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Player Character Birthdays

This is the birthday list of the most memorable characters, including all of the ones whose portrait appears in the gallery.

In order to really understand this, one must realize that the Dargas campaign started using AD&D V1 (including Unearthed Arcana), was converted to V2 when that came out, moved to V2 Skills & Powers when that optional supplement was published, eventually converted to V3, and is now using the V3.5 rules. Whew!

Among the things that have changed radically through the various versions of the game are the lifespans of the different races, as well as the transitions within a character's life when they become "middle aged", "old", or "venerable". An Elf in V1 could not expect to start adventuring until she was 175 years old and could expect to live to be as old as 1600 years old. A V3 elf would start adventuring as early as 110 years old, would reach Middle Age at 175, and could expect to die by age 750. Therefore, converting a V1-generated Elf also requires converting her date of birth to conform with V3-standard lifespans. I have a little treatise on the topic.

Here are the Age Categories in effect for the Dargas Campaign. Every race except human is standard V3. The categories for humans are derived from V2; others are standard V3. My opinion is that this is incorrect: I think it should be a hybrid of V1 and V2, with Venerable starting at 80 and the other categories deriving from that age as standard in V3.

Age Categories by Race
Race Adulthood Middle Age Old Age Venerable Variance Maximum Age
Human 15 45 67 90 +2d20 130
Dwarf 40 125 188 250 +2d100 450
Elf 110 175 263 350 +4d100 750
Gnome 40 100 150 200 +3d100 500
Half-elf 20 62 93 125 +3d20 185
Half-orc 14 30 45 60 +2d10 80
Halfling 20 50 75 100 +5d20 200

Here is a table listing all the "interesting" player characters. The characters are ordered by birthday, ignoring the year. Easily done, since the dates are expressed as "Dargas dates".

A Dargas date is a 5-tuple: year.season.month.week.day.
There are 4 seasons in each year.
There are 3 months in each season.
There are 4 weeks in each month.
There are 7 days in each week.

The current date is 2993.4.2.2.5.

Player Character Birthday List
Name Race Birth Date First Adventure Age Maturity V1 Comment
# Date Age Physical Mental
Tumulo Dwarf ????.?.?.?.? A220 2974.4.1.4.2 ?? ?? Adult Adult   From Galeb Fargen: F10 on A220
Nute Half-elf 2947.1.1.3.5 A37 2968.1.2.3.7 21 46 Adult Adult X Birth year adjusted from 2920
Cyrril Human 2955.1.2.1.4 A272 2980.1.2.3.3 24 38 Adult Adult   F7 on A272
Vandis Human 2947.1.2.2.6 A1 2967.1.2.1.5 19 46 Adult Middle X Youthful vigor from Shina-Tsu-Hiko
Yol Drow 2852.1.2.3.7 A185 2972.3.2.2.7 120 141 Adult Adult    
Chondara Human 2957.1.2.4.6 A218 2974.3.3.2.4 17 36 Adult Adult    
Zeight Dwarf 2918.1.3.1.5 A57 2969.2.1.4.5 51 75 Adult Adult    
Ivan Dwarf 2905.1.3.3.4 A100 2970.1.3.3.2 65 88 Adult Adult    
Alphonzo Halfling 2936.1.3.3.7 A1 2967.1.2.1.5 23 57 Middle Middle X Birth year adjusted from 2920
Kress Human 2946.2.1.1.3 A35 2968.1.1.2.4 21 47 Adult Middle X F4 on A35; Youthful vigor from Shina-Tsu-Hiko
Xeno Human 2961.2.1.1.3 A362 2987.2.3.3.1 26 32 Adult Adult    
Henry Human 2959.2.1.2.6 A329 2984.1.3.3.3 24 34 Adult Adult    
Jacques Dutoit Human 2966.2.1.4.1 A285 2983.1.1.1.3 16 26 Adult Adult    
Qlair Half-elf 2961.2.2.3.3 A285 2983.1.1.1.3 21 31 Adult Adult    
Sherman Human 2944.2.2.4.1 A1 2967.1.2.1.5 22 49 Middle Middle X  
Pietr Human 2964.2.3.1.1 A285 2983.1.1.1.3 18 29 Adult Adult    
Roethan Dwarf 2909.2.3.5.1 A133 2970.4.2.3.7 60 84 Adult Adult    
Agon Human 2964.3.1.1.4 A288 2983.1.1.1.7 18 29 Adult Adult    
Tigerblade Human 2947.3.1.3.6 A1 2967.1.2.1.5 19 46 Middle Middle X  
Black Star Half-Orc 2952.3.1.3.7 A7 2967.2.1.3.6 14 41 Middle Middle X Died 2969.2.1.1.3; Cloned 2974.1.1.3.6
Squint Dwarf 2926.3.1.3.7 A207 2973.4.3.4.1 47 67 Adult Adult    
Trinket Halfling 2945.3.1.4.2 A162 2971.3.1.1.2 25 48 Adult Adult    
Hermon Human 2954.3.1.4.7 A273 2980.3.3.4.1 26 39 Adult Adult   F7 on A273
Malarky Gnome 2895.3.2.3.1 A165 2971.3.1.4.4 75 98 Adult Adult    
Elvira Munçid Drow 2782.3.3.3.4 A19 2967.3.1.3.6 184 211 Middle Middle X Birth year adjusted from 2535
Catherine Human 2964.4.1.1.2 A285 2983.1.1.1.3 18 29 Adult Adult    
Eris Human 2951.4.1.1.4 A140 2971.1.1.1.5 19 42 Adult Adult   Birth year corrected from 2961: she was not 9 years old on her first adventure!
Brianna Sollandry Tiefling 2963.4.1.3.4 A533 2993.4.2.2.1 30 30 Adult Adult    
Hazen Duergar 2883.4.2.1.7 A3 2967.1.3.2.7 83 110 Adult Adult X  
Igor Human 2955.4.2.2.7 A220 2974.4.1.4.2 18? 37 Adult Adult   From Galeb Fargen: F4T10 on A220
Ulgi Half-orc 2942.4.2.4.2 A7 2967.2.1.3.6 24 50 Old Old X  
Veracity Drow 2858.4.3.1.1 A184 2972.3.1.4.3 113 134 Adult Adult    
Marga Half-elf 2948.4.3.1.2 A110 2970.3.1.3.3 21 44 Adult Adult    
(Nick) Human 2952.4.3.1.6 A183 2972.2.2.3.7 19 * * *   Became Tebryn Filifar on 2980.4.2.1.1 as a side-effect of a Wish, also adding 100 years to his "Drow" age.
Tebryn Filifar Drow 2852.4.3.1.6 A274 2980.4.2.2.1 127 140 Adult Adult   M12 on A274
Knack Half-Elf 2953.4.3.3.3 A184 2972.3.1.4.3 18 39 Adult Adult    
Dirgon Dwarf 2918.4.3.4.7 A376 2987.4.3.4.7 69 74 Adult Adult    


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