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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clueless" data-source="post: 4139404" data-attributes="member: 11802">There are a number of considerations with this sort of idea that your characters in game would need to consider. For example : would a raise dead spell work on the unborn child? Would a party paladin - not knowing if it would or not - even allow the mother in the danger in the first place? What about babysitting? Or taking an infant into the dungeon? Or hostage risks? There's lots of perfectly good reasons to retire the PC in those circumstances so if you don't want to see that happen you'll need to have a story that accounts for it and gives both reason to continue adventuring and opportunity to find solutions to those problems.I don't know the sort of time scale you're adventure runs on - but if it's like many I've played in - the entire adventure occurs over the course of a year or less. That's not a lot of 'growing up' time there, and a lot of 'god this is a lot of weight to lug around and Now you want me to hit someone with a sword too!?' kind of time.  So you will need to weight the impact of the situation on your game and game scope.The other difficulty is with your players. This *very much* shouldn't be a surprise for the player of the pregnant PC, it's a potentially emotionally difficult subject. And if she is emotionally invested in the character and given that you've mentioned her interest in real life.. you stand to get unexpected emotional backlash if something goes wrong (see the above re: Raise Dead). She may honestly not want to roleplay the situation as it may cut a little too close to the truth.The rest of the players are up to your judgement of their personalities for if they'd want to work with it. We don't have enough information on them.</blockquote>

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