that’s not how this works!! it’s silly to assume all other species reach maturity at the same point proportional to their average lifespan! almost as silly as to assume all species reach maturity after the same absolute time.
Well this is RPG memes and 100 is when an elf is considered an adult in DnD so
That is how it works (legally and culturally)
Of course it’s also a medievalish world and they didn’t care that it ruined brain development. I guess you might argue that dwarves and elves would though, particularly since a brain damaged drunken youth is going to be a problem for a lot longer
We don’t know what the alcohol content of the drink is, as when alcoholic drinks were the standard they were much lower AC than today’s (on average), nor do we know how impactful alcohol is to elven physiology.
What attack bonus do you need to reliably hit that drink?
You have to blow THAC0
I’m not sure where you got this information, but I’d be interested to see a source. As far as I know in the middle ages beers and ales were brewed using the same mash multiple times leading to varying strengths ranging from 10-12% for the first batch to very little alcohol ~1% from the third batch. And of course there were also various types of wines available. Children drank only the weak beer, but there was definitely high alcohol content drinks available.
I’m not sure if I need to provide a source as we’re in agreement that on average the AC was lower, which is what I was trying to communicate.
Americans will invent a fantasy world, give a character a Scottish accent but still set the drinking age to 21.
Uhhh it’s pretty typical for dwarves to sound vaguely Scottish isn’t it
That’s always irked me. Dwarves are a Germanic myth. They should have Germanic accents.
Wait until you find out where the Pirates’ accent comes from.
Pittsburgh.
And the drinking age in Scotland is 18
Maybe 21 <=> 100 is just the easiest cross over point between the two age scales. Its easier to remember than 18 <=> 85.5 or 16 <=> 76.2 so that’s where they start. They arrive at an equivalent age of 15 and deem that to young. No information was ever given about what the age of legal drinking is. Just that it is older than 15.
Also dwarven ale might be straight schnaps with 80% alcohol for all we know. Don’t want 16 year olds drinking that even if you think beer is fine.
There was a short form video I saw somewhere about how bartenders in fantasy universes gotta have a thick handbook with every species’ legal drinking age listed
I know the one you’re talking about. Can’t find the video, but it’s one of the ones of the kiwi dude who reads Tumblr posts. Great concept, honestly
“Should jail sentence time be based on race?” will allways be one of my favourite posts ever.
Why would a dwarf calculate it from human age?
And why would they know 100 = 21 and not stop there?
see this is the setting i want. modern urban fantasy with none of the grimdark that seems to plague the genre.
Modern urban grimdark fantasy is a reflection of our modern urban grimdark reality. Writing hopeful fiction in a modern setting requires a much more vivid imagination.
Their parents are german, the elf will be questioned why this is not their 12 beer
4470115461512684340891257138125051110076800700282905015819080092370422104067183317016903680000000000000000 seems a bit higher than 100
I mean, if it Forgotten Realms. You’re probably considered an Elven Adult once you no longer dream of Avandor- they’re depression era.
But, it’s just beer.
15 is old enough for mead! (In Germany, unless she bought it herself, than 16 would be the required age. That bar looks pretty German to me.)
But… Dwarven mead might be considered hard alcohol.
But, she’s an elf, so she might digest alcohol completely differently…
This is a much harder question than just comparing 73 to 100.
Okay but why is 73 being ratio’d to 100? Shouldn’t it be whatever age is considered elderly for an elf instead?
The meme is claiming that 100 in elven years is the equivalent of 21 in human years.
So the ratio 21:100 becomes 15.33:73 (or something like that. Its 6am here so my maths could be off).
Using the same ratio, 100 human years would be ~476 elf years.
In the US, the age of majority for drinking alcohol is 21, so it likely is.
