Character Aging

[Raif]

How do you all handle character aging? For instance, my main character is a 18 year old Jedi Padawan. Whenever his training is finished, which irl will hopefully only be a few months, I was thinking of bumping his age up to around 24, which seems a more reasonable age for a jedi knight. Likewise, if I were ever to be promoted to Master, I would want to bump his age up to the 30+ region.

Is this allowable/advisable? It seems there are a lot of ridiculously young characters running around, and I would prefer to be somewhat more beleivable in my character's age, but I feel like there could be some drawbacks. Specifically, how would I explain the fact that I started my training two years younger than my master and finished four years older?

Anywho, its a question that has been bugging me for a bit, so if anyone out there has any advice or experience to share I would be grateful. Thanks.

 

[Empress]

We more or less age accordingly to time passage, and not really worry too too much about it save for perhaps when first introducing a character. Not there is not an " exact" schedule of things, because a hours worth of conversation, of 40 seconds of fighting my take a week or so to play out, but the way I personally average it out is we gain about half a week per day give or take...thats not by any means official, but more or less just how I break it down.

 

[Gambler]

It's reasonable to age your character after training, as training, iirc, is retroactive and not necessarily in chronological format. From Knight to Master is a bit trickier, but I'd say go for gold and age to wherever you want. If you absolutely need to, just have the missions leading up to Masterhood be retroactive like training, thus eliminating the continuity issue. Otherwise, age is one of those details that most people don't sweat in an Rp. If you want to make it believable though, I'd suggest drastic changes with each jump. The thirty-eight year old man isn't the same as he was when he was twenty-four, appearance wise and personality wise. Personally, I think it would be more fun to add in details like that to a character for development, so go for it. ^_^

 

[Jake]

It's reasonable to age your character after training, as training, iirc, is retroactive and not necessarily in chronological format. From Knight to Master is a bit trickier, but I'd say go for gold and age to wherever you want. If you absolutely need to, just have the missions leading up to Masterhood be retroactive like training, thus eliminating the continuity issue. Otherwise, age is one of those details that most people don't sweat in an Rp. If you want to make it believable though, I'd suggest drastic changes with each jump. The thirty-eight year old man isn't the same as he was when he was twenty-four, appearance wise and personality wise. Personally, I think it would be more fun to add in details like that to a character for development, so go for it. ^_^

Not that you've ever done that yourself. :P

 

[Will]

How do you all handle character aging? For instance, my main character is a 18 year old Jedi Padawan. Whenever his training is finished, which irl will hopefully only be a few months, I was thinking of bumping his age up to around 24, which seems a more reasonable age for a jedi knight. Likewise, if I were ever to be promoted to Master, I would want to bump his age up to the 30+ region.

Is this allowable/advisable? It seems there are a lot of ridiculously young characters running around, and I would prefer to be somewhat more beleivable in my character's age, but I feel like there could be some drawbacks. Specifically, how would I explain the fact that I started my training two years younger than my master and finished four years older?

Anywho, its a question that has been bugging me for a bit, so if anyone out there has any advice or experience to share I would be grateful. Thanks.

To be fair, that's how I do it. I often also age my character after he has given a lot of training.

 

[Starkiller500]

I have a bunch of questions concerning my character's aging too since I'm still new here, because I'd like my characters to grow up a bit from young age to teens and then too adult. Can we make up our own kind of timelined history for each individual character; as long as it's within the setted timeline that we're currently in (like right now it's 30,000 BBY)?

 

[Jake]

It's 13000 BBY right now. :|

But I assume so, yeah.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

It's 12,978 BBY, to be exact.

You can make up your own history so long as it doesn't contradict anything in established timeline history, which you can find in sticky threads in the Story board and the individual faction boards.

Every so often, we announce that the "new year." Like, we take a look at what's happened lately in the RP and decide whether we should say 12,978 BBY ended and it's now 12,977 BBY, for example. You have to follow that too.

 

[The Lionheart]

Or you can just write in what you want to about it, and leave it at that.

It's not like anyone's going to care, anyway.

 

[Starkiller500]

It's 12,978 BBY, to be exact.

You can make up your own history so long as it doesn't contradict anything in established timeline history, which you can find in sticky threads in the Story board and the individual faction boards.

Every so often, we announce that the "new year." Like, we take a look at what's happened lately in the RP and decide whether we should say 12,978 BBY ended and it's now 12,977 BBY, for example. You have to follow that too.

Okay, so basically we just have play along with the way the storyline goes? Also, do the [MAIN THREAD]'s carry the main story events in them?

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Okay, so basically we just have play along with the way the storyline goes? Also, do the [MAIN THREAD]'s carry the main story events in them?

[MAIN THREAD] are major Story-related threads. There are non-[MAIN THREAD] threads that will have important story stuff in them, but threads marked [MAIN THREAD] are the major events like battles, treaties, etc.

And yes, you have to play along with the way the storyline goes. We do indeed have a set story, so if Event A says B happened, you can't say in your profile that it was actually C that happened.

I'm going to assume that made sense. >.>

 

[SemperP]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, so please move it if it shouldn't be here. I was wondering, are there are any limits on the ages of characters? I was planning on making a teen-aged (14yrs old) character for after The Time Skip, and was wondering if there were any rules against it.

 

[Aluminum Falcon]

I don't believe there are restrictions. As long as you aren't doing anything creepy -_-

 

[Geeva]

I don't believe there are restrictions. As long as you aren't doing anything creepy -_-

*cough* :CIsee

 

[Santoro]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, so please move it if it shouldn't be here. I was wondering, are there are any limits on the ages of characters? I was planning on making a teen-aged (14yrs old) character for after The Time Skip, and was wondering if there were any rules against it.

We have a few characters around that age. Just be forewarned at 14 you'll be limited in your skills- no 14 year old Jedi Knights or feared pirates.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

We have a few characters around that age. Just be forewarned at 14 you'll be limited in your skills- no 14 year old Jedi Knights or feared pirates.

Except in the first timeline, when the Jedi Grand Master was 16 years old...

:CFuu

 

[Empress]

Except in the first timeline, when the Jedi Grand Master was 16 years old...

:CFuu

but to be fair....they were desperate there because I was taking all the council masters into the Sith empire and sweeping across the galaxy..

they were very, very desperate.:bitchez

 

[Zen]

I had a Knight at 12 or 16 or 17 years of age, not sure. And he was quite great at Healing.

 

[SemperP]

We have a few characters around that age. Just be forewarned at 14 you'll be limited in your skills- no 14 year old Jedi Knights or feared pirates.

This is my first character, so I thought I'd make a young Force Sensitive and see which faction picks her up.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

but to be fair....they were desperate there because I was taking all the council masters into the Sith empire and sweeping across the galaxy..

they were very, very desperate.:bitchez

And yet he was still one of the most powerful people in the galaxy.