[Runequest] Age and Inaction

[Wayne Shaw]

At 09:29 AM 5/6/2008, you wrote:
>You know, this mechanism strikes me as less realistic than it could be.
>
>As I've always understood it, it's designed to replicate the natural 
>aging and death process. The problem is that most human 
>characteristics don't seem to impact length of life. If they did, 
>men - being physically stronger than women, on the average - would 
>live longer than woman. But we don't; quite the reverse, in fact. Of 
>course, it's arguable that woman have a higher constitution (to 
>apply game terms to reality). So maybe that balances out.

Well, its a case of trying to do two things at once I imagine; model 
decay of physical abilities with age, and then trying to set a death 
limit organically using them.  Like a lot of simple mechanics, it 
doesn't pass the sniff test if you look at it too closely.