at 2 years old the human is usually past the 'eat my own poop' phase.ChrisDDickey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:04 amFor the shorter lived races, I would expect the opposite to be true. Making a comparison to a species we are more familiar with, a two year old dog is an adult dog, and we expect it to behave like one, not like a puppy. We have considerably lower expectations for the behavior of a two year old human.
That's a very interesting point. I haven't thought of the school system in my examples. Furthermore, now that I think about it, I certainly would not like to have been the lawmaker who had the draft the rules about 'age of consent' after the goblinizations.ChrisDDickey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:04 amFrom Shadowrun, my impression is that Ork's enter school a year or two earlier than humans, but most leave it much earlier than humans in order to take low paying jobs for the inadequately educated. Getting a college, or even a high school degree requires ether a much greater proportion of their lifespan, or much greater effort to cram an education into a shorter span.
This is an excellent point as well and I think this would be match they way 'mentally handicapped' people react in our world: no matter how 'adult' the body is, no matter how many years of experience you had, if your brain is not developed enough to process it correctly you will act more 'childishly'. I guess I will have to revise how I played that. Thank you for your imputChrisDDickey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:04 amAn immature Elf of 20 something might have the years and experience to know something is wrong/dangerous, but lack the mature judgement to care. On the other hand a 13 year old Ork might be approaching the age when he starts to gain his mature judgement, but still lack the years/experience to know just how dangerous his current situation is.
Slimcreeper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:17 pmI think, and I haven't said this in, forever, we can look back to Tolkien on this. Think about how Frodo was thought of among the hobbits before he turned 33.
HA!Slimcreeper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:17 pmThere is a reference in the (I think the Cara Fahd book) to an ork tribe that sends its youth at age 10 (if memory serves) to another cohort because the 'fires of Mea'a'a'a'arg' (unjort spelling) are burning and they don't want to deal with first cousin love.
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Garlthik is a... special case.
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I'm not so sure about that. The only canon thing that comes to my mind here is the story introduction of the 'Burning Desire' adventure book (ED3). The protagonist is a 40 years old ork woman who, despite proudly claiming she' still strong, his complaining from old age ailments. But on the other hand, I think Gharlik one-eye is somewhere around 60 and is still kicking. I guess it varies from persons to persons, I mean my own father is +70 now and could probably still kick my ass.Lys wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:33 amAdditionally, the impression i get with Orks is that they just don't do old age like the other races do, rather they tend to burn out. A 40 year old ork doesn't look any older than a 40 year old human, they're both past their prime but still reasonably healthy and strong.
The latest editions indeed uses the cryptic 'after their first decade' when describing the time where their genders are revealed. However, the first and second edition clearly states that the T'skrang are mature physically 'by the age of 10'.
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