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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4140222" data-attributes="member: 13855">I pretty much agree with the idea that this is a bad thing to spring on the player. But, to add to the thread as a boy gamer, here's a few things to consider:1. It's the first romantic relationship and she gets pregnant? Who are you, Nancy Reagan? Wait a bit, man! 2. A way to test the waters is to make it a pregnancy SCARE, not a pregnancy. Have her PC's period be late, not MIA.3. Does her PC have crafting feats? A research project? 'Cause that would be an excellent use of "down time" that her PC is going to be having for the next 20 years. (Especially with the father being LE and all, I'm guessing that she'll either have to deal with sexist division of domestic labor or use magic missile to stop him from "helping" to raise the child.) If you grant her the perfect grandparents-as-baby-sitters, it merely means that your plot hooks will have to be really exceptionally good to lure the PCs away from family responsibilities.4. If you want to roleplay with pregnancy, why not just have the LE lover be really, really into getting her pregnant? 5. Your wife asks this question after the session: "Honey, does this mean you want to have a child with me?" What will you say? "I thought raising a puppy as a trial run was hackneyed?"</blockquote>