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[atomicoctobot]

Can adventurers die of old age?

For example, if you retire your adventurer and then play a fortress for many years, will your adventurer eventually die? Does everyone in adventure mode eventually die?

[Kobold Troubadour]

It's a distinct possibility. Although if you've played Adventure mode enough, dying of old age is quite rare. Most quit because of death or boredom & make a new world to terrori...er..."help".

Hmm...but I intend to find out.......eventually (Being a Tigerman adventurer, I have a very short lifespan compared to the usual cuz' even Kobolds live longer!).

[toupz]

It's a distinct possibility. Although if you've played Adventure mode enough, dying of old age is quite rare. Most quit because of death or boredom & make a new world to terrori...er..."help".

Hmm...but I intend to find out.......eventually (Being a Tigerman adventurer, I have a very short lifespan compared to the usual cuz' even Kobolds live longer!).

  How do i play as tigerman, it's not first time i see it in forums.

[Glanzor]

It's a distinct possibility. Although if you've played Adventure mode enough, dying of old age is quite rare. Most quit because of death or boredom & make a new world to terrori...er..."help".

Hmm...but I intend to find out.......eventually (Being a Tigerman adventurer, I have a very short lifespan compared to the usual cuz' even Kobolds live longer!).

  How do i play as tigerman, it's not first time i see it in forums.

Open the "entity default"-raw of your region, search for the civ that has the "indv_contr"-tag and change its creature-definition to tigerman.

[Rakonas]

It's a distinct possibility. Although if you've played Adventure mode enough, dying of old age is quite rare. Most quit because of death or boredom & make a new world to terrori...er..."help".

Hmm...but I intend to find out.......eventually (Being a Tigerman adventurer, I have a very short lifespan compared to the usual cuz' even Kobolds live longer!).

  How do i play as tigerman, it's not first time i see it in forums.

Do it the way a real man does, just purposely put a duplicate file entry in the raws for a random creature. Enjoy your alligator dwarves and hoary marmot elves.

[Argonnek]

Just mod in tigermen as a playable race, It's fairly easy to do. Specifics can be found in the modding subforum.

[Jacos]

Does your adventurer slowly grow weaker as old age kicks in, or is he/she standing upright on his feet dancing and then suddenly on the ground dead?

[Jacob/Lee]

Creatures have the ability to work at the effectiveness of a young adult all their lives, they usually just drop dead.

Old age is only a problem as a human, because goblins, elves and dwarves are immortal.

[Funk]

Creatures have the ability to work at the effectiveness of a young adult all their lives, they usually just drop dead.
Old age is only a problem as a human, because goblins, elves and dwarves are immortal.

dwares are not immortal thay live 150 to 170 years

[Shrugging Khan]

I'm alive I'm alive I'm alive I'm dead!

[thegoatgod_pan]

This reminds of a really weird encounter--"You Encounter a wolf!"--it's named, i figure ok, lets kill some wolf, and then the damn thing takes two steps and "Wolf has died of old Age".

[Zephyr]

Creatures have the ability to work at the effectiveness of a young adult all their lives, they usually just drop dead.
Old age is only a problem as a human, because goblins, elves and dwarves are immortal.

dwares are not immortal thay live 150 to 170 years

They just think they are!...until they croak or dig into HFS >.>

[Skid]

Of course, around dwarf fortresses the rate of death from natural causes is in "percent of a percent" range, so immortality doesn't count for much anyway.

[Jacos]

This is sort of relevent
http://d.imagehost.org/0114/DwarfHammerLordDiesOfOldAge.png
(click to view image)
I just ran into a bandits camp, hit some guy, and suddenly that hammerlord just dies of old age.
Pretty funny

[Knigel]

If you want some hilarity, alter the raws for some race to include
[MAXAGE:30:30]

Alternately:
[MAXAGE:1:1000]

Death may strike at any moment!