wrote:I would have no objection to putting in the life expectancy difference. Men don't live as long as women. It sucks, but it's true.
Aside from it being a silly and pointless thing to add to the game it ISN'T a certain truth, especially dependant on the setting.
See there are general considered to be two big factors at play with women living longer and they are both pretty much social.
1) Child Birth Stuff
Women used to have more babies. Which is a life threatening activity, in more affluent societies with access to advanced contraception methods they have far less babies. Also, having babies is now much safer. Back in the day women when women were expected to pop out six or eight of the things with minimal medical support their life spans were much lower.
2) Work Stuff
Modern men still maintain a significant dominance in all industries where bad stuff happens to you, like being crushed by things, poisoned by chemicals, being shot by the 'enemy', or just plain worked to death. Our greedy and continued exclusion of women from all these high demand and often high paying careers leaves US to shorten our life spans rather than sharing the life span shortening around more fairly.
Those are both social conditions, change or remove them, as you do in a fantasy setting and bam, the tables might turn, or not, or worsen, or not...
Why am I discussing this,
damnit...