Casting Spells Through Aging

[torilen]

NOTE - This makes use of Torilen's expanded
spell list, found here:
viewtopic.php?f=58&t=1212&p=13566#p13566

For those who will not be using that:
Air = Air Set 1
Fire = Fire Set 1
Earth = Earth Set 1
Water = Water Set 1

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GM's and players will have to agree on the
system used for casters gaining the use of
new spells. The following system is simply
for the casting of the spells.
The basic idea - any spell known to the caster
is available at anytime, but there is a cost
to cast the spell. The cost is aging.
I have also not included any "rules" for how
aging would affect the hero (loss of BP or
strength, for example).

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Humans - maximum 100 years
Dwarves - maximum 400 years
Elves - maximum 1000 years
Halflings - maximum 250 years
Gnomes - maximum 400 years

goblins - maximum 80 years
orcs - maximum 100 years
giants - maximum 400 years
dragons - maximum 1000 years

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Starting ages for "heroes"

Humans - 25
Dwarves - 100
Elves - 250
Halflings - 63
Gnomes - 100
goblins - 20
orcs - 25
giants - 100
dragons - 250

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Starting ages for "commoners"

Humans - 17
Dwarves - 67
Elves - 167
Halflings - 42
Gnomes - 67
goblins - 14
orcs - 17
giants - 67
dragons - 167

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Amount of aging from spells:
(shown in order of spell for each set)
Air Set 1 - 3 months/2 months/1 month
Air Set 2 - 1 month/3 months/5 months
Air Set 3 - 2 months/1 month/3 months
Air Set 4 - 2 months/1 month/3 months
Earth Set 1 - 1 month/3 months/4 months
Earth Set 2 - 6 months/8 months/2 months
Earth Set 3 - 3 months/3 months/1 month
Fire Set 1 - 6 months/4 months/2 months
Fire Set 2 - 4 months/1 month/6 months
Water Set 1 - 6 months/1 month/2 months
Water Set 2 - 2 months/2 months/3 months
Cinder - 4 months/1 month/2 months
Mist - 1 month/4 months/2 months
Ash - 4 months/4 months/2 months
Mire - 2 months/4 months/4 months
Lightning - 6 months/8 months/2 months
Ice - 2 months/3 months/4 months
Sun - 1 month/2 months/1 month
Moon Set 1 - 1 month/1 month/2 months
Moon Set 2 - 3 months/3 months/5 months
Animal Set 1 - 2 months/5 months/1 month
Animal Set 2 - 6 months/6 months/6 months
Plant - 1 month/2 months/2 months
Elemental Energy Set 1 - 4 months/6 months/2 months
Elemental Energy Set 2 - 4 months/8 months/2 months
Elemental Energy Set 3 - 3 months/8 months/2 months
Psychic Energy Set 1 - 3 months/8 months/8 months
Psychic Energy Set 2 - 4 months/3 months/2 months

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Just for reference, suppose the wizard hero uses
the Air, Earth, and Fire spell groups. All together,
there are 7 published quest packs.
Let us suppose that the wizard uses each spell once
throughout each quest pack (yes...we know he would use
some more than once...I'm saying once for easy math).
That would add 27 months to his age each quest pack.
Without accounting for the time each quest pack would
take to complete, a 25 year old wizard would be
effectively 40.75 years old at the end of all 7
quest packs.

Very useful, very noble, and very needed...but the
price is great, yes?