Currently set to:
The relative age of a given character.
Does not make sense. "Relative" to what? If using relative descriptors, as in "younger" or "older", then it is dependent on the age of the viewer? But it doesn't use relative terms in any case. So, just shorten it to the suggestion in the title. OR if it was meant to say "approximate", then change to:
The approximate age of the character.
or something similar, like
The age-range to which the character belongs.
created: 31 March 15 at 03:09 AM (build: 3/26/2015 2:21 AM beta)
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
Because all traits and categories are based on what observers would call your profile, this should probably say something to the effect of how old a given character appears to be. This should hopefully cause more people to use the ageless category correctly.
That would work fine. It'd also settle whether it's generally meant for apparent or actual age, but whenever they differ it tends to be the apparent one that's more useful and appropriate.
? I always care about actual age when it comes to age-play considerations, not apparent age. On the other hand, apparent age is useful too, of course. Why not use both Age and Apparent Age, or Age and Actual Age as the secondary trait, where Age has the explicit definition as to how it is supposed to be used.
The intelligence trait has a "Childish" attribute, but what would really help here would be a distinct trait separate from the physical age that the current age trait represents- a mental age. There are plenty of smart people with the mental age of a child, or cynical teenagers who think like adults, and so forth.
Agree with OP. And technically, there are three age categories commonly used by RPers. These would be the actual age in years, the apparent physical age, which could be 'teenager' for a centuries-old fey being, and mental age, which for the same fey being, could be the age of a child, or elderly, to pick just a couple of examples. Another common variation seen in multiple MMOs is a very old being (80 to millenia), in a child-like body, and a normal, adult or young-adult mind or mental age. For Lit, I could see leaving the actual age to a description when it differs from apparent, and using traits for the other two, since people would want to search on visually-apparent and mental ages, but not care that the being is 900 years old.
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