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WJLIII3

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If you play long enough...will you die of old age?
« on: December 31, 2013, 04:36:22 pm »
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Re: If you play long enough...will you die of old age?
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2013, 05:08:35 pm »
Potentially, yes.

Though it would take a really long time, and wouldn't happen to you if you turn into a vampire or necromancer or some other creature that doesn't age.
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Re: If you play long enough...will you die of old age?
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2013, 05:15:43 pm »
the longest adventure i'm aware of was a solid ingame month (and it was some guy clearing out a whole world of all creatures for the purposes of testing the age of death)

...good luck, i guess. i think you could luck out and get a random peasant that's close to dying of old age in the first place if you were so inclined so have fun with that
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Re: If you play long enough...will you die of old age?
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2013, 05:20:26 pm »
Or run a fort for a few decades.

Time passes in Fort Mode much faster than it does in Adventure Mode.

I'm sure there have been longer adventures, though I can't think of any that weren't broken up by forts.
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Re: If you play long enough...will you die of old age?
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2013, 05:45:01 pm »
Yes.

In the Museum game they needed some modding to prevent old age death of some of the first human adventurers.

It takes a LOOOONG time, though.
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