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Somewhat fair extrapolation, but it's not perfect. The problem is, you (presumably) have the ability to analyze the individual situation and determine whether that specific person is a danger or not. Young individuals are less adept at being able to do this, due to their incomplete development...

I've elaborated a bit my logic. And I'm typically not one to make a wide claim without building in some level of wiggle room where relevant context can lay. But some matters do have more definitive answers. What I can say, and am saying, is that there is an elevated risk to those types of...

Look in the mirror when you say that mate. At least my argument is grounded in logic and statistics, instead of pure anecdote. Risk and reward aren't balanced. When you risk something, losing it hurts more than how good you feel when receiving an equal reward. Morally, it's better to ease the...

Just because something is a certain way, doesn't mean it should be. And for every positive example you've listed, there are numerous where the younger individual got manipulated and taken advantage of, trapped in a bad situation with no way out that they could find. Just because something can...

Between 7 and 9 for me, but I think 7? Liked 5 but I feel it plays into the stereotype love story a bit much. 8 was good too. Hmm, changing vote to 9, it was more unique, and I enjoyed it more.

Insomnia Sleepless nights The living dead Faceless frights Under your bed Horrors abound All around town Don't make a sound Or they'll hunt you down Eyelids peeled Eyelids sown shut Chained to my flesh I fear the filled cup The flickering shadows My soft spoken dreams Turn to nightmares And...

Hi, I exist, sorta. Most of the time. Probably.

A couple pieces I wrote last year. The Bound my body, this corpse my prison, this puppet to which I am chained Oh, how I long to be free my weight is immense my wings are broken though I yearn to fly, the earth holds fast Oh, how I long to be free my mind, ensnared my senses, mute I cannot...

Age does matter, as it is (at least in part) causal to maturity, and, places a cap on the max possible 'maturity'.

Lol I've seen that. Still works for other species I bet, and maybe some elven cultures don't let those under 100 drink because they don't yet have 'wisdom', I bet the young elves hate and rebel against that though. However, legal drinking age in a medieval setting doesn't make much sense, since...

No matter how mature for their age they may seem, their brain is still going through heavy development and they don't have the necessary judgmental capacity nor life experience to make the decision to put themselves in the hands of someone who will have so much power over them.

Not really. A species should only take as long to reach maturity as it is physically/biologically necessary, it's more advantageous to reach maturity and then stay there for a long time. Elf brains seem to work much the same as human ones, it makes sense that it would only take them the same...

Pretty sure Elves in D&D actually mature at the same rate as humans, they just aren't considered an adult culturally until they're 100. Common misconception. Anyways to answer the original question, it's not ok, a 16 year old is far too young, not even an adult yet, barely at the age of consent...

I mean, that's just the way reading works for me. I read what I like, and when I like what I read, I inevitably read it until suddenly it's 5 in the morning and I'm in a panic because damn it I'm trying to have a sleep schedule that resembles that of a normal person!

Of course, you just didn't mention in your comment that part so I was under the impression that you hadn't recognized that. Because part of making a character smarter than the author is doing it convincingly, you can tell the audience that a character is smart, but they won't believe you if you...

You can't just make the character act optimally, you also have to do set up to make sure that the character has the information needed to justify that optimal action, otherwise at best they'll look very, very, lucky (read: plot armor), or at worst, if their course of action required them to make...

"I cannot know what I don't know" doesn't really apply here. A character cannot be more knowledgeable than the writer (though you can 'fake' it, and really, what's the difference between faking it and not in a story book, if the reader can't tell it was faked?) but that is different from...

To a degree, but it takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a lot of working backwards. But the writer's intelligence does still place a cap on the character's intelligence, when it gets to the point that no matter how much time and planning, the writer cannot find a solution to an...

The dried inkwell, Her cold, stiff hands She lies before a blank page Empty as her head

You're favoring the PS user too much, preparation-wise. If the mage using PS can have a deep mana pool, the opponent can too, and the main drawback of PS isn't the passive drain from just wearing it, it's that it drains extra mana whenever you get hit to repair and sustain itself. A mage who's...