@E_RedMark - I agree that sometimes certain professions definitely are going to push an MC or RO’s age higher, resulting potentially in larger age gaps. But those definitely make it more workable, for me, because it’s not an age gap just to have an age gap.
I’m working on one that has the potential for a really large age gap (about 20 years) between one RO and the MC, because one of the starting points is to choose one of three ages for your character, depending on how you want to play. I had to think long and hard whether I wanted to make the RO ages reflect off the MC’s age (making them X years older/younger regardless of their position/profession), but decided in the end, it was very unrealistic. Plus it would mean trying to have this RO reflect a background for an age range of 30-45 and that kind of broke my brain for a bit. Fifteen years is a lot of life experience time.
It may make this RO (and potentially others, as I haven’t fleshed all their details in) less viable to some preferences, but I had to opt for logic rather than comfort factor in the end to be happy with it myself. I’ll leave it up to the player to decide if their MC is mature enough, although the current code makes it a lot harder to cross the age gap for the RO to be interested if the MC trends toward the less mature.