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[Pillbo]

Scale max age for giant animals/animal people in a similar way body size is scaled. It doesn't have to be totally realistic, but larger animals in real life tend to have longer lifespans than their smaller counterparts. Right now giant animals seem to have the same MAXAGE as their smaller ones (at least in the animals I've checked like rats, flies, and other insects). I think it would be better if this scaled up with the same (or similar) curve used to determine size, so an insect made bear sized will increase its lifespan more than a elephant made giant. I don't have strong feelings about exact numbers, but for example if giant insects could increase 8-10x (1 year to 8-10 years) while a giant elephant increasing only a fraction like .5x (70-105 years)

Animal people seem to all have a 60-80 lifespan. I think it would be more interesting if their age scaled the same way body size did, (human MAXAGE + animal MAXAGE / 2). So tiny fly person would live about half the length of a human
- 1:1 + 60:120 / 2 = MAXAGE:30:60

But a giant tortoise person would be:
- 100:200 + 60:120 / 2 = MAXAGE:80:160

Most of this is just flavor I think would make the world feel more interesting, but the extremely short lived giant insects do have practical reasons to live longer. I had a siege once where a lot of elves on giant flies left fly corpses everywhere, I'm guessing cause they died of old age while waiting me out.