DM Q&A: Class: Dragon Disc. & Half-Dragon lifespan

[iangallowglas]

All the talk about time got me to thinking. How long do Half-Dragons live? And how long do RDD's live and is there a difference in the lifespans of the Two?

Edit by Munroe: Corrected spelling in subject line.

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That is a good question with what I think will be a fairly complex answer that depends largely on the humanoid race in the mix. I'll research this now and see what I can answer with soon here.

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This is the only printed 3.5 source material I know of that allows for an estimation of a half-dragons age.

Until a Dragon Disciple becomes 10th level an gains the half-dragon template, they have the normal lifespan for their race. Once they gain the half dragon template, that would change according to this rather vague summary. A RDD is essentially just a specific brand of DD, so there would be no difference in the RDD and DD lifespan, both would use the lifespan of the base race until reaching 10th level and gaining the half-dragon template.

This source implies that they gain 'much more time than most' and 'share in the heritage of the shorter lived races'. From that we can guess that a half-dragon half human would live much longer than a human, but not as long as a dragon so maybe 200-300 years? It's really open to interpretation. Also according to it, a half elf half dragon would live as long or longer than an Ancient Wyrm.

From Races of the Dragon

[iangallowglas]

Thanks HH, that's good to know. Sorry for the extremely bad spelling ;D

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Oct 20, 2009 18:16:05 GMT -5 iangallowglas said:

Thanks HH, that's good to know. Sorry for the extremely bad spelling ;D

No problem, I'll consider this one answered and lock it down. I'll continue my research later tonight and post anything else I find here for your reference.