Shapeshifters -- Mod Clarification Please (Edited!)
So, I noticed in the race guidelines that shapeshifters now apparently have a human lifespan twice than of a normal humans. I don't remember it being there before, and neither do a few others. I'm pretty sure they only had a normal lifespan.
I just had this convo with Jacqui:
ofphrases Am I nuts, or did the lifespan being twice that of a human for ShapeShifters just appear -- is that new? WTF? Jacqui i dunno? maybe? ofphrases Isn't it kinda screwy to just toss that rule in there now? It's hard to make my chars transition into that; their personalities etc Jacqui well i don't know who added it
So she doesn't know how it got in there, but, uhm, my characters -- and presumably other shifters' already established -- characters' personalities, histories, etc were probably written with a 'normal' lifespan in mind. I know that if my characters had the knowledge that they were going to live twice as long as someone else, they would probably have differently (if not INCREDIBLY) different personalities than they do now.
I'm all for improving race guidelines by making them more detailed, but throwing this in there -- as a surprise! I just HAPPENED to look -- isn't really going to work. Right?