Likewise, stuff like low-light vision and a longer reach? Qualities that can be purchased by anyone (and often explained away as not JUST necessarily a purely physical change, for instance Long Reach says it can be long arms and legs or just exceptional physical grace that lets you close and attack people from farther away). They can get the free Strength and Body if they want it, or they can choose a lower metatype priority and focus on their other attributes a lot more, or whatever. So orks and trolls will tend to be stronger than humans and elves (and will still be picked by the folks whose concept is 'strong and tough bruiser'), but they just tend towards that, rather than it being fundamental to who they are. Instead everyone gets attribute points (as per the priority chart), but then the 'metatype' column on the priority chart also gives you some metahuman-focused attribute points, that can only be spent in your metatypes favored attributes (anything with a 7+ limit). Physical attributes are all over the place, comparatively, with orks going to an 8 Strength, trolls a 9 Body, elves a 7 in Agility.but you don't automatically get those points, just like you're not automatically starting with any penalties anywhere. There's still a classic priority chart, like always? But now you get no modifiers to attributes except for their top end, and all the mental attributes are all capped at 6 (ork or troll, you still have a potential 6 in Logic, Willpower, or Intuition) or better (dwarves still get their potential 7 in Willpower, as they often have). So, chargen in SR6 is kind of close to this. We've tried to minimize, then explain away, that aspect of earlier write-ups. Anyone having a shorter than human lifespan, though? Nah. That's pretty heccin' baked in at this point. So elves and dwarves being magically longer-lived? Sure.
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Orks and trolls have statistical tendencies towards shorter lifespans, but that's largely caused by socio-economic concerns, in that they are often disadvantaged, financially, and are not only eating cheaper, unhealthier, food, but are also forced into manual labor positions. We've walked back the shorter lifespans thing a little bit from edition to edition, and we've actively called out, in-universe, the original text about lifespan and breeding habits and stuff (and ork women bearing "litters"), as well.
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