Aging and death

[Bodomfreak]

I like the original posters idea myself. As to make it more fun to be old, first make it more fun to be young. Add marriage and children. All children would be npcs. You would have to take care of them, feed them, protect them. As you grow old you take an apprentice. When you have an apprentice, they follow you about and gain (5%lp?) of what you gain. When you die that your apprentice will take over your life and you will take control of the apprentice. Non-chosen children go on to become bandits, traders, druids and the like.