Quote Originally Posted by nleseul View Post
Again, per SRD, "Most people in the world at large die from pestilence, accidents, infections, or violence before getting to venerable age." So normal gritty-reality disease absolutely exists. It doesn't generally affect PCs, either because that doesn't make good epic fantasy storytelling, or because PCs generally have the resources to make it irrelevant.

The question is whether the same applies to family members of PCs.
You know what - fine. For future reference you might be better quoting the area before that line for this discussion 'The maximum ages are for player characters'.

However I still see no reason to assume that 20 year old Sara Greenhilt hooked up with ~50 year old Eugene - but grand there is historical precedent for this, so if that is what people prefer to imagine happened cool, I will continue to think they were roughly the same age.