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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4139369" data-attributes="member: 18701">This is a question mainly for the female players...Earlier today I had an idea for our game and although I think it would be very interesting, I've come to learn that anytime the DM alters a PCs situation in a pretty big way, it can cause the player to be very upset even when you thought it would be neat.A few sessions ago, the Sorceress PC (my wifes PC) slept with a charming & very popular man in a town they just visited for the first time. She has been playing this character for 5 years and this is the first time she has ever been romantic with an NPC other than occasional flirting. The session after that she visited the NPC again. Today I started to think about this relationship and what she doesn't know. I have a lot of potential plot lines I can pull out of this. For one, although the other members of the party are leery of this NPC and don't quite trust him, they don't know that he's actually Lawful Evil. He comes across as being a very good guy and every single person in town genuinely respects him. I guess he's sort of like a mob boss without actually having a mob. So if I needed to, I can use him as an antagonist against the PCs...but he has no reason to be an enemy of the PCs at the moment. If he committed an evil act in front of the PCs, it would be a pretty surprising revelation (and my wife would probably be more attracted to him *she's chaotic neutral*).Then when I thought of her relationship with him, I thought "What if she had his baby?" Being a pregnant adventurer would be a very different obstacle to deal with. I thought a player might hate dealing with that, but then I thought the player might think it's cool having a child that they get to watch grow up as their PC grows up. Then I thought it would even be neat if the player played the child as a PC if her character died or retired. I thought it would be a good storyline if I had this evil guy try to exploit his child and use it for his own evil purposes. That could turn him into a pretty interesting reoccurring villain if the PCs try to keep him from the kid.But I'm worried that what I think is a great idea and would definitely be a shock to the group (finding out she's pregnant), would actually be embarrassing to a female player. Do women mostly find this type of situation an annoyance rather than an interesting character development? My wife has also been talking about having a kid in RL an awful lot lately, so she might like this  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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