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[Craftling]

When creating your adventurer it should be possible to choose your age. By default it would be set to the coming of age for the adventurer.
If you choose an age between 0 and 5 you would be a baby. Being a baby would include wnadering around and learning how to walk etc.
Picking 5-12 would have your adventurer going to school, doing minor jobs and exploring the nearby area.
Aged 12-16/18  your adventurer would be doing advanced exploring and more jobs.
Age 16/18 and on your adventurer would be ready to go off and do whatever he likes.
But when your adventurer reaches approximately 60 he should start to bald, get slighty slower and get injured slightly quicker.
*This is based on humans as I do not know what the appropriate ages for dwarves/elves etc. are.

Comments should be made depending on your age as well. Things like "Whats a young chap like you doing with a sword", "Beat it old timer" or "When I was a child things were different"

Age would not be compulsory and would just be a way to gain extra skills, build early relationships and immerse yourself within your character more.

This would all tie in well with the part in the development about descriptions.

[Rowanas]

Jesus... I could live for 40 years with one uber character, living beside him in realtime and growing old playing with him. Scary.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

"hah, in MY day we really knew how to rob a temple!"

[Evil One]

That would only work for humans, what about dwarves and... Other races that live much longer than humans?

[ricemastah]

Well according to the RAWs most creatures are children until about 12. Then they become adults and can basically do whatever the whole grow old and get weaker thing does not really work for elves and goblins as they do not have a max age. But I do like the idea in general

[Granite26]

To be honest, this is pretty much going to be there in the next version, as puberty (beards start growing at 12) will be in.  Degradation starting at maxage -5 or 10 or whatever is a short hop from there, although it'll require enforced retirement from entity positions

[Neonivek]

I don't know Craftling. You age so slowly, because travel times are like a week at most on the largest maps, and it doesn't look like that will ever change.

[RavingManiac]

You hit the groundhog with your +oak walking stick+!
The shot glances away
Your right shoulder has been sprained!
You give in to pain

[Kilo24]

Allow me to nitpick: I wouldn't quite see 5-12 as going to school in the majority of situations.  A private tutor, perhaps, if you're a noble's kid, but I don't think schools were

Scratch that; a quick Wikipedia check says they were there and pretty widespread.  Still, I would consider it a heavily culturally affected part rather than a de facto assumption.  Apprenticeships, household chores, and menial farming tasks seem to be more in keeping with the time period for the most part.

[Skid]

Getting yourself kidnapped by goblin snatchers as a kid and then growing up and fighting your way out...

I suppose you could time skip in age by retiring your adventurer, going to play fortress mode for a while, then coming back to your character as an adult.